How I'm Earning Extra Income From My Blog

A few weeks ago I talked about a new affiliate program I'd started using called Viglink.

It's an affiliate network and is affiliated with thousands of different companies all over the world, so from just one account, I can have access to these companies, some of which I cannot affiliate to myself because they are only interested in working with big online sites that can earn thousands of dollars in affiliate commissions every month. But now I have access to them through Viglink.

And it's turning out to be quite a profitable way to make more money.

It's really easy to use and works in several different ways.

For instance, all I had to do was place a small snippet of code on my sites and if on any page, I have a URL to a website that uses affiliates but it isn't linked, Viglink will replace it with an affiliate link automatically.

And it doesn't just do this on new web pages, but on all pages on all my sites. Some of these pages have been online for years without any affiliate links on them, but now I'm getting clicks and commissions from URLs that I had no idea used affiliates.

Also there is an option called Viglink Shopping, and what this does is, if I've mentioned a product, Vignlink will not only turn it into an affiliate link if there's one available, but if the merchant runs out of stock of the item, or stops selling it, Viglink will automatically link it to a different merchant. And all without me doing a thing.

There is also a handy app called Viglink Anywhere that I've installed on my browser's toolbar. And anytime I visit a site that is selling a product, I can click on "Anywhere" and it will not only tell me if there is an affiliate link for the product but will also provide a link as well as a shortened version so that I can use it anywhere (as the name suggests), even on social media.

It's so handy to be able to see in an instant whether or not a product has an affiliate program and get a link immediately.

It really doesn't get much easier than that.

If you're interested in using Viglink on your own website or blog, you can click on the link on the affiliate page of my Cheriton House Publishing website where you'll also a list of nine other affiliate programs you can join for free.

http://cheritonhousepublishing.com/affiliates.html

Earning extra money without doing any extra work is always a good thing 😀

What Many Are Doing to Earn More Money From Their Writing - And It's Easy

Recently I've been using social media, blog posts and articles to help people earn more money from their writing.

But, it only works for those who are serious about wanting to write more and earn more and not for those who like to read about increasing their writing income but never do anything about it.

And it's so simple that even I didn't realise it would work to the extent that it has or the number of people would help.

You see, when I first started writing, I studied lots of different courses about creating websites and freelance writing, book writing, copywriting and much more.

In fact, I still haven't finished learning because it's an ongoing process because the writing and publishing industry changes all the time.

But I've always considered it really, extremely important to know as much as I can about writing and earning money so that I can work and earn to my full potential.

So I've been promoting video courses on Udemy (which weren't around when I was learning the basics) because so many people, like me, prefer to learn in a structured way instead of reading a lot of stuff and then trying to make it work.

I much prefer to be actually taught step-by-step how to do something.

And I think this is why Udemy courses are so popular.

Not only do they teach in a structured, easy way, but there are so many to choose from that whatever you need to learn, there's a course just for you.

And many of them are free.

Just a quick search of the site turned up:

• Make Money from Home: How to Build an Online Business
• How To Make a Beautiful WordPress Website Without Coding!
• Copywriting that sells for ambitious people
• Write, Publish, Market, and Make Money with Your Own Book
• My Favorite Things- Fun and Easy Writing Course for kids

And one of their most popular courses:

The Complete Freelance Writing Online Course: Beginner to Pro
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So if you want to know more about writing, book writing, copywriting, blogging, freelance writing, affiliate marketing, creating websites/blogs, or anything else, I can almost guarantee that there is a course to cover it.

Take a look at some of their free courses and see what you think.

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The Real Reason People Aren't Buying What You're Selling

There are so many ways to earn money from writing that I talk about often like writing ebooks, print books, affiliate marketing, blogging and more.

The question though is are you making enough money from it all?

If not, it's because people aren't interested in what you're selling.

And it all comes down to good marketing.

If you want to make more sales, then you need to elicit emotion from your readers.

We are all emotionally driven and we buy things because they appeal to our emotions, like the thing you read about and you "just have to have it!"

But what brings on this sudden impulse to click the 'buy now' button?

It's emotion. You feel excited or elated and you just want to have the product or book being offered.

And that's what you want to do if you want to sell more.

Get people excited to buy.

Use words that will illicit emotion.

One way to do this (and there are many ways) is to look at reviews for what you're selling and see what people liked about the product or book and use that to help sell it. Find out what it was about it that got people excited and use that to make more sales.

Alternatively look at questions that people are asking before they buy the product. What are the main features/benefits they're looking for?

Once you have all this information, use it to really sell the product by appealling to their emotions.

As an example, I recenty bought the DVD and CD set of Titans of Direct Response copywriting seminar. And their sales page begins with:

"Two days' worth of the most powerful, profitable direct marketing principles, strategies, and immediately useful tactics — this will change your business and your life..."

See how they appealed to their readers' emotions by using words like, powerful, profitable, stragegies, immediatley useful tactics, will change your business and your life."

They do this because without emotions there is no sale.

If something doesn't appeal to us (ie, we don't feel emotional about it) we won't feel compelled to buy it.

No emotion means no action.

So give them emotional reasons to buy what you're selling.



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The One Basic Secret For Earning Money From Writing

I use Grammarly when I write on my computer.

It's a free app and is really useful for picking up on spelling and grammatical errors.

Sadly though, it doesn't work with Pages for Mac (although it does work on Microsoft Word) which is what I use for doing nearly all my writing, so it never counts my book manuscript word count.

But it does work for my blog, my emails and for plain text documents I write using programs such as Text Edit.

Every week it also emails me my stats and tells me how I'm doing and compares it to other Grammarly users.

This past week I've hardly written at all because it was my father's funeral yesterday and he is the second family member to pass away this year. So I was a bit off my writing game.

This morning I received an email from Grammarly telling me that I'd only written 2,283 words this past week, which is not much at all.

But...and this is the surprising thing, it said that I was 80% more productive than other Grammarly users.

80%????

Wow! If I wrote so little every week I'd be out of business.

Yet I still out-wrote 80% of other users.

But why am I telling you this?

Because it's proof that being a successful writer means actually sitting down and writing.

There is no perceived "secret" to earning money from writing. It's simply doing the writing.

You have to sit down and do it every day.

And write at least 10 times more than 2,283 words every week.

This is why I earn money from my writing, and others don't.

It's a 'secret' called writing.

Have you tried it lately?


Grammarly. The free writing app.
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