What are the Challenges you will face as a blogger Things to know when starting a blog

      

Usually many are full of excitement when starting a blog.  After reading the reasons to start a blog, above you might think it is time for you  to blog. No, you have to know the challenges that are at hand before getting started. Here we go:

1.       Blogging needs a lot of patience. It is important to know that you have to exercise patience. Most people want to blog for money. But after one to two years they are not seeing a dollar, others want to be famous but your post get 5 views or none per day. If you want to adventure with your career as a blogger, then you need to know that the key to blogging is ‘’patience’’.

People will not comment on your post as you think; people will not share your post as you might think, your post will not get thousands of views as you thought.  Finally the last thing you will have to exercise patience is SEO results

2.      One of the most challenging problem bloggers is getting traffic or growing traffic.

You can imagine how frustrating things might look like when you are not getting visitors for your post or comments on your blog post. That’s just a challenge. Remember I mentioned above that blogging is taking a challenge. Many people start blogging without taking into consideration things like website design, key words and focus on content. We might just find a free template somewhere and start up. It is very important to use an SEO optimized template or know if your template is optimized or not. If not then consider doing some work on it. 

Consider using social media and other SEO techniques to improve your traffic. Avoid black hat SEO techniques. Just work harder and you will get results.

3.      The feeling of     ‘’I can do it all alone’’ is what tend to kill most bloggers. Most newbies think they can provide all the blog content for their blog. Some don’t even want to interact with other bloggers. You main thing is to get up write you post and take a cup of coffee. Oh no! As a blogger you should engage with other bloggers. Remember even though you paid for the hosting and domain, the blog is not really ‘’your thing’’.  Interacting with other bloggers in the blogosphere will greatly improve your write ups and SEO. Guest posting is one the best free SEO technique. Consider writing to other blogs; accept quality articles about your niche from other bloggers, comment on blogs similar to yours, reply to questions you can answer. It is only by doing this that you will beat this killer factor and excel with your blogging career. Blogging alone is the fastest way to fail

4.      Once you start getting traffic on your blog readers will always be expecting more from you. As results, you feel you are not giving the best to readers in terms of quantity. This pressure to write continuously had been a source of encouragement to others while some bloggers don’t consider this even.  To avoid this pressure, you have to try to post averagely three articles per week.

5.      As a blogger, at one moment you might find yourself not focusing on providing content. You find yourself trying to sell products and signing up for various affiliates. Just make sure as a starter you don’t get yourself into this mess. You decided to blog because you can write, let your readers read from you. Your audience is the key and will give you the money just at the right time. It is very important to build traffic and a reputation first.

6.      When you start blogging, it is always exciting you put in more time and effort in updating your post and designing.  At one moment, you might just find yourself thinking that blogging is taking all your spare time.  Do you have something doing during your spare time?

You will discover that your spare time is being used for other stuff while your readers are eager waiting for new post from you.

If you are into blogging, then you need to create time to blog, you need to create time for research among others things to maintain quality. There is no such thing like lack of free time. You just want to quit.

7.      Choosing a niche is always a challenge to some people who want to start a blog. Once this is done another big challenge is getting the content for this niche. What are the topics you will write on, what about the next post or how many post you will be able to write? This always seems difficult. But handling this is very easy. We all need inspiration. Get a look at some blogs that write about your niche, read articles and e-books and who knows you might just find yourself back in the game ,saying ‘’I will lead the team’’ 

8.        I mentioned in the reasons to blog, that you should be confident. This is a very great point where bloggers use to fail. As a starter, you have to be flexible. Sometime you might just be providing low quality content, but because of your feeling of originality, you don’t feel something is wrong with it. Creating time to evaluate content is a very big challenge. Blogging is not all about providing content. It is about interaction, it is about keeping people with updated information, it is about writing.  Make sure you evaluate your blog post, add what should be added and remove what you think is irrelevant.

9.       Negative comments tend to send new bloggers packing. Hey, my friend this is not what you should do. People have freedom of opinions. The opinion of everyone counts even though it does not in all cases. Just be calm reply to every comment be it positive or negative. Even Jesus Christ was criticized so you cannot run away from them. Just use the negative comments as a tool to build and get on with the blogging race, you might just emerge the winner.

10.   What is your challenge as a blogger?    

also Read Reasons to blog here

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How to Choose the Right Product when starting an Affiliate marketing Business

Affiliate marketing is a great source of Residual income. This system of making money had grown popular over the past years. Affiliate marketing puts money in an affiliate marketer’s account after hard work and perseverance.

Many are always mislead by the fact that, no effort is put. You most promote whatever product you want to sell in order to make conversions. I came across some online marketer who testified they could not make a dollar after promoting a product for over two years.

The question I ask was ‘’ did you guys promote this product?’’   . Their respond was sir, we had done more than you can imagine.  What am trying to make you see is that, it is not all about hard work in affiliate marketing. Take the smartest moves. The smarter you are , the greater your sales.  Don’t just consider promoting but promote in the right places. Not everybody needs the product you

Most newbies into online marketing always conssider joining an affiliate program.  The decision to join a specific affiliate program is related to what the marketer wants to market. ‘’Which products am I going to sell’’? Here are some questions that can help you in making your decision.

Illustration on how traffic is converted for a quality product.

 The converging-diverging model

Should I sell a new product or a product already in the market?

This is an important question that helps you in setting your market. The answer to this question will help you in targeting your market and in setting up better strategies to make conversions.   New in this context does not only mean newly made. Some products existed tens of years ago but little is known about such products in some countries.  If you can identify that some countries or group of people need such products, then it will be the new to them. The product had never been seen. A product that is new to your target audience can be an item that had been heard about but never seen. Phones (electronics), fabrics and software will make a great deal here.

Is they enough demand for the product you want to market?   

It is frustrating when you choose a product which has a low demand. As an affiliate marketer, it is important to know what people need.  The role of an affiliate marketer is to show people who need a product but cannot find it.  Even though some products have high demand in the market, they won’t make great conversions.  For example affiliate marketing on mobile phones cannot be a good product to start with given thousands of online and offline shops that exist for the sales of mobile phones.

Does it mean I should not sell low demand products?

Products that with a low demand in the market might be due to the two main reasons;

1.       Lack of  good advertisement strategies

2.       The product is not considered good by majority of the consumers.

It is thus your role to find out why a particular product has a low demand. Verify if the demand is decreasing or increasing over the years. If it is increasing find out why and do same if it is increasing. You are into affiliate marketing, you must think like a marketer.

 Should I market digital product that is downloaded (e-book or software) or a physical product that need to be shipped?

This is another important question affiliate marketers need to ask.

If you intend starting an affiliate marketing business, choosing between a physical and digital product is vital depending on your target market.  Digital goods are delivered within a shorter period of time compared with physical products. Making this decision also depends on your target audience. Do they need physical or digital products?

When you chose to market a physical product, another thing to consider is if the product is

1.       Is it perishable or fragile?

2.       Is it light and easy to ship?

3.       Is shipping free?

These are the main things to consider when starting up an affiliate marketing business. You should not limit yourself to these. They will always be a hundred of reasons, but you might need to know just one  to  start earning, while another person will need all to make money.

The driving force is interest in the niche and next interest in affiliate marketing.  With interest in your niche, you will be able to carry out investigation on products on your niche. While developing interest in affiliate marketing gives you the power to research on other products not necessarily related to your niche (competitive and high demand products). You need to make profit, so never limit yourself just to your niche. Consider expanding your business by marketing other products.

Understanding Back end and Front end products in affiliate marketing

We are all aware at least that we should focus on a particular niche. But what happens when you have made a sale? It should not be over for that you and that client. Consider proposing another product to the client.

At some moment in your business, you will be face with this challenge should sell front end (look for new customers) or back end products(sell to existing customers)?

What are back-end products?

These are products or services sold to people who had already bought a product from you.  The first product you sold to that client is called the front end product.   Understanding this will help in choosing your niche.

Take for example an affiliate marketer who wants to market mobile phones. After making the first sale, he can propose a phone case or a power bank to that customer.  Profits are better if you can make a second, third and more sales. You will have a high chance of making a second sale if your front end product is related to your back end product. However, the contrary might work for others.  Be   a SMART!! marketer.

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