How To Start Earning Extra Income While Keeping Your Paycheck
Dear Friend,
This post is a side-kick from yesterday’s post. I hope it’s still fresh in your head that choosing the ‘offensive’ attitude in the midst of current Malaysian economy is not only sensible but desirable.
And today, I’m going to help you get started with a SIMPLE part time, free time, leisure time and ‘to kill time’ activity which has become very popular and making a headline among Politicians and Businessman alike - BLOGGING!
It’s exactly like what you’re reading now. You can make yours ‘looks’ and ‘feels’ better of course.
Majalah PC, a local PC mag, in their Issue #127, July 2007 reported that Asia has the highest blog reader with Japan topping the chart with 74% active blog reader.
English is the bloggers’ language of choice:39% and Japanese came in second at 33%.
Bottom line: Blogging is one of the favorite pass-time and it can be profitable.
The question is,”HOW?”
That my Friend is exactly what I’m going to share with you BUT first…
Why BLOG?
Yeah, why blog? Why not e-mails? Websites? Podcast?
I can’t tell you the reasons of others but I personally like the simplicity of setting up a blog.
It gets even better for ‘part-timers’ or ‘leisure seekers’ like us because we can set it up for free!
Yup F-R-E-E…don’t have to pay a single red cent.
There are 2 favorite choices:
- Blogger. This is still ‘all time’ favorite (based on the response in one of my favorite forums) and many prefer Blogger platform due to its’ user friendly features and monetization channels (I’ll explain what this means later). Take a look at one of my blog here as an example.
- Wordpress. It’s a good choice if you’re into flashy design, almost complete content management system and more user control but the biggest drawback is in its limited monetization option. I have a blog set-up on this platform here.
Now, since we’re going to use blog as a way to earn extra income in our free-time, without having to leave our ‘beloved’ jobs (not just yet), obviously BLOGGER got my highest recommendation!
Why Blogger?
Here are my top picks:
- It’s own by Google. So? Google will index your blog ‘faster’, which means you can get your blog into the Search Result pages - pages that Google displays when you type in a search or querry - in a shorter period of time compared to a normal Search Engine URL submissions, which could easily take about 3 to 6 months therefore you get ’seen’ faster. Get it? Ok.
- It’s user friendly. If you’ve never build a blog before maybe this is something you can’t imagine but picture 2 houses. Both have a few doors leading to the toilet and that’s where you’re going. If that’s your first time in the house, and you really need to answer ‘nature’s’ call, which house would you prefer - the one that all the doors are like a maze and you have to guess before reaching the toilet or the house that with a single twist of the doorknob sends you straight to it? The choice is obvious right? And that’s what Blogger like to a beginner. It’s so much easier to post to Blogger.
- This is the killer part. You can choose multiple ways to monetize your blog. Monetizing your blog simply means ‘make money, make profit, create income from your blog’. This choice is SEVERELY limited for Wordpress.com (it’s a different story if you host it on your own domain but that’s the topic for some other day). Want to see what’ll happen if you try to actively monetize your Wordpress.com blog? Just go here and you see what I mean.
Remember that our aim is to create a way to enable us to earn extra income in our spare time, preferably a ‘no-cost,high-return’ method. Hmm…lets make it reasonably high. Not going to give you false hope here…
How to begin?
Phew! That will take more than a single blog post to cover. So, I tell you what my Friend, why don’t I make this ’simple’ and easy for all of us. Everything you need to know about setting up a Blogger account and properly monetize it is contained in this f.r.e.e report.
It’s yours to download whenever you please - Blogging For Profit (you can click the link or the report image)
Now, downloading this report is just the beginning. Reading it and applying its ideas and tips is the next logical step.
Where do we go from here?
There’s an undisputed, proven Online Success formula that we can follow and for the next few days, I’m going to help you to walk through this formula (watch the word ‘walk’ - it’s not simply tell).
Until then, keep your chin high and make use of those spare time to earn extra income while keeping your monthly paycheck. Not at all a bad idea don’t you think?
Nezrul
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