Why Your Blog Will Fail

Why Your Blog is Destined to Fail

Many people start blogs every day and the majority will never even reach the minimum $100 Google payout.  It is easy to start a blog, but it is not as easy to actually make money from blogging.

Reasons Blogs Fail:

• The blogger never made goals for their blog.
• The blog just does not get enough traffic to make money.
• Just posting is not enough.
• Inaction on the bloggers part.

I want to liken a brand new blog to a new restaurant in a big city.  If you opened up a new restaurant (not a franchise) you would make sure that you advertised as much as possible right at the grand opening so everyone would know about the new place.

At first you might see a trickle of customers but there is potential.  If your restaurant is appealing and the food is great and the service is good you will get free word of mouth advertising.  So you do lots of advertising at first and build up a good following and let your regulars use word of mouth and they will advertise for you.

The same thing must happen with a new blog.  The internet is a vast city with new blogs opening on every corner.  You must advertise to get people to visit your blog.  Then once you get a following your regulars will use word of mouth or link love to advertise for you.  If you have a funny post or important post they just want to share with friends or maybe they will bookmark you for many others to see.   They might make a post about your blog and put up a link for others to go check you out.

The restaurant is a pretty good analogy for blogging.  If you don't advertise in the beginning no one will come.  Likewise if your blog sucks or there is no real content people will quickly move on to the next one that came up in the search engine for your key words.

You have bloggers like Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse and they are the McDonald's of restaurants.  Which means that if they wanted to they would never have to advertise again.  Because all of their loyal fans and followers are doing the advertising for them.

How to Make $300.00 a Month with Blogging

Monthly goal of $300.00 from Blogging

I recently read a blog post over at Problogger called,  "How to Make $30,000 a year Blogging."  posted by Darren Rowse.

The basis of the article was to realize what your money goals for your blog are, and then focus on trying to break that amount into monthly or daily goals so it does not seem too far out of reach.  My goal is to be making $300.00 a month in 6 months time.  Right now with only a little traffic that amount of money seems unattainable in that time frame. 

If I break down that monthly goal into a daily goal, I will only need to earn $10.00 a day from my blogging efforts.  Well - ten dollars a day does not seem like all that much.  Don't get me wrong it will take time to get to that point but breaking down the larger amounts of money into smaller amounts, it just appears to be more manageable.

So now I am going to focus on trying to earn just $1.00 a day.  That one dollar a day is not much but with a new blog it certainly would not be bad either.  Every little bit will add up and once I reach the $1 goal then I can move on to $5 and then to $10.

By breaking my money making goals down into smaller more easily handled chunks I can focus on the smaller more easily reachable goals and not give up so quickly because I am no where near my intended goal.

Click Bank Affiliates Making Money Online with your Blog

Working with ClickBank to Make Money Blogging

Click Bank is like a virtual library where you can pull down a digital book that someone else wrote and then sell that book on your site as an Affiliate and make a percentage of the sale or your commission from the sale.

If you have not signed up at ClickBank.com I suggest that you look into it - it's completely FREE!  Then go to the MarketPlace and take a look around at all of the digital books also known as ebooks and see which ones you might like to sell on your blog.

Ebooks are what many people are talking about when they tell you that you can make money online selling products without ever having to physically having to deal with payments or shipping and those type of sales problems.

By having these digital products available for you to pick and choose from is a ready made product that you can begin selling instantly on your blog and enables you to start earning money from day one.  So if you have a new blog this affiliate program gives you earning income right away.  If you intend to write your own ebook or digital download product but have not had the time then you can sell one of the ebooks from the Click Bank Affiliate program.

There are many other affiliate programs out there besides Click Bank so why them.  Simple ClickBank.com is the biggest and best.  They are trusted by those internet Guru's and the little guys alike.  Most of all Click Bank pays its affiliates consistently.  

If you would like to see an example of a Click Bank Affiliate package that you can sell on your blog to make money you can click on the link below and you will be taken to the sales page for the ebook Blogging to the Bank.   *The link opens up in a new tab.

Blogging to the Bank

If you clicked on the link above you can see how if you can get your readers to the sales page your work is done.  The book authors have copywriters who are very good at their jobs and they will sell the book for you.  Now not everyone will buy, but if you make a few sales then you are on your way to making money with your blog.