Making Money From WordPress

As an Internet entrepreneur, I have often been asked whether it is possible to really make money from WordPress? I think the better question is, "is it possible to make money online from a blog?"

From my experience, the answer has to be "yes." However, it is not as simple as that. It requires a large amount of effort and takes time to develop a reliable and on-going business. And I think this is the important and key concept. If you want to truly make money online from a blog, using WordPress or any other option, you need to treat it as a business.

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And like any business there are requirements in order to make it work. Firstly, you need to have a clear understanding of what it is that you want to do or say or sell. This is the place in which most bloggers fall down. Over the last few years I have read an enormous number of blogs looking for a variety of information, as well as trying to determine what makes a blog successful. I have discovered that the unsuccessful bloggers have no idea of where they are going, what they want to achieve or how they are going to achieve it.

As every successful entrepreneur knows, planning is a vital part of the realisation of a dream. There is nothing wrong with blogging simply for the pleasure of expressing your ideas online, however, if you wish to make money, you need to have a vision and a plan which will make that vision a reality. To make this process easier, there a variety of products on the market to help you develop a plan for making your online business viable and, in fact for making money online.

Using WordPress, you can develop a simple blog that advertises a product from ClickBank or any of the other affiliate programs available or you can develop a relatively sophisticated website offering a membership option. Many people, including myself, have found that niche marketing is a fantastic method of generating great recurring income over a period of time. Don't be fooled, though, by glib and smooth talkers trying to flog you their program. This is not as easy as many make it out to be. It requires a lot of time, planning, research and boring hard work. But the end result is worth the effort.

This brings me to the second thing you need when looking to make money online. And that is a program or system that helps you do keyword research in a systematic and scientific way, helps you to build and post your site to the internet and gives you the cheapest and best way of driving traffic to your site. Over the past few years, I have tried just about every method, system, program, 'secret', under the sun and found that most are simply a load of rubbish.

I have in fact become very weary of anything that say anything like, "Try my ultra secret, money sucking method......" You have seen the adverts all over the internet and I avoid them like the plague. The vast majority are scam artists who are only after your money. Please don't let this put you off. They are some really great and honest people, who have developed fantastic products that do work, just be careful before parting with your money.

So, the question of can you make money with WordPress or any other blogging program? Absolutely! Just understand what you want to achieve, have a plan for making it a reality and find a system that really assists you.

Making Money From WordPress