hey guys welcome back to my channel I hope you're having a wonderful day
I'm so excited you're here today because today I am going to be talking
about my most requested topic on my blog and in person which is how do I make
money blogging I'm not only going to talk about how I make money blogging but
also how other bloggers make money too because not all streams of income online
are treated equally there are so many different ways that bloggers make money
and I want to share with you how they do it so let's get started the first way
that bloggers make money blogging is through display advertising this is
probably the easiest way for you to understand how bloggers make money
blogging whenever you go to a website if you see any of those ads on the site
bloggers make money from it so if you go to Nataliebacon.com right now you'll
see ads throughout some of the posts and you'll also see on mobile there's a
little ad in the footer of the screen so I make money blogging that way the thing
with making money this way is that it's all dependent on your traffic the more
traffic you have on your site the more money you'll make blogging so I think
that display advertising is very passive and it's a great way to make money
blogging but it's really hard to make a consistent income blogging just on
display advertising alone unless you have millions of followers on your blog
and millions of pageviews monthly so usually bloggers use display advertising
as one of the many ways to make money blogging it's a good way to diversify
their income the next way that bloggers make money blogging is through sponsored
posts what this means is that a company will work with a blogger to get them to
promote their product or their service on their blog or social media sites so
you might see this with a review post maybe the company sent a blog or
something for them to review or maybe the company is paying the blogger
outright for a review of the product on their blog or social
post I think I've only done like one or two of these in the last three years
they're just not my thing but I know a lot of bloggers can make money this way
the downside is that it's not very passive you have to constantly be
building your relationships with brands making sure you have your social media
package you know ready to pitch to them and it's really more of a b to b
type of way to monetize your blog which means you're a business working with
other businesses b to b versus b to c which is business to customer
which would be like your blog to your readers which is kind of what I prefer
but a lot of bloggers make money through sponsored posts I just don't see it as
the easiest or fastest way to grow your blog and monetize over time the third
way to make money blogging is through affiliate marketing now this is where
you can really make a lot of money blogging I make about one to two
thousand dollars maybe a little more sometimes per month blogging from
affiliate marketing so with affiliate marketing the easiest example I have is
if any of you follow fashion bloggers on Instagram and a lot of times in their
description or even on their blogs they'll have links to products that
they're promoting because it's what they're wearing if you go and click on
one of those products and buy it the fashion bloggers will then and get a
percent of the purchase and whatever that percentage is is worked out between
the blogger and the company so the more that the blogger promotes that product
and the more sales that the blogger makes from that product the more money
she's going to get the best part about affiliate marketing is that the earning
potential is sort of unlimited I use affiliate marketing a lot to promote
different things on my blog like blogging courses and how to learn how to
blog for example making sense of affiliate marketing is a great online
course that I took that teaches you how to learn affiliate marketing so that is
by Michelle from making sense of cents and I will link to her course below the
with affiliate marketing you'll also learn how to sell which is really important for
making money blogging long term if you want to sell your own products starting
with affiliate marketing is really the way to go because you'll learn how to
sell you'll learn about sales pages you'll learn about email marketing
without going through the process of potentially creating a product that no
one wants to buy so affiliate marketing is a really great place for bloggers to
start making money and it's one of my favorite ways to make money blogging the
next way that bloggers make money blogging is through selling digital
product on their site whether it's ebooks online courses or something else
entirely you can actually sell things on your website like in a store that's
oftentimes how people do it like they'll have an online store or link to ebooks
or courses and that's where they're selling their own digital products the
amazing thing about digital products is that there's absolutely no shipping or
handling of the physical product you just set it up to a customer or reader
buys your product through your website and then you have a system in place
where the website sends that digital product to the customer and you have to
do nothing on the back end so once you're promoting your product it's
really passive after that after you've created it and are promoting it you
don't have to constantly do the shipping and handling that comes with physical
product this is one of the best ways to make money online I dabbled in it a little
bit when I started blogging but I didn't know anything about sales or marketing
or you know affiliate marketing so I shut down my store I'm going to actually
get back into it I'm working on a product right now but for right now I
focus on the other ways to make money so I can do a better job of selling
digital products once I feel like my blog is ready the nice thing about
digital products versus affiliate marketing is that you're totally in
control of the product you're selling so if you want to stop selling your eBook
or stop selling your eCourse or change the price or do whatever it's yours you
created it and no one can take that away from you whereas affiliate marketing
you're totally dependent on the company that created the product now you didn't
have to do any of the creation of the product but if the company turns around
and says okay well we're not going to do this affiliate program anymore and you
were making a lot of money every month from it you are going to be SOL if
they shut that down I mean just in a day I had it happen a big affiliate just
decided to no longer offer the program through affiliate marketing and that
just wiped it out for me so there's a little bit more of a risk there but on
the other hand you didn't have to create any of the product so you're not out
much another way that bloggers make money blogging is through selling
physical products just like digital products you can have an online store or
some other way like through Etsy or other platform that you can create physical
products and sell them now as you heard me say about digital products how nice
it is we don't actually have to do shipping and handling with physical
products there's so much that you have to do you're basically running an
e-commerce store this is something that you know it takes a lot of work and you
need to know what you're doing I've never really sold products I
dabbled in selling jewelry for a little bit but it was a lot of work and not
something that I felt like I could monetize very easily and make money from
long term so I just decided to nix that I'm not against it in the future but I
think again you should start with affiliate marketing and then go into
selling digital products and then physical products I think that there's a certain
level that you have to reach to really master sales and marketing and making
money online before you get to the selling product point I just took a
course actually by create and go called six figure blogger that talked a lot
about how to create digital products online
they have digital products and physical products they have ebooks online courses
and things they sell a probiotic on their
health and wellness website but they also run create and go where they teach
bloggers how to monetize their blogs so if you're interested in learning how to
make money blogging with digital products I will link to that course
below the course is something that I think will truly be a game-changer for
me and monetization of my blog which right now is a top priority for me so if
you're interested in learning more I'll send you the links below those are the
main ways that bloggers make money blogging strictly from their blog it's
either display advertising sponsored posts affiliate marketing digital
products or physical products but you can also make money online not
necessarily through your blog but through doing freelance work and a lot
of times this is one thing with blogging but I like to make the distinction that
it is different it's not something that you're working on on your blog with
freelance writing you are writing for other sites and getting paid for it
you're doing freelance work you can do this as a virtual assistant as well
I have posts about how to become a freelance writer and a virtual assistant
that I'll link to in the show notes below these are great ways to make money
blogging especially in the very beginning of your blogging journey I did
it and I know tons of other bloggers who do that I would just encourage you to be
careful over time if you want to really monetize your blog and really make that
income passive and really find a way to make a lot of money blogging freelance
writing and VA work isn't necessarily the route that I would recommend because
you are going to be paid specifically for your services so it's not passive at
all as I said in the beginning I use display advertising on my blog I use
affiliate marketing on my blog and I hope to use digital products to maybe
physical products in the future to make money blogging last year I made thirty
thousand dollars blogging and this is a gross number so this doesn't include the
taxes that I paid and the expenses that I had but it's a legitimate side
business and that's how I've been able to take a
50% pay cut by quitting my job as an attorney and still be able to pay down
my student loan debt so blogging for me has been a lifesaver and I highly
recommend it if there's something that you're passionate about and want a way
to make money on the side I'll link below to my five day blogging bootcamp it's a
free email course that can get you started with starting your own blog and
I also have recommendations for I'll launch a blog course and six figure blogger
if you already have a blog this is probably the best place to start
monetizing and then I have a blogging quick start guide which is an ebook that
you can download for free and all of it will get you up and running with a
blog and I think once you have sort of mastered that and have your blog up and
running then you can take time and focus on how to make money blogging okay
that's about it for this video if you have any questions please let me know I
know a lot of people are confused and sort of you know glaze over when I start
talking about how people make money blogging but you can actually do it so
please don't be discouraged and just put forth the effort and keep learning about
blogging and you'll be there before you know it thanks again for watching and
I'll see you next week bye bye
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