Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Monday, December 15, 2008

Start a Small Business With A Big Market

Your Small Business With The World As The Market

One of small businesses we have is supplying steel flanges for bigger manufacturers who in turn fit them into boilers and turbines and export. Most of our customers are within a radius of 30 miles from our small manufacturing units. Each flange gives us a profit of a couple of dollars depending on the size. Once we get the order, we calculate the weight of the flange, number of machine hours taken to manufacture a flange, and profit per flange. It may look just few dollars per flange but at the end of the month our profit will be in thousands of dollars by supplying a couple of thousands of flanges.

When you start a small business with your blog and market and optimize it, your market will be the whole world, people all around the world searching for the information and product you are writing about and marketing lands in your blog, few of them buy from you if you are selling something and few click on the ads in your blog. If may be just cents per click, but as your business grows the profit from your business grows with cents turning into few dollars and few dollars into thousands of dollars.

As for many years we are the same products continuously to the same customers, our businesses are almost on the autopilot and most of the days we does our business on phone. Somewhere, in this blog I have mentioned about a micro small business which takes care of my car's annual insurance which runs in couple of thousand dollars. I actually supply industrial wipers to a company. Regularly on weekly intervals, I get a call for supply and I make a call to the person who supplies the goods to me which reaches my customer within hours through my office, simple.

Made for adsense blogs and affiliate website do make just hundreds of dollars for the owners, but with many of them, the bloggers and website owners make thousands of dollars every month. This is a great business. Continuous work on marketing and optimizing enables your small business to run on autopilot. Start a small business with your blog today.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

How To Convert Your Blog Into A Small Business For Success

If you take a look at the blogs which are not money making blogs, you will find that most of them are just online diaries. But some of us begin blogs because we think we have something useful to tell to the people but either forget or refuse to make money from them. These types of blogs can be converted into small businesses which can earn money for us.

If the blog is not about your opinions, your daily life, your family, or your frustrations but about something which can help people in their daily living by giving information, knowledge, tips about any particular subject and educating them, then you have a fair chance of converting it into small business. I am stressing about turning your blog into a small business because once you consider your blog as a business, your working style change. There will be a paradigm shift. You will work meticulously with enhanced discipline.

You don't have to stuff keywords into your posts. Search engines no more consider keyword density for authority because many spammers stuff their blogs with keywords. just using the keywords in the heading and at the end of the post and just twice or thrice in your post depending on the length of the post is enough. You don't have to change your writing style. You don't have to be a great writer as you are not writing a novel here and online novels don't make money. You don't even have to change your creative title of the blog.

Once you decide to convert your blog into a small business (this may eventually grow into a big business depending upon the scope of the subject you are covering), you need to look for and research for keywords which suite your subject or subjects. You need to see whether there are adsense ads for the keywords and how much they can earn for you. Google provides many different tools for complete research on this subject of keyword optimization for adsense.

Monday, December 8, 2008

A Great Small Business Idea

I started blogging like many of you for self expression and to share my thoughts and ideas. I started using Hubpages for this and registered with Google Adsense. The very next day, I saw both Hubpages and Google sending me visitors and I made 10 cents the first day.

I started my second blog using free Blogger blog. I wrote a couple of posts, installed adsense which once again was prompted by Google to make money with my blog, submitted to directories, and forgot about the blog completely for a couple of days.

Within a couple of days after writing my first post , Google started sending me traffic just a couple of visitors per day and I started making money (just cents) from both Hubpages and my blogspot blog steadily without actively working anymore other than trying to know more about making money.

The reason for my immediate success was Google indexed my hub immediately and took about a three weeks to index my blogspot blog. Without knowing much about SEO, I accidentally wrote keyword rich posts and build links by submitting to the directories and commenting on other blogs. I never knew that these activities (linking and keywords) actually help me make more money. I just followed what other bloggers told me to do by their blogs. And within a month, I made 5 dollars.

The businessman in me who runs a couple of small businesses successfully recognized the potential of building and optimizing blogs as small businesses. For me a business is a system which once started and optimized continues to make money with little maintenance, which grows with little more effort, and which can be sold. A blog which is optimized for certain money making keywords continues to make money with little maintenance, it grows if you continue to put effort, and it can be sold (though I never thought of selling my businesses or real and online).

And I started building blogs as businesses and make money..... cents.... dollars....tens... hundreds...thousands....

Start building blogs as small businesses.