To summarize an hour of dialogue, you should at some point have a product that your readers will want. You should give a lot of free content away, but even when it comes to content, you can charge for some amount, and if your content is good enough, people will pay for the premium stuff. "You can tell them about ninety percent, and they'll pay money just to get the final ten percent," so they know they have the whole picture, Clark says.
Making money blogging will not happen overnight. Sometimes it may seem like this is possible, but in reality, it takes a lot of work. "Build something that is real and something that matters to people," Rowse advises. He shared a story about how he launched a product one day and literally watched the sales roll in. It was as if he had hit a button, and the cash just started flowing, but then he realized he had been working hard up to that point for over two years, promoting the blog, writing two posts a day, doing SEO, press releases, etc. It wasn't overnight.
You're not scalable, meaning that as your audience grows and more people want to connect with you, there will be a point where it just becomes too much. You have to set boundaries, otherwise you will have no time for yourself and your family.
Eventually, you're going to have to "get real" about how many meaningful connections you can make in a day, Simone says, adding, "That's part of growing up in social media.”
When they say "no one actually wants that much authenticity," they mean that nobody cares about what you did last night, who you were with, what you had for breakfast, etc. In other words, don't show everybody everything about yourself, because you're not writing for you. You're writing for them. Be who you want to be for your audience.
Ultimately, you're blogging and using social media to sell, but you can't just go around selling to people, because they won't have it. It just doesn't work. You have to make them want to buy. "You're selling yourself," says Clark. If you provide enough value to your audience, they will want to buy what you have to offer if it expands upon the value you're already giving them. "The content is the marketing," he says.
Just having a blog is not a business. If you want it to be a business you have to treat it like one, Rowse says. This is basically an extension of number 2.
The most important of the seven points is that no one is reading your blog. As Simone says, there are hundreds of millions of blogs, and that includes blogs on your topic. You have to write it in a way that is fresh, and either entertaining or informative. The good news is that you don't need "monster traffic". You just need a good, steady core audience for advertising to do well.
Yesterday, LAANE's research director Carolina Briones was a guest on the Patt Morrison Show, which airs on KPCC, a local NPR station. The subject was poverty, and LAANE had just released analysis of the new census data showing the extent of poverty at the local level.
One guest described the tragedy of living in a car with his wife and daughter as the recession took its toll on the construction industry. A caller then phoned in and described how he lived in a Winnebago for years in order to save money while working poverty-level jobs.
I was touched by these stories of people, not far from my neighborhood, making whatever choice necessary to survive when good jobs are not available. But then the caller went on to suggest that the answer to poverty was for everyone struggling today to follow his example and hunker down.
Beyond creating an initial picture in my mind of L.A's already-notorious freeways suddenly inundated with hundreds of thousands of Winnebagos, it did bring up an important thought as we grapple with the highest poverty rates in decades. There is a critical role for a social safety net to keep people stable and families intact amidst chronic unemployment and underemployment. And on the individual level, I never fail to be blown away by the ingenuity of people trying to make it for their families on far too little, especially in cities as expensive as L.A.
However, to truly reduce poverty, we need to address it as a community. The Winnebago example illustrates how unworkable it is to adjust the rest of our world down to the level of the poverty jobs that are actually available. What we need to do instead is raise the bar for jobs. We need policies and initiatives that help create good jobs and make them accessible for those who need them.
LAANE has put together a Poverty Resource Center on our website, with local economic analysis as well as some blueprints and examples of our vision to create new economy that works for everyone. Please visit www.laane.org/poverty and make use of these models as we seek to reduce poverty and create good jobs in communities across the nation.
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To summarize an hour of dialogue, you should at some point have a product that your readers will want. You should give a lot of free content away, but even when it comes to content, you can charge for some amount, and if your content is good enough, people will pay for the premium stuff. "You can tell them about ninety percent, and they'll pay money just to get the final ten percent," so they know they have the whole picture, Clark says.
Making money blogging will not happen overnight. Sometimes it may seem like this is possible, but in reality, it takes a lot of work. "Build something that is real and something that matters to people," Rowse advises. He shared a story about how he launched a product one day and literally watched the sales roll in. It was as if he had hit a button, and the cash just started flowing, but then he realized he had been working hard up to that point for over two years, promoting the blog, writing two posts a day, doing SEO, press releases, etc. It wasn't overnight.
You're not scalable, meaning that as your audience grows and more people want to connect with you, there will be a point where it just becomes too much. You have to set boundaries, otherwise you will have no time for yourself and your family.
Eventually, you're going to have to "get real" about how many meaningful connections you can make in a day, Simone says, adding, "That's part of growing up in social media.”
When they say "no one actually wants that much authenticity," they mean that nobody cares about what you did last night, who you were with, what you had for breakfast, etc. In other words, don't show everybody everything about yourself, because you're not writing for you. You're writing for them. Be who you want to be for your audience.
Ultimately, you're blogging and using social media to sell, but you can't just go around selling to people, because they won't have it. It just doesn't work. You have to make them want to buy. "You're selling yourself," says Clark. If you provide enough value to your audience, they will want to buy what you have to offer if it expands upon the value you're already giving them. "The content is the marketing," he says.
Just having a blog is not a business. If you want it to be a business you have to treat it like one, Rowse says. This is basically an extension of number 2.
The most important of the seven points is that no one is reading your blog. As Simone says, there are hundreds of millions of blogs, and that includes blogs on your topic. You have to write it in a way that is fresh, and either entertaining or informative. The good news is that you don't need "monster traffic". You just need a good, steady core audience for advertising to do well.
Yesterday, LAANE's research director Carolina Briones was a guest on the Patt Morrison Show, which airs on KPCC, a local NPR station. The subject was poverty, and LAANE had just released analysis of the new census data showing the extent of poverty at the local level.
One guest described the tragedy of living in a car with his wife and daughter as the recession took its toll on the construction industry. A caller then phoned in and described how he lived in a Winnebago for years in order to save money while working poverty-level jobs.
I was touched by these stories of people, not far from my neighborhood, making whatever choice necessary to survive when good jobs are not available. But then the caller went on to suggest that the answer to poverty was for everyone struggling today to follow his example and hunker down.
Beyond creating an initial picture in my mind of L.A's already-notorious freeways suddenly inundated with hundreds of thousands of Winnebagos, it did bring up an important thought as we grapple with the highest poverty rates in decades. There is a critical role for a social safety net to keep people stable and families intact amidst chronic unemployment and underemployment. And on the individual level, I never fail to be blown away by the ingenuity of people trying to make it for their families on far too little, especially in cities as expensive as L.A.
However, to truly reduce poverty, we need to address it as a community. The Winnebago example illustrates how unworkable it is to adjust the rest of our world down to the level of the poverty jobs that are actually available. What we need to do instead is raise the bar for jobs. We need policies and initiatives that help create good jobs and make them accessible for those who need them.
LAANE has put together a Poverty Resource Center on our website, with local economic analysis as well as some blueprints and examples of our vision to create new economy that works for everyone. Please visit www.laane.org/poverty and make use of these models as we seek to reduce poverty and create good jobs in communities across the nation.
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To summarize an hour of dialogue, you should at some point have a product that your readers will want. You should give a lot of free content away, but even when it comes to content, you can charge for some amount, and if your content is good enough, people will pay for the premium stuff. "You can tell them about ninety percent, and they'll pay money just to get the final ten percent," so they know they have the whole picture, Clark says.
Making money blogging will not happen overnight. Sometimes it may seem like this is possible, but in reality, it takes a lot of work. "Build something that is real and something that matters to people," Rowse advises. He shared a story about how he launched a product one day and literally watched the sales roll in. It was as if he had hit a button, and the cash just started flowing, but then he realized he had been working hard up to that point for over two years, promoting the blog, writing two posts a day, doing SEO, press releases, etc. It wasn't overnight.
You're not scalable, meaning that as your audience grows and more people want to connect with you, there will be a point where it just becomes too much. You have to set boundaries, otherwise you will have no time for yourself and your family.
Eventually, you're going to have to "get real" about how many meaningful connections you can make in a day, Simone says, adding, "That's part of growing up in social media.”
When they say "no one actually wants that much authenticity," they mean that nobody cares about what you did last night, who you were with, what you had for breakfast, etc. In other words, don't show everybody everything about yourself, because you're not writing for you. You're writing for them. Be who you want to be for your audience.
Ultimately, you're blogging and using social media to sell, but you can't just go around selling to people, because they won't have it. It just doesn't work. You have to make them want to buy. "You're selling yourself," says Clark. If you provide enough value to your audience, they will want to buy what you have to offer if it expands upon the value you're already giving them. "The content is the marketing," he says.
Just having a blog is not a business. If you want it to be a business you have to treat it like one, Rowse says. This is basically an extension of number 2.
The most important of the seven points is that no one is reading your blog. As Simone says, there are hundreds of millions of blogs, and that includes blogs on your topic. You have to write it in a way that is fresh, and either entertaining or informative. The good news is that you don't need "monster traffic". You just need a good, steady core audience for advertising to do well.
Yesterday, LAANE's research director Carolina Briones was a guest on the Patt Morrison Show, which airs on KPCC, a local NPR station. The subject was poverty, and LAANE had just released analysis of the new census data showing the extent of poverty at the local level.
One guest described the tragedy of living in a car with his wife and daughter as the recession took its toll on the construction industry. A caller then phoned in and described how he lived in a Winnebago for years in order to save money while working poverty-level jobs.
I was touched by these stories of people, not far from my neighborhood, making whatever choice necessary to survive when good jobs are not available. But then the caller went on to suggest that the answer to poverty was for everyone struggling today to follow his example and hunker down.
Beyond creating an initial picture in my mind of L.A's already-notorious freeways suddenly inundated with hundreds of thousands of Winnebagos, it did bring up an important thought as we grapple with the highest poverty rates in decades. There is a critical role for a social safety net to keep people stable and families intact amidst chronic unemployment and underemployment. And on the individual level, I never fail to be blown away by the ingenuity of people trying to make it for their families on far too little, especially in cities as expensive as L.A.
However, to truly reduce poverty, we need to address it as a community. The Winnebago example illustrates how unworkable it is to adjust the rest of our world down to the level of the poverty jobs that are actually available. What we need to do instead is raise the bar for jobs. We need policies and initiatives that help create good jobs and make them accessible for those who need them.
LAANE has put together a Poverty Resource Center on our website, with local economic analysis as well as some blueprints and examples of our vision to create new economy that works for everyone. Please visit www.laane.org/poverty and make use of these models as we seek to reduce poverty and create good jobs in communities across the nation.
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So you want to make some extra money but perhaps don't know where to start, or perhaps you want to make more money online than you currently are, or perhaps you are just starting out and looking for helpful advice and guidance on how to avoid getting sucked into a SCAM.
So here you go, here are a few useful tips for making money online.
1. Decide how much you want to make and stick to it.
Perhaps you want to just generate some extra income, maybe topping up your monthly income with say £100/$200 per month. If so then stick to this, decide how much you need to make and also how much free time you currently have to earn this money. Bare in mind you might have prior work, family, social commitments and so on, do take these into consideration.
2. Start researching money making and money saving forums.
The best place to start before you part with any money is forums where home workers and online workers and earners gather. Spend a couple of weeks researching and reading forums, asking questions and so on. Remember people have made mistakes and errors when it comes to making money online, so rather than do the same, learn from them.
3. Decide what you can do.
Can you review products and places, are you a writer, an author maybe even a blogger at heart. There are in fact lots of ways you can make money online, but half of these are totally eclipsed by the huge amount of scams out there. Please don't pay any money up front to work from home, these are usually almost scams, you will never get your money back, and it will put a dent in your self confidence and ability to earn online. Remember if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
4. Decide what hours you can work.
Perhaps if you can offer hours after 9-5, or time at the weekend you could earn money through blogging or article writing. Perhaps if you work at the weekends or at nights, you could make money selling on eBay, or maybe even being an online researcher or virtual assistant. Remember don't overwork yourself, start off just working a few hours a week or month online and see how it fits in with your prior commitments. Don't go mad and try to work every hour god sends, it will not, you will not keep it up and you will end up ill.
5. Research, research and research some more.
Always research money making opportunities' thoroughly, ask questions, don't pay any money until you are 1000% sure that the opportunity is genuine. Ask about opportunities on forums, on blogs, and remember if someone is enthusiastically telling you how much they are earning for doing absolutely nothing, shut your ears. Nobody can earn money online for doing nothing online, and no opportunities exist to get paid hundreds of pounds or dollars to post on forums, blog etc. Be weary and always keep your guard up until you are 1000% sure about an idea or opportunity.
6. Build it up.
Don't go mad and try to make millions over night, like I said before it just wont work, instead set yourself small but regular goals to achieve, for example say you want to start off by earning £100 or $200 a month in 6 months time, and so on. Don't try to compete with other people who might or might not be making money online, just do what you can, and remember that every little bit helps no matter how little it is you end up earning.
Good luck, I hope these tips and this article will help you.
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