Mindset Of A Blogger

Using the Blog Success 10 30 method to make money blogging in 2010

I am celebrating my first year with Blog Success in around 10 days time and I have learnt so much from them. I have always been blogging but not with an aim to make money – more to get my name out there and help me build an audience (plus I just love writing) so it has been a great experience to be there.

It has meant a shift in looking at my blogs and when the 10 30 method was introduced that shift took an even bigger meaning for me. Up until 10 30 (10 blogs earning $30 a day) I had set my intention to work on one blog only because Blog Success teaches authority blogging using one main blog. But the 10 30 method opened that up and allowed my creativity to flow back into blogging which has been fantastic because I have never been able to stick to one thing alone – way too creative!

So what has changed?

Well using Jack’s method you are encouraged to use domain names you already have or buy used domains that are already in the search engines.

During December I went through ALL of the domains I own (close to 90) and decided which 10 I wanted to use based on how many links they had going into them.

During 2007 there were a few domains I had been actively using and promoting so I settled on using them. Right now I have 8 blogs (one I am not sure about) and I am ready to work through this and just blog, blog, blog in 2010. The great thing with this method is it serves my need to have more than one thing going at once – I always get bored with just one blog.

Then I looked at the best way to build my list and decided that offering the same free product on as many blog as possible would be the best thing to do in terms of saving time and I only have one weekly newsletter I produce. Everything else is eCourses.

Here are my top 8 blogs

Inspirational Guidance : http://www.inspirationalguidance.com

The domain is 5 years old but I was never sure of the focus. Now it will focus on supporting people to live their life free from fear and procrastination. It will focus on “discovering greatness” – which includes experiencing joy/happiness. All my keywords focus around personal growth.

The two products I promote belong to Guy Finley affiliate opportunity – commission ranges from $25-32 -  so selling one product a day will help me get close to and/or hit the $30 a day goal with this blog.

Free personal development starter kit

Discover the Secrets of Being Unstoppable

How I will build my list

Discovering Greatness experiencing joy – a weekly newsletter

Personal Growth Podcast Directory : http://www.personalgrowthpodcastdirectory.com

I started this around January 2006 and it belonged to a collection of other podcast directories. During that time is was my only main business so I spent a lot of time on it and I was amazed at how many inbound links it had despite not using it for the past 20 months (it never made me any money). It even had a bit of a page rank. So this domain is now up again and since 2006 I have created loads of audios and videos so will be including the personal growth related ones there.

Product : Adsense – I am going to place adsense around the blog plus sell Bob Proctor Science Of Getting Rich which only needs one sold a day to make $30

How I will build my list : Using the discovering greatness newsletter above

Diane Corriette – http://www.dianecorriette.net

I originally had this domain and mindsetofablogger.com together (mindset was parked) so I unparked it and set it up with its own hosting. Now separate I am going to use this blog to focus on running a service based online business. I offer a number of services including freelance work, blog setup, mentoring  and all kinds of different sevices so this blog will focus on that. It will also focus on promoting how to run a service based online business for anyone interested.

It is strange but over the last 2 years all I have wanted to do is get rid of this part of my business but then I have realised it is a business all of its own. With the number of ghost writers, virtual assitants and other service based online businesses around it is worth holding on to this skill as I have been working freelance from home for the past 12 years.

I will also be adding all my articles and audios/videos here and allowing people to download them and use them on their blog/website – so that it becomes a portal much like an article directory and it gives me ONE place to include everything I have ever written (which is a lot of content!)

How I will build my list

Blogging 7 day bootcamp eCourse (that is turning into a 10 day one!)

Product to promote :

Myself and my own freelance work mainly. Starting at £67 (approx $107) with my business building strategy and working upwards from there.

I also have a membership site attached to this domain that I haven’t made use of so need to figure out how to use that.

Plus some other great information products on setting up a service based online business including

Running a virtual assitance business and a checklist on some of the roles you can perform as a virtual assistant

Running a transcription business

Running a Ghost Writing business along with a checklist of what to ask potential clients before they use your ghost writing services

The “Just add sweat” affiliate program pays 70% commission and the reports are $14.95 each but this won’t be a huge focus for me on this blog. I will sell them on one of the others too.

Start An Online Business – http://www.start-online-business.biz

This site focuses on promoting Stephen Pierce and his free book “How to make real money on the internet” along with his Make Real Money training membership site.

I receive $15.98 for selling their one time offer when someone signs up for the book so I need to sell two a day to hit my $30 a day goal

The other product I promote as a way to start an online social network business is SocialGo – they provide all the tools you need to start a social network with the other benefit of charging members – so its a membership site and social network combined.

Plus I will include the “Just add sweat” products mentioned above

How I Will Build My List

The “how to” infopreneur – how to make $100 a day with free information products (available at howtobooklets)

So you get the picture! I have gone through and planned out exactly how I will make money from my online business in 2010. My other blogs are

http://www.howtobooklets.net – This blog is all about how to make your own information products and make money giving them away and/or how to make money selling information products.  I will build my list using the “how to infopreneur eCourse” and earn from selling Jimmy D Brown course on how to make a small fortune writing short reports – need to sell one a day

http://www.weightlossfooddiary.co.uk – promoting Diet Solution & Fat burning exercise - two products I am using now myself! No list. Need to sell one of each a day to make $30

http://www.mindsetofablogger.com – promoting Blog Success (recurring monthly commission) and building my list with the blogging bootcamp

http://www.datingadviceforwomen.net – the only site I have no real passion for so not sure how long it will last. Considering selling it.

The final site is a Ning social network for mothers looking to start an online business. I re-started it at Ning on January 1st 2010 (it had originally been running for two years before I closed it down) but now I have found out about SocialGo and may move it there. Still deciding. With SocialGo I get to charge a membership fee if I want to which provides future opportunities. It will be a social learning network – learning with a social aspect! You can find out more about them here http://www.socialgo.com/#a_aid=4b41e909928ef

I have made a commitment to blog once a day, possibly two if I can use an article or video and up to three times if I possibly can. All of it original content because I like to make life hard for myself

When all these sites produce the $30 a day income we are all looking for in Blog Success I have a potential income of  $210 a day (based on 7 sites because I don’t think the dating one will last long!) and $6,300 : this is mainly passive income and then I can add on top of that my service based business and any mentoring/training I decide to do.

Blog Success has definitely helped me to focus in on how to use the skills I already have and continue to build my blog business plus I have been experiencing that you really can make money blogging – whether that money comes in from getting a new client for your service based business or selling a product and receiving an affiliate commission as long as you have a plan and a structure to implement that plan you can make money blogging.

The frustrating part of it all is when I first joined them I took down quite a few of my blogs because the process was 1 blog as an authority – now here I am putting them back up again!

Future options : Once all the blogs are set up and making an income I can sell them for a profit.

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