Many of us are wondering how those big bloggers making so much money on their blog. Are you trying to do the same? It used to be fun to write a blog for personal or for hobby. Now, many people put up blog just for money! Especially, there are so many blogs on blogger.com (blogspot.com) are showing too many advertisement, which is very annoying. Most of them are not even making good money at all. Do you think you can make good money online with blog?

Why make money online with blog is not right for me?

Many people already knew that John Chow, Darrin Rowse from problogger.net, Maki from DoshDosh.com and many others are making good money by blogging. I often see that people are so desperate following their steps and try to make as good money as they are. Most of them are doing just OK. I was wondering if there is something missing that those big shot guns did not tell?

I have been thinking about this for some time. What’s wrong with the picture? Why can they make such a good incoming but others don’t?

We all know that they make good money off their blog by putting up advertisement, reviewme, buy me a beer and many other tricks to get money from their viewers or vendors. Is that all? We can all copy all those methods and get potential clicks on ad, if we have enough viewers. Did I just mention the key point? You need to have enough viewers (followers), before you can successfully make good money off your blog with advertisement and other money generator. Now the question is how to drive so much traffic to your blog?

OH! You just put up your blog with “Make money Online” and expect people to come? Forget it! You are already too late. Since they are on top of the food chain, you will be just one of the followers in the lower chain. So what can you do to move yourself to the top of food chain?

Personally, I am not in the right position to tell you how? I don’t think I will spend much more time on make money online with blog. Why? I will tell you that later. I will list out what I think those top guns did to make their success today and what I think those top gun have to do to stay on top. You will have to do your own judgment to see if that is right answer to you! Please keep that in mind. I am not an expert on make money online with blog. So my opinions may not be suitable to your situation.

What do they do?

  1. They are all talented and very very smart people. Are they much smarter than all of us? I don’t think so, but they are smart enough to find what other smart people don’t find. What do they find? Opportunities. Not one, not two but many opportunities. They take it all! Many people are waiting for opportunities to come, but they just sit and wait. They believe their opportunities will come, because they think they are smart. And what? It never comes!
  2. They act very fast and make breaking news. Where do you find those breaking news about new ideas or new ways to make new revenue? Where do you look for what other people are going after? You know where, because that’s where the breaking news or buzz is happening. You go there and try to find the answers.
  3. They know what people need. Buzz! Buzz! They know that they have to make breaking news or buzz to attract more people. So you will come back to read again or subscribe to their blog. Do they really care about how you make money by learning what they have done? Would you put up something that will make your viewers your competitors in the sensitive business world? What you see is what you want to see, because you only see what you want to see. It’s not about what they want you to see. Huh? In other words, all you see is how they put the money in their pocket, because you think you can duplicate what they have done to put money in your own pocket. Now. You are still wondering what exactly they make money. Why you have tried and tried and still not making as good as they did? Do you know what your viewer need? Did you give them what they want to see? Or did you put up something you want to see? Get the point?
  4. They know the factors of driving revenue. They know that good quality content will bring more viewers. They know that what people want to see is an example of success. Who wants to see a failure case? They know how to create critical points that they need your support to get more traffic while you don’t even feel you are driving traffic to him.
  5. Do you know me? What’ my name? How many times have you seen their name out there? How many times have people mentioned their names? How many times have you seen “Because I am John Chow?” in the comments? Why are we still using some nicknames like ‘HotCowboy”, “PencilMen” …. etc? Who are you?

What do they do to keep on top of “make money online” food chain?

  1. Be a full time blogger. How much exactly are they making? Where were they up to yesterday? Are they making money over weekend? Those are the common questions people asked. Did you see them answering comments over weekend. Did you see them post a new topic over weekend? Almost all the answers are yes. If they don’t post new topics in two days, you might felt something went terribly wrong to that person. Have you felt that way? Why there is no post in two days? Where are they? You just keep hoping they come back and post something you really want to see. So! Are you a full time blogger? Will you sacrifice your vacation time and post your vacation photos or picnic photos, which have nothing to do with make money online? Once you stop blogging for few days, you lost many subscriber and readers. Your traffic drop, because people think you were dead! Are you a full time blogger?
  2. Be a social networker. Those top blogger either social on their own blog or in the public as a speaker or on the blog community answering others question. This is one of the key points to success. How many social networks have you signed up? Are you actively answering others’ questions?
  3. Hiring guest blogger. OK. You don’t have time to blog while you are on a cruise trip to Alaska. You don’t want to lose any subscribers. So you need a guest blogger to post a new topic for you, but you are so afraid of that someone screwed up your reputation by hiring someone promoting themselves while you were gone. You are so tired by the torture mentally. Yes. You are luck, you find a good guest speaker for you. What if you don’t?
  4. Get paid for speech. Do you really think advertisement can bring you such a good fortune without extra effort? Just like I mentioned above. Without a good name and reputation out there, you won’t live long in this brutal make money online blogging world. You have to find an extra revenue resource to fill up your pocket. If you are name are out there, you have better chance to make more money in one hour with a speech than one month advertisement.
  5. Start a side business. How many times does John Chow mentioned that he has other online business running? A smart people will never limit themselves by putting all their eggs into one basket. You will have to have something else as a plan B. So does other top gun blogger. And so DO YOU!
  6. Pay for exposure. Just like many other big name stars out there. You will have to pay to get more exposure. It’s the reality. You will have to pay for your reputation sometimes. Without the investment, no one will ever know who you are at the first place. Just like you have to put up some advertisement on Google.

So why is making money online with blog not right for me? First of all, I don’t want to sacrifice my vacation time. I travel a lot. I have better thing to do which can make me happier. Can I be a billionaire as a blogger? I really don’t think so. Why don’t Bill Gates blog as much as we all do? He has better things to do which could make better revenue. That is what I think. I want to make money online with as little effort as possible. I want to run a business with money flooding my bank account regardless I blog or not. Personally, making money online with blog is hard money. The ROI (return of investment) is too risky. Once you stop, your income stops too!

I appreciate that you have read this far! I would love to hear your thoughts. Is make money online with blog right for you?

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