One of the reasons why the online marketing industry has kicked off in high gear is due to the rise of social mediums. These social mediums constitutes a special brand of people who shares ideas, thoughts, music, pictures and videos online. Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, WordPress are just some of the more popular social mediums worth mentioning.
Blogging is one such medium many people are using to make a decent income online. Famous bloggers are making 4 – 5 figures a month doing nothing but blogging. In their blog, they wrote about the things they encounter, bought or use. the people they encounter and their thoughts on various issues. Their story is nice to read and they have people following their blogs, eager to find out what they are doing. So what is it that makes them so different so different from just bloggers who just blogs ?
One such reason is that people follow people whom they can relate to.
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These are the 2 main reasons on how you can build a fan base.
When you have fan base that is is big enough, you can then add ways to monetize your blog.
Since you will be getting a large number of visitors visiting your blog each and everyday. You can then add a Google AdSense application where you can earn money based on “Visitor Pay Per Click”. Since Google AdSense makes use of the content you provide in your blogs, the advertisements shown by Google is already catered for the visitors.
Secondly, a method call affiliate marketing.
You can even start doing product reviews by blogging on the items you use, places you go, services you tried and adding your affiliate links to them. When your readers read your post and buys from the merchant, you make yourself a tidy commission as an affiliate.
Adding to those, another income source from blogging is to sell available web space to advertisers. Advertisers are always looking for high traffic blogs to advertise their business or products, thus, giving you, the blogger, a decent income every month.
One way to leverage on web space advertising is by dividing the available web space into several banner slots so that you can sell more web space to different advertisers and earn more royalty from advertisers.