Lost my motivation.

Money shouldn't be the priority at this stage, it will naturally come into place once you have a system in place. If you've already got some decent content on your blog, then that's a start.

Without seeing what you've done it's hard to say, but you may want to consider structuring a sales funnel. This will be the starting point and a way for you to attract people to you or your brand.

You could go the blogging only route via SEO and all, but it's a lot of work and results are not going to be instant. Where as... if you had a funnel, you could start using free and paid traffic sources, to bring people of interest into whatever is you're offering, and then from there re-introduce your content to your subscribers / followers.

Building authority is tough, but it comes in time, once you have structured a system in place. If you're just blogging and doing nothing else, then you're most likely either doing it out of passion, or failing to see the concept of this as a business model.

Just like any other business, there are a lot of things to figure out before you hit gold (with IM). Either you learn from your mistakes or you pay someone for results.

Since you've already worked on your blog for a few months, I'm guessing you already have learned a couple of things and trust me however demotivated you feel these learnings are going to help you in the long run.

Now coming back to why you are not making money - The answer is simple - YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET MORE TARGETED TRAFFIC! That's what it all boils down to for most IMers at the end of the day.

I'm sure you are not living with the idea that articles alone will bring bring you traffic, right? They won't. Articles, proper design, layout etc. are must have ingredients, but they alone won't bring you traffic.

You know what the biggest problem is with most who feel like quitting within a few months? They just come up with ideas (sometimes excellent ones) and they start building bogs and sites (means time and money spent) when they should actually be figuring out a traffic plan and then create blogs/sites around that.

Please don't give up. You already have your blog with you, so it's going to come handy. Start working on traffic. Read and understand the different paid ad platforms and also about organic traffic. It's bound to pay off in the near future.

Best of luck.

Well, clearly you can't get many subscribers if you can't get traffic. I understand that you're feeling dispirited about it, and am not trying to sound critical. But how can anyone help you if you won't say what your traffic-generation plan has been/is?

I'll be honest, here: I'm trying to work out whether you imagine that "publishing articles just on your own site" is actually going to bring you traffic. (It isn't: all that can ever bring you is a little bit of gradual, eventual search engine traffic, and it's really hard to build a list from that and really hard to monetize it, even if you do. So it's a terrible "plan". But I know that some people who post here do, apparently, expect that to bring them traffic, so am just trying to clarify it for you, in case you've misunderstood it.)

Maybe. But maybe you've just picked the wrong traffic-generation plan, or don't really have one at all, and that's how it sounds to me. (In which case it's pretty important to learn that, otherwise you may have exactly the same problem in another niche, too?).


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I agree with Jgant here. Perhaps it is time to look at paid advertising.

Sounds like you are depending on SEO and that my friend is a very slippery slope. Not only is traffic slow in coming but even if you do end up getting good traffic, it could all disappear within a day the moment Google changes its algorithms.