In recent years, the use of cryptocurrencies has increased exponentially. It wasn’t long before people decided to cash in on the increasing popularity by creating websites where users can invest in cryptocurrencies. Although the motivations behind creating these websites vary, the intent is always the same – to enable users to earn money online from home.
If you’re looking to make some extra cash flow in your life and you don’t want to join a corporation, you need to read this article. Here, we’ll teach you the secrets to making money online without any effort in 2018.
1. Set Up A Blog
Blogs are a fantastic way to make money online. They can be both fun and profitable, and we’ll discuss how to establish a profitable blog in just a bit. First, let’s discuss the fun side. When you have a blog, you get to express yourself through writing. Whether you like to write fiction or non-fiction, there’s a wide open world of subject matter you can cover. Some of the most popular topics for blogs include money management, blogging tips, and fitness. If you can become an expert on any of these topics, you can potentially build a profitable blog around them.
Now, let’s discuss how to go about monetizing a blog. The first step is to set up a blog platform. There are a variety of these platforms, such as WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr, that you can use to establish your blog. The choice of platform will depend on your personal preferences as well as the nature of your blog’s content.
Once you have your platform picked out, the next step is to pick a niche. This is similar to selecting a niche in traditional marketing, such as real estate, where you might focus on Vancouver real estate or the Toronto market.
The difference with a niche is that with a blog, you’re not necessarily advertising to attract visitors. Instead, you’re establishing yourself as an authority in your niche and hopefully drawing in future customers from within your niche.
2. Find A Way To Monetize
Now that you have your blog platform established, you can start to think about how to monetize it. There are a variety of ways to monetize a blog. You can sell and display ads, affiliate products, sponsorships, and more.
The first thing you might want to do is take a look at your most successful posts. These are the posts that performed best on your blog and attracted the most interest and traffic. Take a look at the post that performed best. You’ll see something like this:
- 142,000 (+139%) views on Blogger
- 837 (+83%) views on WordPress
What this tells us is that there is an audience—currently 42,000—that is interested in the topic of this blog post. It also gives us a clue as to what might work well for your blog platform. With affiliate marketing, for example, you could potentially sell and display ads, sponsorships, and other products related to your blog post’s content.
3. Start An Affiliate Marketing Campaign
Once you have established yourself as an authority in your niche, you can put the skills you’ve gained to work by creating and launching your own affiliate marketing campaign.
An affiliate marketing campaign is when you promote and earn money from someone else’s product or service. For example, you might want to promote a fashion blog’s clothes or a lifestyle blog’s accessories. You’ll find affiliate marketing campaigns for just about any niche or affiliate program you can think of, including food, drink, beauty, and more.
You can use various methods to find affiliate marketing programs, including:
- Searching for the word “affiliate” in the websites’ About page
- Finding banners and other elements on a company’s website that you can use to promote their product or service
- Following relevant blogs or forums in your niche
- Joining an affiliate network
- Contacting companies directly to see if they’re interested in partnering with you
Once you have an affiliate marketing program established, it’s time to start earning. You have a variety of options when it comes to the actual mechanics of making money online through affiliate marketing. For example, you could:
- Set up a sales funnel, where interested parties click onto a landing page, fill out a form, and you earn a commission when they make a purchase (usually a product related to what they’ve seen on your blog)
- Set up a series of emails where interested parties receive regular updates on products and offers relevant to your niche (e.g.: fashion blogs or websites could create an email list to promote their fashion items)
- Use your blog to create content for websites and blogs related to your niche
- Use your blog to establish yourself as an expert in your niche and hopefully attract future customers from within your niche
4. Build A Small Community
One of the best things about a blog is the ability to connect with people. Building a small community around your blog is a great way to earn money online. You can use a variety of methods to do this, from:
- Getting involved in a forum related to your niche
- Sharing your knowledge and experiences through a podcast
- Setting up a Facebook group for your blog’s audience
- Creating an online shop where you can sell your own products such as t-shirts and other accessories
- And the list goes on
The key is to think of ways you can engage with your audience – either directly or indirectly – and create a small community.
5. Start An Online Shop
Another great way to make money online is to create an online shop where you can sell your own products. You can use various platforms to establish your online shop, including Shopify, WooCommerce, and Big Commerce. We recommend Shopify, as it’s what we use to run our own online shop.
The concept behind an online shop is the same as an affiliate marketing campaign. You’re essentially creating an inbound marketing strategy, where customers come to you instead of you having to go out and find them.
To get started, create a Shopify store. Then, find a product that people are searching for but don’t necessarily see advertised often. For example, if you’re a lifestyle blogger who focuses on fashion, you might want to create an online shop to sell your own trendy clothing items. Alternatively, if you have a blog that discusses health and wellness, you might want to create an online shop selling vegan foods and supplements.
Once you have an online shop, it’s time to start earning. You have a variety of options when it comes to the actual mechanics of making money online through an online shop. For example, you could:
- Use your shopify store to create a sales funnel, where interested parties click onto a landing page, fill out a form, and you earn a commission when they make a purchase (usually a product related to what they’ve seen on your blog)
- Use your shopify store to establish yourself as an expert in your niche and hopefully attract future customers from within your niche
- Use your blog to establish yourself as an expert in your niche and hopefully attract future customers from within your niche
- Use your blog to create content for websites and blogs related to your niche
- Use your blog to promote affiliate products related to your blog’s content
- And the list goes on
6. Start A Crowd Funding Campaign
Another great way to make money online is to start a crowd funding campaign on a platform like StartFunding or GoFundMe. These platforms make it easy for anyone to start a campaign, no matter the size of their group. StartFunding is one of the biggest and most popular crowd funding platforms, with billions of dollars in funding campaigns on the site annually.
The benefits of a crowd funding campaign versus an affiliate marketing campaign or an online shop are: