Did you know that last year over 400 million people viewed nearly 20 billion blog pages every month? What’s even better is that almost 25% of those who run a WordPress blog make a full-time living in the same year.
These two facts show that growing your blog into a business that is profitable and sustainable isn’t completely out of reach.
Here are five essentials to follow to grow a profitable blogging business.
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Remember, blogging isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. As long as you provide the right content your target audience wants to read or consume and use the right platforms for marketing your blog, you’ll be successful.
It takes dedication, passion, and consistency to turn your blog into a business and these 5 tips below are essential to success.
1. Choose a Niche
While not a requirement, choosing a niche for your blog is the best way to turn your blog into a profitable business. This is because you can better perfect and target your audience when you don’t have too many topics to cover.
2. Develop or Invest in Quality Content
A blog is only as successful as the content it provides. If you just put up any blog post or re-share content others create without any unique twist or value, you won’t go anywhere. Successful blogs work because they know what content their audience needs or wants and delivers.
3. Be Interactive and Visual
While blogs are mostly written content, that doesn’t mean you should avoid using pictures, videos or infographics. Graphics add more creativity and interest to your post that keep your audience interested and engaged. Increasing audience engagement ensures your audience feels your offers are valuable.
4. Monetize Right Away
You don’t need to wait to start making money or develop ways to monetize your blog. In fact, monetization ideas should be created or at least thought of before you even purchase your domain or create your first blog. This way, you know the effort and time you put into your blog is a viable and profitable option. Waiting for your target audience to do the work for you won’t create the profits you need to be successful. Instead, you need to give the products to them.
5. Use Social Media and Email Marketing
The best way to promote your blog is through social media and email marketing. However, you can’t expect anyone to find you without a proper marketing strategy unless you create perfect SEO-rich content. Even then, relying on only SEO or keywords can be a slow and long-term process.
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A blog is essentially a relationship-building tool. Consistency and real interest or skill within your industry with a consistent action plan are what it takes. When you know about blogging correctly it becomes a valuable asset to your online business. To discover more on what every blogger should have to be successful, download my free checklist, 21 Days To A Better Blog to help you turn your blog into a business and achieve the results you want.
