How to Start a Blog to Make Money 2022

Are you 100% sure to start a blog in 2022? If yes, that’s excellent news. And it would be great if you first thank yourself for making this decision. However, have you decided the niche or the category of the blog? Even if not, worry not! 

I am going to cover each step on how to start a profitable blog from scratch. Now without any further ado, let’s get started.

How to Start a Blog in 7 Simple Steps [Infographic]

Starting a blog can be nervous and exciting all at the same time; like my daughter says it can be “nervouscited” like a holiday trip.

There is lots of content online on how to start a blog with pages and pages of overloading information. Starting a blog can be overwhelming and that’s where this infographic with 7 simple steps can help simplify the process.

Step # 1 – Select a Niche and Domain Name for Your Blog

Pick a Topic that You are Passionate About

Select a topic that you love and brings joy to you. It’s a topic that you talk about all the time. You never get bored talking or writing about it. Blogging income can take time and you need your passion to keep going. Take it slow and spend time with this significant step of your blogging journey.

• Narrow Your Topic – Sport is a broad category. Baseball is also too broad. You need to narrow down like a funnel. Think about baseball batting technique or pitching as an example niche.
• Check the Marketability for the Topic – Are affiliate products and services offered in this market? Is there a healthy competition in this niche (similar blogs)? A healthy amount of  competition can be a good start as the market is tested.
• What is Your Monetization Strategy? (Affiliate Products, Services, Advertising, eBooks) – If you are blogging for profit then, it is a good idea to have an understanding of the blog monetization options so you can better position yourself.

Domain Name should be Relevant and Simple

When you have narrowed down your topic, do some research on a suitable domain name. Don’t pay too much for a keyword rich domain name, if cost is an issue. Ensure your domain name is easy to remember and related to your topic. Some people start with their name as the domain name.

Time to Register the Domain Name

A domain name costs about $10 – $15 a year. This is where you can commit to blogging for a time period of 1 year or even better 2 years.

I use NameCheap for my domain names as I found them to be best priced with no confusing and costly up-sells like GoDaddy.

Note: If you are registering a new domain and choose SiteGround hosting, you might be eligible for a free domain name.

Helpful Resource: How to Select a Niche?

Step # 2 – Select a Content Management Platform and a Website Host

Use the most Popular Content Management Platform WordPress

WordPress runs more than 20% of the entire web. There is more than 15.5 million blogs that run on WordPress in the blogosphere. Some reasons as to why choose WordPress.

• Customizable
• Most Popular
• Easy to Use
• Responsive Themes
• Great Support and a Large Community of Users

Here are some of the big sites that are powered by WordPress: CNN Politics, Mashable and TechCrunch.

Select a Web Host and a WordPress Hosting Plan

Your blog needs a home on the internet; this is essentially your WordPress host.

Low-End Hosts: Blue Host, Dream Host, Host Gator, SiteGround (Great for starters. Plans start from $4 per month)

High-End Host: WPEngine (Plans start from $30 per month)

I recommend SiteGround ever since Jon Morrow recommended it to me in an email. Yes, I am in Jon’s mailing list and you should too.

• Start Small – Start with low costs as they can all add up to produce a snowball effect.
• Look at Performance and Cost – Performance is a vital part of search engine ranking factors and your host plays a big role in how fast your website loads.
• Compare the Features and Support – Support is a critical factor if your website is ever down or you have a query. The last thing you want to do is waiting for a response for 2 days while your site is down.

Helpful Resource: How to Start a Blog with $100 or Less [Infographic]

Here is a snapshot of how SiteGround performed in terms of performance and support:

Step # 3 – Install WordPress

Most WordPress hosing providers have a WordPress installation wizard that can help install WordPress with a few mouse clicks. Some hosts will even install WordPress free of cost.

Update Permalink Structure of Blog Posts

Once you install WordPress, there are a few basic setup tasks that need your attention before your blog is ready to go. The first task is to update the permalink structure of your blog – this is just the internal link structure. For example, would you prefer having URL for new posts like YourBlog.com/?post=123 or YourBlog.com/title-of-new-post?

Obviously, the second is better for both people and search engines like Google. This option allows you to have keywords in your title and URL. Go to Settings -> Permalinks in the WordPress Admin area.

Install Basic Plugins

Your second task in setting up WordPress is to install a few important WordPress plugins to extend the basic WordPress features. Always remember to keep the number of plugins low and carefully choose them based on performance.

• Akismet – Spam is a big issue in the virtual world and Akismet is one of the top plugins to protect your site from it.
• Yoast for SEO – An SEO plugin is not nice to have but a must have to help ease your SEO efforts. Yoast does more than one thing like sitemaps and also enable display images in social media like Twitter.
• Google Analytics by Yoast – Yoast SEO plugin does not have Google Analytics like some other SEO plugins so you need this plugin to connect your Google Analytics to your blog.
• WP-Cache – Every second reduced in page load time could result in more traffic from search engines and hence a caching plugin is good to have from the start.
• Ewww Image Compression or Similar – Image compression is not optional rather it is a must to save page load times – so get one from the start. Over time images can add up and increase page load times.

Step # 4 – Select a Theme

Here is a fun step; if this does not excite you then I am not sure what will 

Pick a few themes and play around. You can change your theme at any time but keep the changes to a minimum. Here are a few considerations for picking a theme.

• Responsive – A theme that is mobile responsive is a must. This is now part of the Google ranking factors.
• Easy to Customize – Most WordPress themes are easy to customize but some are easier than others; so keep this in mind when you finalize your theme.
• SEO Ready – Some themes are SEO ready out of the box while others need some tinkering.

Step # 5 – Create Amazing Content

Content Ideas and Keywords

There is plenty of useful content online; there is a lot more rehashed and re-digested content as well. From the outset, think about how your content is going to stand out. If you produce content like everyone else then you are merely adding to the noise. Find a unique angle to stamp your authority when it comes to content creation. If you take only one thing away from this post, please make sure this is it.

Here are a few tools you can use to get content inspiration and keyword ideas.

• Topsy.com
• Forums
• Google Trends
• Google Search
• BuzzSumo.com

Structure Your Post – Use Formatting

Proving amazing content is useless if it is poorly formatted. A well-formatted post is easy to follow from start to finish. Here are some useful ways to break up your content so the user is engaged.

• Use H2, H3 Tags and include Subheadings
• Use Quality Images – Most people can spot a new blog from the quality of images used. This list of sites with high-quality images that are free will help. Remember, a picture speaks a thousand words, images are shared more than plain text content in social media and they are also easily consumed by the human brain. Do I need to say anymore?
• Use Text Formatting for an Easy Read
• Use White Space so the Users can Take a Breather

Helpful Guide: Content Publishing Checklist [Infographic]

Step # 6 – On-Page SEO Elements for Ranking Content

When starting a blog you have no backlinks to your site so the authority of your site is very low. Does this mean there are no SEO tasks you can perform? Of course not. In fact, well begun is half done and there are plenty of best practice on-page SEO elements you can make a habit from the start.

• Title – 60 Characters (Aim for click worthy title)
• Description – 150 to 155 Characters (Sprinkle your keyword)
• Include Keywords (In the body of the text more than once; take advantage of synonyms)
• Link to Useful Content Internally and Externally
• ‘Alt Tags’ in Images with Keywords
• Include Social Sharing Buttons

Helpful Guide: On-Page SEO Elements for Organic Traffic [Infographic]

Step # 7 – Content Marketing to Build Traffic and Audience

• Create an Email List – The number one costly mistake made by new bloggers is postponing the collection of email addresses. Remember, you need to create a second opportunity with every visitor to your blog and an email list is the first on the list. Each time you create a new post you can ask your email subscribers to comment and share your post.
• Build a Social Media Presence – Creating a second chance also extends to building a social profile. Pick a handful of social media sites; you can’t be a king/queen of all domains. Limit yourself to 3 or 4 social sites to start with. You can always ramp up your presence to further sites after you establish yourself. Remember to share great content from influencers to build your profile.
• Use Hashtags – The use of Hashtags can amplify your content reach in social media.
• Get on Forums
• Email Bloggers – This is called blogger outreach and is the best way to build relationships. Of course, this is time-consuming but it is all about creating a list of influencers whom you can tap into. No wonder experts say content creation is only half the job and the other half is, content promotion.

Tip: Keep the email short and to the point. Only ask for one action.

How To Start a Blog That Makes Money

In the 1990’s people started creating online diaries. They were given the title of “web logs”. Popular myth has it that it became “we blog” and the “we” got dropped for the sake of language expediency. The word “blog” then emerged from the mist of vernacular evolution.

That’s the opening story on the emergence of the blog word!

Blogging has changed a lot since those times and with the evolution of the digital ecosystem it has reached new highs.

A blogging tipping point

The tale doesn’t stop there because the blog hit a tipping point in 2011 when Arianna Huffington sold her “super blog” to AOL for $315 million. That made a few bloggers sit up and take notice along with the mainstream media and entrepreneurs. That sale said blogging had moved out of the geek closet to mainstream media.

So the humble blog is 20 years old and is no longer just about geeks and the web but about online publishing, content marketing and it has become a serious business and source revenue for many e-preneurs around the world.

The attraction

One attraction to me when I started my blog was the power of the social web to reach a global audience with my ideas and content without leaving my desk. It was “my” publishing machine. It cost me $10 for the domain name. That was it.

What also drew me to blogging was a combination of it being my creation portal, a lifestyle business and a place to make a difference and make my own dent in the universe. For many it is also the platform for self development.

This includes.

Learning: A place to express and structure your thoughts and creations. The process of putting it down and structuring your ideas means you have to activate the neurons. The learning from just this process cannot be underestimated.

Documenting: It is a portal to document “your” intellectual property. Your “IP” is then not lost to humanity (or even to your own forgetful mind) but recorded for people to read view and share. This is the legacy part. This digital record keeping is becoming part of the global mind. It could last forever if the electricity doesn’t turn off and the data centers remain online.

Discipline: The discipline of reading, researching and creating will lead to personal discoveries of abilities you may not even know you had. You may also oncover passions and interests that have been dormant or undiscovered.

Networking: Creating and sharing online will lead to powerful connections globally as people discover your art. These connections will lead to many opportunities if you are prepared to sit down, strap yourself in and do the work

You will not see or experience these benefits until well after you have started, but they are real. I know, because this has been my journey.

What’s driven this evolution?

Blogging has been transformed by many factors over the last 5 years since I started. The speed of the internet has increased, the audience has become larger and smart phones and tablets have become ever present. The Internet is expected to grow from nearly 3 bullion to over 6 billion people in the next decade. That is a lot of opportunity and also a challenge as the web noise makes standing out even harder.

That is why starting now has many advantages. It’s placing your stake in the ground for the digital gold rush. It means building digital assets of content and distribution today that will grow as you create and “earn” authority online. Blogging has also been supercharged by two obsessive technologies. Social media and smart phones.

This is a heady and powerful mix. You could call it the perfect storm. Bloggers need to embrace both and learn how to use them to maximum effect.

Blogging business models to consider

So how can you make money from blogging?

There are many business models. Many bloggers have multiple revenue streams. Darren Rowse at Problogger lists twelve and Michael Hyatt mentions seven. Let’s look at a few key business models that are proven. The advertising revenue model of Mashable and Huffington Post require large audiences that mean attracting traffic into the millions or ten of millions per month and I don’t intend to discuss it further here. But here are some that are achievable for almost everyone with the right persistence and focus.

1. Selling your knowledge with an ebook
2. Providing a monthly subscription service to access resources and premium content
3. Selling online courses
4. Selling consulting, speaking and advisory services
5. Earning money through joint ventures and collaboration. This is also sometimes called “affiliate” marketing

These are just 5 proven methods and can be done from one blog.

How to start a blog that makes money?

Here are 10 key pillars that will assist you in building a lifestyle business that will transform your life and work based on your personal passions and purpose.

How do I know that they work?

Because this blog makes a 6 figure income that takes me around the world speaking, created a lifestyle that I love, built global business networks and created many lucrative and surprising opportunities.

If you are looking for a “get rich quick scheme” then stop reading now and buy a lottery ticket.

Here are the steps I have discovered through 5 years of trial and error, hard work and blood sweat and tears.

1. Discover your passion and purpose

Random mutterings online show lack of focus. Make sure you have your direction and purpose clear as possible for your blog. This is the foundation that will keep you going.

Can you state what you’re about in 20 words or less? You need a spark to start a fire. That’s the passion piece. This is what will sustain you when inspiration deserts you and doubts engulf your daily life. One particular approach that provides a simple framework is worth considering.  Porter Gale’s steps to discovering your focus is quite helpful without overcomplicating it.

The 4 steps

1. List your passions
2. Discover the sweet spot at the intersection
3. Describe your tone – Witty, Irreverent, Inspirational etc
4. Write the 20 word mission statement that distils your purpose

Some of you may already have this nailed but nuancing it to be as clear as possible is vital for long term success.

2. Identify your target audience

Your target audience needs to be clearly defined. Understanding the humanity that lies behind the sterile data of demographics is vital to get into the heart and soul of your global niche.

Personas have emerged in the past few years as a means to put a human face to the soulless and faceless stats of the demographic data scientist. The problem is that just considering a demographic profile misses that human element. So personas were invented to help the new breed of marketer understand the human side of the data.

Personas have problems, challenges and aspirations both as an individual and as an employee of a company. Newspapers have understood this at a primal layer for a long time in what news they published on the front page. Editors and journalists have known for a long time that “If it bleeds it leads“. Fear sells newspapers.

Personas have personalities, they have fears, wants and passions. Demographics have ages, an assigned gender and even a college degree.

So it doesn’t matter whether you are a blogger, a brand or social media marketer, You need to make your content human.

To develop a persona requires asking some questions.

Questions you need to be asking

To develop a persona you need to be asking some questions about your typical buyer. Here are a few to get you started.

• What are their biggest problems and challenges in their job?
• Where do they get their information from? Blogs, trade magazines, books?
• What would stop them changing to your product or service?
• What conferences do they attend?
• How do they convince their boss to make a buying decision? Do they print off an ebook and put it on his desk?
• What media do they consume? YouTube videos, white papers, podcasts?

When you start to know the answers to some of these questions then your content creation for your target audience will begin to be relevant and  appropriate.

3. Design and build your blog

Design is what consumes most of people’s time. For many, it is how it looks. Yes…looks are very important… but design goes much deeper than that. It is also how it works. Design that matters and manages the tension between form and function can be beautiful to behold. Steve Jobs knew and understood that.

So hire a designer that understands that it isn’t just about having a beautiful face but powerful and essential functions.

What are some essential elements to include in your blog design and functions?

• Ensure it is designed for search engines. Make sure that the web designer includes clean coding that allows the the top 25-30 key phrases you want to rank for on Google easily be crawled by the search engines crawler for indexing. Also upload a plugin such as Yoast that optimizes content for search.
• Include social sharing buttons such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+
• The design should allow easy following on your social networks
• Make it simple for people to subscribe to your email address by including a pop-up on entry or exit that offers free content in exchange for their email address
• Include social proof. This displays your online credibility that is seen at a glance. This is what are your awards, how many people are sharing your content
• Design is not just how it looks or even the content. It is essential  that “calls to action” are built into the design and function. These include “Follow us”, “like” us, subscribe or download our free ebook
• Easy to read fonts. Don’t make your text so small that it is hard to read.

4. Hosting your blog

Ever been to blog that is so slow to load that you click away. That can sometimes be put down to having a slow internet connection. Often though it is because you are sharing a hosting computer with hundreds of other domains. It has become vital with Google’s new attention to user experience that your site loads quickly. If your site is slow then you will find that it will affect your sites search engine results as Google gives your site a small black cross. This little rule is now written into Google’s algorithms.

Fast is good.

The other key here is having a site that is online 24/7. You may pay a little more but in the end you will be thankful. especially when you are building a blog that means business I have found that my hosting supplier Blue Host, provides robust and cost effective blog and website hosting with great support with a free WordPress template for only $3.49 per month.

5. Create free content

Content marketing is the new “black” when it comes to driving traffic. Its about attracting traffic rather than chasing it. Creating and giving away free content build credibility and trust and can position you as a thought leader in your industry

It improves your SEO (Search engine optimisation) for your blog and this drives “organic” search engine traffic when you are found in search results. How important is search engine traffic? In most cases it drives 300% more traffic than social networks. Today on my blog it is over 55% of all my traffic. Being found on  page one brings 90% of all clicks.

It also leads to referral traffic when people find your content is so good they “hyperlink” back to your articles.

Content marketing tactics

1. Create tempting headlines that drive “clicks”. I can’t stress how important developing and continuing to hone this skill is.
2. Make sure you have social sharing buttons that are “very” visible at the top or a floating bar on the side. (Don’t hide them down the bottom)
3. After publishing, share your content in as many appropriate social networks as possible
4. Write long form content. Google is rewarding long form content (some say 1,500 words or more) by ranking it higher in search engines.
5. Create evergreen content. This allows you to keep tweeting and posting it on a recurring basis over time to social networks and hence builds more traffic from one piece of content
6. Turn one piece of content into multiple formats. A written blog post can be turned into a podcast, a slideshare presentation, video and even an infographic
7. Create or use “infographics”. People love to share quality visuals. They also tend to be embedded and hence continue to drive referral traffic

6. Build distribution

Taking control of your blog and content distribution should be done from day one. There are 4 key distribution tactics.

1. Social
2. Email
3. Search
4. Mobile

Social

Social media marketing is in essence just two things. Content (media) and Distribution (social networks).  Get them right and the rest follows. Increased traffic, brand awareness and sales.

But creating the content is one thing but making it move is another. That is why growing your social networks is so important. It puts the power in your hands. That is what excited me when I saw the potential of social for  the first time. Access to a global market in real time at high speed.

Beyonce and her marketing gurus got it right when in December 2013, she bypassed mass media to launched her new album on her own social networks.  There wasn’t one TV show or mass media channel to be seen.

This was a marketing tipping point.

We also have many social network choices. They are global and still can be “earned” and built directly with your own audience. It takes time but the application of persistent effort is rewarded with your own content delivery networks. Bigger is better.

It’s a long-term game.

You will also have to choose which networks you want to focus on. One is not enough and it also risky because as the social networks evolve they keep changing the game and their algorithms. It’s all your eggs in one basket thing. For many that is the Facebook bucket. Be wary of committing your focus to just one platform.

Email

Email may be perceived as not cool but it does allow you to reach your dedicated audience when you want. Build your email list from the first day your blog goes “live”

Search

Search engines will give you nothing on the first day you publish, this fact means that “search engine optimisation” or “SEO” is ignored by many. But I promise you that if you invest in the key elements of “SEO” that a couple of years later that Google will reward you with free traffic when you start ranking on page one.

Mobile

Mobile is not a distribution network but it is a platform that needs special attention. So much media is now consumed on mobile devices (it is often 50% or more of blog and ecommerce traffic) that making sure that you have optimized your blog for smart phones and tablets is absolutely essential!

Optimized for mobile means people can:

• Read your content easily without magnifying glasses
• Subscribe to your email list on a mobile device
• Buy your services and products without waiting to get home to their desktop

7.  Create and package your knowledge

Do you have decades of experience and expertise that is worth something to a knowledge hungry world? Is it locked up in your grey matter? Not structured or packaged?

Today most of us are knowledge workers.

You might be in finance, marketing, technology or public relations. Do you have industry knowledge that is highly valued? Businesses buy expertise and knowledge workers to add value to their businesses.

Maybe its time to sit down, outline and unlock that knowledge for your benefit. You may even have a part time hobby and passion that could be bundled up into an online course or ebook to be monetized.

Blogs and the ability to self publish is opening up opportunities for “you” to be paid for your knowledge and creativity.

The rise of the online creative

The freedom to publish that blogging provides, is powering a new revolution of knowledge sharing, expression and creativity that is unprecedented.

Closet cooks are both demonstrating and displaying their culinary skills via video, recipes and teasing photos on foodie blogs.

Photographers are taking us on their local and world journeys. They are revealing corners of the globe that are exposing hidden cultures, geography and private lives for us to glimpse at like voyeurs. They are published to blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

Even teenagers create fashion that surprise us and is uploaded to YouTube and shared to a global audience.

Have a passion and some expertise and add a dose of technology and publish online.  You can build an audience of thousands.

But there’s a problem

I was recently viewing a TED talk by Jared Diamond and he posed a question to a problem that is worth answering.

“How should we use our old people?”

This question was framed in a way that starts the journey in how we can come up with solutions to help societies grow old better. This dilemma has been created because modern society values youth and beauty over wisdom, age and experience. This has in part been created by the rise of technology as wisdom and knowledge in the past lay within the minds of the elders of the tribe.

Today we just Google knowledge.

It has made the finding of knowledge a technology solution. This is taking away the importance and role of the elders of our society.

So what does technology not touch that our wise older generation can still offer? Jared has a few suggestions.

• Experience
• Understanding of human relationships
• Ability to help other people without ego getting in the way
• Leadership
• Networking
• Interdisciplinary knowledge eg history, politics and economics
• Supervising
• Administrating
• Advising
• Strategizing
• Teaching
• Synthesizing
• Devising long term plans

But there is a solution.

A solution

The technology that is the problem can also be the answer that taps into that wealth of wisdom and experience of decades. Help, build awareness and train the older generation to package, publish and promote their decades of knowledge, experience and insights on blogs and websites.

Here are some tips on how to package your knowledge to sell on your blog.

The first step to packaging your knowledge

So how do you approach packaging your knowledge?

The simplest place to start is to write a book. It can start with a short ebook. It doesn’t have to be long. Make it 10-15 pages. That’s the practice part. This is where you can distil your knowledge into chunk size bites that will help you start structuring and synthesizing your knowledge.

Then you can write a longer ebook that can also be turned into a printed book. There are a variety of “on demand” printing services that can assist you to create a print version. Blog posts can also be re-purposed and turned into chapters with some editing and rewriting.

The premium packaging of your expertise

The next steps are to add premium packaged versions of your knowledge.

If you want to take your ebook content to the next level you can supercharge your content by adding premium media and content.

Here is how you can turn a $29 eBook into a $3,000 product. This is how it can be done.

• Add a podcast version – now you can charge $97
• Add a Camtasia video version of the eBook where you record the screen shots in a video format while chatting through the eBook content – Sell that product for $597
• Add interviews with experts – Sell product for $1,097
• Offer personal coaching as part of the package – Sell for $2,097
• Put it in a DVD package – Sell it all for $3,000

You can also then put on a live 2 day seminar and sell the tickets for $2,000. What about you?

Have you a wealth of knowledge that is wanting to get out? Have you decades of experience and “know how” that the rest of the world could benefit from?

Have you thought about productizing it?

8. Upload to your digital educating platform

Selling your knowledge can also be done many ways. Two popular ways are:

1. Ebooks
2. Online courses

To keep it simple let’s just look at selling your ebook for your first step.

Ebook

Once you have created your product(s) to sell on your blog you need an automated way to sell and deliver the ebook or video tutorial download. In the past this meant some tricky programming to integrate different systems to deliver the download and to process the credit card transaction.

This has changed.

For example, the Selz platform can be setup in a matter of minutes and can be used to sell both digital and physical products.

Selz has been developed with the modern online entrepreneur in mind. Using Selz you can maximise your sales effortlessly without having to spend precious time on the mechanics of running an online business. Selz allows you to upload the ebook or video for you and automatically delivers the files when a customer purchases them.

Selz also makes it easier to build a customer email list as it integrates with three of the most popular email systems Aweber, Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor. By connecting it up to your email platform you can build your email list for marketing your next book or online course.

Getting serious

If you want to get serious and build a whole ecosystem for:

• Hosting your course material
• Managing affiliates
• Accepting and managing payments
• Reporting
• Emailing  and automating your marketing

Then you have 2 choices for your packaged “premium” content and courses that you sell.

1. Build your own custom website (eg. WordPress platform with special templates)
2. Invest in a “cloud” based platforms such as Infusionsoft (starts from $199) or Ontraport (starts from $279) but with a lot more included as standard with everything already built in.

These platforms come into their own when you are selling your own online courses and are working with Joint venture partners and online influencers.

9. Build joint ventures

To amplify your marketing efforts then working with other bloggers is essential.

What is important to realise is that the social web allows you to work with other bloggers and businesses to reach each other’s customers. These “Joint Venture” relationships will amplify and multiply your marketing. With internet marketing this is often called “affiliate marketing”

Think about this for a moment. If you were able to work with 10 other bloggers who all had 10,000 emails each and you have 10,000 then you have just connected to a network of 100,000. That is an increase of 1,000 percent! This has to be done with high quality content and must be done with care, credibility and trust.

As Porter Gale states: “Your network is your net worth.”

10. Launch and market your product with joint venture partners

You have designed and developed your blog, created content built traffic and created relationships with partners.

If you want to take selling your product to a new level then you can create a solid process of putting in place online digital promotion campaigns with your joint venture partners.

Two of the most popular approaches include:

1. Selling from an online webinar: This means having your digital product ready for sale, affiliate platform setup, partner that has a large email list  (10,000+). The next steps include setting a webinar date with 1-2 weeks of promotion  and then educate and sell at the backend of the webinar with a close and call to action.
2. “Launch formula” process: Creating and launching your product with a whole team of joint venture partners. This is when you really sell your product “at scale”. This strategy that has been created over the last decade to sell your knowledge online and is known as the “launch process”. Jeff Walker is seen as the “God Father” of this approach.

If you really want to launch your product then you need to learn the art of the the launch process

It includes the following:

• Pre-launch
• Launch
• Post launch

If you want to learn about this in more detail then I would recommend that you read Jeff Walker’s book “Launch”

Essential Tools to Start the Blog?

Domain name and hosting:

If you are just starting your blog, it is recommended that you should first purchase your domain name and hosting. The best part is that Bluehost provides 65% off and domain name and SSL certificate free of cost. You can get it here.

Try Bluehost on 65% off

WordPress themes:

Once you are done buying hosting equivalent to a home for your blog. It’s time to think about the blog’s look and feels. And that can be achieved with the right WordPress theme. I recommend the Astra theme and GeneratePress theme to get started with.

Try Astra Theme

WordPress page builders:

If you want to design each element of your blog the way you are reading this guide, you must try Elementor Pro. If your budget is low, you can try a free version of it, and it comes with various designing options. Kindly note that Elementor is an add on to make your website super attractive. The combination of Astra theme and Elementor pro will help you make your blog super attractive.

Try Elementor

Logo and blog post cover designing tool:

If you want to do your blog’s branding, you must have the logo from day 1. You can easily build your logo with free tools available out there, including Canva. I would recommend you design both the logo and blog-post cover designs with Canva. You should definitely try the Canva pro for free for the first month.

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SEO tool:

If you don’t know much about SEO, you must first read and learn about it. It’s very crucial to rank your blog on the search engine, because no matter how beautiful or meaningful your blog is. You need readers for your blog, and thus you should use an SEO tool like SEMrush. It’s my all-time favorite.

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Email marketing tool:

No matter what niche you picked for your blog, you must build your visitors’ email list from day 1. It will help you build relationships with your visitors and will develop more trust as well. That’s why to use Convertkit for free and build your email list.

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I hope you will find the guide on how to start a blog motivating enough to start your blogging journey.

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