Mom 4 Biz

When I started blogging, I thought I was marketing my content and building a following of like minded people who wanted to know more about what I did (marketing online). I realized about a year into blogging that it truly wasn’t about the content, and the following didn’t much matter either. Blogging was more about the escapism of writing what needed to be said. Other bloggers wrote their thoughts and ideas about life on the big screen, expecting fame and fortune to follow them. I simply wrote articles explaining concepts, precepts and principles that explained how to make money by blogging.

I was making a living from my blogs. I still do.

Along came the mommy bloggers and the teen bloggers who wanted to make a profit from blogging, and I realized my daring if piddly income (I was only raising four kids as a single mom with two in college, and me back in college on my income) could be more if I’d just work this thing smarter and process the payment aspects better by designing in more income. Easier said than done. Adding income on the back side of a blog isn’t nearly as simple as writing articles and marketing  your goods on the front side. It takes a link. There’s more to the backside marketing than a link.

Developing the backside of your blog and carrying a load of interesting content, while attempting to sell some rueful products, services and other proclamations meant actually putting some effort into selling. I had to create products, provide services and actually put out REAL effort. Two hours a day online wasn’t going to cover the time necessary to accomplish my “more income” goal.

I dared to dance.

While others chattered up the concept of making more money by blogging with principles, ideas and profit, I set up a website with high-end profit makers on the backside and daringly hired the folks who would be sending out merchandise, providing services and adding quality-value to my all ready profitable business online. The boom brought me back to reality and there I stood on my pile of rubble massaging my chin from the impact.

Success brought me to ground zero.

The promise began to unfold in the midst of chaos and there was my orchid. I’d missed it the first time, in all the rush to find a rose in good standing, strong, sure and presentable. But the orchid was there… all along.

Article Marketing offers the serious opportunist a method of putting their words out there, drawing traffic and building a business using wisdom, knowledge and information as the foundation of their success. Resulting, high-drive product and service marketing is a side-line industry that can be outsourced to those who have product engineering experience, and actually have quality products to market. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

There are marketers out there waiting for you to sell what they’ve already designed.

Just bring in the traffic, develop a following and do what YOU do best. Write.