Thursday, August 15, 2013

How to Blog for Profit

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.
To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you. However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isn't easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention. You need to be able to market your blog effectively.
Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project. To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis. However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site. To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.
Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight. Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period. To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

THE WISE USE OF PEOPLE’S RESOURCES AS A CHANNEL FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT


People’s resources are the greatest asset any individual or an organization embarking on economic empowerment venture can have. You need wisdom from above to effectively utilize this asset to your economic advantage, but not at the expense of their legitimate entitlements. Apart from your personal resources, you will need other people’s resources for your economic empowerment.


How do you wisely use people’s resources as a channel for economic empowerment?


i. OPM – Other People’s Monies


ii. OPT – Other People’s Time


iii. OPK – Other People’s Knowledge


iv. OPA – Other People’s Abilities


v. OPG – Other People’s Goodwill


vi. OPE – Other People’s Experience


You can use all the above-mentioned People’s Resources to empower yourself economically. Note however that we are not talking about exploiting people unduly to amass wealth for yourself. Bible frowns on that and you will not go unpunished for that. What I am teaching you is that there are so many people out there with these resources in abundance who do not know how to harness and utilize them for their own economic gain. With wisdom, employ these available resources, and pay them their due remunerations and utilize the resources for a greater economic gain.

Let us consider some case studies for the use of the above

The use of OPM (Other People’s Monies)


How do financial institutions make their wealth? Simply by the principle of OPM, they take your money with the promise of keeping it safe for you and giving it back to you at any time you want it just for a minimal charge. They then invest your money into some viable money market instruments with greater yields and make more money with your money for themselves. How about that? That is financial wisdom for you.

If you happen to meet an excellent opportunity for an investment that can yield you over a hundred percent return with no or minimal risk and you don’t have the money it takes to seize the opportunity, do you fold your arms and sleep? No! You look for somebody with the money who doesn’t know what to do with it and promise him some interest for the use of his money and you are on your way to making big time wealth for yourself. You don’t need to have your own money before you can be economically empowered, but you surely need wisdom for that. So ‘wise up’

The use of OPK (Other People’s Knowledge)


Henry Ford, it is said was a school drop out and a near illiterate but he is credited with the invention of the Ford Car. How did he accomplish that? By the principle of OPK (Other People’s Knowledge), he had a vision and a desire backed by determination, but he had no knowledge to achieve that by himself. He used wisdom to employ OPK to accomplish his dream.


He was once accused of being an ignoramus and in his defense astounded every body by saying: “I don’t need to cram my head with knowledge I can easily get elsewhere at the snap of my fingers” By that statement, It was held that if one knows how to get from elsewhere, the knowledge he should have acquired by himself he cannot be said to be an ignoramus. By that he won the case. This can work for you too. You don’t need all the knowledge in the world to be able to make money. All you need is the wisdom to gather around you people with the knowledge you need.

Consider this success story and get an inspiration that the OPK can work for anybody who has wisdom enough to harness its powers.

Some Senior High School candidates who could not make it in all their papers contacted a young man to help them in some extra classes as they were preparing to rewrite some of their papers. He did help them and they were successful in their exams. The news soon spread in town and many more students started flocking to his house everyday. He was overwhelmed with their numbers and besides, he could not handle all the courses. An idea quickly came to him to create a remedial classes’ centre and employ the services of the graduate teachers in the secondary schools in the town to help him. This he did and today the place has turned into a fulltime remedial and regular school with the young man who has not got a university education as the proprietor and facilitator making his cool money through the use of the OPK (Other People’s Knowledge). You too can try the OPK because it will definitely work for you.



WISE USE OF YOUR TALENTS AND GIFTS FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Talents and natural giftings are divine endowments for giving means of livelihood to people. Your talent is not a decorative piece; it is your vehicle to economic empowerment. Your only role is to discover, develop, and add economic value to it and you are on your way to earning money from that talent or gift.

Look at the wealth sports stars are making from the wise use of their natural talents all over the world today. Note however, that talents and natural gifts are only raw materials. They only become economically viable when we are able to turn them into marketable skills. No body employs talents or gifts. People are looking for skills to employ, and the more skilful you become in the use of that gift, the more you will be paid for it. There are many talented footballers, singers, actors etc, in the world but only the skilful ones are paid very well.

The wisdom for economic empowerment here is to discover your talents and natural endowments and develop them into economically viable and marketable skills, and you are not far from earning money from them.