If you are using your blog to earn money, you must offer quality content consistently. If your blog does not provide your readers with the information they are looking for, they won’t bother coming back. One kind of information lots of people like to read are “tips” such as cooking tips, health tips, crafts tips or social media tips.

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1.Assemble a team.

Gather a few people with complimentary businesses to come together and contribute to the blog. Have everyone involved promote the blog as a condition of participation. This helps everyone involved because now, you get to reach each other’s customer group in a non invasive manner. Everyone gets a chance to be seen and read. Use your RSS feeds! Take it one step further by displaying the group’s RSS feed on each others’ websites to capture a wider audience.

2.Hire a team of bloggers.

Newspapers have contributors, blogs can too. If you already hire writers for your articles, this works the same way. Many of the most successful blogs are already doing this. The combination of group promotion effort, regular updates and pinging can help bring in traffic quickly. One thing to note here is blogs are a somewhat social tool. Some very popular niche blogs are not all that visible in the search engines, yet they get a lot of traffic because people recommend them and they become a sort of buzz hub. Search engines do not always pick up on this but they do eventually. This is why group blogging can be very powerful because you’re leveraging the power of not one (your) influence group but several people’s influence group. If you do pay your bloggers, you can always offset this cost by displaying Adsense ads. Many popular blogs earn a good amount in Adsense, that they make a nice profit even after paying their bloggers team. After a while it becomes a passive income stream.

3.Recycle your content.

Have you got articles you’ve written a long time ago? What about material that you’ve never put online? A newspaper interview, printed article, maybe an audio segment. You can blog these. Break up the articles into small manageable blog entries. One of the reasons people like blogs so much is they are bite-sized pieces of information that give people what they want to know quickly. If the article is long, create a series of entries for example, a long article about finding the right home insurance can be broken up into home insurance week on your blog. You’ll also have one whole week’s worth of blog entries covered.

4.Include audio.

For some of us, it’s much easier to speak than to write. So, mix up your blog. Carry a small portable MP3 recorder or blog by phone. This is awfully convenient especially as moms, we’re running in and out of the house all day, ferrying our kids where they need to go. Maybe you’re stuck in traffic, or waiting for the kids to get out piano class or school. An idea or thought strikes and you think “Oh I need to share that on my blog” so, pick up your phone (assuming you have a cell phone – and many of us do), dial a number, say what’s on your mind, save it and you’re done. Your blog is published. If you’re using Blogger, you can do this for free through AudioBlog. It involves calling a long distance number, but most cell phone plans don’t charge extra for long distance anyway so you’re not incurring any extra cost.

If you’re using another blog publishing tool like WordPress, Movable Type or TypePad, then you’ll need a service like AudioBlogger.com. This one is a paid service but it’s only $4.95 a month and it gives you more options like a nice flash player, statistics and even video that make it worth while.

5.Automate your blog.

One of the best things about using a more sophisticated blog publishing tool like WordPress is forward blog entry. This allows you to blog ahead of time. For example if you have several things you’d like to share or speak out about, you can set the blog not to post that entry until a date and time of your choosing. It works much like an autoresponder or scheduled mailing feature you find in mailing list managers.

Let’s face it. There will be times we have a ton to say and times we have little or nothing to share. Instead of having multiple entries one day and nothing over the next few days, by using forward entry you can blog everyday of the week. Or rather you blog once and the blog publishing tool does the job automatically the rest of the week. You can even forward blog for weeks and months ahead of time.

Note: Blogger users unfortunately cannot do this because Blogger publishes all entries regardless what you date it immediately.

Affectionately nicknamed Tech Diva by her peers, Lynette Chandler regularly dispenses blogging and RSS help to countless business owners. Visit Blogging Starter Pack to learn more about blogging and get a copy of her video free.

It’s understandable. After all, blogging is still relatively new to the majority of bloggers and many businesses are still trying to make sense of the whole blogging scene. Also things evolve as blogging starts to mature, so a good strategy yesterday may turn into a mistake today. These are some of the most common mistakes a blogger makes.

Not Asking For Comments

Bloggers always agonize over the lack of comments. But the problem is not that people don’t read the blog or don’t want to comment but the blogger hasn’t given the opportunity for readers to comment. Just like asking for people to order a product, you’ve got to coax people to spend their 3 or 4 precious minutes to comment on your blog. Ask for opinions. People love giving it. Ask for reader’s experiences, input or help to accomplish something. Ask people to suggest something to you e.g. You’re getting incorporated, ask people for suggestions, tips and recommendations. Asking is a way of telling people it’s ok to speak their mind and that you’re open to alternatives.

Not Hosting On Their Own Domain

Give thought into your blog. Don’t just jump on the bandwagon. You need to figure out where it’s taking you before you hop on for the ride. Like any web site you may build, think of your blog as a long term marketing communication channel. A Blogspot or Typepad URL is not only unprofessional, you don’t own it. Nothing against these blogging services; they’re excellent tools but for long term marketing purposes, go for your own domain..

This way you control where you want to publish the blog to. Tomorrow, if you outgrow these services, you can easily export your blog to another tool, another host without losing too much established traffic. A domain is also easier for people to remember and easier for you to publicize.

Not Maximizing Their Blog Content

Many businesses quit blogging because they feel it’s too much work. True, like everything else, you gotta work on a blog but you don’t have to break your back over it. Sometimes you may have a paragraph here and there about a topic that just isn’t big enough for an article. You know what? You’re going to have many more of these impromptu thoughts and ideas – publish it to your blog. Later, you can come back and gather these paragraphs, compile them into a complete article or even a book..

That’s only one way of maximizing your work. Have you written articles in the past? How about e-courses, audio transcripts or books that aren’t in publication anymore? Recycle. Break them up and post them on your blog. In fact, if you have lot’s of this type of content, you can even get your assistant to post them for you.

Publishing Too Often

I know what you’re thinking. This sounds like complete the opposite of everything you’ve ever learnt about blogging. Truth is, the blogging world changes. What works yesterday may not today. This is one of them. There are countless blogs already jostling with you for your reader’s time. More are being started by the day.

Who has the time to read so many blogs? It’s come to a point people are forced to cherry pick the blogs they read. Even when they do read yours, you’re not safe yet. If they can’t keep up with your blogging pace, they’ll drop you no matter how good your information is. Keep a balance. Feed information to your readers not dump a truckload on them. Every market is different. Some can tolerate higher number of posts a week, some can’t. You should know your market and test accordingly.

Falling For Short Term Methods

Ah, this is my favorite. If you can have a favorite pet peeve that is. Every week, you hear about people dishing out the newest, coolest blogging tactic, best blogging tool that’s sure to sky rocket your business to success or bull doze your way to the top search engine listings. Consider how any offer will help you advance your business two, five or tens years from now. Is it really in line with your marketing direction? If it isn’t drop it. It also helps a lot if you can have a reliable source whom you can consult and help put things into perspective for you. One of the most powerful qualities of a blog has nothing to do with search engines, tagging or pinging. These things do have a place, but they aren’t as powerful as the relationship opportunities between you and your customers.

Although these mistakes are common, they are also very easily rectified and don’t cost much money. All of these suggestions are born out of my own trial and error and they’ve worked out nicely. Try it yourself.

About the author:

Passionate about blogging, Lynette Chandler enjoys helping business owners get their blogs started. She also holds their hand through the process, assisting them to cut through all the noise so business owners can stay focused enough to harness the quality of their blogs at Blogging Starter Pack .

Keeping a blog alive takes effort. If you are using your blog to promote your business, make money through advertising, promoting affiliate links or writing posts for money, it is vital that you keep your blog active.

It is not easy thinking up stuff to blog about everyday. And if you are into money making, every blog post has to have a purpose.  A little planning is what you need. I have just the tool to make your blogging life a little easier.

2012 Blogging Calendar

Lynette Chandler from BlogEnergizer has put together a 2012 Blogging Calendar to help you plan out your blogging days. Last year’s planner was a hit. They had over 11000 downloads. So you know this is something of value. This is a big help to work out all your posts through the year. Download it, print it, stick it in a binder and start planning. You could literally come up with months of blogging material by the end of the day.

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If you want your blog to earn more money, there are some things that can help make the process easier.

• Use quality PLR
• Build a list and manage it well

Here are some free reports that will give you excellent ideas on what you can do to have better content, increase traffic and raise your selling power.

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Blogging can be a powerful tool for a business owner. You’re probably using a blog yourself and have seen firsthand the effects it has on increasing traffic and building relationship with your readers (a.k.a clients, potential clients, someone you may be able to partner with on a joint venture, etc).

In this day and age blogging should be an essential part of every business whether it’s an online business or offline brick and mortar one. Most online marketers understand this. Many offline business owners don’t. That’s where you– a skilled VA (Virtual Assistant) – come into play.

Many VA’s look for an area of their business they can stand out from the crowd and be the go to person. If you love WordPress, enjoy letting your creative juices flow, like getting your hands ‘dirty’ behind the scenes, Become A Blog Consultant is perfect for you! If you’re not a VA that’s ok too. This course was created for anyone who has a passion for blogging and wants to share it with local small business owners.

Your community needs someone like you, a blog consultant, to teach them about blogging and how it can be an asset to their business. You’ve got your work cut out for you. Most offline business owners don’t even know what a blog is. It’s your job to educate them and let them know the truth – blogging is smart for business:

• For starters, blogs are great for a business on a tight budget.
• A blog will cost them far less than they’d pay if they went with a large design firm and a traditional website.
• Good blogging activity will help them pull in local business – which is ultimately their goal.

There are so many other reasons that blogging is smart for local business owners. You will find these reasons along with great resources to share them with potential clients within the Become a Blog Consultant course.

This course was created to take you by the ‘hand’ and walk you step by step through the process of creating a profitable business as a blog consultant. The course starts at the very beginning, explaining why your community needs you, and covers important topics like

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• how to establish yourself as a local expert
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So, once again, who is this for?
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Here is a quick 1-page printable that includes 22 ideas for blogging this Valentine’s Day. Why would this be of any use to you?

• We all know that to attract visitors to your blog, you have to keep your blog fresh with content. However, we sometimes get a brain cramp coming up with ideas to blog about. Well, here are 22 ideas to get those traffic streaming to your blog.
• Take advantage of the Valentine’s Day celebration to put a little extra cash in your pockets. You can use these 22 blog ideas to introduce Valentine products and gifts.

So, don’t wait any longer. Download this free report by clicking below (you can right click and select “save link as” or “save target as”). It’s in PDF format.

22 VALENTINE BLOG IDEAS