Blogging for Dollars Blog

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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Got a blog? One of the easiest ways to make money as a blogger is to get hired as a guest blogger.

You need to establish your own blog first, to show what you can do – the bloggers who hire you will want your content to be equal to, or better than, the content they post on their blogs themselves.

Guest Blogging, Guest And Ghostwriter Services – PiggyBankPie reports:

“Once you’ve published 5-6 guest posts, you can start advertising yourself as a guest blogger. Just add a page or a banner on your site that says Hire Me and provide basic details on what you offer. If you look at this site’s top left banner you’ll find the one I’m using. You can also have a look at Muhammad Saleem’s Hire Me banner in his right sidebar, this one points to his email address… whatever you prefer.”

There are many job sites online, including the out-sourcing sites, which offer blogging gigs. However, on the blog job boards, people seem to compete on price alone, which as any marketer will tell you, is a losing proposition for everyone.

The content buyers lose, because bloggers who are rushing to complete a dozen low-paying gigs have no incentive to produce great content.

The bloggers looking for blog jobs lose, because they have no time to establish their own name, because they’re so frantic completing low-paying gigs.

In all things, you get what you pay for.

When you’re starting out selling your blogging services:

* Focus on your own blog until you have at least ten GREAT posts (this is your portfolio);

* Then contact other bloggers, and offer to blog for free – this gets you in the public eye, especially if you land a gig on a high-traffic blog, and gets you established in the blogosphere. The blogosphere is a small world, you need to become a part of this world;

* Contact blogs for which you want to write directly. In other words, ASK directly for gigs, don’t haunt the blog job sites. Bloggers are busy – they appreciate time off as much as anyone, and they will hire you directly if you seem a good fit for their blog.

Happy blogging.

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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Sydney, Australia, May 11, 2008 – Top blogger and writing coach Angela Booth has just released a new blogging and coaching ebook package to help anyone who wants to turn blogging into a successful home business. Called “Blogging for Dollars: How to become a career blogger – in your PJs, if you want”, the package includes several ebooks and coaching from Angela.

Blogs are a phenomenon. Although they started as online journals, in recent years they’ve been adopted by businesses and individuals as a major promotional tool. This means that “blog jobs” are widely available, creating a new business, that of the professional blogger.

Blogging since 2001, Angela says that blogging has gone mainstream with a vengeance in the past two years: “Newspapers have bloggers now. Blogs have major advantages for any business online. They provide great visibility. Compared with other forms of advertising, blogging provides great returns on investment for businesses.”

Angela Booth says: “Most professional bloggers blog for a stable of blogs. Several colleagues blog for ten to 20 blogs. One friend blogs for many businesses. At last count, he was blogging for 30 blogs, and making an extraordinary income.”

The “Blogging for Dollars: How to become a career blogger” package is comprehensive, Angela says, based on her many years as a professional blogger. She believes that blogging offers great opportunities for many people who prefer to work from home. She says: “Blogging makes a great home business. All a blogger needs is a computer and an Internet connection. And since businesses need bloggers, blog jobs are easy to find.”

Angela Booth is a top blogger, copywriter and writing teacher. She wrote a book for publisher Allen & Unwin about making money online in the early days of the Web, and loves writing for, and about, the Web. Contact her for more information on blogging.

Imagine… $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours

You can get paid to blog. The current rate for experienced bloggers is around $1,000 to $1500 a week for from two to five posts a day – VERY nice writing income.

Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller “Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger — in your PJs, if you want”. It’s my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well.

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