Blogging for cash in the present tough economic times has most top IM gurus looking for more creative ways to sell their products and retain customer satisfaction. The Federal Trade Commission’s part in tightening its rules and regulations on transparency on internet sales has not made it any easier as well.
My mini web space of a blog is now more of a challenge to keep alive more than ever. Monetizing it and expecting some profits out of it can seem like the most ridiculous idea ever especially since I practically have no traffic except those search engine crawlbots that visit on some occasions. But I am not worried. I am on a mission to blog and see where it goes. The fun is not in the end, but in the journey.
As more and more people get online each day and buy products online, more challenges to bloggers and those doing business online will become more transparent. Blogging for profits online is the same as ever, not easy. Some make it. Most don’t. But it is all fun either way if that is the underlying main focus. And hopefully it is through this positive mindset that will carry over the many frustrations into more apparent rewards, eventually.
Whether a blogger gets any clicks and conversions is up to your blog visitors and how much they are willing to part with their money and their trust in your recommendations. It is not about just posting a banner or a link to something and you get instant returns for it.
People online today searching to buy are more sophisticated and more buyer savvy than ever before, in parting with their cash. They want to buy not just the offer, but also the connection with the one offering. Just as the blogging information is being promoted, the buyer is making that choice of who to buy from. Whether that connection even for that one time only is worth pursuing.
Creating great content and connecting with that intent to buy, enough to get a click out of it and an eventual sale is not easy. Blogging for cash is not a sure way to make money period. Many are lured into the false impression that they need only put up a blog and some offers and they’ll be on their way to quick profits. It is certaninly not the case. It takes time and people that visit that become your customers that will build on itself into something larger than what it is. Whether that translates to profits is another thing altogether.
Many blogs have lots of loyal readers that remain for the content and the entertainment. And this is where fun blogs and blogs for cash become distinct from each other. There are many fun blogs that are just that – fun and personal. There are blogs for cash that are focused mainly for making money. How to bridge the gap between the two is not easily done. How to convert and bring in interested visitors takes work. How to maintain and keep posting content can be a monumental task. How to convert those visitors into value that leads to a sale is not based on luck. So many things that makes blogging in general a trial and a frustration magnet. Something better left for others. And something worth pursuing if you are serious and in the for long haul.
But as someone who loves to write, I can only say that it is fun to blog and to pursue blogging for money via Clickbank or Amazon or Google Adsense.
This is another avenue to put myself as a blogger out there on the web and attempt to see what gets caught up in my web, my mini web of space.
FTC is doing its job. I’m doing my part in the over all scheme of web. Learning my way through it all while blogging away, adding more crawl space. I will blog for a smaller corner of webspace. I’m out there already – why not put my foot down and make some waves. If blogging for cash translates into cash somehow – hooray! If not, that is ok. Being present online out there – that in itself is reward enough for now.
