In summary, if you want to start blogging the right way for business,  you should know that blogging is not about making money primarily but blogging for passion, hobbies or expertise will bring money from the blogging activities.

You must love what you do or get frustrated. I have also stated in the previous articles that most people are just interested in making money but not in offering values. You must also blog as a business if you want to make money by doing the right things; writing down a business plan, mission and vision statements, expected goal and projections. Bloggers are not magicians, they work.
Now if you have read the previous steps and convinced that you are ready to start a blogging business, then you can proceed here.
Step 1: Domain Name Registration: A domain is your name on the cyberspace. Your domain name is you area of control. It is where your business office stays.  People will know your site based on your domain name. Domain name is different from hosting. Your domain name is like henryomenogor.com. To register your domain depending on where you live, you will certainly need to pay for it in various currencies. The universal method of registering domain name is with credit or debit cards in the form of visacard, mastercard or paypal. It is registered on first-come-first-served basis.
If you live in third world country where there are various challenges with payments, you can buy domain using Libertyreserve.com.
In registering your domain name, your domain must reflect your product, company of service. Your domain must be search engine optimized friendly. It is not just enough to register domain name but register a domain that is short and easily remembered.  Your domain name will go a long way to affect the way you will make money from your website, especially if you are running google adsense and other programs on your site.

If you want to own a life Free domain name with .com, .net, .info or .org extension, you can have it by going to a promotion from LRGlobalHost.com which offers free donain name with hosting account through  Libertyreserve payment.

Step 2: Hosting Your Site with a Quality Web Hosting Company: This is an area you must understand very well as it is critical to the success of your online business. I have seen most people who run sites and these sites do not show when they have many visitors. I have also seen web hosts that has hosted sites for friends who keep complaining  that the site is on for one  minute and next it is off the internet. I know how frustrating it could be. Having been in the business of hosting websites for companies since 2005 with vast experience here.

The challenging thing here for most newbies is that they prefferre to have sites hosted for almost next to nothing amount. Unfortunately, they get frustrated as soon as their site is up and running because the sites will start experiencing what I have described above.

If you have to make progress with your blog, think future first from now and not convenience.  Your web hosting must have some necessary software including among other ad dons; fantastico for blog sett up, Forum Software, MYSQL , Redirect, Sub domain addons, unlimited email account, high bandwidth as well as other great add-ons. This is your 247 office and so you must be very sure you have an office that is accessible 247 without hindrance. This is why you must go for quality hosting. Support system is also important.

I recommend you take LRGlobalHost which comes with all the facilities that will enable you have a hosting account with peace of mind. Best of all, they offer free domain name for life and  month free hosting with your one year payment. I also recommend them because they offer hosting for a full year with free domain name for less than $45 per annum by libertyreerve.

Step3: Set Up Your Blog: Once you have your hosting and domain name in place, it is time you start your online business. All you need is set up your blog. Now it is very simple to set up a blog.  However, setting up a professional blog is different. To set up a simple blog, log into your control panel that was given to you by your hosting company, locate fantastico, click on it, follow to the next platform and click on wordpress to your left, add your user name and password and other settings and congrats you have created a blog.

In the next of this series, we will be discussing how to make your blog professional so that itcan have visitors, money and business for you.

Recommendation: I hardly recommend products and programs but I recommend that you sign up with LR GlobalHost as they will register your domain, host and set up these whole process for you with the $40 per annum. They will give you a free domain name of your choice, host it and give you a free blog set up.

Continuing this series on How to start a Blogging Business From The Scratch, Iam going to address the reasons why you should blog. You will need to consider these reasons to make success.

Why did I decide to write on  the reasons for your blogging rather than going ahead to show you how to set up a blog and start making money with it? It is deliberate. And the simple reason is that you will not make success in your blogging career if you start with just the fundamental reason of making  money. You see, most people start blogging with emotional attachment rather than the passion, expertise, hobby or love for what they want to do.  In the same vein, most people start blogging and fail, because they think they do not know how to write and also feel that blogging involves only writing. It is more than this. Knowing that you can become a full or part time blogger and resolving which to be coupled with the following reasons for blogging will go a long way in boosting the success or failure of your blog.

I have made these reasons based on my experience and that of others. There will definitely be more and I will keep updating it. Never start blogging without putting these reasons in plain paper and considering which reasons will make you blog.

Is Blogging Right For Me ? Should I blog or Not? What area Should I blog About?

1. You want to Write a Book: If you are like me who got an insight into writing while in High School, and started publishing small books in the University and took it as  profession now, then writing a blog is one of the best ways to start a book. After writing series of blog post where your readers are reading with every likeness and it helps them with solutions to whatever your articles are meant to solve, then you can blog.

Truth is that your readers would like to have your blog articles in an ebook or printed book format. This is exactly what happened with a How To Blog called eHow. eHow was later to turn thousands of blog post into a printed book format and started making money from their blog content.

If you intend to write a book latter, then writing them as blog post over time and converting them to ebook or printed book which your readers would like to have handy would be a good reason for starting a blog.

2. You Love writing: If you have flare for writing, or love writing to express yourself and have others read what you have written, then blogging is good for you. Blogging goes beyond just writing but loving it. This is because it involves you writing your content and posting on your blog, posting content on other people’s blog as well as article directories as well as adding comments on other blogs.

3. You Want To Communicate To Others: Yes, blogging is communication. Blogging involves the blogger (one who blogs or post on blogs) and the readers who read on the bloggers Blog or blogosphere. If you have an idea, information or advise, and would like others who are a target audience to have it, you can do this easily with blogs. The blogging platform is a global informational platform and easy to reach with just the internet technology. Therefore, it is your great tool for communication.

4. You Want To Entertain: Yes, blogging involves entertainment. Depending on what kind of blogging you are doing, you can start blogging to entertain a target audience too. You can entertain through video blogging, music blogging or creative writing.

5. You Want to Make Money: You see, I decided to write this reason as the last. I know you were expecting to see this as the first reason you should blog. Most people fail from blogging business because the consider this reason as the first and only. Money comes from blogging activities as blogs don’t make money on their on.

Blogging to make money should come after considering the four reasons above.  Most bloggers are ready to blog on anything for money, therefore, get frustrated. In blogging for money, your blog must have good content, not copied but SEO original contents, If you are blogging for money with the right content and other reasons, you must also have a great money making idea and blueprint to be able to make money from your blog. You must be ready to have short and long term plans and goals to achieve making money on your blog.

Conclusion: Blogging is easy. Blogging pay my bills aside my book and magazine publishing business. But it is more than just setting up sites. My mail box is filled with several request on the issue of blogging. Some people have blogs which are mere glorified web blogs.  They are not having the right traffic and so the blogs don’t make money.

If you can get it right and take your blog as  a business, and you are ready to take it one step after the other and see yourself grow, you will soon become a successful blogger. I also urge you not to be deterred or discouraged. You will get there. Most successful bloggers have gone through some of these stages, therefore you are not alone. But I advise that you should have a focused mind and goal coupled with perseverance and see yourself getting there.

In the next series, we will together start with registering a domain, getting your hosting and starting off with your blog.

If you have more reasons or you just want to ask questions or make comment, feel free to do so here. And keep visiting as I will continue this series. I will once again encourage you to bookmark this site, like our facebook page so you have updates.

While most people set up blog as hobbies or just to kill time, others who are professional bloggers use their beyond just hobbies. They make money from it. Therefore, blogging is a business.

First thing first. Knowing what you want to do is important when starting a blog to make money. Most successful bloggers started it as hobbies or passion and had their experience at a point where they had to create a working system based on their experience. One of the greatest mistake any would-be-blogger will make is to start thinking that all the money will be made in the first month. No!!! You will get frustrated with this thinking. Money will over flow from your blogging activities as you build quality content blog where your readers can rely on without seemingly presenting it as sales letters to them. Once you can have quality readership of a great content, you are sure to make money in matter of months.

Reason for setting up a blog: Are you creating blogs primarily to make money and pay your bills from your activieis or it goes beyond that. You must consider the 5 reasons why you want to set up a blog.

Know Your Passion: Blogging is fundamentally your posting about your opinion in a niche you chose. It could be for review of products where you state your candid opinion; it could be an entertainment blog, educational blog like this one you are reading. It could also be for your business. If you want to blog and start in an area you just heard people are making a lot of  money from regardless of the fact that its your passion, hobby or expertise, you are not going to be successful. The reason is that you will have to be writing, teaching and helping people or blogging based on what you know. This is why passion is important. For example, I am very passionate about creating and selling web sites and I have created a blog where I teach on how to buy and sell websites for profit. I write my daily experience there for my readers to know what my opinion and experience is in that area. I am able to write from my inner person. This is how you should blog.

Read Successful Blogs: If you want to be a millionaire, think like a millionaire. This is often the sayings. If you are starting a blog for motivation or law of attraction, it is very ideal that you know those who are successful in this area. You should be able to read blogs like Joe Vitale. You can not become successful without having to read the successful people. This will show you their style of writing and how money is being made from these blogs. If you are going to write on Blogging, you can also read bloggers like Jeremy’s Shoe Money and study their pattern of blogging.

Decide A Niche and Research It: Yea… This is basically where many get it wrong. Don’t just blog. Blog professionally. If you are blogging to make money, you must be able to research an area that is paying. If you have in mind to use your site for adsense monetization, then keyword must be considered. Your niche keyword will help you to have back link traffic as well as get a high pay keywords from adsense. If you are just going to sell your products on your site, it is also important that you have a niche keyword that is being searched for, less competitive as well as in demand.

There are various ways to research your keyword before you register your domain name. I will be discussing this in the next article. Keep reading and keep coming back.  In the mean time, let me have your comment and feed back. You can start with free ways from google tools including Adword Google Keyword tools Google Suggest Search Tool  and google Insight

All the above will help and give you a clear idea if a niche you want to start are being searched for, the number of times people are searching for such as well as similar sites already running such  niche.

Have a Business Plan: Your blogging business is a business. Never start a blogging business without setting goals for yourself. One thing I have also known from personal experience is that if you don’t have a written goal or even mental picture of where you are going, you will never move to anywhere. Have a goal for your blogging business. Have a plan on how you want to run it, what blog that already exist that you want to model, as well as what your earning goal will be in three months, six month and 12 months as well as  two years. Once you have this, you will also decide how much you are willing to commit in your blogging business, your personal effort as well as outsourcing if you do not have some skills such as setting up the blog and posting.  Don’t just write a business plan. but write a business plan that sells. You can easily master how to write a business plan from the article I recommend titled, How to write a business plan that sells your business.

Figure Out Money Making Programs You will add on your blog: Like it or not, many are going into blogging to make money. That’s ok, But its a great approach in a wrong way. while you are ready to make money, the mission of your blog is to give quality value and make money or get paid for your value in return. Once you start your blog and populate it with money making programs, I bet you will not go anyway long before you get frustrated. The best you should do is figure out and know all the money making programs you will add on your blog once it is up and running.

To achieve the above, use the adage that says small is beautiful. Do  not use a lot of links on your blog, especially affiliate links as it will obstruct and put your readers off. Also, with the recent implementation by google, your site may drop in terms of ranking once you have adds all over. Just a few should be ok. But you must figure out what type of ads you will have on your site and when you should start implementing the ads. I will be discussing in details program you should run on your blog as we progress.

In running ads on your blog, they must be related to your content or niche. Never start a blogging business on website traffic and add an advert about Forex trading as this is not normal. You must add adverts that are related to your content.

Start Blogging: In the next post, I will be discussing on how to get your blog running. I would implore you to book mark and always visit back this blog so you will not miss whatever update I am going to add here. Like my facebook fan page. Also, let me have your comment and contribution here.

Having successfully raised my other blogs; Start Your Own Business Magazine (My Magazine On Entrepreneurship) where I make money from passive income and back-link traffic and another one, Web Site Flipping School where I use in creating and selling(flipping websites) plus run my online website flipping school, I am starting a new project jere.

The new project is for me to write absolutely free every steps I have taken to to run my business online successfully. I will be concentrating more on the know how and step by step guide staring from now.

My mission is to actually show you how to start a successful blog and make money with it. When I started internet business, I was running it full time. But right now, I run it part time.

Aside the ebusiness, I also will be facing my offline publishing business as well as my book writing career as an Author.

I will be writing about all of the above plus my life experience and those of others.

Why am I staring this at this time? This is the best time to start as we approach end of year. It is my desire that at this time next year, you would have become successful in any area you will chose.

As we blog along, what I will need mostly from my readers and subscribers is your comments and contribution to any post. I would also appreciate that you ask questions and tell me areas you have challenges so that we can address them.

Welcome to a new blogging beginning.

Therefore, the fact that you have written quality article on your blog does not mean that you will have massive inflow of readers who would just start reading your article.

Once you have a great site and content, it is basic that you promote your blog post in order to bring readers who are ready to come back again and again to your blog.

Sites don’t make money on their own. There is work to be done. I started other sites of mine and had to work hard in bringing traffic along with post for it to bring results. Once you have created a site, you must figure out how to feed these high ranking Alexa sites with y0ur blog to have the maximum exposure. You should spend at least one hour per week in optimizing your website for traffic. This will certainly pay you off in a matter of months.

I have added high quality traffic sites that I use and I am very confident that when you use them, you will sure have great experience with your blog.

Online Tutorial websites: Are you blogging about tips, tutorials and how-to’s, these list would be great for you to add your blogs.
Good Tutorials : Add your tutorials here and get back-links to your site.

instructables.com: Write instructive how -to tutorials

Online Blogging Submission Platforms: This is where you post your blogs and have other bloggers who are looking for information interact with you. These are communities and its sure going to bring lots of traffic to your site.

BizSugar.com
BlogInteract.com
thewebblend.com
zabox.net
dzone.com
designfloat.com

Blog News : Here you will find motivational post, news, and all of that.

Siteflippingschool
hongkiat.com/blog
Speckyboy.com
wparena.com
webanddesigners.com
visual-blast.com
FuelYourCreativity.com
instantshift.com

Blog Directory You Should Submit your site

For building your blog that is visitor friendly, back link friendly as well as the ability to monetize and sell it, I will recommend that you visit and sign up at these directories to start seeing meaningful results.

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