Advice on monetizing a blog

(Your sig link is broke by the way)

- Sell recipes booklets
- Cooking utensils
- Cooking lessons
- Diet plans

The list goes on when it surrounds food, start affiliating with some products.

If the 50k pageviews /month from USA, you can consider CJ.com, shareAsale.com, linkshare.com, amazon.com, etc..

Oooh, it's a really nice blog. You have a new reader.

I think you could greatly increase both the prominence and the incentivization of the opt-in, here. You could put it in a better position, have a little post next to it, explaining it, and offer a free PDF of some kind rather than just "sign up to my newsletter". If you do that all well, it could transform your income-prospects from the site.

If you build a bigger and better email list, there are all kinds of things you can promote to the list, which will typically sell far better that way than "off the page".

I venture to suggest that this is because you're losing most of your traffic, because you're not doing (nearly) enough to retain them.

Exactly so, but you need to master list-building, to derive real income from affiliate marketing. (You easily could, though, with this site!). http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7965848 <---- this will help, when you have time to read them.

Probably travel a bit more than I can in my own shoes ...

Just to ask the question... Why are you using IM banners and posting traffic/income reports on a recipe site?

Build your list. Build your list. Build your Facebook page.

Now that is the traffic, now onto what you could sell:

- Affiliate products
- Create an eBook and sell this
- Create an eBook and give it away in return of their email

Should be 2 different eBooks ofcourse.

Sweet blog! Can I ask how long you've had that for?

I agree with Alexa, you need to build up a good list, make that optin more noticeable. I actually would suggest trying out a pop up optin, but not on the homepage, on the other pages.

But I dunno.

Anyway, take that traffic, and everytime you post a new post, send it out to your mail list.

Then once a week review a book, from amazon, or an info book, or a product, or something! You could make a post about it and send your list to it, or you could just email out the small review to your list.

You'll get affiliate sales, more traffic, and you'll get more money from adsense as well. Also, try placing your ads a little differently, read up a bit on ad placement and test stuff out, always good to test around.

Really sweet blog though, nice job.

You need to build a list and market cook books, recipes, digital guides from Cliclbank, actual cooking products through Amazon or other retailers...there's no way round it. Combine that with text links in your website content.

No point in coming here asking for advice then getting that advice and saying you don't want to do it because it won't work, you don't want this to happen, you don't want that...we're telling you what works.

Email once or twice a week with "what you may have missed this week", and/or add a bonus recipe that's not available on your site.

75% content, 25% selling.

I just wish that IMers got this...

Hello quickmarketingpackages,

For a potential newsletter, you could talk about

-the history of the recipes you gather
-how the recipes intermix with the specific cultures or regions
-special ingredients that are unique to that culture or region
-the usual types of foods that people eat in different cultures or regions
-the usual meals that people eat in different cultures or regions (do they eat 3 meals? more? less?)
-the usual diets of these different cultures or regions
-the usual desserts of these different cultures or regions (presuming they have desserts; if they don't - why not?)
-the usual meals these different cultures or regions eat for special occasions (and what marks a special occasion? National holidays? Birthdays - of whom, children? elderly adults? middle-age?)

There are likely more ideas you can come up with. Certainly, there's a way to monetize from your newsletter if you offer some free gifts (one upon sign-up, one every so often), engage with your subscribers on interesting stories behind your travels and the recipes associated with them (as mentioned above), and perhaps even open it up for your subscribers to share their recipes and travels. It could even lead to a forum if you wanted.

Even if not, you could still create infoproducts based on food and/or promote products that you think fit within your niche's target market. That would be another way to monetize from your newsletter. You're collecting email addresses at a nice number and pace - you definitely should be utilizing and connecting with them in some fashion.

Don't worry about exactly what to say - just primarily focus on providing interesting information about your travels and the recipes associated with them, with an occasional offer here and there, and chances are, that list will be another profit stream.

Hope this helps - good luck!

Take care,

Joe Chengery

I just saw this (social media guru) the other day and it was eye opening. He suggests looking at companies who are doing PPC for relevant keywords and reach out to them to see if they'd be interested in advertising on your blog.