Want to make a six-figure income from your writing? Consider blogging for money, that is, writing blogs for businesses, and being well-paid for it. Businesses love blogs because it gives them added presence in the search engines; blogs bring traffic, and traffic builds sales.
So what does it take to blog for money?
In this article you’ll discover three steps to success in blogging for money.
You’ll notice that the final step is “blog flipping”, that is creating blogs with the express purpose of selling those blogs; this can add to your income considerably, so it’s a tactic to keep in mind from the beginning of your blogging career.
1. Create a “Starter” Blog on Which to Practice
Your first step is to create ONE blog.
Please don’t get hung up on this step. Professional bloggers tend to have many blogs; often numbering in the hundreds. For more details www.building-blog-empire.com erefore, there’s no way to fail with this. Just create a Blogger blog (free.)
However, before you dive in, decide on a focus for the blog. Your blog’s focus can be anything at all — a topic which intrigues you, like a specific sport, a hobby, or yourself — if you intend to use this blog as a portfolio blog.
2. Blog for Others, to See How Others Monetize Their Blogs
Now you have your starter blog, advertise your availability to blog for others on the blog. You can also advertise on others’ blogs, or via Pay Per Click advertising. If money is tight, you can advertise on the free classifieds sites, or by using article marketing. For more details www.profit-pulling-toolbars.com ce you start advertising, continue advertising your blogging services. As your skills increase, you’ll be able to take on more highly-paid blog jobs
3. Create Blogs to Flip
Now you’re getting paid to blog, it’s time to boost your income with blog flipping. One of the benefits of blogging for others is that you learn a lot about blogging. Put those skills to use, and create blogs to sell.
How much can you sell a blog for? That depends on the income the blog is generating. It’s possible to make five figures from a blog that’s earning money.
So there you have three steps to get paid to blog.

Before you think of starting your article writing campaign, there are some very important preparations that you need to research and discover. For a successful online business to germinate, promoted through writing articles (meaning an income generating machine working on auto pilot), key issues need to be addressed. What are these key secrets?

Before we touch on this, lets get back to basics and look at how a hot dog stand would profit selling to the public. What do you think would make a hot dog stand successful? Colourful display, banners, music, open flame grill with lots of aroma, good position? Well these all could contribute to the success, but the overall key ingredient needed is a “hungry or starving crowed”. Hungry due to appetite for hot dogs or staving due to limited available food (competition).

Before taking up article writing you need to establish if there is a hungry market online, ready to be marketed to. Establish how much demand is there for what you have to offer? Can you change your offer? Are there enough people willing to pay for what you want to market and promote? How much competition is there already supplying that market?

How do you go about finding these answers?

Search the internet for a key word tool that can give you the number of searches made for a word term in your possible niche, that surfers are making. This will immediately show which search terms are most used for your planned niche. Popular is good but not always profitable. There are niches where little money is spent or is already well catered for.

One way to find out if the market is worth pursuing is to type your key word into your search browser and do a search for it. At the top of your screen will give the total of the search results: “Results 1 – 10 of about 184,000,000 for dogs”. This gives you an idea of how much information is already out there.

What are your chances of you being found amongst that lot? “Remote” I would say. But “Don’t give up just yet…” Obviously there is a good demand for this niche and there must be a profit to be made here, or else there would not be this much competition. So how do you get through it?

Ask your self, “From what angle can I attack this competition that will give me the edge?” Asking questions is the first step to opening the door to this multi million dollar online business. Look for a more specific search term, go from “dogs” to “Black Portuguese Water Dogs”. to see how the results fall away. (Web1-10 of 15 results·Advanced for “Black Portuguese Water Dogs”..)

When you find a bright idea then you can run with it, start writing articles for your income and online success.