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Paid Blogging is advertised as  one of those internet money makers that will make you scratch your head in wonder.

“I can get paid for blogging?” you may ask.  Well, yes you can. Some people do.

Most people think, though, that paid blogging works like this:

You write your own article and post in on the net.  You get more and more people to read it and next thing you know: Ca-ching!  You have money dripping into your Paypal account.  Unbelievable?

Do some research and then tell me what you think.  Last time I looked, it was far from what I expected it to be.

What’s a blog?

In case this ‘blogging’ thing is new to you, a blog (short for weblog) is a nothing but a mini version of a web-site that gives the reader an option to respond (comment) to the subject matter.   What you’re reading right now is a blog.  This is it.  Not much to it.

One of the nice things about a blog is that you don’t have to respond to each reader’s comment.  Other visitors will leave comments to those already posted.  In return, you and other readers can respond to that comment, and so on and so on.  This way, a blog can take on a life of it’s own, as blogs often do.

Building your own Social Network by blogging

As soon as your blog gets going, your will discover some incredible things.  Readers can and will ask questions or make suggestions about the subject of your well written article.   It pays great dividends to learn the little tricks of the writing trade.  The more educative, entertaining and/or enlightening your articles, the more likely it will be read and the faster your audience will grow.   After a while – and it doesn’t have to take long – there will be a trail of fans who will keep a check on your writings.

Problem Solver

Make it your business to research for answers and solutions to the challenges your readers post.  Research any problem you haven’t quite mastered yet: your visitors will gain from it and you’ll gain more and more knowledge and expand your archives.

They’ll soon discover that you know your subject quite well, and when they need more information, you will be the first person they’ll come to.

Doing so, they become, well, your entourage and they will be happy to share their name and email address with you.

In other words, if you don’t mind me spelling it out for you…

they become your lead list!

Your leads become your customers.

Your customers build your business.

A blog can be as simple as a few lines with a picture or as complicated as an elaborate website.  I suggest you keep your articles short and refer to other articles elsewhere.

Short articles make for an easier read.  You can always add updates to them in the form of additional posts and pictures.  Three short ones are better to follow than one  l-o-n-g one.

Could there be more to blogging than just that?

It’s not a matter of  ‘Could there be’, rather: there is more to blogging and it will get you paid much more anyway.  But only after you set up your own system that will support your blogging strategy and will pay you off some decent dividends (and I am being very conservative here).   If you set up your main blog site as your Central Hub, your mini website, so to speak, and connect your network marketing system to that, you will definitely be blogging for a profit.

After you have your Central Hub in place, design a Sales Funnel and attach it to the hub. Then syndicate it to the Social Networks and………

Sorry, I got carried away.  But this makes an excellent point though: if you want to blog for a profit, you will do good to do some preliminary work.

Learning the finer details of effective blogging can lead to the most profitable internet based business you can imagine!

So, investing in your time and a little money will put you well ahead of those that prefer the ‘easy way out’

See you in my next articles.

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