Sell Products

Have you noticed this trend in blogging? Quite a few of the top bloggers don't sell anything on their blog. That's right -- no banner ads, no pitches on the bottom of posts, no page full of affiliate products. The blog is nothing but useful information and resources. Take a look at Derek Halpern's Social Triggers, for example.

One of the five common business models that most successful bloggers use to earn their revenue is selling a product. If you have your own products to sell, or are primarily dedicated to selling others’ products via affiliate marketing, then using a mom blog to drive sales is very effective. Blogs naturally do well in …

Deep down, you know it’s true. Creating a product is a natural next step for you as a blogger. (It’s your best chance of making some real money from your blog too.) But building a product is scary. Not just because it means putting yourself out there for the world to judge – though that can be pretty terrifying. No, it’s scary because of all the things that can go wrong.

A few weeks ago I wrote an article here titled How to make a full-time income by adding a storefront to your blog. From choosing the right product to choosing an ecommerce platform and marketing your products to selling it to masses, it covers almost everything you need to know while getting started to selling products on your blog. I strongly suggest you to read it first especially if you’ve never been to selling products on your blog.

Here's how a simple and quick way to add a store to a Blogger site. Choose between selling individual items on a post to adding an online store.

Welcome our ‘Creating and Selling Products’ Week – a week of content here on ProBlogger completely dedicated to helping you to create and launch profitable products on your blog.

I love content marketing. Really, I do. I adore giving my readers tips, tools and advice. Building relationships with them. But will your readers jump ship if you try to sell to them? Selling your readers things they need and want will not send them away. Not if you make your offers in the right place and at the right time.

I remember how excited I felt when it was time to create an information product. The problem is, there were so many different options to deliver value.

When I was 19 years old, I spent a lot of time online communicating with other people in bulletin boards and newsgroups. This was back in 1999, before blogs, Facebook, Google, or any kind of social media. My passion was a card game called Magic: The Gathering. The Internet had become a place where people who played the game competitively would chat for hours in forums, chat rooms, and newsgroups, swapping advice regarding which cards were the best to win tournaments.