The Cow Factor - Making Money Online Successfully

The deciding factor of blogging success comes down to one question…

Am I focusing on the milk or the cow?

I apologize for the JohnCow style reference but your readers, the bearers of milk, are very much your cash cow and it’s very hard work to start the milking process. In order to milk your audience (sorry people this is getting graphic) you must first have an established herd. So just how do you do that?

Provide a Product and/or Service

To establish an audience AND make money online from them you must do one of two very basic things; provide a product or provide a service. A service, for example, is bloggercamp.com. I blog for bloggers(new and old) on a variety of topics to help get them started or, at the very least, rolling in the right direction. A product is something like a book, a gadget you’ve invented, or otherwise. In some small cases a product can also be your service(wordpress themes come to mind).

In order to make money online with a product or service you must have certain value assigned to your inventory. I personally put value in a majority of the helpful articles(inventory) that I write from time to time. Individually an article may not be worth much more than a penny(or less) to anyone but I am providing a free service and increasing my value through a collection several of my articles. Take that $0.01 for each article and multiply it for each person that visits each of those articles and you can easily see that milk money can be made here. In this case the real trick is for you to consistently provide valuable content and to keep that content rolling.

Your Readers Comes First

Ideally if you have a happy audience then you have a happy pocket. If you focus on the pocket your audience might just dissappear. In other words; if you are too busy focusing on the results of blogging(your milking money) your failure rate will undoubtedly increase. Unless your only motivational factor is to collect money, and lots of it… you just might succeed if that’s the case. Unfortunately, in this case, to collect some milk money you might just have to get a job on a farm.

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