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How to Work from Home and make money blogging
Most of us have been “credit crunched” and could use some extra money in these difficult economic times.
I’m sure that at one time or another you have come across those ads /emails telling us how we can make huge sums of money by blogging. Some, including myself, may have fallen for the “pitch” and actually bought into these programmes, but unfortunately to our cost have not seen the results expected when we were “sold” the package. But the pity of the above is that you can actually make money from blogging and yes some do actually make enough to give up their job. This may not happen overnight but you certainly can make enough to help with some of those “austerity “bills that may be piling up.
But to start earning it is vital that you understand the “nuts and bolts” of the blogging business.
Find a Niche
You need to find that niche where you have a genuine interest, this is vital; you need to enjoy producing content about your “passion”, so that you can produce quality information which will lead to you establishing a rapport with visitors to your website. Once this rapport is established your visitors will then feel “comfortable” enough to buy from you. These things will drive the traffic you require and if your niche has low competition i.e. it is a specialist subject you are on your way to success.
So how do you go about doing this?
The first and most important rule is find that hungry crowd, the one that is looking for something that you can provide ,the product or service that satisfies their hunger.
Very good examples of this are satisfying the needs of those that are so “hungry” that the solution to their problem/need is on their mind every day, call it an “emotional attachment” for example arthritis, the pain some people suffer is with them sometimes all day, every day, if you can provide some sort of relief even emotionally to these symptoms or side effects then you will have a very hungry crowd.
3 Niches have these hungry crowds in abundance; money, relationships’ and health.
So now you have the three crowds, but which one is “hungry”?
Two ways to find out are to visit Amazon and Click bank, both have bestseller lists. So visit each site and find the area/s that covers your niche and do a bit of research on what is selling, this is your hungry crowd, capitalism in its purist form, these bestsellers are there because there is a demand, all you have to do is get in on the supply. Then break it down into a more specialised topic, for example if you are a football coach and there are manuals, books , eBooks etc. selling on this subject then you have to narrow down to a more precise area for you, you may have spent years coaching children under 16 so look for football coaching for this category.
Now that you have your category you are ready to target that hungry “specialised” crowd who are
