If you are considering working from home, blogging is one of the easiest ways to get into the online money making industry.
If you are an expert in a particular field, you publish valuable tips that can help other folks in the same field.
Over time they will continue to read your blog, subscribe to your content, like you, and see you as an expert in your field.
Only when you have many readers (in thousands) can you monetise the blog and cash in.
There are so many blogs out there created primarily for the purpose of making money.
Bear in mind that creating valuable content is the most important factor you must consider when developing a blog for readers.
Blogging is not an easy task, you need to be focused, so it is best advised to choose a niche you have passion about and you must publish content from time to time, The readers will expect you as the blogger to publish content at least once every week, and if you want them to come back to your blog you must provide valuable information that shows your expertise in your field, and worth their time to come back for more.
It is not ideal to blog about everything, well, unless you are a superstar.
You need to focus on a topic, niche based, so that only the tight group of people that have similar interest will read your blog.
You also have to allow readers to post comments and ask questions in order to create a sense of community.
People like to interact with those that are similar to them, and niche focused blog makes this kind of interaction possible.
Once your readership has grown to a large number then you can then monetise the blog.
You can sell products as an affiliate, or you can sell advertising spaces on your blog.
Down the line you may want to create your own information product that you can sell to the members of your blog.
If they like what they read on your blog for free, they will surely buy your information product.
It is very hard to stay motivated in the beginning when you don't have any reader, but you still need to keep publishing your content, and submitting it to the blogosphere so that others can find you.
It takes time to have enough readers but if you keep providing valuable contents, and you follow all the steps I outlined on my website, you will surely have many readers within 6 months.
The key thing is to never give up, one day you will look back and remember how hard it was in the beginning.