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If you enjoy writing, blogging is great fun. You can even turn your love of blogging into a great career. Blogging is a great “work from home” opportunity - you work the hours you please, you work from home, and you’re your own boss.

Blog jobs are springing up everywhere like mushrooms after rain. In this article, you’ll discover five easy tips which will help you to land all the blog jobs you want.

Here are the tips.

1. Focus on your own blog first - build your name and reputation

Your own blog is not only your “portfolio” showing your blogging skills and expertise, it’s also a way to get known. Please don’t just aim to be a generic blogger or writer. In blogging, you need to build your name and reputation. Once people know who you are, you can charge the rates you want.

Don’t forget to let people know you’re available for blog jobs on your blog. Create a “Hire me” page.

2. Use the blog job boards with caution - the best jobs aren’t advertised

Once your blog’s established, check out the blog job boards. However, use them with caution. Check out job posters on Google. If you can’t find anything on them - be very wary.

3. Write guest posts - for free - on other blogs to get known

Writing for free - to get known - is the key to being paid well to blog. Remember, you need to get away from the generic “blogger” tag as soon as possible. Spread your name and writing skills around. You’re laying the foundations of a great career.

4. ASK! Propose a blog to sites which don’t have one

Here’s a big tip. When you see a site which doesn’t have a blog, but which would benefit from one, propose a blog. Your proposal can be just a short note to the site’s contact email address, or it can be a full-blown business proposal.

I suggest a message of a couple of hundred words for your proposals - you’ll be amazed at the results you can get. One blogger is now happily blogging for a large corporation, both publicly, and privately, for the company’s internal blogs. He’s making three times his previous salary.

5. Use the free classifieds sites to spread your name

The benefit of the free classifieds site is that they’re free, and that they spread your name far and wide - remember, the more you get known, the more blog jobs you’ll get, and the more you’ll be paid.

Enjoy blogging: you can turn it into a fantastic career when you know how to get blog jobs.

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You can turn your blog into an income stream and even a profitable home business. Let’s look at several ways in which you can make money from a blog.

Set Income Goals Before You Start Blogging

Here’s an important tip: decide how you’ll generate cash with your blog before you start blogging. Yes, it’s possible to monetize an existing blog, but it’s more difficult than if you decide on a focus, and set some income goals before you start a blog.

Here are three easy ways to make money.

1. Write product reviews

There are hundreds of thousands of products you can promote as an affiliate. Using Amazon is one of the easiest ways to find products to review, whether books, or big ticket items.

One of the most effective ways to make money as an affiliate with a blog is to create a new blog for each product you’re promoting. With a lot of information about a particular product, and reviews on the same blog, you make it easy for buyers to buy - and you get the commission.

2. Sell advertising on your blog

In order to sell advertising, your blog needs both content and traffic. When you know that advertising is your monetization strategy, you can start selling advertising at a lower rate when your blog is new. As the blog gets increased traffic, just lift your advertising rates.

3. Sell your own product

Selling your own product or service from your blog is perhaps the best way to make money from your blog.

Start the blog as the product is being created. For example, if you want to sell an ebook from your blog, start the blog as soon as you hire a writer. A blog takes time to get indexed and established in the search engines, so the sooner you create the blog the better.

By the time you’re ready to launch your product, you’ll have prospective buyers eager for it.

There are many easy ways to monetize a blog. Choose a strategy today, create a blog, and start earning.

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Want a steady flow of traffic to your blog? We all do. This means advertising.

A wit once said that 50 per cent of all advertising was a waste of money - but you never know which 50 per cent. Therefore, set an advertising budget and stick to it. Without a budget, you can easily spend too much on advertising.

Let’s look at five easy inexpensive ways to advertise your blog.

1. Barter: Trade ads with complementary blogs

This is one of my favorite forms of advertising. Let’s say a site charges $100 per month for an ad. If the site’s complementary to yours (you sell chocolates, they sell flowers for example), offer to trade ads. If site’s hugely popular, you won’t get a one-for-one swap, but they’ll give you a reduction in their standard rates.

2. Buy text link ads on blogs

You can buy text links from advertising networks, but it’s just as easy to buy your own. Approach other bloggers and tell them how much you have to spend.

3. Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)

Pay Per Click advertising gives you visibility, so it’s worth running a campaign for a month or two. You’ll increase your feed subscribers if you regularly post worthwhile content while you’re running your campaign. Don’t forget to check the progress of your ads daily - those clicks can mount up.

4. Classified ads in trade (print) magazines

A classified ad in a print magazine, even in trade magazines, is relatively expensive for a one-time shot. Therefore, if the publication is read by your target audience, sign up for a six-month package.

5. Buy advertising on popular ezines

Be careful with this one. Buying ads on ezines can either be great, or a total waste of money. I’ve had experience with both. Buy a small ad as a test run, before you sign up for six months’ worth.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today - you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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