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Starting a successful real estate website is not only the surest way to boost your real estate business and upgrade your game as an agent or investor…

it’s also one of the easiest ways to establish your online presence and boost your business growth.

Most people don’t realize this.

Of course. Even where you don’t have a strong offline structure, with a good real estate website, you can get your real estate business up and running almost without any difference.

Now the reason I’m saying this is because according to this report by NAR and Google, for instance, real estate searches on Google have grown by 22 percent per year. Surprised right? I was surprised as well.

To even buttress the need to get online, the report further holds that 90 percent of home buyers in the US searched online before actually buying a house.

Now the truth is, whether you’re in Antarctica (pun intended) or in New York City, majority of the people looking for real estate in the 21st century are doing that online.

So whether you have a good offline presence or not, you definitely need a strong online presence for your real estate business if you want to gain greater traction.

Alright.

With all these said, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that it’s very important you get a real estate website as a real estate investor. Because you need it.

Of course, if you don’t need a real estate website for displaying your property, showing off promos, and getting to convince clients for a meet up, you’ll definitely need it to push sales.

Now here are steps to get a real estate website.
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1. Get a domain name. [/b]The first thing you’ll need to work on before getting your real estate website designed is a domain (link to what is a domain name) name.

So you’ll first of all settle for a domain name that’s in tune with your brand and pay for it.

If you already have an established offline presence, you may not need a domain name different from your brand name.

So you just go register with the business name you already have. This will help your already existing customers to find you online more easily.

Where you don’t want to use your current business name as your domain name for any reason, you can get a new domain name.

Also if your current business name has been taken and you still want to maintain it as a domain name, you can settle for alternatives.

This could be by way of using a domain name extension different from the general .com like .us, .uk, .co.uk, .ng etc (making sure it reflects your country) or adding something unique to the domain name.

2. Get a Web Host and Hosting plan. A web host is a company that uses technology to enable your website stay accessible online.

The hosting plan comes in different packages based on the need of individual website owners.

When you’re done picking a domain name, you can then choose a hosting plan that will be suitable for your needs.

Now before choosing a hosting plan, you’ll want to consider the kind of real estate website you want to build.

For example, if you’re a big real estate dealer with huge properties to be uploaded on the website, you’ll have to consider using a web hosting plan that can support that.

If you can’t do this alone, you can get a website designer to help you choose the best hosting package that will work for you, based on your needs.

[b]3. Get your website built. [/b]After your web hosting plan is set, the next thing to consider is to get onto building your real estate website.

How’s this done?

You can get to build your real estate business website yourself, if you’re really savvy with the web development technology.

Otherwise you can get a reliable web agency like victorwinners.com to save you the stress and get your real estate property website ready in days.

So what do you go for? The choice is yours.

Alright. Moving on…

You may decide to have your real estate website developed from the scratch for more customizations.

This will require an advanced knowledge both for management and set up. And also the cost would be higher.

You may also want to use a more simplified software that will get your site up with all necessary technology.


The whole thing depends on you, your needs and your budget.

But in any case, the goal should be to set up a modest website that will help you achieve your dreams of expanding your real estate business online.

4. How to promote your real estate business online.

Now after your website is set up, the next thing is to work on promoting your real estate business online.

This is where the real work comes in.

Because your effort here is what is going to determine whether your business will be seen online or not.

So you start with a marketing strategy.

Your real estate marketing strategy should be able to guide you on how to evolve a renown online real estate brand that will get deals online.

Alright.

So there are certain ways you can promote a website online.

From advertising to content marketing (link) and social media marketing, promoting a real estate website needs a complete post on its own but I’ll make it brief.

So I will try to list out the steps in no particular order below.

* Optimize for Search Engines. [/b]With the matching keywords, be sure to optimize your website for the search engine.

If done right, this can help in bringing up the website via search engine page when someone searches for something similar to the keywords you use.
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* Get Social. Set up social media profiles and link them to your website.

It could be two or three or more.

Be sure it’s something you can manage. Because you’ll need to be updating the platforms with content on a regular basis.
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* Create irresistible and useful content. [/b]Create content related to what your target audience will be looking for and share same across your platforms.
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* Host free seminars. Th[/b]is can be done online or offline. Although most people utilize offline.

Hosting a free seminar will help you advice potential home buyers on what’s best for them.

In fact you could use it as some sort of get together or something, to further get the word out for your brand.
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* Ask for testimonial from existing clients an[/b]d share them across your platforms.

* Use paid adverts. Utilizing paid advertising like pay per click is one of the fastest ways to drive relevant prospects to your website through search engines.
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* Use Social media ads. [/b]Another paid ads you can utilize is the social media advertising.

Say Facebook for instance, with such advertising, you can get publicity for your website.

* Besides the strategies mentioned here, there are also other real estate marketing strategies like blogging, content marketing across other blogs etc.

Understand, to a large extent, the success of your website is going to depend on how many people are seeing the site.

So it’s very important you get your online marketing strategies right.

Now what’s next?

The next thing for you after reading up to this point is to get a real estate website for your business.

Otherwise, you can share this post for someone that will need it.

With the advent of the internet, the most important thing right now is that you don’t need to have huge capital before starting a real estate business.

With a real estate website gotten right, any ordinary Realtor or agent can go a long way.

This is the good news your real estate agent wants to hear as we get into 2019.

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This is right down from my heart to fellow hustlers like me who go out there to do stuff that will get them survive in this country against all odds.

Before we start, I won’t paint pictures. So don’t expect to see much flowery words here.

Doing online business is hard. Especially in a country like Nigeria and most African countries.

From struggling with intermittent power outages, to network issues and people thinking that you deserve peanuts for your hard work, the Nigerian digital hustler has a lot to deal with.

I won’t even talk about the issue of Google and other digital behemoths discriminating against us. That’s a gist for another day.

But one thing I want to really share with you today… Is that despite all these challenges, there are a handful of people who are still making some decent living out of their online business.

You see it is quite sad.

Unlike what you have in other places, only a few successful online hustlers from Nigeria do share some secrets of their success with other compatriots.

Most people hoard it. Some put it in e-books and sell to even people who can hardly earn enough.

Of course, I’m not canvassing gifting out stuff you’ve put effort to learn free to strangers. I have written and sold books too.

But I believe, there’s what we call giveback. And yes if everyone were to hoard every little thing they learned, humanity would never evlove.

Going back to our topic.., Are you going through tough times in your business as an online business owner in Nigeria?

Here are certain things you’ll have to consider to help you stay focus until you bounce back.

Understsnd everything is not exactly what people say it is

Now this refers to two things.

1: Starting and succeeding in online business is not as simple as those digital marketers tell you it is. So get prepared for both good and bad days.

2: It is not everyone that tell you they are successful that are actually successful as online business owners. Don’t get surprised when people pass around unnecessary social proof.

The last time I checked, there are still processes to influence ordinary things as social media likes, downloads etc.

Now this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have scheduled target and measure your success from time to time with the competition.

What it means is that you should measure your success based on your goals and resources instead of your competition else you will soon run out of business.

Of course I’m not saying people don’t get genuine likes. I’m saying you should focus on building and growing your business more than you focus on comparing it with other people’s business.

Understand yourself, Differentiate between Hobby and Business.

You must understand yourself, the reason you’re in this hustling game, where you’re going from here and how you’re going to hustle until you break even.

After that, you must understand the difference between hobby and business.

Remember that while you can do your hobby anytime you want it, you must target your online business with foresight, setting up a reliable system that people can trust.

Systemize your hustle.

When i talk about systems this is what i mean… You must set up a framework that is easily recognizable by your potential clients.

If your digital hustling is about writing for instance, your readers and potential clients should be able to know the exact time they’ll find your content to read when they check you up.

If it’s about design or other services, they should be able to tell when and how their jobs will be delivered.

They should be able to identify the way you do your stuff from others.

Unlike your hobby which you’re doing whenever you have time, basically for the love of it, your online business should be distinguished and attended to as something that your aspirations and that of so many others will depend on.

You should be able to see it as your work. Have a time table for carrying out certain tasks.

It’s not that you will not fall out of the dateline sometimes. But a commitment to sticking to the systematic schedule will really help you gain traction with your online hustling.

Write down all the specific activities you do as part of your digital hustling. Allocate days and hours for each of them based on your schedule.

Divide up your time for Capital and Recurrent tasks.

As an online business owner in Nigeria, time is one of the most valuable resources you’ll ever have.

Unfortunately, like every other person, you have the same 24 hours we all have in a day.

So managing your time effectively is going to be one of the greatest decider of your success.

You’re going to have to divide your time into lucrative and non-lucrative hours.

Yes. You’ll can even divide your time into hours you’ll have electricity and hours you won’t. And even times you’ll have steady network etc.

Let’s call this division, Recurrent and Capital hours.

Every single day, your recurrent hours are going to be spent on those tasks you’re going to do over and again which might not add direct increments to the money you’re making through online hustling.

You can call this the normal day to day activities like sleeping, doing house chores, attending non work related meetings, hooking up family and friends etc.

Your capital hours on the other hand are going to be spent on everything you do that will in one way or the other increase your hustling. Or add more bucks to your bank account.

These capital tasks may include: Writing your blog and social media posts, Promoting these posts, Building and tweaking your brand reputation, Writing free books and hosting other free stuffs, Reaching out to other influencers, Spending time on groups and forums, Choosing and building relationships with possible leads, Marketing your hustle across different platforms etc.

You have to be able to help yourself first by setting up a system for your online busines activities before you get worked out.

Because the prelude to getting discouraged as a digital entrepreneur is the moment you start feeling you have done so much yet there’s very little results to show for it.

This is sometimes caused by spending time doing the wrong things. And yes, so many times this is not even obvious.

You work hard and long with the hope that everything is going to work perfectly because you’ve got it all well laid out but it turns out you didn’t.

This kills your momentum faster than anything especially considering the effort you put to work and the high expectation you had.

So split up your working hours and stay focused on the scheduled task for each hour.

Understand. The moment you lose your enthusiasm, your audience will notice it.

So you’ll have to define your capital hours and it’s assigned tasks. Give them time tags. Schedule each of them into your daily, weekly, monthly time table and stick to it.

This will help you to a large extent. It will also help your audience, giving your hustle a systematic approach.

Don’t cast all your eggs in one basket.

As someone new to digital hustling, don’t put all your eggs in one basket by quitting your job or whatever you’re doing to focus entirely on your hustle.

No. It’s not advisable. It’s better you start your digital business as a side gig. Focus on what’s already paying your bills while building up your hustle by the side.

You should only focus fully on your hustle when it has started generating income to the point you’re confident it can sustain you.

Giving up on other sources of income before your digital hustle kicks off can be disastrous.

It will lead you to expecting an instant returns on investment (based on the effort you’re putting in) even when it’s not yet time.

And when these expectations are not realised immediately, you’ll be discouraged.

This is one of the main reasons so many digital businesses fold up, after the first six months .

If you want to survive past your first year, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Keep your daily job while building your digital business.

Don’t micro niche your hustle immediately

If you can do more than one aspect of digital hustling, do it. Supposing you’re a graphic designer and you can also do digital photography, add it up.

Whatever complementary service you can add to your digital hustling, add it up. It’s going to help you. Especially at the initial stage.

You can then micro niche your hustle to a particular aspect of the business you want at a time you might have gathered clients and made enough to help you target a particular micro niche.

Some other established digital hustlers are going to ask you to niche down.

I can’t say that. You have to forget about focusing on a very tiny audience right now because it won’t help you.

As a start up digital entrepreneur, you need people to know you. You need recommendations etc. So you’ll have to reach out to as many people as you can.

When you feel satisfied with your established client base, you can then focus on a few more sophisticated target audience.

Brace up for the down times.

When it comes to owning an online business, it’s not always “Hallelujah”.

Ok. Let’s not scare ourselves!

Digital hustling is almost like your offline business. You’re going to start up, grow, expand and scale.

You have to understand that all business go through different stages of growth. So brace up and get ready for the time your business will undergo these stages of growth.

Understand, running an online business in Nigeria is slightly different from doing your business offline.

So there are things you won’t take for granted if you’re planning to have a successful outing.

Things like honesty should form part of your value system. I had to write that boldly..

Because you’ll have to do more than enough to get people who’ll probably never meet you physically, to trust you with their money.

Keep a clear picture of where you’re going with your hustle.

Be able to create a convincing picture of what you want to achieve in the long run, where you’ll be in 2-5 years and what you’re going to achieve when you get there.

Keep this picture in view during those days you get discouraged. Hang it somewhere you can see it more often.

Have mentors: People who are already successful as digital hustlers. They will show you the rope and cheer you up during tough times.

Understand that commitment is not the absence of other options. It’s a decision to stick to something you believe in… Because you know it’s going to turn out successful.

So when you feel discouraged, don’t begin to think oh maybe I’m not committed anymore.

Acknowledge that feeling as part of the process and then move onto achieving success with your digital hustle.

I know you’ll succeed. Yes. Because i was once like you but today, I’m advising and consulting for other online hustlers.

You’re definitely going to grow a successful digital business if you use these principles here. And like i said, i know you will succeed.

Need more on how to succeed with your hustle? Let’s talk.

https://www.victorwinners.com/7-keys-to-survive-and-scale-your-online-busine-in-nigeria/

Story story.
We all know the truth

Lol.
How?
When?
With what strategies?

We're still trying to recover from this scam and you're here saying this

I love Prof Moghalu.

Amongst all the candidates we got here, this guy and Oby have got ideas and strategies that could take us really far.

It's just sad both of them are not going anywhere. That's the reality

Nice move from our incoming President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

So you want to start a food blog right? Great idea.

Trust me, food is one of the most evergreen industry that can never run dry today.

So starting a food blog is a very smart Idea.

I mean compared to many other niches, people eat food everyday.

And as a matter of fact, people’s taste for different foods will continually change with time and they’ll definitely need new food.

Besides tastes, the world is now a global village. And this means that globalization will get people moving to New places and therefore there will always be a need to learn how to cook a new food.

So that’s why if you’re a foodie or a food fan, there’s good news for you.

You can actually start a food blog, grow your audience and make money online.

Oh yes that’s what you’re going to learn here.

Even if you’re doing it just for the passion, in this post, you’re going to learn everything about how to start a food blog, from introduction to setting up your food blog and then promoting and making money with it.

Alright with that said, let’s get into the main deal.

What exactly do you need to start a successful food blog?

Decide to be successful.

The number one thing you’ll need to start s successful food blog is a strong desire to succeed.

No matter how hardworking you are on something without a very strong desire to be successful, you can hardly get anything meaningful done.

So you’ll come out with some really strong desire to succeed before you get to work.

What Food do I blog about?

After that you decide what food niche do I want to blog about?

As you might have noticed, there are many different kind of foods so you can’t literally get to blog about all the food there is.

You can decide to write a food blog about the Chinese cuisine, African cuisine, American cuisine, Veggies etc.

For instance some of the all time popular food blogging needs includes:
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Continental dishes,
Oriental foods,
Fast food,
Local Dishes,
Etc.

There are also other specialty food like that that can only be prepared by a few specialised people.

If you know about how to prepare such rare meals that’s widely acceptable, you can settle with it.

Take your time and write down at least 10 of these popular food niches.

After that, decide on the one you are very good at where you can also produce a good number of food recipes, blog posts, videos and other content.

Be sure you settle for something you feel really comfortable with and start from there.

Remember that whether you’re all so familiar with the topic of your food blog or not, there are actually people who are in search of how to prepare the particular kind of meal.

What’s the plan like?

Oh yes it’s cliche the moment you fail to plan, you’re already planning to fail. There are no two ways about it.

In fact here’s one reason why so many new bloggers feel tired of blogging after a few months – failure to plan.

So when you plan, you contemplate everything. You also set goals. And then try to put in some possible steps that will help you get to OR get across some issues.

When this is done it make the whole journey a bit simplified. Because at each point through your food blogging journey, your plan guides you on what action or step to take.

So from when you get some writers block to when you feel you don’t know where to promote your content and even how you should make money with your blog, your blogging plan should take care of all that before hand.

What I mean is that if you get to a writers block for instance, your blogging plans which also embodies your content strategy should be able to give you a clue on what to write about.

Setting up your food blog.

Here’s where the main work gets started.

All the other time you’ve been dreaming and planning. Now is when to get to work.

The first thing you need here is your domain name.

Your domain name is like your business name.

Make it nice and easily relatable to what you’re doing.

You can purchase a domain name online from a reliable web hosting company.

After purchasing a domain name, go ahead and get a web hosting account before heading over to set up your blog.

Set up the blog.

Now as you embark on setting up your food blog, one thing you’ll need to consider is the platform.

You’ll want to ask yourself, what platform will I be blogging on?

Now, the thing is, there are so many blogging platforms out there that are easy and simple to use for beginners. Which you’ll have to choose one.

Although personally I’d suggest you go with WordPress. Yes. Because WordPress is not only Free and very popular, it’s one platform you can get started as a beginner without much stress.

And yes according to statistics, 30 percent of the entire internet is run by a wordpress platform.

And it doesn’t just end there, every single day, over 500 web platform is built on wordpress.

So with all these stats you’ll definitely consider starting your food blog with wordpress.

Alright so after settling to build your food blog with wordpress, you can now go ahead and install the platform on your Web Hosting account.

After installing wordpress, set up the blog with the the design you want, get the basic plugins installed and you’ll be ready to go live with your first blog post.

In case you have any issues or you don’t want to go through the stress of setting up your blog, you can hire us at Victor Winners to do just that.

We’ll get you a responsive blog in a few days, get it optimized for search engines and train you on how to start up as a smart blogger even if you don’t have a single blogging experience.

Alright Back to the topic!

If you’ve decided to set up your blog by yourself, be sure to get the security up tight. Also back up your blog in case of eventualities.

It’s something we do for our clients. I also emphasize this for my readers because It’s very important.

Write your first blog post.

Now that your food blog on wordpress has been set up, it’s time to write your first blog post.

So what do you want to write about?

OK let’s call this writing tips for new food bloggers.

I usually see food blogging as something that’s not too difficult compared to other blogging niches.

Because depending on your niche as a food blogger, even the food you eat for the week could serve as a good blogging topic to start with.

So for your first blog post you can start with telling us why you started the blog. Narrate your story and share it with your audience.

When you’ve successfully done this, you might have successfully gotten your mind through the first hurdle of blogging.

As a matter of fact, one of my favorite blogging tips for new food bloggers is to go on a journey…

Especially after your very first post on the blog.

The said journey could be your own meal for the week. I mean if you’ve on a particular regimen for instance, you can take your readers through your meals during the week.

So your blogging could start with a focus on issues like from why you’re taking the particular meal to how you cook it, the condiments and benefits of the meal to the body etc.

These could serve as some head ups.

The journey can also focus on a particular eating recipe for people aiming to attend certain health goals.

If you’re focusing on some more advanced food niche, then you can take up a particular food in the niche and blog about it for the week (or even month) in details…

Writing about everything from why the food is eaten, to the condiments, how it’s prepared, why it’s prepared that way, how it’s cooked, served and even how it should be served.

By the time you divide this posts into these sub headings, you would have gotten enough stuff to write about for days or even weeks.

Some further blogging tips for food bloggers.

Aim for at least a goal of 600-700 words per blog post. It will help in your Search engine optimization purposes.

You can also focus on long form content. And when you do don’t forget to include your target Keywords.

If possible, create video posts alongside your text content. A good number of your audience will want some videos of the stuff you’re talking about.

Don’t worry. With some plugins you can easily link your videos from YouTube to your blog.

Also try to create Infographics for your posts where possible. It can be of immense help to your readers.

How to promote your food blog. And get traffic.

To get continuous stream of readers, you won’t only write blog posts, you’ll need to promote your stuff really well.

This is where content marketing comes in.

You can start right there with your social media.

Get your blog a Facebook page, Pinterest board, Instagram and maybe twitter account.

Start posting stuff to your followers on these platforms. Be sure you have a link back to your blog.

From time to time, share links to your blog posts on these social media accounts.

It both brands you and gives you a handful of readers back to your blog.

Comment on and share your opinion and posts on other platforms like social media groups, web forums etc.

Host events (either virtual or offline) an[/b]d volunteer to speak and teach others for free at food events in your niche.

Be sure you attend such events with your blog branded materials and encourage participants to visit your blogs for more.

Write guest blog posts on other top blogs within and outside your niche.

Write books about your niche and publish them on Amazon and other places.

Oh yes you don’t need to have a PhD before writing any book. And yes of course you can start with developing a book out of your blog posts. It’s that easy.

In any case, writing and publishing a good book in your niche is a good way to gain loads of endorsement for your expertise and free publicity too.

Set up an email list. With an email list, you can always get back to your visitors and get them to visit your blog again.

[b]How to make money with A food blog.

There are many ways to make money with your food blog. I’ll discuss some of them below…

Sell ads space and accept sponsored posts. Create some space on your blog where people can pay to advertise on the blog.

It can be a page, a post pinned on home page or a banner made visible on the blog.

Write catchy content that will get people to want to advertise on your food blog.

With this also, you can accept relevant sponsored posts where you publish on your blog and get paid.

Use 3rd party ads. Although I don’t personally subscribe to this a lot….

If you’re comfortable with third party ads you can make money with your food blog by applying for third party advertising like Adsense etc.

Join affiliate programs. You can also join niche related affiliate programs and start making money with your food blog.

This is another popular way anyone can make money with a food blog.

Write cook books. Make paid cooking videos. These too can help you make money online as a food blogger.

Create members only subscriptions. When you grow your blog to a good number of readers, depending on the depth of your stuff, you can create a membership area where people will have to subscribe before reading.

It’s a very good way to make money with your food blog although it’s not very popular.

By the way you can also write for some food blogs and get paid for it if you’re interested.

Here’s where I want to conclude today’s tutorial on how to start a food blog and make money online.

Remember you can begin your food blogging journey with a realistic plan, a blog, a stream of consistent and high quality blog posts, promotion of your food blog starting from the social media. And then monetization.

Alright.

So now that you’ve learned about how to start a food blog and make money online, what are you waiting for?

Like I said, you can start right away with your food blog and grow it to prominence all by yourself.

It’s all about getting your mind and yourself ready to be successful

Or if you’re ready for an easier way to do it, then let us help you.

From setting up your blog to giving you all the tips and skills you need to grow your blog faster, we’re here to help you.

With us, you can never blog alone.
https://www.victorwinners.com/how-to-start-a-food-blog-and-make-money-online-complete-guide/

myners007:
Does he means his wife specializes in giving him different STYLES.

Chai

A domain name is the name of your website. It's the name anyone can use to locate your website on the internet.

Like your home address, a domain name helps people find your website on the internet.

Domain names are formed by the rules of the Domain Name System (DNS)

There are both a domain name and sub domain name. For instance, a domain name ends with the suffix .com, .org etc.

A sub domain name ends with something immediately before the dot com symbol.

so for instance a www.victorwinners.com is a full domain name. While www.journal.victorwinners.com and vickwin. are both sub domains.

There are different kinds of domain names. The first set are called Top Level Domain.

A top level domain is a domain name at the top hierarchy of the domain name system. It's divided into generic top level domain name and country specific top level domain name.

Generic top level domain name (gTLD) are the most popular kind of domain names. It usually ends with the suffix, .com, .org, .net,  .info, .biz etc.

While a country specific top level or country code domain name represents a country and usually ends with a two lettered word.

So for instance if I used a country code top level domain name (ccTLD) for the US, we'd have : victorwinners.com.us. and Nigeria's would be victorwinners.ng etc.

Domain name extensions and when it's used.

.org : Best for organizations.
.com: Best for commercial businesses. Although this is the most widely used domain name extension.
.info: For information websites.
.net: For network organizations.
.edu. For educational purposes.
.mil: For military purposes.
.ca (Canada): For websites targeted at Canadians.
.ng (Nigeria): For websites targeted at Nigerians.

Before getting a website or blog, one of the most important things you must fix is a domain name.

So you'll have to settle for a domain name before proceeding with your web design.

Now you should note that it's not just about your domain name, the domain name extension matters too.

So before going for a domain name, instead of going for the default domain name extension, (in this case, the .com), find out your target audience and then select a suitable domain name based on that audience.

So if you're setting up a business website targeted at Nigerians you can go for the .ng extension. Or the .com.ng etc.

Same goes for a website targeted at people in the UK. The .uk and .co.uk are your best extensions.

Using the country code domain name to target a particular country helps the search engine in showing your website to the right audiences.

Same goes with a blog. Though most blogs are left at the default dot com extension, If your blog is focused on a country specific audience, target the domain extension for the particular country.

https://www.victorwinners.com/what-is-a-domain-name/

You've been planning to start a blog?

Come right in let's gather here.

Trust me, food is one of the most evergreen industry you can get started with. I can bet my ba**s on this.

Of course it's an open secret there are very few food blogs in Nigeria compared to other niches.

So starting a food blog is not just a brilliant idea, compared to many other niches, people eat food everyday.

And as a matter of fact, people’s taste for different foods will continually change with time and they’ll definitely need new food. So why not grab some popcorn and start telling people about this your cooking hobby?

Besides tastes, the world is now a global village. And this means that globalization will get people moving to New places so there will always be a need to learn how to cook a new food.

So that’s why if you’re a foodie or a food fan, you can actually start a food blog, grow your audience and make money online.

OK. I know you're surprised at the make money part. Relax your nerves just yet. That's also what you’re going to learn here.

Even if you’re doing it just for the passion, in this post, you’re going to learn everything about how to start a food blog, from introduction to setting up your food blog and then promoting and making money with it.

Alright with that said, let’s dig in.

What exactly do you need to start a successful food blog?

Decide to be successful.

The number one thing you’ll need to start s successful food blog is a strong desire to succeed.

No matter how hardworking you are on something without a very strong desire to be successful, you can hardly get anything meaningful done.

So you’ll come out with some really strong desire to succeed before you get to work.

What Food do I blog about?

After that you decide what food niche do I want to blog about?

As you might have noticed, there are many different kind of foods so you can’t literally get to blog about all the food there is.

You can decide to write a food blog about the Nigerian delicacies, Chinese cuisine, African cuisine, American cuisine, Veggies etc.

For instance some of the all time popular food blogging needs includes:

Continental dishes,
Oriental foods,
Fast food,
Local Dishes,
Etc.

There are also other specialty food like that that can only be prepared by a few specialised people.

If you know about how to prepare such rare meals that’s widely acceptable, you can settle with it.

Take your time and write down at least 10 of these popular food niches.

After that, decide on the one you are very good at where you can also produce a good number of food recipes, blog posts, videos and other content.

Be sure you settle for something you feel really comfortable with and start from there.

Remember, whether you’re all so familiar with the topic of your food blog or not, there are actually people who are in search of how to prepare the particular kind of meal.

What’s the plan like?

Oh yes it’s cliche the moment you fail to plan, you’re already planning to fail. There are no two ways about it.

In fact here’s one reason why so many new bloggers feel tired of blogging after a few months – failure to plan.

So when you plan, you contemplate everything. You also set goals. And then try to put in some possible steps that will help you get to OR get across some issues.

When this is done it make the whole journey a bit simplified. Because at each point through your food blogging journey, your plan guides you on what action or step to take.

So from when you get some writers block to when you feel you don’t know where to promote your content and even how you should make money with your blog, your blogging plan should take care of all that before hand.

What I mean is that if you get to a writers block for instance, your blogging plans which also embodies your content strategy should be able to give you a clue on what to write about.

Setting up your food blog.

Here’s where the main work gets started.

All the other time you’ve been dreaming and planning. Now is when to get to work.

The first thing you need here is your domain name.

Your domain name is like your business name.

Make it nice and easily relatable to what you’re doing.

You can purchase a domain name online from a reliable web hosting company.

After purchasing a domain name, go ahead and get a web hosting account before heading over to set up your blog.

How to set up your food blog in Nigeria.

Now as you embark on setting up your food blog, one thing you’ll need to consider is the platform.

You’ll want to ask yourself, what platform will I be blogging on?

Now, the thing is, there are so many blogging platforms out there that are easy and simple to use for beginners. Which you’ll have to choose one.

Although personally I’d suggest you go with WordPress. Yes. Because WordPress is not only Free and very popular, it’s one platform you can get started as a beginner without much stress.

And yes according to statistics, 30 percent of the entire internet is run by a wordpress platform.

And it doesn’t just end there, every single day, over 500 web platform is built on wordpress.

So with all these stats you’ll definitely consider starting your food blog with wordpress.

Alright so after settling to build your food blog with wordpress, you can now go ahead and install the platform on your Web Hosting account.

After installing wordpress, set up the blog with the the design you want, get the basic plugins installed and you’ll be ready to go live with your first blog post.

In case you have any issues or you don’t want to go through the stress of setting up your blog, you can hire us at VictorWinners.Com to do just that.

We’ll get you a responsive blog in a few days, get it optimized for search engines and train you on how to start up as a smart blogger even if you don’t have a single blogging experience.

Alright Back to the topic!

If you’ve decided to set up your blog by yourself, be sure to get the security up tight. Also back up your blog in case of eventualities.

It’s something we do for our clients. I also emphasize this for my readers because It’s very important.

Write your first blog post.

Now that your food blog on wordpress has been set up, it’s time to write your first blog post.

So what do you want to write about?

OK let’s call this part writing tips for new food bloggers.

I usually see food blogging as something that’s not too difficult compared to other blogging niches.

Because depending on your niche as a food blogger, even the food you eat for the week could serve as a good blogging topic to start with.

So for your first blog post you can start with telling us why you started the blog. Narrate your story and share it with your audience.

When you’ve successfully done this, you might have successfully gotten your mind through the first hurdle of blogging.

As a matter of fact, one of my favorite blogging tips for new food bloggers is to go on a journey…

Especially after your very first post on the blog.

The said journey could be your own meal for the week. I mean if you’ve on a particular regimen for instance, you can take your readers through your meals during the week.

So your blogging could start with a focus on issues like from why you’re taking the particular meal to how you cook it, the condiments and benefits of the meal to the body and even how to prepare the meal for an occasion etc.

These could serve as some head ups.

The journey can also focus on a particular eating recipe for people aiming to attend certain health goals.

If you’re focusing on some more advanced food niche, then you can take up a particular food in the niche and blog about it for the week (or even month) in details…

Writing about everything from why the food is eaten, to the condiments, how it’s prepared, why it’s prepared that way, how it’s cooked, served and even how it should be served.

By the time you divide this posts into these sub headings, you would have gotten enough stuff to write about for days or even weeks.

Some further blogging tips for food bloggers in Nigeria.

Aim for at least a goal of 600-700 words per blog post. It will help in your Search engine optimization purposes.

You can also focus on long form content. And when you do don’t forget to include your target Keywords.

If possible, create video posts alongside your text content. A good number of your audience will want some videos of the stuff you’re talking about.

Don’t worry. With some plugins you can easily link your videos from YouTube to your blog.

Also try to create Infographics for your posts where possible. It can be of immense help to your readers.

How to promote your food blog. And get traffic.

To get continuous stream of readers, you won’t only write blog posts, you’ll need to promote your stuff really well.

This is where content marketing comes in.

You can start right there with your social media.

Get your blog a Facebook page, Pinterest board, Instagram and maybe Twitter account.

Start posting stuff to your followers on these platforms. Be sure you have a link back to your blog.

From time to time, share links to your blog posts on these social media accounts.

It both brands you and gives you a handful of readers back to your blog.

Comment on and share your opinion and posts on other platforms like social media groups, web forums etc.

Host events (either virtual or offline) [/b]and volunteer to speak and teach others for free at food events in your niche.

Be sure you attend such events with your blog branded materials and encourage participants to visit your blogs for more.

Write guest blog posts on other top blogs within and outside your niche.

[b]Write books about your niche [/b]and publish them on Amazon and other places.

Oh yes you don’t need to have a PhD before writing any book. And yes of course you can start with developing a book out of your blog posts. It’s that easy.

In any case, writing and publishing a good book in your niche is a good way to gain loads of endorsement for your expertise and free publicity too.

[b]Set up an email list. With an email list, you can always get back to your visitors and get them to visit your blog again.

How to make money with A food blog.

There are many ways to make money with your food blog. I’ll discuss some of them below…

Sell ads space and accept sponsored posts. Create some space on your blog where people can pay to advertise on the blog.

It can be a page, a post pinned on home page or a banner made visible on the blog.

Write catchy content that will get people to want to advertise on your food blog.

With this also, you can accept relevant sponsored posts where you publish on your blog and get paid.

Use 3rd party ads. [/b]Although I don’t personally subscribe to this a lot….

If you’re comfortable with third party ads you can make money with your food blog by applying for third party advertising like Adsense etc.
[b]
Join affiliate programs. You can also join niche related affiliate programs and start making money with your food blog.

This is another popular way anyone can make money with a food blog.
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Write cook books. Make paid cooking videos. Th[/b]ese too can help you make money online as a food blogger.

Create members only subscriptions. When you grow your blog to a good number of readers, depending on the depth of your stuff, you can create a membership area where people will have to subscribe before reading.

It’s a very good way to make money with your food blog although it’s not very popular.

By the way you can also write for some food blogs and get paid for it if you’re interested.

Here’s where I want to conclude today’s tutorial on how to start a food blog and make money online.

Remember you can begin your food blogging journey with a realistic plan, a blog, a stream of consistent and high quality blog posts, promotion of your food blog starting from the social media. And then monetization.

Alright.

So now that you’ve learned about how to start a food blog and make money online, what are you waiting for?

Like I said, you can start right away with your food blog and grow it to prominence all by yourself.

It’s all about getting your mind and yourself ready to be successful. And working towards this, every single day.

Or if you’re ready for an easier way to do it, then let us help you.

From setting up your blog to giving you all the tips and skills you need to grow your blog faster, we’re here to help you.

Alright so that's where we'll draw the curtain today.

Remember, whether as a side hustle or real business, you can start a food blog in Nigeria and around it successfully and your success will depend on your effort.

https://www.victorwinners.com/how-to-start-a-food-blog-and-make-money-online-complete-guide/

Nice one there

Lol

Slams ke. So Mr President is not aware that the democracy we have in the current 4th republic was fought and won for by some of these guys when he our dear president was busy being a minister in a dictator's government.

If I should ask, can someone please tell me what Mr. President did as one of the leading elites during the same era he's talking about.

Mtweetch! Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

So, that a website went out if service for a brief moment means that the web development agency that built it is incompetent right?

Looks like you don't understand the technicalities behind web development at all. Go and check it, major websites can and sometimes do actually get out of service once in a while. Either due to sudden and excessive surge in traffic or a minor technical issue.

Even Twitter once crashed in 2014 after Ellen DeGeneres posted a selfie that grossed over two million retweets. https://guardianlv.com/2014/03/ellen-degeneres-oscars-selfie-causes-twitter-to-crash/

Now tell me, does that make Twitter incompetent because their website crashed that once?

Don't ever use your personal and very remote circumstance to castigate a whole lot of hard working Nigerian Web Developers. It's wrong. It's more like saying there's no good lawyer in Nigeria because you've dealt with two bad lawyers.

I've met terrible Indian web developers. And even a few worse folks based in a developed place like the UK.

If you need a good and reliable service get ready to hire and pay a good company to get your job done. You can only get what you pay for. QED.

SavageMajor:
Mister man
Don't tell me sh*t
Go tell that to JAMB & UNIZIK

Thing is most of you Nigerians expect a 2Kobo job so instead of paying someone that's capable of giving you a good website you deserve, someone you can hold on to deliver quality jobs, you go for the cheap guys and expect miracles from quacks. Trust me, You only get what you pay for. It's as simple as that.

If you can pay a good sum to Indians to develop your website, why not pay same to a reputable Nigerian company and see if they can do that or not.

Stop patronizing quacks. Stop generalizing your personal experience. You can only get what you pay for. And yes, you can't get oranges out of an Apple tree.

SavageMajor:
Isn't this annoying??
when you tell some programmers to learn very well, they will begin to vex
nonsense people
and the so-called employers will not even care to check their site for errors
how will you check when you sorted to pass exams
IDIOTS

Like how's this a relevant news in Nigeria?

OK. Better.

I'd suggest you try a theme or plugin that will make the blog more mobile friendly while arranging your posts in a more chronological order.

ashiraf:
I used wordpress

Wait!

Is DBanj this short or is it that 2Baba is a very tall guy?

I don't understand.

Nice blog you got there with diverse content.

You need to make the blog a bit more mobile friendly as per the display on mobile gadgets.

What platform did you build the blog with?

ashiraf:
Nice Article, Thank u victor atleast a learnt something from you....pliz review my blog link in my signture and tell me how it is.

Nice blog you got there with diverse content.

You need to make the blog a bit more mobile friendly as per the display on mobile gadgets.

What platform did you build the blog with?

Cute!

More dollars fall on him.

Meanwhile I still wonder why most celebrities spend money on things like this. I don't understand if it has something to do with self esteem issues or just plain show off for blogs.

Which Kiss Daniel?

He's trending more than Tiwa Savage?

The number one question most entrepreneurs ask me is Victor, I don’t have traffic on my website.

Whenever I take a look at these websites, I’ll find out that most of them are updated fairly consistently.

On a normal day, you’d want to wonder, why they don’t get results even when they engage in consistent content marketing.

But on a further look, you’ll get to understand why marketers still fail generating traffic from content marketing even after putting in lots of effort and hours.

Now this is what I’m about to share with you in this post.

After reading this post you’re going to learn why content marketing fails to generate traffic to your blog and how to avoid this.

OK. So as you already know, content marketing is creating and sharing value added and consistent content in order to attract and retain a specific kind of audience so as to drive a well defined customer action.

One of these customer action could be to get readers back to your website, boost traffic, get leads, create brand awareness etc.

Most of the time, these things don’t happen. There are times when even if we write one of our best content it looks like we’re just wasting our time. Because it doesn’t get us the results.

Yes! For instance, we all know that the biggest need of every digital entrepreneur is to attract traffic to their platforms.

Whether you accept it or not. Inside of you, you need more people to visit your websites…

More eyes to see your services. And more people to buy from you.

Yes. We all desire this too. After all the major reason for being here is to provide value that will earn us value in return.

It’s sad. So many times most of us don’t achieve this dream of having more people visit our websites.

We struggle and struggle. And then find a way to just give up.

It happens. And if it’s happened to you too, you’re not an exception. Because it’s happened to me.

Before we proceed, I want to take your mind back to one thing I’ve always emphasized as regards content marketing…

That content marketing is a strategic effort directed towards a particular purpose.

With that said. I mean that each of your content is supposed to be strategically created and tied to a specific goal. And you are supposed to device a plan to achieve this goal.

Failure to do this is one reason why content marketing fails. It’s the reason most marketers produce great content yet they don’t get specific results in return.

Let’s break it down a bit.

Why content marketing fails to produce results.

The following are 7 unbelievable reasons why content marketing fails to generate traffic.


1. Inadequate planning. As a content marketer, your major job is to create outstanding content.

Now you don’t just wake up to start creating content because you feel like it.

This is what I used to do when I started. I later realized it was a complete waste of time. More like blogging aimlessly.

So as a business person you’ll have to first of all understand that this is your business. And you must take it as such.

As a part time coffee vendor for instance, you won’t wake up one day and prepare tea instead of coffee because you feel like selling tea on that day.

You sell coffee because that is what your clients know about you. And that’s the reason they buy from you.

This is the mindset you should bring into content marketing as well.

If you want to create a buzz for your blog with your content then Your content creation effort should be focused on creating the content that will be suitable for your audience.

And by doing this, you’ll have to understand your audience first.

And this gets us to the next reason why content marketing fails.

2. Producing content for the wrong audience. Just like a sugar vendor who tries to market Sugar to a diabetic patient, most marketers fail consistently because they are with the wrong audience.

Creating your content to the right audience is one of the first steps towards setting the stage for getting clients with your content.

And there’s no way you’ll market to the wrong audience and expect outstanding results. It doesn’t work.

So find out your audience. Know what they want. And tie your content marketing effort based on these needs. This will help you break the ice. Because you will be addressing their need. And they'll definitely want to come back to your blog.

[b]3. No content marketing strategy. [/b]Content marketing fails to generate traffic to your blog when there’s no content marketing strategy.

Now by strategy I mean the process by which you’ll market the content.

Your content marketing strategy should include things like the reason you create content, your goals for creating the content, your audience, your brand story, and the platforms you’re going to share these stories.

And you should be willing to formulate a content plan as per how you’ll write, share the content and the time these will be done.

Unfortunately, most brands don’t follow through this process…

Because it’s not only long and tiring, it’s time tasking.
[b]
4. Lack of proper marketing (promotion). [/b]Again one other major reason why content marketing fails is because there’s the issue of inadequate marketing.

So you write the content. Update it on your blog. And go back to bed. That’s all there is.

You wake up two days later, there's less than 20 views on the post. And then you begin to wonder what's wrong.

You see, things don't really work that way.

As a part time business owner without the luxury of a staff, you’ll need to take your content from your blog, YouTube etc to where your audience are gathered.

Take it to them there and bring them back to your platform. That’s where the marketing and promotion comes in.

The act of writing, producing and every other thing is content.
Marketing is what completes the art of content marketing.

And this is the process of spreading and promoting your content across the social media and various platforms. This is one crucial step that brings in traffic.

5. You don’t measure effectiveness of the content. [/b]One mistake most content marketers make that leads to epic failure of content marketing is that they don’t measure what works.

I can understand most people don’t know this. In fact I didn’t know this myself. But that’s what it was.

When I started out earlier, most of my content marketing effort failed because I didn’t measure the effectiveness of my content.

You’ll find out some of your content brings in more engagements to your website than others.

Some drive in more visitors, clients, etc. It’s your duty as a smart content marketer to find out why this is so. And if possible how you can repeat the positive results.

When this is done, the analysis will help you produce more of what works for you and your audience.

[b]6. You write boring content. One other major reason why most content marketing fails is that most bloggers produce boring stuff.

Sometimes they could even be producing high quality content. But the mode of producing it gets either too technical or too boring for the reader.

There’s this website I read that produces great content. But most of their stuff are always too bland and boring. I try to read them only when it’s very important.

This is what happens to most content creators too. People will quit reading your blog if they can’t connect with what you write.

This is why it’s always beneficial to write in an interesting way that’s suitable for your audience.

And If you find this difficult, you can join content marketing trainings where you can learn everything there is about content marketing and how to produce interesting content.
[b]
7. You don’t use the right keywords. [/b]As you know, keywords and search engine optimization are very important in helping people find your content.

Sadly most content marketers ignore search engine optimization.

Either because they don’t know how to do it. Or they just don’t care. And this is one reason content marketing fails to bring in reasonable traffic to your blog…

Because people can’t find your content when searching for it. On the internet.

You see content marketing doesn’t start and end with writing or producing great contents.

It’s your primary duty as content marketer, to make your content findable on the internet.

Now that you know the reason why content marketing fails, it is necessary to know how good content marketing works.

And the first step to engage in successful content marketing that will generate traffic for your blog is to avoid the mistakes listed out here.

Want to learn more? Read free stuff on the blog.

https://www.victorwinners.com/common-reasons-why-content-marketing-fails/

This may be a plan by the Tinubu camp to get the blackmail the party into accepting the new indirect primaries.

Personally, I think the indirect primary is not a bad idea only that Nigerian parties are not ready for that at the moment