Scale up Your Blog Business This Year

This post his somewhat inspired by JohnChow’s post on How to Make 2011 Your Best Blogging Year. I have quoted him a few times in this blog post. You may check out his post if you like to.

New Year comes with new hopes and new beginnings. This is the start of a brand new year and it is time to make some commitments. If you are having hard time making money online by blogging, you can start from beginning with strong mindset to bring your blog to the next level. Of course, that will not be easy, but you should not quit like a looser and leave it on your luck.

Here are a few tips to make your blog a success in the year 2011..

Take the Blogging as your Business
When someone starts a business, it will require some initial hard work to start. Similarly, when you start a blog, or just working on your existing low traffic blog, it will require some extra attention too.

Give blogging your full time and attention and treat it like your business, if you can. If you just another amateur blogger and take blogging as a hobby, then making money from blogging is not for you. Seriousness is the key to open the door to success.

Give Your Blog a Professional Look
You cannot go far with an amateurish attitude. Get your blog out of BlogSpot or WordPress.Com or any other similar free blogging service if you have not already done so. Give your blog its own domain name for branding, a professional web host to host your blog and a custom design to stand different from others. These cost only a few pennies, but give your blog a completely new dimension.

Commit to Update your Blog Regularly
This perhaps is the most important factor for a successful blog. It gives your blog a loyal readership and trust for search engines as well.

Make a commitment to update your blog at least once a day or two and strictly stick to it. Make a target for you to make at least 365 posts in the year of 2011. Blogger like JohnChow updates his blog even if he is on vacation. Now, that is a commitment.

Start Building a Mailing List Now
Money is in the list, you probably heard this sentence a thousand times. If you do not know what a mailing list is, then it is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as “the mailing list”, or simply “the list”.

It is also the best way to communicate directly to your readers via email and gives marketing a personal touch. If you do not have one yet, then the first thing you should do in 2011 is start building a mailing list.

Aweber is by far the best email marketing management service. Aweber offers a $1 trial account for all new customers. The account is just like a normal Aweber account and includes unlimited email campaigns, newsletter, broadcasts and follow ups. Also, this $1 first month offer comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with their service, just shoot them an email and they will give your $1 back. No questions asked.

Start Marketing Your Blog
Most bloggers think making money online is like the movie Field of Dreams, where the main character was told, “If you build it, they will come.” Well, it is not like that in real world. If no one knows about your blog, then no one is coming to read you. Marketing is what separates the big blogs from the small ones. It takes a lot more than good content to build a big blog.

Guest post is one of the ways for blog marketing. Find some high traffic blogs in your niche and ask them if you can write a guest post on their blog with a link back to your blog. Also, ask them to write a guest post for your blog.

Build a good relationship with your existing readers; give them what they are looking for. The more the readers know about you, the more they will connect with you and trust you.

Moreover, set a goal for yourself. Ask yourself where you want to see your blog at the end of the year 2011 and work your way towards it.