133: The Secrets of Making Money Blogging - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

The Seven Secrets of Making Money Blogging
Today, I am traveling back in time and playing for you the audio of a video I made back in 2010. This video is called The Secrets of Making Money Blogging, and I share seven different secrets on how to make money blogging. Of course, these aren’t secrets at all since I shared them in 2010.A lot of this may be stuff that you have heard before, but I put it together for a friend that was really struggling and grappling with whether he should continue to blog or not.

I put this video up on YouTube, and it is one of the most viewed videos that I have ever done. This video has about 50,000 views, and it also got me banned from YouTube for about a month. I assume it was because of the title. I guess secrets to making money could have been considered a little bit spammy in some ways.As you listen to this, you will hear that it is not a spammy get rich quick video. In fact, that is one of the points I make quite often. The things I do say are important for bloggers of all stages to hear, and they should help you along your path.
In Today’s Episode The Seven Secrets of Making Money BloggingTry to do something online that you really love - choose an area you have passion for

Easier to stick withReaders will feel drawn to your passion


Be as useful as possible - tell the world something importantBe confident - work on confidence - be able to sell yourself and things you do

Approach and make offers confidentlyDiversify what you do - don’t focus on just one income stream

Diversify topicsDiversify income streams


Take a long term view - money can be made fast, but it comes years after building a foundation - working and building relationships and contentWith investments - you don’t get the return for a number of years


Treat it as a business - not as an eventMost online entrepreneurs see it as a business
Grow over timeReleasing products - find a way to grow overtime
Be strategic about how to monetize and think of it as a businessBuild products into what you do

Develop systems around those products to sell themI hope you found that interesting. It’s kind of weird to go back in time six years.
Just for a quick recap these are the things I found useful.Passion
UsefulConfident
Diversify What You DoLong Term View
Strategic ThinkingCreate Products

Secrets of Making Money OnlineFull Transcript
Expand to view full transcriptCompress to smaller transcript viewHey there, it's Darren from ProBlogger here, welcome to Episode 133 of the ProBlogger Podcast. Today, I want to travel back in time and play for you the video that I recorded back in 2010 on the topic of The Secrets of Making Money Blogging.

I get asked all the time what's the secret, what’s your main secret, as if I'm holding something back. I always find it really difficult to answer that question. What I want to play for you today is my attempt back in 2010 to answer this particular question in which I share seven different secrets about making money blogging. Now, of course, none of these are secret, I put them online in 2010 and a lot of it is stuff you have all heard me talked about before.

I put this video together in response to the question that I got from a friend who is really struggling and who was really grappling with whether he should continue to keep blogging or not. I put this video up on YouTube and it’s one of the most viewed videos that I’ve ever done. It’s not gotten a million views or anything but I think last time I looked about 50 thousand views which for me is pretty good.The other thing about this video is that it got me banned from YouTube. This video actually got me banned from YouTube for about a month I think it was. I think it was because I had the title Secret of Making ...

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