Make Money From Blogging With an Email Newsletter

To make money from blogging, you need four key things. You need a blog, you need great content on that blog, you need traffic, and you need ways to monetize your blog. Each of these areas is an industry in itself, with the first one or two being relatively simple to create. The last two keys though, are a little harder to establish, and need care and attention to make them happen successfully.

The most important thing to have on any blog, particularly when you are aiming to make money from blogging, is a way to capture your readers name and email address. You need to do this so that you can keep in touch with your visitors when you feel the need to communicate, and also to simplify the task of making money with your blog, into the future.

Having a mailing list of interested people gives you great freedom to contact and communicate with a target audience, and as we all know, this is what it takes to turn those sales over. Having a regular weekly or monthly newsletter is an easy way to encourage people to join your list! When you have the newsletter template established and a delivery schedule organized you can use the newsletter to create an income in so many ways.

One of the most obvious methods of monetizing your newsletter is to sell advertising space within it, to others. This may be an offer that is only available to your members, and being that this is the case, they are likely to have products and/or services that compliment the content in your newsletter and what can be found on your site.

Depending on the circulation and readership of your newsletter, you could earn quite a lot of money from this exercise on its own. To make money from blogging you need to be able to diversify your options and have a number of methods on your blog, that each in their own right commands some level of revenue for your blog. Adsense is one way, ad space on your blog is another, and the newsletter as we have discussed is yet another.

All of these things and more could be made so that they are only available for those visitors who sign up on your list, and if it is advertising they are going to receive, you might want to offer a free advertisement or welcome article in your next newsletter issue, in return for joining your list.

This is a win-win because it gives your newest members a chance to get some free exposure, but it also gives you some added content (value) to an already great publication. The fact that your mailing list will see the new content, may also mean that more members are exposed to the idea of placing paid adverts in your newsletter for their own products and/or services.

Always include an option on your blog for people to join your mailing list. This way, the path to make money from blogging is a lot easier to follow.

A newsletter is a great way to make money from your blog, but simply having one is NOT enough to put money in your bank account!

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