To Blog or Not to Blog

I make money online without a blog, like you said it is very time consuming.

If you have great contents you can use them in your list building. It's like doing blogging in email form.

That way you will have many content for your subscribers, if they love your content and trust you, promotion would become easier.

Also you can use your contents to make a series of follow ups, this way your subscribers will not miss any of your great info.

But you do need a squeeze page or landing page to collect subscribers.

So I think you are going to do something big and are on the right track.

Bad at English hope you understand what i am trying to say.

Feel free to PM me if you have any question, good luck!!

Max

i'm starting to lean against blogs and social media i know that is the majority but that is what i'm thinking more and more at this time

Hey Nate,

Great to hear from you and congratulations on the hotel...I will have to take up your invitation to come down there sometime.

This is my take on blogs...now I have taken Alex Jeffreys course, which taught me to have a blog to interact with your audience, and I have followed Sean Mize with his 10x10 formula.

Sean taught me, just today in fact, that create an outline of your niche and then start creating content on multiple levels. The basic level could be blog post that has some pretty basic info on it. Your ebook would have the same information but more in depth.

You are using the same content but with the ebook having more information. After the ebook, you would create audios or videos with more information being given than the ebook. Finally, you create a coaching course that offers all that content and more than before.

Hope this makes sense. You don't really need to come up with new content every time...just dilute what you would put into an ebook and then put that on the blog.

I am not perfect at this yet...well, honestly haven't started this because I just learned it this morning.

I hope this helps you. I appreciate the stuff you have put out. I have bought some of it.

We actually talked last year about you writing some emails for me...it has been awhile.

Anyway, thanks and I hope this helps you out. Again, this is just my opinion and nothing more.

John

I have a blog, and have seen amazing growth in a 7 month period.

One thing is for sure though - you have to LOVE writing to enable you to post consistently and to enable your interest to stay with it.

I agree you have to enjoy writing at least a little bit. And if you do enjoy writing and explaining, it can be a well paying thing to have a few blogs running.

blog and social media in the same time is good for me

Congrats on successfully opening your hotel.


I personally don't think a blog is time consuming at all.


Most successful "one man" blogs only update 3-4X a week anyways.


Even if you updated daily, you only need 30 min to 1 hour max.


Throw in another hour for marketing and you're good to go.


With all that being said, you don't NEED a blog but...


If you're willing to wait a year or so, it's a great way to build loyal customers.

Im glad you asked this question Nate, I thought we absolutely needed to have a blog to succeed but its wrong. The thing with a blog, you can just build one to build your reputation and gain more subscribers.

I think you should add a blog to your business. It's another form of having a web presence that is free, and that can get you more customers. All you need to do is update your blog with 1 post per day... i think anymore than this would convolute your efforts. But blog, definitely.

The big marketers that I know who have blogs are outsourcing their blogging and only do it just to have that much more presence. I've had blogs on the first page of google for month and never made a scent, people get their info then leave. I work closely with my mentor on list building who at the beginning blogged daily for months with no monetary results but is now a 7 figure earner from list building. I would say if you want to keep the blog up and can afford it, outsource it.

Hi,

No!

Blogging doesn't need to be time consuming.

If and when you have something of value to share with your readers
then share it via your blog.

This could be once a week, once every 2 weeks, even once a month.

There is a myth that you have to post every single day to your blog.

That's just crazy.

Guess what?

I too did it myself back in the day.

Stupid.

No, just post when you have something of great value that others
will appreciate, bookmark and keep coming back to your blog for.

That combined with directing your list of subscribers to your blog
can add so much power for your business.

When people see you own a blog they can connect with you, get
to know you and become fans of yours and of course...

...Eventually customers of yours too.

Some will buy now, some will take weeks or even months
to buy from you.

Owning a blog doesn't need to be time consuming.

You just have to get a feel of what others needs are and provide them
with the answers via your blog.

It's much easier of course once you have a list.

Hope this helps you out my friend.
Regards
Gavin

A blog is just one more avenue. Basically, a way to communicate with your users. Often users will not get my email messages. Not sure on why this is. Hope that things are going to improve. Life goes on. People who say having a blog is a waste of time are wrong. I will often complain about spam. Still, I hope for comments on what I am saying.