On January 15th 2010 I will celebrating being the Blog Success Membership Manager for 12 whole months! I joined in December 2009 as a member looking to learn how to make money blogging and Jack Humphrey read my blog and invited me on as Mrs Motivator Mindset woman!
I remember him telling me he had read my blog Inspirational Guidance and loved what I was writing – so this is a great example of how a blog can bring clients to you (if you use your blog that way!)
At the time I had quite a few blogs up but decided to take them all down and focus on developing one blog only as an authority – but it was always hard because I am a serial blogger at heart 
– the more the better! So, in December when they introduced the 10 30 method (10 blogs earning $30 a day) I allowed my creativity to flow back into blogging which has been fantastic because I have never been able to stick to one thing only – way too creative!
So what has changed?
Well using Jack’s method you are encouraged to use domain names you already have or buy used domains that are already in the search engines.
During December I went through ALL of the domains I own (close to 90) and decided which 10 I wanted to use based on how many links they had going into them.
During 2007 there were a few domains I had been actively using and promoting so I settled on using them. Right now I have 8 blogs (one I am not sure about) and I am ready to work through this and just blog, blog, blog in 2010. The great thing with this method is it serves my need to have more than one thing going at once – I always get bored with just one blog.
Then I looked at the best way to build my list and decided that offering the same free product on as many blog as possible would be the best thing to do in terms of saving time and I only have one weekly newsletter I produce. Everything else is eCourses.
Here are my top 8 blogs
Diane Corriette – http://www.dianecorriette.net
I originally had this domain and mindsetofablogger.com together (mindset was parked) so I unparked it and set it up with its own hosting. Now separate I am going to use this blog to focus on running a service based online business. I offer a number of services including freelance work, blog setup, mentoring and all kinds of different sevices so this blog will focus on that. It will also focus on promoting how to run a service based online business for anyone interested.
It is strange but over the last 2 years all I have wanted to do is get rid of this part of my business but then I have realised it is a business all of its own. With the number of ghost writers, virtual assitants and other service based online businesses around it is worth holding on to this skill as I have been working freelance from home for the past 12 years.
I will also be adding all my articles and audios/videos here and allowing people to download them and use them on their blog/website – so that it becomes a portal much like an article directory and it gives me ONE place to include everything I have ever written (which is a lot of content!)
How I will build my list
Blogging 7 day bootcamp eCourse (that is turning into a 10 day one!)
Product to promote :
Myself and my own freelance work mainly. Starting at £67 (approx $107) with my business building strategy and working upwards from there.
I also have a membership site attached to this domain that I haven’t made use of so need to figure out how to use that.
Plus some other great information products on setting up a service based online business including
Running a virtual assitance business and a checklist on some of the roles you can perform as a virtual assistant
Running a transcription business
Running a Ghost Writing business along with a checklist of what to ask potential clients before they use your ghost writing services
The “Just add sweat” affiliate program pays 70% commission and the reports are $14.95 each but this won’t be a huge focus for me on this blog. I will sell them on one of the others too.
Start An Online Business – http://www.start-online-business.biz
This site focuses on promoting Stephen Pierce and his free book “How to make real money on the internet” along with his Make Real Money training membership site.
I receive $15.98 for selling their one time offer when someone signs up for the book so I need to sell two a day to hit my $30 a day goal
The other product I promote as a way to start an online social network business is SocialGo – they provide all the tools you need to start a social network with the other benefit of charging members – so its a membership site and social network combined.
Plus I will include the “Just add sweat” products mentioned above
How I Will Build My List
The “how to” infopreneur – how to make $100 a day with free information products (available at howtobooklets)
Inspirational Guidance : http://www.inspirationalguidance.com
The domain is 5 years old but I was never sure of the focus. Now it will focus on supporting people to live their life free from fear and procrastination. It will focus on “discovering greatness” – which includes experiencing joy/happiness. All my keywords focus around personal growth.
The two products I promote belong to Guy Finley affiliate opportunity – commission ranges from $25-32 - so selling one product a day will help me get close to and/or hit the $30 a day goal with this blog.
Free personal development starter kit
Discover the Secrets of Being Unstoppable
How I will build my list
Discovering Greatness experiencing joy – a weekly newsletter
Personal Growth Podcast Directory : http://www.personalgrowthpodcastdirectory.com
I started this around January 2006 and it belonged to a collection of other podcast directories. During that time is was my only main business so I spent a lot of time on it and I was amazed at how many inbound links it had despite not using it for the past 20 months (it never made me any money). It even had a bit of a page rank. So this domain is now up again and since 2006 I have created loads of audios and videos so will be including the personal growth related ones there.
Product : Adsense – I am going to place adsense around the blog plus sell Bob Proctor Science Of Getting Rich which only needs one sold a day to make $30
How I will build my list : Using the discovering greatness newsletter above
So you get the picture! I have gone through and planned out exactly how I will make money from my online business in 2010. My other blogs are
http://www.mindsetofablogger.com – promoting Blog Success (recurring monthly commission) and building my list with the blogging bootcamp
http://www.howtobooklets.net – This blog is all about how to make your own information products and make money giving them away and/or how to make money selling information products. I will build my list using the “how to infopreneur eCourse” and earn from selling Jimmy D Brown course on how to make a small fortune writing short reports – need to sell one a day
http://www.weightlossfooddiary.co.uk – promoting Diet Solution & Fat burning exercise - two products I am using now myself! No list. Need to sell one of each a day to make $30
http://www.datingadviceforwomen.net – the only site I have no real passion for so not sure how long it will last. Considering selling it.
The final site is a Ning social network for mothers looking to start an online business. I re-started it at Ning on January 1st 2010 (it had originally been running for two years before I closed it down) but now I have found out about SocialGo and may move it there. Still deciding. With SocialGo I get to charge a membership fee if I want to which provides future opportunities. It will be a social learning network – learning with a social aspect! You can find out more about them here http://www.socialgo.com/#a_aid=4b41e909928ef
I have made a commitment to blog once a day, possibly two if I can use an article or video and up to three times if I possibly can. All of it original content because I like to make life hard for myself
When all these sites produce the $30 a day income we are all looking for in Blog Success I have a potential income of $210 a day (based on 7 sites because I don’t think the dating one will last long!) and $6,300 : this is mainly passive income and then I can add on top of that my service based business and any mentoring/training I decide to do.
The one big opportunity of all these blogs is to sell them in the future if I want to and then start again with something new with the income that is produce. I sold a few blogs back in 2008 because I do love to set them up and put them together then pass them on (fulfills my need for something new all the time!) but in this instance I am going to keep blogging for at least 2010.
If you have a comment, suggestion, opinion or question about this blog post or you just want to say how it helped you please leave me a comment below.
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