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<h1>
The Problem with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Money" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Making Money">Making Money</a> in
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Blog">Blogging</a> is Exactly That.</h1>
<a href="http://myflyoverzone.gothunkyourself.com/" target="_blank"><br />
</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/267060150/"><img alt="Make money blogging by using it for marketing" id="il_fi" src="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/images/blogging-make-money.jpg" style="border: 2px solid; height: 282px; width: 375px;" title="Make money blogging by using it for marketing" /></a></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Again,
you can't get there from here... <a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/blogging.php#sign_up_form_here...">(but
I've got some lessons you can take</a>.)</h3>
Because while some people do make money from their blogs, it's
again that extreme few who simply fall into a niche and a pattern
others can't easily follow.<br />
<br />
It took me years to figure this out. And finally a friend
inadvertantly pointed it out to me. The blog is not the product.<br />
<br />
Meaning,
you have to exchange a produce or service with someone else in order to
allow them to give you some exchange for that which will improve your
life.<br />
<br />
So where do blogs fit in? The people who are "making money"
are really providing entertaniment. (Well info-tainment, or
edu-tainment.) They are making money from selling advertisements,
because the traffic to their site is so high businesses want a piece of
that pie.<br />
<br />
Now you hear of people selling info-products and
affiliate products and so on. Are bloggers doing this? Sure. And if you
look at their site, you'll see plenty of places where they are getting
you to sign up for this or that mailing list and even get this or that
ebook or product.<br />
<br />
But what they are doing is marketing. Lots of
interesting articles about stuff that people will sign up for. Finding
a demand and then filling it with something valuable they will give you
money for.<br />
<br />
It's not <span style="font-style: italic;">blogging</span>
that's making money, it's <span style="font-style: italic;">marketing</span>.<br />
<br />
OK
- enough of the rant. Sure, I've made some money by blogging
-
but it wasn't because people paid me to blog. It was because I sent
them to places where I either sold a product (<a href="http://gothunkyourself.com/" rel="me" target="_blank">like my storefront of books</a>) or
sent them to someone who would give me a percentage of any
sale.<br />
<br />
The service was in the honest reviews so people could make up
their own minds.<br />
And
in that process I've built so many blogs I can't keep up with them.
(But check out the list on that storefront - lower right) and you'll
get an idea. The blogroll on this page has many of them as well. I have
literally lost track of many of them.<br />
<br />
So I know a bit about how
to start a blog and how to keep them going. I know the basics of how to
make money from using them as part of a concerted <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Marketing">marketing
campaign</a>.<br />
<br />
It's a lot of hard work (unless you inherited a set of
over-prolific fingers like mine...)<br />
<br />
These lessons will take you from nothing to something. And
after that, you're on your own.<br />
<br />
And I reserve the right to amend these as I continue to find
out more and more about blogging.<br />
<h3>
Here's the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How-to" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="How-to">How To</a> Roll Your Own Blog Lessons:</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/lesson01a.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson 1 - The End in View - What
You're After</span></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/02Less_on.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson 2. Something to write about</span></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/bloglessons/02Less_on.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/Less-03-lesson.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson
3. Persuasive Content: How
to write effectively and memorably </span></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/Fourth-blog-lesson.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson 4. Reverse Promotion: How
to use social media to get your message out</span></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/bloglessons/5thBlogLesson05.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/5thBlogLesson05.php" style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson
5. Re-branding
Yourself or Others: Find network associates and interconnect</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/BlogLesson6th06.php">Lesson
6. Re-purpose
and
re-publish: Submitting your content to alternate social media content
networks.</a></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/7th_Lesson7-blogging.php" style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson
7. You
are now
a published author: Re-purpose your content to articles</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/Lesson-the-eighth-blogging.php" style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson
8.
Connections
and interchange: The Good Old Boys had it right. </a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/Lesson9-blogging-ninth.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Lesson 9. Go Pro: Use
what you learned to make yourself a real job. </span></a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<a href="http://robertworstell.com/lessons/10thBloggingLesson-ten.php" style="font-weight: bold;">Lesson
10.
Summary –
and where to from here? </a></div>
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