How To Get Paid Blogging About Your Hobby
Would you like to get paid blogging about something that you love? For some reason lately if someone talks about the subject of getting paid blogging, they automatically assume that you have to sell out and write reviews for some ad networks…
While it can be done that way – in my mind it is a bad way to do it!
Granted you can get paid upfront for every post you write but the beauty of the blogs lies in opposite direction from that model! People flock to the blogs for several reasons, one of which in my opinion is unbiased information about the topic they are interested in! People look for information from trusted sources, from real people just like them!
Your goal as a blogger is to become that trusted source and deliver on expectation!
You Can Get Paid Blogging About Your Hobby!
I think this is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make money blogging, as it contains several of the crucial elements to ensure you blog success:
- Passion – majority of the blogs fail due to a lack of unique, quality information that continues to flow to it. Creating content requires work, requires research and no matter how carefully you have done Niche research and identified profitability of the subject – your blog will eventually die if you stop providing content. Passion can fuel the creative streak in you even if you write about most trivial subject!
- Products Or Services To Sell – I don’t think I have seen an area of human interest that has a consumer demand and doesn’t have companies providing a products or services. Demand always creates an offer, unless you live in a country that preaches socialism. And since you are passionate about the topic – more then likely you are already using or planning to use some of the products or services offered. Find an affiliate program for the merchants, contact them directly if needed and ask if they will be interested to pay you for referrals and then write honest reviews and include affiliate links to products or services. Remember – people are looking for honest opinions of other people who already used the product or service! You don’t even have to sell them on it! Simply give your personal opinion and eventually you will see the flow of income from those reviews. It just works, as long as you don’t write ONLY negative reviews.
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- Readily available audience – if you are passionate about some activity, more then likely there are hundreds of people (even in worst case scenario) who are interested in same! Obviously the larger this group – the more chances you have to earn when blogging to make money. All you need to do is locate people who are passionate about your topic, your hobby and send them back to your blog. Forums are one of the most obvious choices, simply do a Google search on your “keyword + forum” and you will be surprised how many might pop-up! Provide answers, information and become active part of community while giving links to information on your blog or simply use signature marketing method. Social Networks are another great place to find your audience: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace – all are great candidates. Just do a search for your keywords – become member of the groups and once again – provide answers and occasional reference to your blog to get the immediate flow of interested traffic.
There are many ways to get the targeted traffic to your blog and this post is not about it! It is about critical ingredients required for successful and sustainable blog income. Ingredients are very simple:
- Quality, unique content
- Monetization build into your blog
- Targeted traffic to your blog
That is it! Those are the basics but to get them right and actually get paid blogging – it is a lot simpler if you do it about a topic you are passionate about – Your Hobby!
Obviously that the more popular your hobby is – more opportunities you have, but even a smallest and most unusual (as long as its legal) hobby can be profitable!
It is your passion and your opinion that will fuel the quality content and ability to become obvious expert in the area to build trust.
And once you have the trust – it is VERY easy to sell products and services you personally like and use to people with similar interests! Make Your Opinion Matter if you want to do blogging to make money!
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Very very true. This is a true-to-life experience and is unquestionable. Sometimes we wonder why others easily earn for a particular niche. But the truth is, they have passion in it and the reason they can write so many things about it.
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I recently decided to start a blog about one of my hobbies, my English Bulldogs. I have never really tried making money with any of my blogs before mainly because I use them for other purposes, but this particular site is planned for trying to generate some cash.
Exellent tips in here that I will be taking with me, thank you.
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I agree it is very easy to recommend products and services. Actually making sales isn’t quite as easy in my experience. I can supplement my regular job blogging about what I enjoy. I would love to do so full time but am quite far from creating enough income to allow that. I have a couple blogs that quite respected search for example for “engineering blog” or “management blog” and you should see 2 “curious cat” blogs close to the top of the results. My investing blog is doing decently but not quite as well as those 2 (still in the top 20 results most likely).
I feel to get success through blogging passion is the most important thing. It is very difficult to work for 5-8 hour daily and yet no earning form blogging.
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Honestly, its hard for me to associate with that statement. I started earning with my blog within first few days and it never stopped. But it does helps to have passion to share what you know in order to deliver content.
Blogging as a hobby is a great idea while your enjoying writing articles as the same time you can make money out of it…I agree to the idea of how to make money out of blogging and i think this is the most effective one i tried some of that idea and it gives a great result…
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I completely agree with the fact that anyone interested in blogging for money should do so out of interest in the topic. Blogs are not generally successful if you ae not regularly adding fresh content.
Doing this is next to impossible if you are not interested in the topic. It simply becomes too boring for the writer and the blog fails. If you are writing about a hobby, you will remain interested, and you can still make money be doing something like selling Amazon affiliate products related to posts you do.
Nice post man…i will definitely try out your idea.
Doing this is next to impossible if you are not interested in the topic. It simply becomes too boring for the writer and the blog fails. If you are writing about a hobby, you will remain interested, and you can still make money be doing something like selling Amazon affiliate products related to posts you do.
Post blogging is not known much and i am sure that people will go for it after getting through your post and it would be quite appreciating.
Yes – it would be difficult to come up with fresh and interesting content if you do not have a natural interest in the topic.
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This is definitely THE most valuable way to create an online income because it benefits those who visit you. Have you considered offering your readers turn-key blogs optimized for SEO and interaction with built-in stores? We have the process pretty much down to a science now.
My thought is that many people would take to blogging like a duck takes to water who aren’t really interested in learning how to install and design sites or pull in product feeds. If someone provides a blog where they can share what they know they can become profitable much faster.
I wrote about this concept in one of my Recently Popular posts How to Create a Blog Based Business.
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Hi Alex
I spent a lot of time ‘running around in ever decreasing circles’ in trying to follow the so called Gurus.Then I stopped and concentrated on my passion that I had been involved with, and love for nearly 40 years. So I set up my first website and writing the content just seemed to come naturally – although the ‘techie stuff’ has been hard to follow!
So a passion for your niche (or hobby) in my mind is absolutely essential – only time will tell whether you can make money from it, but it seems if you have people interested in what you are doing, and share the same passion or hobby – then it will work for you.
regards and thanks for your help
Graham in UK
When I teach my blogging classes I always tell people to make their first blog about them and their hobbies. Even a hobby that you think is simple will have interest to other people. Let your love and enjoyment show through your photos and what you write about.
I love to look at pictures of quilts even though I have never made one. It is always interesting to hear people talk about what inspired them. I even took a quilting class once after seeing beautiful quilts at a county fair.
Hobbies are something that almost everyone enjoys.
My latest hobby is taking pictures from my kayak, and now I post them on YouTube, and I will probably start adding them to a blog soon. It is fun to share what we love to do.
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I am learning about Blogging as i have heard a lot about people earning money by Blogging. Thanks for the valuable info.
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Passion itself can be divided by passion to our family or passion for blogging. In my opinion people have more passion for family than passion for blogging. Which means that people jump into blogging business because to make more money for family.
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I started a new blog, and it is going to have a lot of the things I enjoy doing on it. It is called rockysgifts.com because I am hoping I can inspire people to give themselves the gifts of taking time so they can enjoy things they like to do, and there will of course be some items for sale there.
I have had that domain name for a long time but finally have a use for it.
Thanks again for all this great information on this blog.
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I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Margaret
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I belive the best way to get paid is to blog about something you love. When people recognise a passion, they’ll visit the blog more often. And that means more ad revenue.
I am enjoying my new blog, and I am really getting into taking my camera with me kayaking. I am posting some videos to YouTube. I have to make a few more videos now that I have a lot more images. YouTube now has a way to add their music to your videos to make them more interesting. Plus you do not have to worry about getting the sound muted. It will be interesting to see what the response is. Some people are very disappointed.
However back to the niche blogs. I know that more and more templates are becoming available for people to post pictures. That is great for people who love to take photographs. It is going to be another way to share what you love. I really like to take pictures of the birds I see while kayaking.
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I hate to double comment, but I have changed my twitter account to RocqueBowen. I hope people will not think I vanished since I intend on doing a lot more as time permits. I welcome your readers to follow me, too, Alex.
Thanks.
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No problem Rocque, you are great friend and contributor – I always appreciate your comments!
One of the reasons you and I are so successful with our blogs is that we love what we do, Alex – and that pushes us to tweet about our posts, get backlinks from commenting on other blogs, fuss and fiddle with SEO tweaks, etc. Without our passion for this, we’d have no better results than anyone else, so your post is dead on! It’s the passion that makes us keep going when others take it easy, and our passion that inspires new posts whenever we want them.
And, of course, your great software makes it a breeze to install new blogs every time we want to blog about a new area of interest, so it becomes unending – and that’s a good thing!
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It would be extremely helpful if you could show an illustration or example of a niche and how you would go about marketing it. I would love to see an example if you have time to do so.
Very nice Information! I think point one is by far the most important to build an blog income! Blogging begins with good content!!
Thanks for sharing!
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Is there any tips you can provide to help me get paid. I tried adding unique and original content but what do you do if you can’t write like a paid writer? I also heard only 3% of people succeed in making lots of money blogging do any of you succeed in making lots of money? I tried paid survey blog it doesn’t work.
Doug,
There is no “secret strategies” that will “help you get paid”. It is not about writing like a writer – it is about finding the niche that is right for you and serving the needs of that niche – period. Nothing more, nothing less.
Heloo!
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