Blog Strategy Workbook
Resources
Find resources to help you implement the various strategies listed in the Blog Strategy Workbook:
- Free tutorials
- eBooks
- Online Courses
- Useful tools and softwares
NOTE:
Although free resources can be a good place to start, I think a quality eBook or course can help you save a lot of time by giving you a step-by-step and a support community.
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Monetization Strategies
METHOD 1 - Affiliate Marketing
Free resources
- Beginners guide to affiliate marketing - read
- An in-depth guide about Affiliate Marketing
- The 3 questions to consider when your affiliate links are not converting
- Finding the affiliate marketing sweetspot - read article
Course + eBooks
- A classic: Beginner course for affiliate marketing. It works for every niche you might be in. And it includes how to use Pinterest for affiliate marketing
Great tools
- Affilimate - to view all your affiliate marketing revenue in one place and improve conversion - Check out all it offers
Affiliate marketing platforms
Some programs have their own platforms e.g. Amazon, Booking... other uses platforms such as
- Shareasale
- CJ
- Impact
- and many many others...
METHOD 2 - Infoproduct
Free resources
- Introduction article about creating an eBook - read
Course + eBooks
Creation Tools
- For simple PDF eBooks, you can create in Word or PPT and export as PDF
- For a better design, you can create it using Adobe InDesign - It also allows you to create fillable PDF document for your workbook. I am in love with it!
- If you want to create an eBook that works with different formats, consider Blurb
Sales Tools
- I personally use the eCommerce Tool Sendowl - The platform is very easy to use, and everything is managed promptly - see options
- For creating online courses, my preference goes to Teachable
METHOD 3 - Advertisement
- Before you go this way, please consider this article from Smart Blogger about the drawbacks of ads on your blog
- How to make money with advertising - read
- The blog press as an introductory article on How to get advertisers for your blog
METHOD 4 - Sponsoring
- Under the influence has a Short step-by-step Guide to pitching brands
- Allison Boyer has an interesting article about rates for sponsored posts
- Food blogger central share how to manage sponsored posts
- The Travel Blogger professional association has a study of how much travel bloggers charge
METHOD 5 - Membership
- Become a blogger tells you a bit more about the process with onboarding and retention
- Carrie Dils goes into the technical behind the scene of making a membership site
- Colorlib list examples of platforms you can use for your membership site
METHOD 6 - Services
Free resources
- Introduction to selling services on a blog - read
Tools
- I personally use the eCommerce Tool Sendowl - The platform is very easy to use, and everything is managed promptly - see options
METHOD 7 - Licensing
- SLR photography Guide has a Good Introduction to Selling Stock Photography
- Digital Photography School has an article to help you stand out and actually sell on those sites
- SmugMug is a great platform to store your photos and manage commercial licenses (you set up your price and the system handles everything + you can set up for prints at the same time (see the product section)
So many software for which you can create templates. Here are resources for a few:
- Here is how you can sell templates on the popular Canva Design tool
- Creative Market has examples of things being sold on their website
- Indesign templates can be sold on many websites
METHOD 8 - Communities / Mastermind
- Live Your Legend has a Free workbook about Creating a mastermind group
- Chris Ducker explains how to run your first Mastermind session
A challenge would have more activities and daily recommendations and less group interaction.
METHOD 9 - Events
- Good introduction article and a free blueprint PDF document for subscribers on how to create virtual summits
- Online course on the subject: the Virtual Summit School
- In the world of thousands of webinars, eventbuilder reminds you on how to differentiate yourself
- Suitcase Entrepreneur goes through different options and steps to run webinar.
METHOD 10 - Physical products
Free resources
Great tools
- CreativaFabrica to find designs with print on demand licenses - see the millions of designs
METHOD 11 - Donation / Patreon
Free resources
Great tools
METHOD 12 - Sell website
Traffic Strategies
METHOD 1 - SEO
Free content
- For beginners - check out Moz complete guide
- For intermediate SEO learners - check out Backlinko
eBook and online course
- Make traffic happen eBooks to start and revive your content
- Easy on page SEO
- Once you master the basics, check out the course SEO Blue Print (careful, there are fake ones with the same name)
Tools
- Keysearch is a great beginner option for keyword research An intuitive tools that will help you save hours. See features
METHOD 2 - Social Media
- Course - Pinterest Traffic Avalanche
- Facebook -
- Instagram -
- TikTok -
METHOD 3 - Community
- The complete guide to facebook groups - read
METHOD 4 - Forums
- How to build traffic through forums - read
METHOD 5 - Ads
METHOD 6 - Newsletter
Free resources
- email list building challenge - sign up
Tools
- Everyone has its own opinion about which email marketing service to use... I use Aweber and have been satisfied so far.
METHOD 7 - Real Life Networking
- How to netwrok at blog confereneces - read
METHOD 8 - Public Relations
- Basics of PR - read
Content Strategies
Time Management Strategies
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