₦airaland Forum

ogmask:
“We are telling the whole world that wherever Fayose goes anytime from now, we will follow him en-mass.

This is the real problem of our democracy. In all the state's of the federation govs make sure they rig elections to have their stooges in a house that should ordinarily check the executives. The only area a bit of democracy is practiced in this country is at federal level. No institution of govt works at state level. Everything is directed from govt house.

RoyalBoutique:
Our prayers are working... Apc will be history by 2019.

NaijaTechGuy:
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It's quite possible to make money with your blog without ad networks although ad networks help to boost revenue, but it's always better to have something else that earns you money on your blog.  I've run this blog for almost six months without an ad network because I was test running some things.

So,  here's a quick rundown of ways to earn more money without an ad network.


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1. Offer Other Services On Your Blog

Unless your IQ is less than 0.0005%, there's always something else you should know how to do apart from just writing posts and clicking on the publish button.

Only do this if the skill you have is related to what you blog about. Don't do it if your skill it's totally unrelated to what you do . It's would be quite absurd to see a Tech Blogger start offering Food Catering Services.

You'll end up losing readers trust and they'll be like :


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If you run a multi-niche blog like an entertainment blog, almost everything fits.

On my blog for example,  I offer services like logo designing, app development for blogs, website design, etc.

All this services help to boost my monthly earnings. So my earnings are not tied down by some ad network's CPC or CPM.


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2. Search For Advertisers

There’s a popular quote in my country,  "if the mountain doesn't come to you, you go to the mountain".  There are  2 major stumbling blocks you'll face in this method.

A. Where To Search For Advertisers.
B. What To Send To Advertisers.

Just keep reading and I'll break the blocks to the size of a mustard seed.

Waiting for advertisers is just like going to church and the pastor says that you must get an alert this week and you stay at home without going to work, sleeping all week waiting for an alert .

You don't just sit back and wait for advertisers to contact you, try and reach out to them. Also make sure that you have a reasonable Alexa rank and traffic statistics. The common mistake bloggers make in this method is going for the popular brands that are advertising in their niche. The possibility of these "popular"  brands ignoring you is  97%.. I once tried contacting about 50 popular brands in the Tech niche(most were smartphone brands) but only  4  brands responded after some days . I changed my strategy and decided to go for the starters in the industry. I got an instant response the very first day. If Plan A doesn't work try plan B.

Another problem you may have as a blogger is when you want to search for advertisers then you discover that you've hit another stumbling block.  "You Don't Know Where To Start Looking For Advertisers"

At this stage you've reached a huge block, without help from anywhere or making research you decide to quit the idea with the mentality that advertisers are hard to find or contact.

On the contrary,  Advertisers are everywhere. Brands are always looking for a way to expand their reach. The first place to search for brands that are advertising are on :

A. Top blogs in your niche.

The funny thing about most of the brands is that they tend to prefer a sponsored post to banner ads and  you have to be really smart to discern the difference between a sponsored post and a normal post because most bloggers who get sponsored posts craft it in such a way that you can hardly notice it's  a sponsored post.

Once you see the  sponsored post, analyze it properly. Google up the name of the advertiser in this format  -  "contact email for  (Advertiser)"  (remove the brackets). With this you should get their email.

You can also check the banner ads on the blog

B. On Facebook

You use Facebook every day but you forget the potential that Facebook holds. Facebook is in fact the gold mine of advertisers. 98% of every brand runs adverts on Facebook. Facebook has upgraded its pages in such a way that you can contact the page directly from messenger by just sending a message. If emailing a brand doesn't work try connecting with them on Facebook.

Look for the brands advertising in your niche, send them a message and wait for a response.

You just hit stumbling block 2. "You don't know what to send"

There’s a simple way format you can use to contact advertisers without sounding like a nursery school student. 

I believe you learnt how to write a formal letter in secondary school or junior high but just in case you suck at letters, I'll give you a little clue.
Personally, I send advanced emails and attach media kits sometimes but I'll highlight how to do that later, I won't want to derail this post or make it too long so the people who have the patience of a fruitfly can still learn something.

Here's a  simple format :


Hello Sir/Madam,

I am (Your Name),  I run  (Your Domain Name). My website is focused on  (give a brief description of your blog and vision ). I want to work with (Advertiser Name) because I believe that my blog would help boost your brands online presence and products as well. I'm sincerely waiting for your response.

Best Regards,
(Your Name).


Try to sound as professional as possible,  you don't go and start asking a brand or it's representative, "How is your family". It's not done.  I believe I've cleared all the blocks, you may now cross over without any issues.


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3.Partner With Offline Businesses

I believe bloggers should also be entrepreneurs . You should understand how social media works and know how to reach a particular audience.

Try to reach out to people that have a thriving business and have the vision of expanding their business and taking it to another level.

Don't contact pessimistic people. Considering the fact that some successful businesses don't have an online presence. As a blogger you should meet with the owners of the business and give them a detailed explanation of why they should promote their business online. I won't write what you should say to them because I believe that this method is for people that are smart not people that'll go about destroying the reputation of bloggers so you should be able to figure that out yourself .

If you have a good audience and traffic you can just promote it on your blog and drop the business number on the post otherwise open a page on Facebook and run an ad for the business and keep your own share of the bounty.


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4.Affiliate Marketing

Unless you're new to blogging, this shouldn't be new to you. Here's a simple description of what affiliate marketing is.

It's like bringing someone to a store,when he buys a product, the shop owner pays you a certain amount from the money paid for the product .

Affiliate marketing works well in niche blogs. The success rate of affiliate marketing on niche blogs is 85.7% against the 37.2% of multi niche blogs .  If you blog about tech, sell tech related products, if you blog about fashion sell fashion products  but If you blog about everything and you don't have reasonable traffic go and open a supermarket. I'm kidding though, you can sell everything.

Don't feel that this post was made by a 30 year old blogger with experience in blogging. I'm just  19 so correct me if I'm wrong.. .

I'd love to know other ways you earn as a blogger without ad networks.


thanks .... i will like to pitch my tent with u on this journey .... kindly hola me ur details .. thanks

TippyTop:
The most unpatriotic thing Dr Jonathan ever did was to hand Nigeria to a kunu sipping, cow herding dullard.

If only Dr Jonathan had refused to hand over to the dullard, we would all have been spared this recession.

lielbree:
Edo and ondo apc should see how election is done. No room for cowardice.
How could they have agreed when inec asked them to leave collation center??

estyvino:
Rice in Versity of Ibadan

Rice In Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu, Lagos, Nasarawa etc

Rice to be sold for 12k! Yet we no dey see the rice dey buy

Change don enter rice be that!!

sagacious2016:
Well, nothing is happening for npower agro in Oyo state. I've been to my LG several times but they keep saying they don't have any info.

rickyrex:
When fg wan find means of excuse for their inability they make use of silly and complex method to lift our hope... Was it not the same person that came out last month or say to say in less than 2weeks fg will deploy the successful applicant to their various field. I don tire for the country with their lies

State Secretariat,,, ministry of Health

they hav been attending to all applicants since DECEMBER 1 ...


[b]no homo

nosa73:
who are the focal persons in Edo state any useful information pls let me no

Greatfuture:
why not give out the names and contact of all focal persons and where to meet them

NaijaTechGuy:
Basically, blogging can be stressful but most times the stress level depends on your niche. Tech Bloggers get to do a lot of stressful work, from replying comments and emails to uploading roms and writing reviews of devices. Most comments on Tech Blogs are usually from people seeking clarification about something on the post or requesting for something.

I used tech here as a case study because it's my niche.
I'm a student of Uniport so I can clearly understand how blogging and school work can weigh you down.
Here are 5 strategies I use to reduce the stress.


1. Don't Search For News, Let The News Come To You
This is the best way to get latest updates without stressing yourself and going round tons of websites to get stories. An RSS feed reader can help you do this. Simply add the feed URL of all the top sites in your niche to the feed reader. Once there's a new story you get it instantly. No stress.



2. Schedule Posts For The Future
Assuming you have a lot of lectures during the week and you won't have enough chance to make posts every day you can simply make the posts on weekends then schedule it to post at any day of the week. Blogger and WordPress have this feature, it'll help you keep your readers updated while you attend to other relevant activities.


3. Let The Internet Work For You
You may wonder how you'll be able to share your posts if you schedule posts. It's very simple
I don't bother myself about sharing posts unless if I want to share it on Instagram or Google Plus Communities. Use IFTTT to automatically share your blog posts to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and a whole lot of other websites. If you have a Facebook group, Hootsuite can handle the posting on the group.


4.Get Someone To Help You Run Your Blog

Automation can do everything for you but a human touch always stands out from work done by just computers. It's quite possible your RSS feed reader may not cover everything you need to know because you didn't add as many sites as possible. In this case, you can employ someone to post for you either on a weekly or daily basis if you have the cash. You can also offer the person an incentive like free data subscription every month.



5.Set A Schedule For Replying To Comments
You won't be on the PC or Phone 24/7. I hardly use my laptop to blog these days. I find it easier using my smartphone so it's possible you may also like using your smartphone. Set a specific time schedule to reply to Comments. This will keep your readers engaged and know when to come back and get a reply to their questions.


This is my 5 point strategy of reducing blogging stress as a student. It helps me have time for myself and school as well.
Hope you learnt something new today. I'd like to know ways you're using to reduce the blogging stress?

phemmyutd:
I was never a fan of this pastor, but after watching this video I was forced to check history of this MMM man history on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mavrodi


I pity those involving in this scheme, any day MMM reaches it target, that's the end

OmoIyaMero:
I agree with this man on this. But funny people are too myopic. Imagine Akure pple not voting their own son cos they feel jegede is a 3rd term agenda. Fashola succeeded Tinubu and it was not a 3rd term agenda. I wish Ondo state the best anyway. Pray Aketi won't be another Jonathan to Buhari theory. Ak'adiye ta, a fo'wo r'awo. Aja n lo'so, a re ra obo.

everozone:
Hamzyluv,those countries u mentioned had since fashioned out measures to address their challenges but Buhari and his economic team are in disarray,confused and in the habit of blaming everybody including God.They should get down to work.Period.

everozone:
Hamzyluv,u made a gud pt here n i commend u 4 dat.Bt permit me 2 inform u wit due respect dat PMB is a bunch of incompetent president.If GEJ had won dat electn tingz wouldnt av gon dis bad cos by d luk of our economy nw we knw dat GEJ is beta dan PMB

everozone:
Nig. economy was robust wen PDP was in charge.PMB's policies brought d mess

kawkab:
Nice one from the senate.

Though there are other institutions offering course in transport as posited by Minister Amaechi, they are not degree awarding. These institutions are Maritime Academy, Oron-Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria.

Maritime Academy is essentially a merchant Navy Training programme offering HND while the NITT Kaduna offering courses in Transportation Technology and Management leading to HND.

If the Maritime University Okerenkoko is properly structured and positioned it would thrive and offer quality programmes. Presently there is only one of such institution in West Africa; The Regional Maritime University, Teshie-Ghana. The Maritime University can affiliate and collaborate with similar institution in Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore. These are nations with well developed seafaring and ship building culture that rivals that of the western nations.so because Bill passed second reading now we should be dancing skelewu ? even if the whole house pass the said bill, President still need to apend his signature before it bcom law here in my dear country ..... pls tell me, Deputy Senate President passed 20 bills in a single day ........... how many did Bubu appended since assumed office , or GEJ passed during his tenure?? Nigeria what a funny country ...... we needs to secede and come back later to form New Nigeria like Germany

Technically the University can partner with Nigerdock-Lagos and other EPC (Exploration, Production and Construction) companies involved in the Oil and gas Industry. The Nigeria Content Development Bill has helped a lot of indigenous firms to build local capacity in the construction and management of equipment for the oil industry.

Finally Amaechi's excuse that the area where the university is safe cannot hold water. There is still the University of Maiduguri in Maiduguri, Ramat Poly, Maiduguri irrespective of the Boko Haram crisis.

henrydadon:


look at what ameachi have been reduce to..

okorocha is following in the same disastrous direction

shortgun:
The Governor is correct.
Federal Govt. Can't probe state Govt.
The state is a federating unit, with every apparatus of Govt in place....check and balances should happen at the state level.

The Governor is the "President" of a state. It will be counterproductive if agencies of the Federal govt begin to bully and order Governors around.

AnalyticEngine:
All you people condemning the man for committing suicide are very ignorant to say the least. I have felt so suicidal and I can authoritatively tell u that not all are cowards. Some know their loved ones will be hurt but they strongly feel they're better off without them. You condemn because you have 2 to 3 square meals. There are people that don't get up to 10k in a month. You condemn because you don't have cancer or any incurable disease. You condemn because you are to a great extent educated and so have some degree of hope. There are people that really want to work but just cannot find what to do. Try staying 10 years without admission to the university or 5-6 years unemployed and you might know what depression and frustration is. You condemn because you think you are wise, but in reality, you are ignorant and have zero experience

NIGHTMAREOO7:
Buhari u will suffer

fellis:
Why don't these people just build factories and industries instead to create jobs for youth? What purpose is this hotel serving towards making Nigeria a better country?

bukster:
Actually statistics show that there are more men in Nigeria than women. The ratio is 1.01 man per 1 woman.
Here is the link: http://www.indexmundi.com/nigeria/demographics_profile.html
By marrying two wives you are the one who is being selfish because now less men will have a chance of marrying women.

krendo:
No 2 people in the world have the same finger prints

It should be easy to test the finger prints to see if they are repeating!

Nigeria can stop rigging if we are serious!

IamNawty:
Second wife..! Chaii.. Dats y I can't marry a Muslim guy oooo

AustineE1:
...'an uncomfiremed sources in APC said that because of the internal crisis in the ruling APC party,PMB may most likely join APGA inother to win 2019 presidential electons.'
If Obiano joins APC,i can assure you he cannt win his ward in Agulere in Anambra North. It is akin to a political suicide,this is Anambra the soul of Eastern Nigeria.

Paschalparix:
HND is just a national and not international diploma. This is where it usually gets trashed by B.Sc. The two no be mate.

Chigold101:
I remember GEJ will always speak to encourage the players.

I remember GEJ will always give the coaches personal support during competetions.

I remember so many things GEJ did to encuorage our football teams.

I wonder why change agent Buhari is this wicked.

If they are his children wnt he give them their allwances.

I miss GEJ

ClassCaptain:
She would be founded in jesus name