{"id":1154,"date":"2015-12-06T23:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mydiscover.in\/sms\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2015-12-06T23:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:17:43","slug":"make-money-blogging-20-lessons-going-from-0-to-100000-per-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/blog\/make-money-blogging-20-lessons-going-from-0-to-100000-per-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Money Blogging: 20 Lessons Going from 0 to $100,000 per Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know everyone thinks we\u2019re fools, right?<br \/>\nTo most of the world, blogging is a joke.<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t a career. It isn\u2019t a way to make money. It isn\u2019t a tool for changing the world.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a hobby, a diversion, a fad that\u2019ll come and go. Sure, you can start a blog, but don\u2019t count on it to take you anywhere. That\u2019s just silly.<br \/>\nTry telling your family or friends or coworkers you want to quit your job and make money blogging. They\u2019ll smile politely and ask, \u201cDoes anybody really make money from that?\u201d<br \/>\nYes, they want you to have dreams. Yes, they want you to chase them. Yes, they want you to succeed.<br \/>\nBut they also want you to be \u201crealistic.\u201d<br \/>\nIf you really want to improve your life, you should get an advanced degree, write a book, or even start your own business, not hang all your hopes and dreams on some stupid little blog. There\u2019s no money in it.<br \/>\nOr is there?<br \/>\nI\u2019m hesitant to say this, but\u2026<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-1962\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>This Blog Makes $100,000 per Month<\/h3>\n<p>In January and February, we cleared over $100,000 per month in sales. The verdict is still out on March, but if we didn\u2019t make it, we should be close enough.<br \/>\nHow?<br \/>\nWell, I\u2019ll tell you. Not because I want to brag (well, maybe a <i>little<\/i>), but because most of the advice out there about monetizing your blog is complete crap.<br \/>\nFor instance, do you see any ads on this site?<br \/>\nNo? How about e-books for sale?<br \/>\nNone of those either, huh? In fact, you might be hard-pressed to find anything for sale at all.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a reason why.<br \/>\nOver the past six years, I\u2019ve had the good fortune to work with some of the <a title=\"How to Be Smart in a World of Dumb Bloggers\" href=\"http:\/\/boostblogtraffic.com\/smart-blogger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smartest bloggers<\/a> on the planet. I worked with Brian Clark as he built Copyblogger to a multimillion dollar brand. Neil Patel and Hiten Shah also hired me to help them launch the KISSmetrics blog, and while they\u2019re not big on publishing revenue numbers, they did <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/07\/18\/hiten-shahs-stealthy-web-analytics-startup-space-pencil-raises-7m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently close a $7 million venture capital round<\/a>.<br \/>\nCombined, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if both blogs have earned more than $50 million. In comparison, the $100,000 per month I\u2019ve managed to generate is a pittance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jbox yellow\">\n<div class=\"jbox-content\"><strong>Want to know how much money you could be making from your blog?<\/strong>\u00a0Find out with our free\u00a0Blog Profit Calculator.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But everyone has to start somewhere, right? ?<br \/>\nThe reason this blog has made so much money so fast is I learned from the best, and then when I left, I kept learning. Every day, I crunch numbers, read books, talk to experts, and spend at least 30 minutes in silence, staring into the distance, doing nothing but thinking.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s paid off. If you\u2019ll take some of these lessons to heart, it\u2019ll pay off for you too.<br \/>\nBecause here\u2019s the thing:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1348\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/8-reasons-business-professional-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1348\" src=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Web-Development-to-Increase-Online-Sales.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Development-to-Increase-Online-Sales\" width=\"471\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/8-reasons-business-professional-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here and see how to make money online <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>You\u2019re Not a Fool. You <em>Can<\/em> Make Money Blogging.<\/h3>\n<p>So, you want to make a living teaching other people what you know? Nothing wrong with that.<br \/>\nProfessors do it. So do public speakers and best-selling authors.<br \/>\nHell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plunkettresearch.com\/consulting-market-research\/industry-and-business-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consulting is a $415 <i>billion <\/i>industry<\/a>, and what are all those consultants doing?<br \/>\nGetting paid to teach.<br \/>\nBlogging is no different. It\u2019s just the same old models with some rocket fuel thrown in, courtesy of social media.<br \/>\nIn fact, we might as well call that the first lesson:<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #1: You\u2019re Not Just a Blogger<\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019re an expert, a teacher, a mentor, maybe even an entrepreneur. Your blog is simply a launchpad for all those things.<br \/>\nLook around, and you\u2019ll find nearly all \u201cbloggers\u201d who make a decent income have books, courses, a side career as a keynote speaker, or even software. That\u2019s how they make money. Their blog is just the \u201cfreebie\u201d they give away to attract customers or clients.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #2: Don\u2019t Sell Advertising<\/h3>\n<p>Selling ads is attractive, because it\u2019s passive income, but you can usually make 3-10X more money using the same \u201cad space\u201d to sell your own products and services or even promote an affiliate product.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartpassiveincome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Flynn<\/a>, for example, makes about $50,000 a month in commissions from promoting Bluehost.<br \/>\nHere at BBT, we mostly promote our own products, but we\u2019re also in the process of creating affiliate sales funnels for LeadPages and Stablehost, both of which offer hefty commissions (and are great products too!)<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #3: <a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build <\/a>the Funnel in Reverse<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019ve all experienced sales funnels.<br \/>\nA company entices you with a freebie, then they offer you something cheap but irresistible, and then they gradually sweet talk you into buying more and more expensive stuff. It\u2019s a tried and true marketing tactic, and you should absolutely build a sales funnel for your blog.<br \/>\nWhat you might not know is you should build it in <i>reverse<\/i>.<br \/>\nA lot of bloggers launch a cheap e-book as their first product, and then they get frustrated when they don\u2019t make much money. Here\u2019s why: the real profit is at the end of the funnel, not the beginning.<br \/>\nSelling e-books is fine and dandy if you have half a dozen more expensive products to offer your customer afterwards, but it\u2019s downright silly if you don\u2019t. You\u2019re much better off creating and selling the expensive product first, and then gradually create cheaper and cheaper products.<br \/>\nWhen you do have some less expensive products to sell, you can offer those to new people first, safe in the knowledge that you have something more profitable up your sleeve to sell them later.<br \/>\nHere at BBT, our products cost $9,997, $997, and $591. We\u2019re working our way down the funnel in reverse, releasing the most expensive products first and then gradually getting cheaper and cheaper. It\u2019s been much, much more profitable this way.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #4: There\u2019s No Such Thing As a \u201cCheap\u201d Market<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBut Jon,\u201d I can hear you spluttering. \u201cI can\u2019t sell a $10,000 product! My customers don\u2019t have that much money.\u201d<br \/>\nMy response: you\u2019re 98% right. Unless you\u2019re selling exclusively to multimillionaires, the vast majority of your customer base won\u2019t be able to afford premium products, but what\u2019s interesting is<i>it doesn\u2019t matter<\/i>. Often times, you can make <i>more<\/i> money selling to the 2% than you can to the entire 98% combined.<br \/>\nFor instance, our $10,000 product is a year-long coaching program for writers \u2013 a group that\u2019s not exactly known for their wealth, but I always fill all 10 spots within <i>minutes <\/i>of opening the program. Here\u2019s why: I notify 40,000 writers about it. 2% of 40,000 is 800 people who might possibly buy a product in that price range. By only accepting 10, I\u2019m creating a situation of extreme scarcity.<br \/>\nYou can do the same thing, even if your list is much smaller. If you have 100 subscribers, chances are two of them might be willing to buy premium products or services from you, and those two will often pay you more money than the other 98 combined.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #5: <a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By Charging Premium Prices, You Can Offer Premium Service<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Feel guilty about charging that much money? You shouldn\u2019t.<br \/>\nBy charging premium prices, you can offer premium service, doing everything possible to help your customers get results. For example, with my coaching program, I get on the phone with students every week, review their homework, answer their questions, look at their blog, and guide them through every step of the process.<br \/>\nCould I put that same information in a $7 e-book? Sure, but I couldn\u2019t give anyone one-on-one help at that price, and that\u2019s what people who buy premium products and services are paying for.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #6: Deliberately Delay the Sale<\/h3>\n<p>Another big shift in thinking: rather than trying to push everyone to buy your products upfront, smart bloggers delay the sale.<br \/>\nI first heard this idea from Rand Fishkin over at Moz. They offer their blog readers a free trial to their Analytics and SEO software, but after studying the behavior of their customers, they noticed something interesting: people who read several blog posts before signing up for a free trial stayed customers for two or three times longer than people who didn\u2019t.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve noticed the same thing with our customers. Instead of immediately clobbering readers with sales pitches, it\u2019s much better to give them some content first and build trust before you begin talking about your products and services. Yes, you\u2019ll make less money in the short term, but the long-term profits go through the roof.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #7: You Are the Bottleneck<\/h3>\n<p>Without a doubt, time is our biggest problem as bloggers. Not only are we expected to publish a continuous stream of content on our blogs, but we also have to deal with technical issues, read books and articles about our field, create new products to sell, answer questions from readers\u2026 the list goes on and on. The further into it you go, the more clear it becomes that <i>you can\u2019t do everything<\/i>.<br \/>\nSo, what\u2019s the answer?<br \/>\nBelieve it or not, I found answers from studying manufacturing processes. If one machine is working slower than others in a plant, it can literally cost the company tens of thousands of dollars per hour. To make sure it never happens, smart plant managers are willing to spend <i>any <\/i>amount of money to eliminate bottlenecks. They have an <i>unlimited <\/i>budget, because the cost of eliminating the bottleneck never comes anywhere close to the cost of the bottleneck itself.<br \/>\nThe same is true for us, except the solutions are often different. Instead of buying a new machine, for example, we might purchase a new type of software that automates some of our business, or we might hire a virtual assistant or programmer. It can be expensive, yes, but it\u2019s worthwhile if it saves you enough time, because then you can dedicate that time to higher value activities.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #8: Measure The Value of Everything You Do<\/h3>\n<p>What are those higher value activities, exactly?<br \/>\nWell, it depends on your goal. If your goal is to increase traffic, for example, start measuring the visitors per hour invested. Let\u2019s say you invest three hours in writing a post, and it brings you 100 visitors, and you invest five hours in writing a guest post that brings you 500 visitors. The first activity has an hourly rate of 33 visitors per hour. The second activity has an hourly rate of 100 visitors per hour. <a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/send-your-post\/\">Guest posting<\/a>, therefore, is a better use of your time than writing content on your own blog.<br \/>\nGranted, it\u2019s a short-term perspective, not taking into account long-term gains, but it\u2019s still extremely useful to start measuring your time this way. Not just for traffic, but also for subscriber growth and revenue.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #9: In the Beginning, Creating Content for Your Own Blog Is Silly<\/h3>\n<p>I tried to sneak this one under lesson #8, but I think it\u2019s important enough to get its own number, even if it does get me labeled a heretic and burned at the stake. Because here\u2019s the deal:<br \/>\nIn the beginning, your blog is like an empty classroom. Standing in front and giving a lecture is silly, because sure, it might make you feel important, but there\u2019s <i>nobody listening<\/i>. You\u2019re all alone, and you can come up with the smartest, most entertaining lecture in the history of mankind, but it won\u2019t matter, because no one else heard it.<br \/>\nWhen you first start out, writing content for your own blog is one of the <i>least<\/i> efficient ways of building your audience. You\u2019re far better off serving a little time as a \u201cguest lecturer\u201d first. In other words, <a title=\"Why You Suck at Guest Blogging (and What The Pros Do Differently)\" href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/send-your-post\/\">write guest posts<\/a> for someone else\u2019s audience, impress the hell out of them, and siphon off a portion of their readership for your own.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what we did here at BBT, and it resulted in the <i>most successful blog launch in history<\/i>: 13,000 email subscribers in 60 days, before I even wrote a single blog post. We had nothing but a coming soon page and an invitation to join our email list. Sounds strange, but I can promise you it\u2019s vastly more efficient.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to wait until you get to 13,000 subscribers to start, but I\u2019d advise accumulating at least a few hundred. That way, you have an audience to share your content when you start publishing posts.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #10<a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%82-facebook-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a5%87-7-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">: Don\u2019t Waste Time on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s another shocker: you know your dream of building up a huge following on Facebook or Twitter and then using it to promote your blog? Well, it\u2019s a dumb idea. Out of everything we\u2019ve tested, building our own social media accounts produced the <i>lowest <\/i>visitor per hour figure. In other words, it\u2019s quite possibly the <i>worst <\/i>way you can spend your time.<br \/>\nDoes that mean having followers in those places is useless?<br \/>\nNo. Facebook is nice because you can advertise to your followers. Google+ can help boost your search engine rankings. Even with those benefits though, it shouldn\u2019t be near the top of your list for things to do. In my opinion, you shouldn\u2019t think about them at all until you hit 10,000 subscribers, and then outsource the management of them to someone else. You can use your time more efficiently in other places, such as:<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #11: Webinars Kick Butt<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been on our list for long, you know that we do a lot of webinars. Here\u2019s why: on average, each webinar generates $40,000 per hour invested. It\u2019s by far the most profitable thing I do. Nothing else even comes close. If you\u2019re wondering how on earth we make that much money, all you have to do is attend one of our webinars to find out. Everything we do is on display, and you can study it, free of charge.<br \/>\nInterestingly, webinars are also the most effective way to build our subscriber base. When doing webinars for other people, we average 500 new email subscribers per hour invested. It\u2019s not uncommon to gain 1,000-2,000 email subscribers from a single webinar. If we\u2019re promoting a product, we usually make at least $10,000 too.<br \/>\nTranslation: webinars kick butt.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #12: Longer Content Gets More Traffic<\/h3>\n<p>You know what else works? Long content.<br \/>\nIt might seem strange, but on average, longer content gets much more traffic than shorter content. Not just for us, but for our students too, regardless of the niche, and here\u2019s a post where SEO expert Neil Patel came to the same conclusion. The sweet spot seems to be about 2,000\u20133,000 words per post. That\u2019s why posts here on BBT are much longer than your average blog.<br \/>\nGranted, content of that length also takes longer to produce, but if you measure the visitors per hour invested, longer content still wins by a mile. Assuming you\u2019re promoting it, of course.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/advertising-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesson #13: Promote The Crap Out of Your Content<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The problem is almost no one promotes their content enough. And by \u201cpromotion,\u201d I\u2019m not talking about sharing your own posts on Twitter and Facebook. I\u2019m talking about blogger outreach\u2013 the process of building relationships with influencers and asking them to share your work.<br \/>\nAt a minimum, you should spend just as much time on outreach as you do creating your own content. So, if you\u2019re spending 10 hours a week writing blog posts, you should be spending 10 hours a week on outreach too.<br \/>\nCan\u2019t do that? Then scale back how much content you\u2019re creating. Spend five hours on writing blog posts and five hours on outreach. You\u2019ll get better results.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #14: Ignore SEO for the First Year<\/h3>\n<p>Let\u2019s get one thing straight: I\u2019m not against SEO. Far from it. We now get tons of traffic from Google. I just think most bloggers focus on it way too early.<br \/>\nAgain, it all comes down to time. When your blog is new, the most efficient uses of your time fall into three broad categories: building relationships with influencers (including guest blogging), creating content worth linking to, and selling your products and services. If you do those three things well, not only will your blog gain traffic and prominence, but you\u2019ll also start getting search traffic without doing anything.<br \/>\nAnd then you can focus on other things that matter more, such as\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #15: Your Email List Is More Important Than Anything Else<\/h3>\n<p>In analytics, there is a principle called \u201cthe one metric that matters\u201d (OMTM). The idea is that you find a single number that accurately predicts the success or failure of your project.<br \/>\nIn the case of blogging, that number is the size of your email list. (Not RSS, mind you \u2013 it\u2019s dying a slow but certain death.) In my experience, your email list is the most accurate predictor of how much money you\u2019ll make.<br \/>\nHere at BBT, we make about three dollars per subscriber per month \u2013 an impressive feat, due mostly to our skill with marketing. The number isn\u2019t important, though. The point is that I can accurately predict our sales based on the number of subscribers. So can you.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re new to this, I would strive for one dollar per subscriber per month in sales. In other words, an email list of 1,000 subscribers should result in at least $1,000 per month in sales, 10,000 subscribers would result in $10,000 per month in sales, and so on.<br \/>\nThe more subscribers you get, the more money you make. Granted, your relationship with your subscribers and the quality of your products or services and dozens of other factors still matter, but to drive revenue, focus on email list growth. To make money blogging, it\u2019s absolutely essential.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jbox yellow\">\n<div class=\"jbox-content\">Find out how much money your blog could be making \u2013 and how quickly you could grow your email list \u2013 with our free Blog Profit Calculator.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Lesson #16:<a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/advertising-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Start Selling from Day One<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>How long should you wait before you begin selling? 1,000 subscribers? 10,000 subscribers? More?<br \/>\nNope. Start selling from day one. Here\u2019s why:<br \/>\nOne of the biggest factors affecting the speed of your growth is who you can hire to help you. Because you\u2019re the bottleneck, remember? So you want to hire a virtual assistant and someone to handle all of the technical details as soon as you possibly can, but of course, that requires money. Hence the need to start selling immediately.<br \/>\nNow, a caveat: don\u2019t turn your blog into a gigantic sales pitch. Nobody likes that. You should, however, be offering something your audience wants and needs. Don\u2019t push them on it, but do make it available, and do remind them from time to time that they can purchase it.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #17: Your Product Ideas Suck<\/h3>\n<p>You probably have all kinds of ideas for things you can sell, right? E-books, courses, maybe an iPhone app? Or a service?<br \/>\nWell, here\u2019s the bad news:<br \/>\nMore than likely, your ideas for products suck. The good news is you\u2019re not alone in this position. Everyone\u2019s ideas for products suck, including mine. Here\u2019s why:<br \/>\nWe all tend to create products we can see people need, <i>but they\u2019re not aware of it yet<\/i>. We think if we show them the magnitude of their problem we can convince them to buy our product or service to solve it.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re Steve Jobs, you can do that, but I have more bad news for you: you\u2019re not Steve Jobs. You\u2019re a beginning marketer, and as a beginner, you should only be selling products that solve problems your customer already knows they have. If you have to convince them the problem exists, you\u2019ve already lost the battle.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #18: <a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.in\/home\/marketing-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surveys Are Dangerous<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>So, how do you find what problems exist in the mind of your customer? Traditionally, the answer is a survey, but I\u2019ll warn you: surveys are dangerous. Ask the wrong question, and you\u2019ll get an extremely misleading answer. Use that answer to guide your venture, and you can waste years of your life, not to mention possibly going bankrupt.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re a beginner, I recommend asking one and only one question: \u201cwhat\u2019s your biggest frustration with &lt;topic&gt; right now?\u201d So, in my case, it would be \u201cwhat\u2019s your biggest frustration with blogging right now?\u201d That\u2019s it. Nothing more. Look for patterns in the answers you receive, and you\u2019ll learn a ton about what products or services you need to create.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #19: Start with Services, Then Expand into Products<\/h3>\n<p>Once you find a common problem, start offering a service where you solve the problem for your audience. The reason is simple: you can start offering the service immediately. You don\u2019t have to create a product first. You\u2019ll also learn more about the problem as you attempt to solve it yourself.<br \/>\nWhen I started, for example, I worked as a blog traffic specialist. I was contracted with a few different advertising agencies, and every time they wanted to increase the traffic for a client\u2019s blog, they called me. I didn\u2019t just advise them. I did the work myself, redesigning the site, creating the content, everything.<br \/>\nIt taught me a ton about what worked and what didn\u2019t. It was also immediate revenue. The first month I offered my services, I made something like $5,000.<br \/>\nAfter working for more than a year as a traffic specialist, I felt I really understood the problem and how to solve it, so I created my first product: a course located at <a href=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/send-your-post\/\">guestblogging.com<\/a>. The first month, it generated something like $30,000 in sales, and now it brings in more than $250,000 per year.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a wonderful product, but here\u2019s the thing: I don\u2019t think I could\u2019ve created it if I hadn\u2019t worked as a service provider first. I wouldn\u2019t have had the knowledge or the money. Keep that in mind when you\u2019re deciding what to offer first.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kuchtabanu.blogspot.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1157\" src=\"http:\/\/mydiscover.net.in\/sms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/making-money-banner.png\" alt=\"making-money-banner\" width=\"570\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kuchtabanu.blogspot.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see topic make money online<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Lesson #20: Teach Others What You Learned<\/h3>\n<p>Now, we come to the reason for this post.<br \/>\nWhy on earth would the CEO of the company (me) work for hours to write a post like this, sharing all our secrets? It\u2019s closing in on 4,000 words, for God sakes!<br \/>\nSimple:<br \/>\nIt\u2019s my responsibility. If people are ever going to respect blogging as a legitimate business model, those of us who are successful have to speak up and share what we\u2019ve learned. None of us works in a vacuum. The only way we can advance our field as a whole is to collectively share what we\u2019ve learned.<br \/>\nAnd it <i>is<\/i> a field. There are thousands of people around the world making a living from blogging. The problem is, there\u2019s not a repository, a central community where we can all talk and learn from each other. Over the next few months, that\u2019s something we\u2019re going to change.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, could you do me a favor?<br \/>\nShare this post. Not just so it\u2019ll get me traffic, but so other people can see that you really can earn a legitimate income from blogging. Maybe reading this will even help them do it.<br \/>\nAfter all, isn\u2019t that what we\u2019re here to do? Help people?<br \/>\nIn the end, that\u2019s what I love most about blogging: every article we publish, every course we create, every coaching call we do can change somebody\u2019s life. Maybe not always in a big way, but we touch thousands upon thousands of people, and we make their lives just a little bit better. We inform them, we inspire them, we give them the roadmap for achieving their dreams.<br \/>\nAnd the best part?<br \/>\nWe get <i>paid<\/i> for it. It\u2019s our <i>job<\/i>.<br \/>\nI just wish more people knew it was a viable career. 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