A BLOG IS LIKE A STOCK: SELL IT & MAKE MONEY!

Mar 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Blogging To The Bank

Landlord Blogging is not the ultimate in blogging. Once you become a landlord blogger, you must set your eyes on becoming a PALACE BLOGGER. Who is a Palace Blogger? He (or She) is the owner of a successful blog, and has become a blog merchant, nurturing blogs to maturity and selling them off to make a handsome gain.

As I quickly run you through the THREE STEPS TO LANDLORD BLOGGING, I would conclude by showing you how to nurture a blog in 12 months and make 10,000% Gross Revenue from the sale. I call it Gross Revenue because you have not deducted the cost of internet connection for 12 months and of course Fuel for your generator-powered blogging for 12 months.

3 STEPS to Landlord BLOGGING

Register A Domain Name: The first step into a landlord blogging career is to register a domain name. This costs from $2 to $20 or more per annum, depending on who your domain registrar is, and also if you are registering a dot com, dot tv, dot net or dot co.uk or any other custom domain name. In fact customized domain names are known to cost as much as $200 or more.
Host Your Domain Name: The second step into problogging career is hosting your domain name with a web hosting company. You can host your domain with any amount from $50 to $150 per annum for a standard disk space of 10.0 Gigabyte (10,000 megabytes), and a minimum traffic data (bandwidth) of 100 Gigabytes per month.
Upload WordPress Blogging Software: The third and most important step into problogging career is to upload the most popular problogging software unto your hosted webspace, from WordPress.org

Teaching you how to upload your WordPress software to your paid host and domain name can be found at WordPress. That stage is a subject of Special BLOGGING TO THE BANK SEMINARS which we organize regularly. Anybody who cannot understand how to upload from the codex link above must humble themselves to come and learn the tricks at our seminars.
After the third step, you are then set to start your problogging career. Any further step to enhance your blog’s reputation and rank would be taught in the succeeding at our seminars. I hope to touch the subjects of how to generate visitor traffic for your blog soon in the coming weeks.

Forum or Blog?
Because of the much initial labor in the building of a blog, many lazy people suggest that it is better to create a forum, which requires less labor. This is a misconception. Most successful forums on the web are products of spontaneity.

They grew because users or subscribers found particular passionate interests in the subject being treated by the forum. It takes 5 times more effort to write than to read. Many web surfers prefer to ‘read and go’, than writing to contribute their 2 cents.

If they would write, at all, it must be because the issue is sufficiently passionate to warrant their written contributions. That is why the population of blogs to forums in web space is 1,000 to 1. Meaning you would have seen 1,000 successful blogs before you come across one successful forum.
The web space is full of dead forums than you can imagine.

A BLOG AS A STOCK!
In conclusion, I dare to assert that a blog is like a penny stock. Investing some twenty-five thousand Naira to set it up could be like seed money sown into a business. If you can nurture it to maturity to climb to a respectable 1,000 unique visitors per day, then you are ripe to sell it off at the marketplace of the blogosphere.

By the time you climb to that level between 6 to 12 months of starting that blog, your monthly earnings from the blog would have proportionately climb to about $1,000 (ONE THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS). The rule of the thumb used at the marketplace is that a blog is worth TEN TIMES of its monthly income! That means your blogs is worth about U$D 10,000.00 That is about 1.2 Million Naira!

Let us do some little arithmetic.
Cost of Training                                                        =N= 10,000.00
Cost of setting up a blog                 =N=25,000.00
Internet connection for 12 months                                                        =N=144,000.00
Fueling for generator for 4 hours daily for 12 months                      =N= 72,000.00
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Total                                    =                                                                        =N=251,000.00
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At this point, you may calculate your Net profit as =N=1,200,000 minus =N=251,000 which is equal to: =N=949,000.00 but the truth is that from the seventh month of consistent landlord blogging, you should have started earning about U$D1,000 (One Thousand U.S. Dollars) monthly.

That is the reason why you find many people not willing to sell their blogs at that stage. They genuinely question: “Why sell a golden goose, when you can make it to lay more golden eggs for you monthly”. My response to such people is that they are being sentimental.

If you need to pay children’s school fees or need to make a balance deposit of chunk money like one million Naira, to take possession of a choice plot of land. Selling your blog comes handy, since you can always cultivate another blog for sale in about a year’s time.

Much as many prefer to sentimentally keep their stocks and watch it appreciate in value and enjoy annual bonus and dividends, critical time comes and at such times, you let go the stock for immediate pecuniary interventions.

Next week, I would look into the terrain of domain hosting and resellers in Nigeria, what blessing or curses have they brought on website owners and bloggers.
HAPPY and PROSPEROUS BLOGGING!
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Author: Aderemi Ojikutu is the Chief Blogging Officer (CBO) of Blogging Resources International Ventures. Telephone +234-703-334-2535 ceo@web-konsult.com(Member of the Search Engine Strategies International Group) SES