Monday, June 29, 2009

How to Make Money from Free Content

Have you ever attended a free show? How do you think they make money?

Well, it is true that they make money, not directly from the viewers, but Advertisers. Also, they earn some diehard fans from the audience, so, if they ever organize a paid show, these fans show up. These fans even buy their products.

Your blog is like a free show. People come and gain information free of cost; it’s your chance to make them your fan, so that next time, if you offer some paid content or release a product, they come forward to purchase it.
How to make your visitors, your fan?

Well, it’s easy to get visitors but, little tough to make them visit your blog again and again. For that, you need to be consistent about your blogging, both in terms of quality and quantity.

* · Don’t make your blog look like as if the author has died in a car accident, hence the blog is not updated. Plan content for you blog in advance. Say like 10 posts in advance, so that you can keep your blog in flow while you are busy with something else.
* · Give your visitors multiple options to get the content of your blog, like via Email, RSS Feed, podcasts, videos etc.
* · Use simple language which everyone can understand, read other blog in your niche and write those topics on your blog in the simplest way possible.
* · Show that you are popular, this can be done by showing your feed readers (if you have a large readership), comments (encourage visitors to comment on your blog posts), Site Traffic,( shoe that how many people visits your blog.
* · Help you visitors in any way. Encourage readers to ask question the doubt, answer them, this will make them feel that you are really helping them.
* These all tips are like 100 thousand years old, but I wanted you to apply them. It will not help if you know them only. So, if you really want your blogging to work for you, you will have to work on your blog.

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