What NOT to do to Earn Money with your Blog.

I have tried many methods of earning money online, some of them work and some of them do not. Outlined below I will talk to you about some of the mistakes I have made along the way. Hey, buy the way everyone makes mistakes so do not laugh to much.

If you don’t want to make any money then here are some sure fire ways to keep yourself in the poor house.

* Do Not Have a Plan- This blog is a perfect example of this. I bought the blog-earnings.com domain without a clue how to earn money with your blog. So I wrote a few articles, then perplexed I left it sit, and sit.  While it sat, I went off and created other blogs, with a plans and go figure I started earning money.

*Do no research-Trust me research can save you allot of Heartache. For example, if you created a blog about “making money online” without researching you would be oblivious to that fact that there are 5 million other people blogging about the same thing. Where as if you did some research you might have found out that  fewer people are blogging about “Making Money online with Social Networks”.

* Hate your Chosen Topic-I will not say you can not make money with a hated topic But it surely makes life a chore. I absolutely dread writing on one of my blogs because the subject matter is mind bending freaking boring.

*Take no Action- Read and research and never do nothing. I have gone through spells of this. Reading of peoples success stories, and day dreaming about how cool it would be to make the same kind of money. There is time when you have read everything, and know what to do, now is the time to stop day dreamming and just get out there and do it.

* Get over involved with PTC (get paid to) type programs- This was my meager beginnings in the blogger field. The whole get paid to industry is full scams and shams. The whole goal is to join as many sites as you can to get as many referrals as you can, then just before that big payout, the site disappears. I will admit I still do ptc sites, but I do not join many new ones, I pretty much still use Marketing Pond because all of the programs have been around for years and many times I can cash out for free advertising.

*Selling without letting people get to know you- Facts with out personality. People enjoy human interaction. Here is an example, There is a friend of a friend you know that does home repair jobs, you have talked to him several times about sports and you share some common interests with him. Then there is is this sales person that keeps calling you on the phone, trying to sell you his repair services. Now your washer broke, who would you call?

*Do not get your own Domain-Yes, it is possible to make money without your own domain. But I think getting your own domain is like a commitment, like a marriage. It means you have made commitment to yourself and you are serious about making money online, so you are ready to take the next step. Plus many affilliate programs and advertising agencies require you to have your own domain. Yes it is good to practice on a free blog like blogger, etc… but the ultimate goal should be to aquire your own domain

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Do you think I am stupid? Bloggers study marketing tactics, why would you use text book marketing ploys to try and win over marketers?

Here are a few things irritating in the marketing arena today.

1. List builders. Someone promising you all of this great information if you join their list. Once you join, you realize you gave some idiot permission to spam the hell out of you.

2. Limited time offers. We all know if we come back tomorrow or the next day the offer will still be available.

3. Comment suicide. I really hate this, and I can not believe how many bloggers still do it. “Nice site visit mine” argh, talk about worthless information!

4. Marketing Videos. If you want to know what I have against marketing videos, I have written another entire article on that I am not Watching Your Marketing Videos.

5. Hype. “$300 in 20 minutes”, give me a break.

6.Trickery and Deception. Have you ever payed for or joined a program to find out it is not at all what you thought. Totally annoying.
This leads me to my inspiration for this post. I recently logged into my Blogcatalog and had a private message that went something like this “I was reading your blog today and was inspired to write a post”. Of course I was excited and clicked over to read the post. The subject line was, 3 Reasons Why Blogging is not for You. Okay, somewhat insulting but it was a decent article. I jog down to read the comments and to my dismay the first comment stated “It is good that my blog inspired you”.
Oh boy, is this twisted in a few ways. A personal note is a good thing, but when it really isn’t personal it becomes deceptive.

The bottom line is be careful not to commit business suicide by being watching how you market and project yourself to potential prospects. The market has gotten smarter so you need to get smarter yourself. Just because other are doing it does not mean it is not self destructive.Similar Posts:

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