Well from my experience the marketing part is really the hardest part in blogging (specifically blogging as a business). Why? Simple, because there are already so many blogs out there w/c makes it imperative for you to give something unique and compelling to them. Most people still say monetization is the hardest part but I think its not. If you've already got the traffic, loyal readers and traction, the money just kinda goes downhill seriously. With my blog, when it started reaching Alexa 100K and below I started to notice that more and more advertisers are purchasing adspot even when I put a higher rate. Also the same with product sales. I released my first premium info product last year and to my delight I sold a good no.of copies of it. All in all if bloggers can get a huge following, monetization wouldn't be much of a problem. For most, good content isn't a problem, competent marketing is! I've always believed that blogging is internet marketing and to be able to succeed you need to know how to market. Trust me, we don't need to look like salespersons to be a good blog marketer. So my free report Since last year, I've been working hard on this info product w/c tackles blog marketing and how it can get you loyal readers and high traffic in such a quick pace (depends still on you of course). The report is entitled: "Blog Marketing for Fame" and it's given away FREE for newsletter subscribers. In that free report, I have laid down the exact strategies that I've used to grow my blog to where it is now. So far it has received a good number of positive feed backs (download yours and give your own negative feedback ). Grab your free copy now! and let me know what you think.
Yew you are quite right since it's the only way to a payday. Marketing brings traffic. Learning to market is a very important part of your IM toolkit. This is how you build a huge list. The marketing part is where most people drop the ball. Think and Grow Rich!!! The life of a blogger CJC
I wish you were right. If that were the case, I wouldn't be at a loss because powerful enough server to accommodate one and a half million unique visitors a month costs be $400 but I barely scrape to make $300. Getting lots of traffic is nothing. Monetizing that traffic - that's a whole different league. Far more difficult. I sincerely wish you were right
I would like to believe I'm right. I would like to know what business model you are running with and I might be able to help yoou out.
That's true. I took a long time to realize the importance of getting backlinks, and since i dont use social networking sites, i have to rely on traffic from search engines.