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Setting Up Monitized Blogs Still a Viable and Sound Business Model?

by derh
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I'm looking to get back into online marketing and I wondering if setting up and promoting blogs are still a strong biz strategy.

If not what is.

And finally is Wordpress still the standard when setting up blogs?

And who is a good choice for hosting sites these days?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    One of the best models, yes.

    1. Sub-Niche
    2. Wordpress Blog
    3. Articles (giving solutions).
    4. Montize Articles with Affiliate Links
    5. Build list (popup + opt-in form on pages)
    6. Targeted traffic.
    7. Rinse, repeat.

    Get good at this, you'll be seeing 2 to 3 figures daily from even the new affiliate sites.

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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Originally Posted by derh View Post

    I'm looking to get back into online marketing and I wondering if setting up and promoting blogs are still a strong biz strategy.

    If not what is.

    And finally is Wordpress still the standard when setting up blogs?

    And who is a good choice for hosting sites these days?
    Yes, it definitely still is. but compared to 6 or 7 years ago you need to really separate yourself and bring something to the table that is original.

    And yes, WP is still the gold standard, for me at least



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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Absolutely not. Setting up blogs and promoting those blogs was a loophole sort of strategy that was shut down a while back.

      Now that being said, business blogging, is bigger now than it ever has been. Blogging, especially when you are suing WordPress as a content management system is one of the best ways ever invented to promote your business or your products online.

      So what I mean is that you need a business to blog about, that strategy is just now on the upswing mostly because the crazy autobloggers have finally filtered themselves out. It only took 4 years after the Google smackdown in 2011.

      But real blogging, talking about real businesses, selling real products to real people, only getting bigger and better.

      My friend runs a free Challenge to help people get started in doing this the right way. She has hundreds of people participating and her numbers are growing each day. Blogging works great.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
    Derh,

    Referring to the title of your thread -- I don't think blogging is a business model, but rather a marketing strategy. I think the specific monetization structure is the business model?

    For example, someone in this thread mentioned setting up a niche blog, driving targeted traffic to that blog, converting viewers into subscribers, promoting affiliate products to those subscribers, rinsing and repeating this process for other niche blogs -- I think the specific details inside each of those comprise the entire marketing structure, but the specific monitization method is the overall business model, which is selling particular affiliate products to specific groups of people in certain locations..; and

    For instance, if I provide telesales / live chat / email / remote tech support services to the customers of my strategic partner companies for their hosted PBX solutions, in order to upsell my own hosted CRM solution for small businesses, then I think the phone support structure is the traffic generation and overall marketing strategy, while selling and supporting and improving my own CRM solution and releasing new relevant products would be my overall monitization structure and thereby my overall business model?
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