The main subject my clients want more information on is ~
“What will be my ROI as a successful blogger?”
Interpretation ~ “How do you make money as a successful blogger?”
- They want to know how to measure their return on investment (ROI). Investment of time and money!
As you may have noticed…
Most bloggers want to become a successful blogger.
- Whatever interpretation success is for them.
A word of advice when you’re blogging as a business…
You want to know your ROI ~
- Your blog is an online asset, and leveraging that asset can build cash flow now, and long-term value in your future.
Bear with me here…
And ask yourself this: If you were a successful blogger, how would you know it?
Money isn’t always a measure of success.
The trick?
Use metrics and monitoring…
Tracking Your Influence
Think for a moment about what that means.
Blogging Stats, Facts & Insights for a Successful Blogger
Regardless of how much money and/or time you invest in blogging, it’s important to see how well you’re doing on a regular basis.
Keys to what this means to you?
Key #1 Monitoring the front‐end metrics includes traffic and page views.
Targeting the keywords your ideal audience are searching for online will bring you more traffic and page views.
- By generating content about your keyword phrases you’ll be able to more easily create highly relevant blog posts that rank high on the search engine results page – helping your get found by your audience that is looking for what you’re writing about.
- Now your audience knows what to expect from you and you have a voice that fits with the value that you want to offer.
Sources That Grow Your ROI
‘Content is King’ and the fuel that feeds your blogging machine.
I must let you in on a little secret…
Blogging really is a quantity game.
When you consistently generate brief and valuable posts, you’ll do more for your blog stats than periodically generating a long, carefully crafted post.
Key #2 Keeping an eye on the back‐end metrics ~
Optins to your list and revenue generated can be a quick and daily routine. This information is in my AWeber stats.
- Because without optins to build your email marketing list?
It means you’re creating a business without contacts.
Just a reminder:
Your free offer, is your optin giveaway, is a key to drawing site visitors into learning about and getting more from you. As they ‘optin’ by giving you their email and name in exchange for your free offer. And, that’s building your email list.
Your email list is your one of your blog’s biggest assets!
- That means research what your most effective free gift for building an opt-in list would be.
Think about how you’ll hook them into taking a bite of your information and wanting more of your expertise delivered to them – like free education and offers.
And best of all…
You’re paying attention to what you have to offer to your audience. Because of the research you’ve done in finding out what they really want that you have to offer.
- The more you understand your audience and your own solution for their pain points and desires,the better your content will start becoming.
The most important part of email list building is you’re giving something that almost hurts you to give away in return for their email address. Now I’m not saying give it all away – just a taste of your expertise ~ Want to know more about “Your Irresistible Optin Offer?” <<< Click the words and learn how.
Your Goal as a successful blogger:
“As [a blogger], I have the ability to actually motivate and activate people who read my publication, and vice-versa.” – Greg Narain
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Right now for me it’s about connecting with my audience and trying to provide helpful information that they can actually use!
And that’s what ROI is about – right? Writing for your audience so that they come to your site and build your traffic – great comment, Robin – thank you
These are some great pointers. When I first started out I wish I would have read this! It would have helped a lot! Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks so much for your comment, Jeanette – so glad to hear that 🙂
I am still working on knowing my audience and what draws them in. Thanks for sharing the tips and tricks.
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Those are some great tips. I really need to start building my email list so I just might do a giveaway.
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This is a great post. I was just talking about ROI with a company last week. Thanks for sharing.
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That’s interesting, Christi – Thank you for your comment – I’d love to hear why you were talking about ROI and what your conversation was!
I don’t have an email list so maybe I should work on that. Thanks for these great tips once again.
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Yeah I continually try to build my email list. From this post, it looks like I’m heading in the right direction.
This is such great information. I will have to share this with my sister. She is just starting out with her blog.
I definitely keep track of my stats–page views etc on an almost daily basis. I am pretty sure I know what what of my readers want and I do try to give them what they want and it is not information! Meanwhile I continue to do my book reviews which makes me and the rest of my readers happy (I hope).
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Thanks for these tips. I really need to start focusing on this instead of planning to focus on it.
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I’m working on making a good connection with my audience. I want to make sure I’m posting what people actually want to read. For the most part I think I am, but my focus is just doing what I can to succeed witout compromising who I am and what I set out to do!
Excellent tips! I have actually been working on implementing a couple of these just recently! I’m excited to see my page grow!
Thank you for actually defining ROI in the first paragraph. All these years, I never knew what it meant and I never got around to looking it up! I appreciate your tips!
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Thank you for your comment, Nikki – and glad I could be of help and you enjoyed my tips!
I totally would love to be successful in my blogging career though it seems like I never have that extra time to work on it. This is a really great post.
I had to learn the ‘quantity’ game the hard way. You make a lot of great points, from my personal experience it was tough for me in the beginning of blogging as there is a lot of misinformation out there and then you begin to be unsure of who you should take advice from, hence the hard lesson learned!
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Thank you, Nicole – so nice to ‘see’ you here – and I’ve been blessed with great coaches from the start – it was just me needing to get out of my own way – lol 🙂
This is a great article! Many times when I hear someone wants to blog to make money they never really sit down and calculate how they will achieve this and seem to forget everything doesn’t happen overnight. Your current investment will pay off in the future, be it time or money either way so long as you persevere you will succeed.
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Thank you for these tips! As a blogger I know how invaluable this information is .
Thank you for your comment and I am glad that you saw this as valuable information for a blogger 🙂
I’ve been wanting to put together an email list. All I have right now is a feed of my blog posts going out.
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Success is definitely defined differently by each blogger but I am thankful for the tips in this post. I know personally my definition of successful as a blogger is changing every time I pass my goal.
Thank you, Miranda – great observation and I appreciate that
I’ve been tracking my traffic and page views and there was a time that one of my posts actually got more than a thousand page views over night. I know it wasn’t that much yet compared to others, but I was over the moon. 🙂
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I am a new blogger, so I am not 100% confident about how to make money for my blog. Such great tips for me as a newbie blogger.
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Great tips as always!! I will definitely use some of these as I grow my blog!!
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who doesn’t want to make money blogging? i mean any blogger out there does. it takes so much hard work, not just anyone can do it. i love blogging and it is paying
off more and more everyday.
I want to connect with my readers and form personal relationships. I want to give people a place that’s their go to place for everything thrifty.
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These are some great tips! I really enjoy blogging and connecting with my audience over topics we both love!
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Thank you Carly – I’m happy for your comment and that you got something out of my post 🙂
These are excellent tips. I am currently working to increase my readership. I really need to work on my SEO too.
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Thank you, Christy – glad you like these tips 🙂
I track my views often. It is reader interaction that I need to focus on more.
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Good to know, Cia – thank you for your comment – when we know the words that will pull our readers in, like copywriting in our blogging, I think we often get more interaction – you might want to search my site for copywriting 🙂
This is awesome information for any blogger. It is important to know what your readers are wanting. Research is so important to your blog for your views. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I’m glad to have found you on GYB. I’m working on this now and every tip helps.
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You are welcome, Robin – and that’s fabulous to hear – hoping to see you back soon – thanks for your comm net 🙂