Blogging For Dollars: An Average Blog Vs A Million Dollar Blog

You can pretty much replace the word ‘Blog” in the post with the word “Business” and this post will still make sense, even more sense I guess.

There is nothing wrong having an average or below average blog. The intention of this post is not to find any fault with average blogs( If thats the case I have to stop blogging myself) but to share a road map using which any blogger can reach higher limits.

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4 Tips That Will Catapult You From A Good Blogger To A Great Blogger

When you master the concept of ???Time??? you can easily go from a good blogger; who writes frequently??¦ To a great blogger; who attracts, inspires and converts.

Every time you make a post, make sure you take a minute and think how you can improve its reach, its depth and its appeal. Think beyond RSS and Blog Broadcasts, Think beyond nice graphics & pictures. Focus on readership & loyalty

Every time you conceive an idea, develop marketing outlines and see how you could maximize revenues from it. Affiliate text link embedding, Contextual Banners & Press Release driven opt-ins are a few you can pursue.

If you know you will be writing 7 articles during Super Bowl why not work ahead in time and source high paying affiliate banners for these posts upfront?

The secret to getting a lot of traffic to your blog is to blog frequently and on a consistent basis. To get indexed on search engines it makes sense to make rapid posts, ie about 2-4 posts a day.

Writing for the search engines without compromising existing readership is an art, but can be developed with practice.

Content creation takes time, often times it could take you away from other revenue generating activities. Beyond a certain point, most successful bloggers out-source this function.

Sometimes no matter how hard you try you can never get a post just right. They call it ???writers block???. There are good days and bad days. Every post is like a musical performance where just landing on the notes won??™t cut it. You need Symphony .

If you have below average posts in your blog, make a point of going back and modifying them on a periodic basis.

In other words give equal importance to your past posts. Please don??™t disown them too quickly.

Growing up we were taught to read, write and explain everything in terms of Intro -> Body -> Conclusion. This formula works.

(Did you see there was no intro to this post, it started with a headline and continued with a body. There is a call-to-action at the end, only if you can catch it??¦)

If you want to still improvise on this, Try to get some copy writing aspects into your posts.

One strategy that has worked very well for me is making ???Bold Claims in the headlines and substantiating it with evidence in the body???.

The other strategy I frequently use is wrapping my content around stories.

Remember every post has a life of its own.

Every post has a power to create a Million dollar business for you.

An article can be converted into a special report

A special report can be converted into a case study.

A case study can lead you to a book publishing deal a book can lead you to your own home study course, workshop or seminar

and all of them put together can make you a ???Celebrity???.

Did I mention this post is the foundation of my ???King Of Blogging workshop???.

Will The Popularity Of Social Networking and Marketing Fade Soon?

Some may wonder is social networking will one day fade away. Among these people are those who worry whether or not the end of social networking will mean the end of social marketing.

If this were to occur there will be a number of unhappy individuals(including myself). After all, social marketing provides one of the cheapest and most cost effective methods of marketing(ignore ROI for a minute).

It can never be overstated how critically important it is to seek low cost marketing ventures because excess promotional fees can often undermine much of what a company is seeking to gain. Thankfully, social marketing provides a virtual no cost method of advertising.

Yet, there are those who are concerned that the social marketing fad will soon pass.

In addition to fears about the faddish nature of social networking, there is a great deal of negative publicity that certainly hasn’t done wonders. The recent “Myspace Beating” video has certainly not helped in this regard. But, again, critical mass has not been reached yet, and these sites are still far from collapse.

Click Here to see how new social networking sites are displacing existing leaders

It is important to note, however, that concerns over whether or not social networking sites will fade in popularity is significantly premature. Granted, there are a number of social networking sites that may be experiencing a decline in popularity.

Often, this is because they may lack the innovation visible in other sites.

This might make these “older” sites lose ground to some of their newer competitors but they are far from complete collapse.

Granted, numbers alone are not enough to make a social marketing venture succeed. Many of the people who belong to a social networking site are simply not going to spend money??¦period.(poor conversion)

But, there are a multitude of people who are potential clients( improvise your marketing skills).

As long as the overall numbers of social networking membership is high these sites will remain as viable marketing targets(Marketing is a number game..I call it a ???Funnel Game???)

So, if you are interested in continuing social marketing for the foreseeable future you can proceed as planned(I am going the mile). These sites will remain viable as long as they provide a decent format for virtually congregating.