Blogger Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Commit
Posted by La Hunter on October 30th, 2009
By Kenneth Koh
Who am I to teach you about blogger mistakes? I’m not a big-time blogger. Neither has my blog won any award.
But I do know one thing, that is, how to use my blog as a tool to achieve my goal.
I’m telling you this because this is exactly the TOP mistake that many new bloggers make.
Many new bloggers tend to treat their blog as some kind of online holy grail, thinking that as long as they have a blog, traffic will come and they will make money.
What they should do instead is to think of blog as just another a tool. It should be part of the business, not the business.
I know this is a bit theoretical and ‘dry’, but this is an important fundamental that you must understand, if you want to follow my advice.
As you know, I get most of my writing inspiration from our members’ questions. Today’s topic on blogger mistakes is no different.
Here’s the question I received from a member:
“I respect you as a master marketer with great knowledge and insight. Could you have a quick look at my blog, and suggest ways to get it really going… and also to start making REAL money??” – Izzy Joseph
I’m not sure how Izzy’s blog is performing now. But if I were to be critical, here are some advice I can think of:
1) Build A Business, Not A Blog
As I said, I don’t consider myself as a blogger. My approach to blogging is from the perspective of a marketer.
To me, blog is one of my marketing tools for my business. In other words, blogging is not my business, and it should not be your business too.
Frankly, I can’t see a business in your blog. What I can see instead is you are trying to write some articles and get people to buy the Clickbank product you’re affiliated to. That’s not a business.
Your domain name is membership-millions.com. If I were you, I will turn the blog into a resource centre that teaches people how to make money from membership. You may write articles that teach people how to start a membership site, how to promote membership sites, etc. You can engage a freelancer to create a membership script to give away.
If you choose to go the membership way, everything you do should be related to membership. Your opt-in freebie should be an ebook about membership. Your articles should be about membership.
If you are afraid that you may not have enough material to write about membership, your worry is unnecessary. Everything about internet marketing can be twisted to link to membership. For example, your little twitter ebook can be renamed to “how to promote your membership with twitter”… Read Story Here
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