How To Get a Book Deal From a Blog

Mashable is reporting Tumblr blog Text From Dog, which publishes fictitious SMS conversations between a dog and its owner, is the latest blog to land a book deal. 

U.K. publisher Headline Publishing announced it would release the book Oct. 25.

The blog launched in April with a brief description: “My dog sends me texts. I post them here. Yeah, it’s weird.” 

After I read the news report I wondered How To Get a Book Deal From a Blog

According to Mashable : Images are Better Than Text.

Other blogs have found success entering the book market. Dear Photograph, a popular blog showcasing photos within photos, released a book earlier this year. And the Feminist Ryan Gosling blog unleashes a book in August. The books inspired by blogs are image heavy and contain very little text.

Another thing you need for a publisher to give you a book deal is : An Online Brand.  You need your blog to be popular. You don't need to be a celebrity but you need an online persona. People need to know you, love what you offer and love you big time. Even if they don't buy the book for what is inside, they will buy it because it has your name on the cover.

Expand Your Footprint beyond your blog

Publishers are risk averse people, rarely do they give a book deal to unknown writer but if you have internet clout they may come knocking. You have to expand your footprint online. And that means being on Twitter or Facebook.  You’ll know you’re ready when a publisher will put your face on the book jacket. People need to be able to go, ‘Oh yeah, I know that guy.’ I’ve got the ‘I know that guy’"

Be Unique & Be Different

For a publisher to turn your blog to book your blog will need to be a breath of fresh air. To know you have a winner, read the feedback from your readers. If they describe your post with the following words Brilliant, Creative, Unique, Awesome...etc. Know you are on to something.

5 Proven Ways To Make Money Blogging From Home

There are 5 proven ways to make money blogging from home. This list is for the best ways to make money blogging online. 

List of ways to make money blogging

1. Making money with adsense using your blog.
2. Landing public speaking gigs through your blog
3. Selling your print book / ebook through your blog    
4. Affiliate marketing using Niche sites.
5. Selling training and courses.

Making Money with Adsense.

Before Google was founded, the only way to find advertisers to advertize on a website or blog was to contact advertisers directly. Google introduced Adsense program and making money from blogging became easy. Once you join the program you are given a small code to install on your site and Google will serve relevant ads to your site. You focus on writing great content for your blog and Google will take care of finding advertizers for you.

To make money with adsense your blog site will need to have content plus traffic. The rule of thumb is you will start making money when your blog starts getting 300-500 visitors a day. 

Affiliate Marketing Using Niche Sites.

E-commerce sites such as amazon.com will pay you to promote their products on your blog sites. With affiliate marketing, you promote products on your site and when those people buy those products from your site, you are paid a percentage. Amazon pays 4% the price of the product. 

Bloggers have set up sites focusing on specific products. From watches, sunglasses to web hosting. When a site is focused on one single product or service we call that a niche site. 

The formula for success with niche sites is just like above - Content + Traffic.

Selling Print Book / Ebook Through Your Blog

If you have a self published book you can start blogging to promote your book. You don't need to ship the book yourself, you can distribute the book through amazon and direct readers to purchase it from amazon.com.

If you have the time and money, you can ship the book yourself. This model is time consuming and requires capital but you will keep more profits for yourself.

Landing public speaking gigs through blogging

Another way to make money blogging is to use blogging to show case your expertise in an area. People who appreciate your talent will contact you to offer you speaking engagement. 

Selling Training Courses

The last way of making money blogging online from your home is to use blogging to promote a training course. For example if you are good in Golf, you can develop a golf training course and use your blog to promote it.

The way it works is, you use your blog to share the obvious training tips and request your readers to purchase  advanced courses.

5 Things To Do As You Prepare To Register For Facebook Ad Network

Facebook won't confirm they are cooking an Ad network to rival Google 5 Things To Do As You Prepare To Register For Facebook Ad NetworkAdsense. But there is growing evidence it is only a matter of time before they launch their own Ad network. Facebook recently launched Facebook exchange - which creates targeted ads based on users' activity on the Web and now it is being reported Zynga.com has started running Facebook Ads. Anyone smell an advertising network? I do. 

Anyone using wordpress may have noticed the recently launched Official Facebook plugin for wordpress. The plugins enables a floating banner on your side bar. For now the banner shows related post. Am wondering : is this a preparation of adding relevant ads?

When Facebook Ad Network comes out I will be among the first to apply and register with it. 

I use Google Adsense across my network of sites and I think every owner of a blog site should prepare to register with Facebook Ad network the same way we do with Google Adsense.

5 Things To Do As You Prepare To Register For Facebook Ad Network

1. Traffic : Traffic : Traffic

Make sure your website or blog has enough Traffic. From my experience with Google Adsense, A site starts making money when you starts seeing daily visitors in the range of 300 - 500. My business rule is I start running contextual ad only when a site crosses 200 daily visitors.

2. Captivating Content

Great content will get you traffic. Your content should be meaningful and enrich the readers. Before hitting that publish button, ask yourself. How does this post benefit the reader? 

3. Content That Attracts Advertiser

Your blog should be in a niche that has a rich pool of advertisers. If the content you provide on your blog attracts high paying ads you’re going to do significantly better.

4. Follow Terms And Condition. 

Google Adsense has lengthy Terms and condition document and Facebook being Facebook, I don't expect theirs to be any different.  Don't waste time trying to game the system by running illegal software designed to boost your impression.

5. To summarize things, Your revenue will only grow as high as the weakest one of these factors on your blog. For example if you have high paying, relevant, well designed and positioned ads but no traffic you’ll not do well. Likewise if you have high traffic, high paying and relevant ads but they are poorly designed an in a position where they’ll never be seen – you’ll waste all your other hard work.

Bloggers Making Over $50K Teach How To Make Money With Adsense

One of my favorite methods of learning is learning from the success stories of other. I have learnt a lot by reading books or magazine articles of successful people. It is from such stories that I have learnt financial success is not just for a lucky few but for anyone who is willing to apply hard work, patience, and persistence.

Making money with Google Adsense can be a frustrating experience for anyone who doesn't know what he/she is doing. Many who have tried have given up early when the results were not as they had dreamed. Some who gave up have even concluded you can't make money from Google Adsense. Which is a bit sad because Adsense is good platform to make money with if you write great content, market your blog and have faith. Am writing this post on adsense success stories to fire your faith or restore your faith in Adsense.

People who make more than $50 000 per Month With Google Adsense

Darren Rowse - Makes Over $20,000/m with Adsense

Darren Rowse is known for his Problogger blog where he teaches new and amateur bloggers how to make money from blogging. His major money making site is a photography site, Digital Photography School. The site is good case study on the type of sites that make sustainable income online. The main thing that I have learnt from it is, a successful site needs a community: readers who keep coming back to read more. Darren has over 20 sites but a big chunk of his $20,000/m comes from 3 sites.

Jeremy Shoemaker - Makes Over $100,000/m With Google Adsense

It was Jeremy Shoemaker Check that gave me the faith in making money with Google adsense. I remember seeing the following picture and feeling elated.

 ADSENSE CHECK FOR $132,994.97

Jeremy Shoemaker the owner of Shoemoney got this check on September 2005

What is awesome about this check is the amount was not for yearly earnings but monthly earnings.

Jeremy does not own just one site. He makes his enormous Google checks using hundreds of sites and thousands of domains.

Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month

Tim Carter story is profiled at Google Adsense case studies. The guy is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio show. He also makes frequent television appearances. He founded AsktheBuilder.com in 1995, The primary focus has been catering to an avid following of fellow builders on the site. According to the Google case study, Mr. Carter did such a good job tweaking the Google ads on his site that it now makes $30,000 a month.

More Inspiring Google Adsense Success Stories
I hope these three stories have inspired you and convinced you that you can make money from Google Adsense. Check out Google Case Studies for stories of people like you making money with Google Adsense.

Pat Flynn $3000 pm Case Study on Starting a Blog For Profit

I have been a follower of Pat Flynn of smart passive income blog. Back in 2010 Pat showed his readers that it is possible to start a blog for profit. He built a website in one year that is now earning near $3000 a month.

Starting On August 2nd, 2010, Pat created a new website, targeting security guard training niche. One and half years later the blog was bringing in almost $3000 in blog profit.

How Pat Flynn Did It

These are the things Pat did to build a successful blog that brings $3K in profit per month.

Finding a Profitable Niche

He went into markets that people are interested in. Using Google keyword tool, he found out whether or not there are any related keyword terms that have a somewhat high search volume, and relatively low competition. This is the best chance of getting on the first page of Google, while still seeing enough traffic to do something worthy.

Adding Keywords on Domain Name

Part went after security guard training niche and his domain name was http://www.securityguardtraininghq.com.

Writing Great Content

Focusing quality vs quantity he hired a writer to write articles on security guard training requirements for every state in USA. The blog has less than 150 post and it is pulling $3K a month.

Back Linking Strategy

I think this is the one factor that is 90% responsible for success. Pat submitted his blog and artciles to:-

1. Top Article Directories
   
2. New Blogs
3. Web 2.0 Properties
4. Blog Networks
   

The fourth (blog networks) is a bit controversial because I think it runs foul of Google policy against buying links. It can bring instant results but once Google catches up you, expect a Google penalty.

It is very unlikely that the majority starting a blog for profit will see similar success. For most of us we will need to be diligent, persistence and patient with our blogs.

Get Your Own Blog & Start Making Money

I always feel it is better to have your own self hosted blog vs having a free blog from free blog hosting services such as Wordpress.com, Tumbrl and Blogger. The main benefit of a self hosted blog is you have more control, you can runs ads and make changes to the design and functions of the blog.

I got the following email from one of my readers who is thinking of migrating her blog from wordpress.com to a self hosted wordpress installation.

Hello Asterix,

I have been writing on my wordpress.com blog for the last 2 years and I just discovered they don't allow users to have ads. My blog is popular and I believe I could start making money through advertising.

Can you advise me on how to get my own blog with my custom domain. I desperately want to know how to create my own blog on self hosted wordpress blog. I thought of how to build my own blog on blogger but I got discouraged when I had it is not possible to transfer from wordpress.com to blogger.

Thanks

Gladys.

Get A Domain Name

The first step in getting your own blog website is purchasing domain name. A good domain name should be single word, short and memorable. The price of a domain name is $10 and it is renewed every year. You can get a FREE DOMAIN NAME from blue host web hosting if you buying web hosting of your blog from them.

Web Hosting For Your Blog

A domain names needs web hosting. My recommendation is always bluehost, they are a good host for a beginner who is starting a small blog or website. Today, BlueHost has become one of the most recognizable names in the web hosting industry with over 1,000,000 domain names hosted.

Blue host advantages are

Free Domain Forever!

Free Website Builder

Host UNLIMITED Domains on 1 Account

UNLIMITED Web Space & File Transfer

After you have purchased blog hosting and domain name you need to install wordpress in it. Watch this Step-by-Step video Guide on How to Install Wordpress in Your blog that is Hosted on BlueHost Web Hosting. This is very simple and easy 1-click installation of wordpress blog to your website.


Once you are done with the installation you can then proceed to migrate your wordpress.com blog to your self hosted blog.

Here is a video demonstration on how to do that.


I wish you a happy migration.

All this for an affordable monthly fee of $6.95

Installing Wordpress Blog

How To Start A Successful Fashion Blog

The first girl I introduced to the world of blogging was interested in the fashion niche. She was working for me as an intern writer on one of my blogs. When she asked me "which is the best niche to start a blog?" My answer was the same one I tell all newbies, "Follow your passion." For her, she loved clothes, jewellery, shoes and everything about looking good. She fitted well in Fashion Niche. Today she writes a successful fashion blog targeting female readers and she makes money with Google adsense.

Why A Fashion Blog Will Be Successful

Fashion niche is big. Millions of men and women spends hundreds of dollars on magazines just to read articles telling them how to look good. There are the big players in this niche, Vogue for women and GQ for men. Apart from this big magazines with online presence there are also independent bloggers, The Style Rookie, The Sartorialist and Style Bubble. Even in this crowded field, a writer with passion and tenacity will find her corner.

Don't let the success of these fashion bloggers put you down, instead let it inspire you. Remember long time ago were like you asking, "how to start a fashion blog?"

How To Make Money With Your Fashion Blog

The easiest way to make money blogging on fashion is enrolling in Google Adsense program. According to google the average CPC for fashion is $0.65. You can also sell ads directly to online boutiques. The monthly ad rate you set will depend on how much you value your work. Never under value your work and never out price yourself.

Attracting traffic To Your Fashion Blog

The secret to starting a successful fashion blog or fashion website with lots of traffic is hardwork, write often, preferably every day. There is a strong link between the number of post and traffic. The more the post the higher the traffic.

Strategy of Getting Back Links to your fashion blog

Join Fashion forums and be active there, e.g fashion trends and fashion spot . Once in a while live your blog or website link on your forum post. The link will bring you traffic and most importantly give you a back link that increases google authority. The more links that point to your blog/website the higher your blog will rank in Google searches.

Write a list of top 50 fashion blogs and visit each one of them and leave a comment. The blogger may reciprocate the visit and check out your site and if he/her likes what he sees, he might link back to your site. It is a simple way of networking in your niche.

Don't Copy Be Inspired

Every writer suffers from, writers blocks once in a while. To stay fresh and creative read, read and read more. Reading other writers is the only way to stay inspired. You get story/blog post ideas from the writing of others.

Get A Free Domain Name For Your Fashion Blog

When it comes to choosing a domain name, it can be anything you fancy. You can buy a domain name for as little as $10. Bluehost have a deal, if you buy blog hosting from them they give you a free domain name.

Bluehost has been voted multiple times as one of the best website hosting providers.

Web Hosting For A Fashion Blog

For a fashion blog that will require multi media content such as video and photos to express your ideas, you require a hosting provider that can meet your demands. Bluehost provide unlimited disk space, that means you can upload as many articles, photos and videos you want. They will not limit you!