Saturday, October 2, 2010

Creating a Definitive Blueprint for a Profitable Blog: A Community Ebook Idea

community-ebook.jpgI’ve been thinking lately about how blogs can be used to make money and I thought it’ll be useful if I could develop some blueprint or template listing the exact steps you need to take to generate substantial income from a blog.

While there are many ways you can build up and make a blog profitable, I think some generic steps do apply for all types of blogs, regardless of their niche or focus.

Simply put, these are the things you need to do in order to make money blogging.

Listing them from Step One to the point where the blog starts to bring in a monthly sum of money would be helpful because anyone could use this as a checklist of some sort to make sure that they are following a strategic plan towards success.

Breaking Down the Steps Towards a Money Making Blog

The whole process from ground zero to a substantial and regular income can be broken down into a tremendous amount of points and to-do items. Some of them are chronological and necessarily predate the tasks that come before it.

Other steps can be performed concurrently with others (blog marketing is an example) and do not require you to complete a required task before hand. What I envision is the creation of one definitive list with tasks and goals that you’ll only need to accomplish, in order to make your blog an incredible source of income.

This would be an extensive blueprint you can show to just about anyone who owns a blog and say “There, just follow these steps and you’ll really make money from your blog.” It should be an authoritative document you can use as a reference point, whenever anyone asks you how to make money blogging.

A Community Ebook on Ways to Build a Profitable Blog

I was initially planning on writing this article like any other blog post on Dosh Dosh but I felt that my own experiences on making money with blogs is limited and it would be far better to seek the opinions of others.

The idea of a community or group eBook popped into my head and I thought, why not collect all the best flagship articles and advices from a community of bloggers and republish them into an eBook format? This would make for an incredible reference point for new or experienced bloggers alike.

As I’ve mentioned above, this eBook would be the definitive and ultimate source of information on all things related to generating income through blogs. I haven’t had too much time to mull over all the little details but I do have some general ideas about how this should work:

Collect new or existing articles from many bloggers on the various steps leading up to the development, growth and maintenance of a profitable blog.

Assemble all these articles and arrange them according to topics and themes. The entire collection of articles will be chronological and will read like a step by step checklist of things to do to make money blogging.

Publish in an eBook format and distribute it for free for anyone to download and read. All of the articles within the blog may or may not be re-published elsewhere, depending on the contributor’s individual copyright policy.

Promote the eBook and make sure that it is distributed widely. Each contributing blogger getting some exposure for their brand and site. As a result, each contributer may also get some traffic and new readers.

Some Considerations and Guidelines

I really like the idea of pooling all our articles and ideas together so that everyone can learn something new on the topic of blogging for money. I have never promoted a community eBook extensively and I’m very interested to see how it’ll fare.

Of course, the eBook will be completely free and I or anyone else won’t make any money from it directly. All submitted content copyrights will still belong to the authors and you will decide how others can and may use your articles.

I haven’t decided if affiliate links should be used in each published article but I am very much leaning towards allowing it, because its another way for each blogger to get some additional income.

In the scenario of an overwhelming supply, it would be impossible to include every single article because of several concrete reasons. First of all, it would make the eBook far too long and secondly, the eBook content would be repetitive; as the same topics are usually covered by different bloggers.

Some suggestions on the editorial process:

Bloggers do not have to be in the meta-blogging or make-money-online niche. The relevance of the article is more important. Articles that are already published can be re-used as long as you own complete copyrights for them.

All articles will be judged and approved according to their quality, relevance and usefulness. No weight will be place on the blogger’s brand or blog size.

A voluntary editorial team could be established so there’ll be balance when it comes to asessing content quality and approving submissions.

Now for the Most Important Part..

Would any of you be interested in the idea of contributing to a community eBook? I’m plan to open up submissions for all bloggers and not just the popular ones.

This is pretty much something I’m really interested in experimenting with and I’ll be giving the community eBook continuous exposure on Dosh Dosh, so it’ll get distributed and downloaded widely, which benefits everyone.

I shall probably make another post detailing the submission process and all other details that needs to be covered, but I just wanna throw this idea out there and get all your opinions about the whole thing.

What do you think of the idea? How do you think we should go about doing this?

Thanks for sharing and the floor is all yours now. ^_^

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