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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Monetize Your Blog | Ep. #25

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #25 Eric and Neil talk about how to monetize your blog. If you’re a passionate blogger with a good following, it’s time to start elevating your blog to a potential revenue source. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:22 – The best ways to monetize your blog 00:35 – Look into affiliate marketing or performance marketing 01:10 – Collect money from sales 01:17 – ClickBank, Commission Junction, Share A Sale, Skimlinks 01:29 – Avoid ads at all costs 01:50 – You’ll make the least amount of money from ads 02:00 – Generate an email list 02:15 – You can sell your products through your email list 02:35 – Continually market to those people 02:45 – The concept of courses 03:00 – People making seven figures a year 03:20 – An example with eBooks and courses 03:57 – Don’t be too aggressive at the beginning. Wait for a loyal audience. 04:25 – Collect leads 04:45 – Take your blog content and create lead pages 04:55 – How to drive traffic to your lead page 05:45 – Monetizing a blog takes time. Think about your value to others first. 06:20 – Don’t push anything until you have a loyal following. 06:50 – Survey your audience to find out what problems they are facing. 07:10 – Work to solve those problems. 08:12 – Get people to commit before you launch your service. 09:00 – See you in tomorrow’s episode! 3 Key Points: Avoid ads at all costs. Generate a following before you push sales. Develop eBooks, courses, and other services that you can promote to people on your email list. Resources Mentioned: ClickBank, Commission Junction, Share A Sale, and Skimlinks – Resources to help you get into affiliate marketing with your blog Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

Transcript

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

0:06.8

entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

0:11.4

marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With

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site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

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host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way

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to improve your low time. Okay everyone, it's time for another episode of marketing school and today we're going to talk about the best ways to monetize your blog.

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I'm your host Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel.

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And we're going to go jump right into it right now so I think when it comes to monetizing a blog

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especially when you don't have a product and you have an audience already it's good to look into possible solutions. This can be called

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affiliate marketing or performance marketing where you can look for, let's say you have a

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health blog for example, you can go to a site like clickbank.com and you can look for people that are selling health information products and you can find one that you like and you can push it on your website whether it's getting people to opt in and pushing them different products or you know you can just push it directly like an exit pop up or just get them to buy directly with the banner on your site.

1:38.8

And that way you can collect, you know, perhaps, you know, 20, 30 bucks per sale or even more than that depending on, you know, the type of offer that you're pushing.

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So affiliate or performance marketing, you can check out ClickBank, there's Commission Junction,

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there's share sale, there's a lot of different ones out there and you can even use one called

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a skim blinks if you're just lazy to find the right offer a skim

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links will help you put affiliate links across your website but just keep in mind you want to you want to look out

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for the you know keep the quality high on your site so that's one Neil what's another

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