Here are different types of blogs that I have personally started and profited from. While all these blog models are based on the wordpress platform each has a different monetization plan. Lets explore each one of them individually.

Standard Blog Model Most bloggers start their blogging journey from here. This is a model that can define you as a blogger, but making money from this will involve consistent content creation, community build up and PR. This is a good model if you want to get into selling high end products.

Review Blog Model Reviews are pretty powerful and they inject very well in the buying thought of the visitor. Imagine providing a crucial review of ipad to a target visitor who is just one click away from buying it. If your review stands out, there are chances that your will make a commission from the sale.

There is a lot that happens in a review site. The layout, content, structure, reviews all matter. You cannot take a standard blog, write a bunch of reviews and expect to make money from the page. Even though people do that all the time. If you are getting 40,000 page views a day probably you don’t care much about layout and presentations, but to get some serious conversions on small amount traffic you have to focus on the presentation, otherwise the conversions could be pretty frustrating.

Article Blog If creating unique content on a daily basis is not your forte then you can explore this option. Install a few auto-content plugins and your blog will be populated with content pretty much instantly. You can build lists, monetize with small ads etc. But again you cannot make $1000s of dollars a day with this model unless you start 1000s of blogs.

Forum Blog Want unique content? then focus on User Generated Content(UGC) imagine how much money sites likes warrior forum make on a daily basis. Go to BigBoards.com and do a search for forums in your niche and look at the traffic numbers, you will be astonished. There is money to be maid if you understand the power of a community.

Let your users create the content, google provide you the ads and you make money just by doing nothing. Like it? and yes you can start a forum using wordpress.

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• #1. Blogging: Despite the face-books and twitters, blogging continues to grow & dominate. Thanks to Wordpress and other blogging platforms that have started to become marketer friendly over time. If nothing else, just start blogging.
• #2 Local Business Consulting: This is a big one, lately we have seen a lot of product launches in the space. Too many unqualified service providers are ruining this space. If you acquire some decent stills you can pretty much dominate your local markets with your SEO & SEM services. Imagine each client paying you $500 a month. All you need is 20 of them to create a serious six figure yearly business.
• #3 Design Services: The days of creating HTML designs and making a lot of money from that are over. Get into motion graphics, there is a lot of money there. If you cannot make that shift then try creating custom facebook fan pages and twitter backgrounds. There is competition there but the demand still beats the supply.
• #4. Done For You Service: This is a big one. Can you write articles, blog posts, newsletters or Auto-responder messages?. You can create an instant six figure business. Where do you find clients? just signup as a provider across all the lance sites and start bidding. Don’t ignore Craigslist.org.

Do you have a better idea to share on this topic of Making Money Online, please post a comment here.

Here are some tips on how you can re-energize your affiliate program.

• Create an affiliate signup page for your best selling product. Most affiliate program management companies ( 1shoppingcart and Infusionsoft) make this process very easy.
  
• Hire an affiliate manager
• Test your own marketing channels by becoming your own affiliate
• Promote your affiliate program to your existing customers
• Create an Affiliate Week. In other words don’t do anything other than Affiliate Marketing for an entire week. This will create momentum
• Raise the price, Offer 100% commission. This technique will help build you a strong buyer list and a JV list for a major launch in future
• Place your product on a high traffic CPA network

Most recently I was speaking to a small gathering on the subject of “Auto Blogging”, where this discussion came up, luckily my whole presentation was video recorded.

Here is the a small excerpt from that presentation, I’m sure you will appreciate it.

The next morning I went for a hair cut -

I’m saying that after running numerous blogs across 100’s of niches. Blogs are designed to be busy. List building is all about single, focused action. They just don’t go hand in hand.

Let’s take the example of this blog. You see the option box on the top left corner. The conversion on that one is pretty poor…to be precise only 3%. I tried having a interrupt driven footer optin box. The conversion went up to 18% but again the code started interfering with the javascript ( using which this wordpress blog has been coded) so I had to disable it.

I tried the lightbox the conversion was astronomical… about 54%, but the opt out rate was pretty high too. two out of every three people who opted in opted out after getting my second email.

What that tells you is.. you just cannot trick people to get on your list and any short cuts to list building are just shortcuts. Remember the saying.. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”

After all, is list building possible with a busy blog?

Just place the optin code in each and every post. Preferably in the beginning or to the end of the post and watch your conversions rates skyrocket.

For example

This is easy to setup, and the quality of the people whom you attract is very high. Trust me at the end of the day its the quality list that matters, not the quantity.

Stop Swapping Ads.. Start Blogging -

To Your Continued Success

This list will keep changing, so please to do keep checking this blog.

Smart YouTube: Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. Want your video to be shown in full in your RSS feed then consider this plugin.

Keyword Statistics: This SEO plugin checks the content of posts/pages for the keyword density (single/phrases) while writing and is automatically setting the META-tags. Think how best you can use this on your Autoblog?

WP-UserOnline: Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics. This is amazing if you want to turn your blog into a membership site going forward or build a tight sense of community feeling around it.

Simple Facebook Connect: Connecting Facebook to Wordpress is somewhat difficult. Many plugins exist to do this, but they are overly complicated, or have security problems, or just plain don’t do the things you want them to do. Simple Facebook Connect makes it easy for your site to use Facebook Connect, in a wholly modular way.

Contact Form 7:It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. In addition, it supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc.

CommentLuv
Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts.Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, with CommentLuv for Wordpress and Wordpress MU you can give something back to your community straight away by including a titled link for their last blog post or tweet on the end of their comment.

Digg Digg:All-in-One social vote buttons – Digg, Reddit, dDone, Yahoo Buzz, TweetMeme(twitter), fbshare(facebook), Polladium, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Post comments, Google Buzz, Designbump, Designfloat, WebBlend and BlogEngage. Want some serious traffic? this plugin can give you some hits.

WP-Cumulus
WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page

This brings us to a situation where we need to align our efforts and win the game between 2 different important parameters.

TRUST : Transparency and good rapport with our ideal clients/customers so that they will be able to see you as the viable solution for their problem/need.

NEED : The real source of their problem and fundamental reason why they are seeking the solution.

If you think deeper, in offline world The trust factor can be accomplished  easily  but there is a challenge in connecting with the real need of people without meeting with them face to face.

In fact it is even more challenging to connect with the real need of people all over the world if you  don’t have a established network of people to take care of this responsibility.

Unfortunately  the puts a limit on many businesses in terms of how big and how fast they can grow.

In online world it makes easier , faster and more effective for any business owner  to grow and profit faster by playing globally and reaching out to ideal prospects and customers.

The single biggest reason is  Internet provides “CRITICAL LEVERAGE” in terms of
• a. Market Research
• b.Understanding The Need (Through Search Engines, Forums and Social Media)
• c. Price Comparision (Review Sites)
• d.Brand Analysis
• e.New Technology and Social Media ( Transparency and Trust)

It is a creating an entire new realm of opportunities as well as business dynamics which has never anticipated before.

In today’s age,  even a small player can win the trust of an ideal customer and fulfill their needs  in shortest possible time because of the power of traditional and mobile internet.

Hope this gives you a clear understanding about how you can identify your unique leverage for generating profit from the internet and grow fast while  offering your products and services all over the world .

In my next post I am going to discuss about how you can  make your  online business sustainable and grow rapidly while overcoming all possible road blocks you currently have .

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This post was guest blogged by Gaj Subudhi of superstarsmarketing.com, A site dedicated to helping people establish themselves as a superstar in their personal and business life FAST
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Struggling to quickly achieve a breakthrough in your internet marketing business? just follow this four-quadrant formula, something that I have implemented pretty successfully in my own business.

Done For You Service: Want to make some quick money. Start a done for you service. Done for your services have been in demand for sometime now. The Internet Marketing fraternity has come to realize that there is a limit to which information can be taught. By packaging their know how into a service more and more marketers are heading down this path.

An example of a Done For You Service is PLR products. These days there are PLR products in every niche and in every shape, for example You can buy blogs, membership sites & training courses etc and the list is endless.

If you are good at writing? start ghost writing. Good at design? start selling templates. Good at writing persuasive language? start copy writing. Provide a service that people can buy and buy now.

There is no reason why you will fail.

Consult For High Dollars: If you have some basic internet marketing knowledge you can start consulting. Have you imagined how many local businesses in your area are desperately looking for some kind help or other with their internet marketing efforts.

Identify your strengths and start building a consulting practice around them. You will attract a lot of money in the short time. The key to success in consulting is to acquire high net worth customers. Attract poor customers you are doomed to fail.

Affiliate Marketing: There are many variations to this, it all depends on whom you are listening to and what methods you learn from them in the process. My observation is, traditional affiliate marketing is a time consuming process. Hence I suggest you start exploring Affiliate networks and start driving paid traffic to offers making a float/commission in the process. This technique is also known as “Arbitrage”.

You don’t need to become a super affiliate, all you need to do is basic stuff and you can start pulling in some pretty decent cash quickly.

Speak, Teach & Coach: This is something that I have started doing extensively. Don’t ignore the power of speaking and teaching. You can attract all kinds of customers, relationships & connections in this process. All successful speakers are good marketers and all successful marketers are good speakers.

You may say you are not an expert. I insist that you teach what you know, if you are new to something tell them that you are new at it, share your experiences, be authentic you will attract an audience. Did I say start a blog? may be I did. I started speaking & teaching ever since I started blogging. Hope you see the power in this.

This idea of this post is not to discredit any other avenues. There are many ways to make money online. Each and every avenue has its on advantages and disadvantages.

Internet marketing is not that different than traditional marketing and internet business is not that different that a normal business either. At the end it all comes down to your own instincts, skills and capabilities.

Now go make it happen

To Your Continued Success!