With the new trend in blogging these days. Almost everybody wants to be a blogger simple because of the information around about how much some bloggers earn here in Nigeria. And with the pressure on people to make extra income, they believe blogging is an option, which truly it is. Only that most of the wanna-be bloggers get it wrong along the way. And so they get discouraged and eventually opt out.

What most bloggers don't realize is that there are diverse ways through which you can make your money in blogging. They tend to follow the conventional style of blogging which is the entertainment niche, which to me , is over saturated and i will not advise any one to go into it, except if you have enough resources to promote your blog.

Blog is a short word for WEB LOG, which is more or less like a WEB JOURNAL OR DIARY, where you can update anything of interest. It doesn't have to be limited to entertainment, gossips and so on. Any body can blog on anything. A doctor can blog on health issues, an engineer can blog on mechanical issues, a lecturer can have his blog where he updates details of his lectures and so on. In fact, i don't advise people to go into the entertainment niche as blogs are all over the web space and everyone blogs about same gists.

As a blogger, i don't even blog on a daily basis. The most important thing is for you to have this blogging knowledge and you are on your path to make real and live cash from these points i will be highlighting below.

1. BLOGGING TRAINING
I make the bulk of my blogging cash through organizing blogging training for people both online and offline. It doesn't have to be a large seminar like that. I sometime make it a one-on-one training and this even makes me charge them more. The most important thing you need to have to do this is your blogging knowledge, your smartphone as you are going to be training them on either whatsapp, bbm, or facebook messenger. The training will be done after you have sent a blogging manual to them. (THIS YOU CAN GET FROM ME, IF YOU NEED)

You simply ask them to read the manual and understand, then later schedule a date to hold the training. Here you will need to convince them how genuine you are, especially those you will be meeting on line. Most online users are sckeptical about parting with thier money online. What i do to convince them is to send them a mini -book on blogging, they will have the basic idea, but will still need to run the training to be fully versed in the blogging training.

I charge trainees N5000 per person, which you can as well charge more, and i must say i have nothing less than 6 people to train weekly.


2. BLOGGING ADMIN
As there are several blogs on the internet this day, it is so surprising to know that most of the bloggers are only seeking for an extra income and so are not always available to update their blogs on a daily basis. Your job here will be to seek them out and offer to assist in updating their blog. And they will jump at the proposal. Here, you can charge a minimum of N6000/blog for a month, and some as much as N10,000 all depending on how bouyant the blog owner is. Those amounts are not bad for a 1hour job and also considering the fact that you will be working with as much as 5- 10. I currently have 10 bloggers am working for and paying me an average of N5000 monthly. That's a whopping N50k and more.

3. CONSULTATION
Another medium through which you can make serious money in blogging is consulting for corporations. You can offer to help them build a responsive blog and they will pay you. I charge N15,000 for a blog and N30,000 for a wordpress blog. Not that you will be spending this much, but your knowledge is what they are paying for. And for a blog, you won't even be spending close to N5000 to get it done.

4. ADSENSE
Adsense is another means through which you can make a lot of money through blogging. Though it takes time and professionalism before google approves your adsense, but once you are approved. You begin to make virtual money which can be cashed after reaching a certain qouta.

Adsense really has to do with high traffic on your site. If you are not having much traffic, you might not really make money through adsense as your income will be generated through clicks by your visitors on the adverts google place on your blog. But if you are able to have a high traffic on your blog, then you are good to go with adsense

5. PAID ADVERTS
This another means through which you can make a lot of money on your blog. And with this, you might even not have as much traffic to get adverts. What you do is to just ensure the targets of your advertisers are regularly visiting your blog.

For example if your blog is student targeted, it will be so easy to you to get adverts from boutiques, salons, game shops, phone and gadgets shops and so on. I have this resource that can assist you in getting paid adverts for your blog. Depending on you location, you can charge advertisers a minimum of N5000 per adverts and you can as well charge more. Now multiply this by say 5 different adverts, every month.

With all these highlighted points, i think am able to convince you on why you should go into blogging. You dont even have to be a pro, just understand the basics of blogging and do more research with time, and i assure you, if you are the type that really has the passion, you can understand blogging perfectly in just a period of a month. You don't even have to be blogging on a daily basis by owing a blog. Just have this blogging knowledge, Although you can have a blog for your outfit,(check www.teamcrea8.com for the demo) where people can get information about your services.

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I wanna use this medium to appreciate Nairaland bloggers, who have given me the opportunity to learn alot through their posts here on the forum. God bless us all.

cc: lalasticlala

your points are fine and refined.... God bless...