Tuesday 25 August 2015

How to Survive in the Business of Blogging

If you are increasingly finding it difficult to generate income from your blog despite your best possible efforts, it is high time you must create a contingency plan to keep you dream of becoming a successful blogger alive. 

Successful bloggers have to work out ways to enhance the visibility of their blog to beat the competition and identify unique methods of creating quality content to increase traffic, and at the same time to ensure that they get a high return on investment.

However, as I said in my earlier post, blogging is something that does not create income in a short span of time, especially if you are new in the business of blogging. Therefore, it is important to generate income from other sources to maintain and support your blog.

To create quality content and to promote your blog you require investment not only in terms of time but also money and efforts. 

Moreover, to create a successful blog, one needs the skill to create quality content, online marketing skills, and knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO).

However, research studies show that despite best possible efforts, a majority of bloggers have not been able to generate enough income from their blog and are increasingly finding it difficult to meet their monthly expenses. 

To survive in the business of blogging, you must share your secret of success with your readers. Always remember, "the secret of becoming a successful blogger is to let others know your secret of success". To survive in today’s highly competitive blogging business, you must identify ways to generate alternate income. 

This article will mainly focus on methods to earn money from alternate sources so that you can support and maintain your blog until the time you generate enough income from your own blog. 

I have listed some of the methods of earning money online from various sources other than blogging:

Methods to survive in the business of blogging


1.      Online freelancing: it is one of the most popular methods of making money online to meet monthly expenses. Online freelancing sites provide the opportunity to the freelancer to sell their expertise. You can work on these sites as a freelance writer, online marketer, graphic designer, programmer, data entry operator, virtual assistant or translator to earn regular income. 

To know how and where you can earn income from online freelancing work please read my post Skills that can help you earn money online. The money that you make on online freelance sites can be used to learn new skills to make your blog more effective.

2.      Online Surveys: though you cannot depend on surveys to earn a regular income, it can help you earn money in the long run. You can register on various survey sites to receive online surveys so that you can create more money. To know how to make money through surveys please read my article Are online surveys genuine or a scam. The money that you make from online surveys can be used to promote your blog. 

3.      Sell online: there are several popular sites that provide you a platform to sell your services or products online. Here you can sell you eBooks, old mobile phone, and various other items that you find are no longer useful for you. The money that you make selling your old stuff can be used to buy a custom domain name or registering in paid blogging platforms. It will not only help you to reach out to targeted audience but also help you improve the layout or design of your website.


4.      Other methods: there are various other methods that can be employed to make money online such as writing  paid reviews for other websites, products or services, affiliate marketing and writing Guest posts. However, it is extremely important that you should choose the platform and client carefully to ensure prompt payment and regular work.

 Do you think it is important to have an alternate source of income to survive as a blogger? If you liked this article, please share it with others and share your opinion with us.

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