| 3 Tips On Making Your Blog A Money Machine |
Alvin Phang
Mar 4th, 2008
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Do you want to run a successful blog online? Well then you would want to read every single word I am about to say as I am going to reveal some real secret tips on creating a profitable blog. If you follow the following tips below I can guarantee your blog business will increase at least by 20% to 30% depending if you are willing to do them
Tip #1 - Add In A Auto Responder On Your Blog
It’s really obvious but strangely only a handful of blogger actually do put an auto responder on their blogs. What is an auto responder? Well if you look at the top middle orange box where it says grab your free book that’s an opt-in box
As a blogger, your goal and objective at all times is always to get your readers information as much as possible. It maybe from an opt-in or simply from just putting a comment on your blog.
Main things you would want to collect will be their name and email address and you can easily grab these information with an opt-in box or people’s comments on your blogs. However, you do not simply want to put a opt-in box for the sake of putting it. You would want to also offer an incentive why should I put my name and email. The best incentive I would recommend is to give away a free report or join a newsletter.
Building a list of subscribers is really powerful if you understand the meaning of leveraging. If you do not have an auto responder I would highly recommend you use GetResponse , I am using this myself with great success and the good news is they also offer a free lite version for you to test as well
Tip #2 - Do Not Use Any Common Blog Theme
There are over 115 Million blogs all around the internet and there are also thousands of free themes you can download all over the internet. However what the different between successful bloggers and the rest? Well if you have not noticed it yet, all successful blogger have a unique blog design on their blogs. THEY DO NOT USE off the shelf free themes. Even if they do, they would customized the blog to their own needs.
A tip for you if you are currently using someone’s theme now, it’s highly recommended to at least get a banner done on your blog to brand your blog to make it look different from the rest. The key thing is to make your blog unique and special so that people will remember your blog based on your logo and not the theme design.
DO NOT under estimate the importance of branding. Branding itself is really important and it will determine how much you can make online so do spend some effort to re brand your blogs or websites.
Tip #3 - Stop Using Blogger or Any Free Blog Platform
If you want to have a very successful blog, you would not want to use a free blog platform to market your business. No.1 reason is because you do not have control of your blog and at any moment the owner of the program can shut you down if they feel your blog is not doing something right. I got first hand experience when I first got a blogger account and it closed down within the 1st 3 weeks and you would not want that to happen to you too
Instead of using free platforms, I would recommend investing some money to get a web host ( I am using Hostgator ) and install a hosted Wordpress platform for your blog. With a hosted solution blog, you will be able to take advantage of the many free plug ins and themes on available online.
I got more to share, but I do not want to exposed too much secrets just yet as I am in the works on writing my new free traffic book soon to replace my existing book. It’s about 15 pages so far and still working on getting more powerful content into the free book. If you like a copy of that when it releases just fill in your name & email at the top of the post and I will email it to you when it’s ready for free
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Thanks for sharing this tips.
Cheers Bro.
Alvin,may be you can give some tips on
making a unique banner or header into a blog ?
I would recommend you get a designer to do that for you… you can get it done about US$20 to US$50 at http://www.scriptlance.com
Some really good points here mate, autoresponders are vitale to success. They allow you to retain customers as apposed to always trying to find new customers.
As far as themes go, there are some very good quality free themes around but should defintely be customised to suite branding and specific needs.
Hi Alan,
I’m now looking for web hosting and buying domain name to get prepare for my blog. You mentioned you are using Hostgator, mind to share which plan you are using and which plan you think is good for a beginner blogger like me?
I intend to monetize my blog, so is bandwidth and disk space a important issue as now?
Thanks in advance.
I am using the baby plan.. that’s good enough for anyone
Sorry for typo error on your name, Alvin!
Thanks for the tips!
Eh Alvin,
I thought you switched over to liquidweb because hostgator couldn’t manage your cpu load already? =P
Or was that a sneaky plug for hostgator for the $100 commissions. =P
Regards,
Alvin Huang
Nope.. I am still using Hostgator for this blog… I could not migrate over successfully.
I am currently using LiquidWeb and Hostgator… LiquidWeb is more for my serious projects I am running on
Ok..sorry..
2 out of 3 tips that I still not follow…
Will let you know when I’m complete it on my blog.
Thanks Alvin.
Hi Alvin,
You forgot tip no 4….
“Make Gathersuccess.com as your hompage in IE or FireFox because you cannot afford to miss out on the valuable tips given out constantly”.
Cheers,
Philip
Thanks Philips