No matter what product you are marketing, using a blog is an excellent way to build exposure
,drive traffic to your website and create sales.
Aswell as promoting your product and providing search engines with lots of relevant content for indexing, you can also use your blog to make extra income.
So how do you make extra money with your blog?
1. Subscribers List
Place a newsletter sign up form on your blog to build a list of your followers email addresses. Offer a free product to entice them to sign up. The more subscribers you have, the more sales you can expect to make.
Each week send a newsletter to your readers with offers, new products and updates which will encourage them to revisit your blog and/or website and purchase further products from you.
2. Affiliate Programs
Placing affiliate links on your blog is one of the easiest ways to make additional income.
An Affiliate program is where you place links on your blog promoting other people products
and when a sale is made through your blog you receive a commission.
Choose products aimed at your own market, they will be of more interest to your readers
and of course increase the chance of sales.
3. AdSense Advertising
Sign up for a free Google AdSense account. You will be provided with codes to put on your
blog which show ads relevant to your sites content. When visitors to your blog click on any
of the ads, you get paid a certain amount per click. Although it isnt a huge amount, it soon
builds up to generate yet another source of income from your blog.