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Chapter 07 - Profiting From a Big Blog Using the Best Growth Hacks
Perhaps selling products that other people made was not what you had in mind
when you heard about internet
marketing. Perhaps you have
aspirations of being a successful
blogger. Or maybe your plan is to
use internet marketing to create a
successful blog or website for your
existing brand.
So how exactly does a blog make money? And how can you get on that gravy train?
As we briefly alluded to earlier in this book, the answer is that it makes money by building an audience and more specifically a targeted audience. Hopefully, you’re now already seeing all the ways that you can make money from an audience once you have it.
If you have a successful blog, then you can quickly start to make lots of money from the readers of that blog by using any of the aforementioned business models: sell them a PLR product, sell them affiliate products, sell lots of affiliate products, or use it in order to promote a service.
The best thing about this though, is that running a blog will also allow you to develop a relationship with that audience and to help them get to know you.
If they are regularly reading your advice and ideas, then they should have first hand experience of just how knowledgeable you are and how useful your advice can be for them. Thus, when you come to sell something to them, they will be ‘primed’.
Once you get to that stage, you are a thought leader and you’ll even find that other brands will want to promote their products through you. This is where
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