5 Businesses That Can Be Launched From Your Internet Marketing Blog
By Matt Jones on May 27, 2008 in Blog Money
These businesses all build on your Internet marketing/blogging/MMO blog. As long as your blog has an online presence it can be used as a platform for launching other related businesses from, which have the potential to earn far more than the blog itself due to their scalability and cutting edge principles.
1. SEO, social media and blogging consultancy. Consultancies are often launched by bloggers when their expertise and reputation have reached a certain threshold. Examples of bloggers who are also consultants include Patrick Altoft, Chrisg and Glen Allsopp. Setting up a basic consultancy is extremely easy to do (finding clients is another), by simply creating a new page on your blog with details about your services and previous experience you can get started with this.
2. Mentoring membership site. These are slightly more complicated to set up and so have a higher barrier of entry resulting in fewer being created. Examples in the blogging niche include Blog Mastermind from Yaro Starak and Teaching Sells from Brian Clark.
3. E-Book selling. Giving away an e-Book for free in order to build an email list is one thing, but publishing e-Books (not just selling then as an affiliate) that can be sold is another beast entirely. The barrier for entry here varies as there are different strategies available for selling the e-Book (such as using affiliate networks or selling it yourself). E-Book selling is a revenue stream many bloggers have not explored because the natural progression is to start a blog, then build an email list using a free offering. The abundance of free e-Books means a paid for one has to be exceptionally good.
4. Launching a clone of a popular social site for a specific niche. For example BloggingZoom is one of the more popular pligg sites for bloggers. Launched by Courtney Tuttle and Blogger Unleashed. An example of this in another niche is Health Ranker which was launched by Israel from FatManUnleashed.
5. Email courses. These are very easy to set up with Aweber and a paypal account. However, these are also quite rare because it isn’t hard to make the extra leap to a full membership site which unlike an email course can more easily can be sold at a later date.
Conclusion
All those options have been, or are currently in existence. There are plenty of other expansion options such as creating a blog network or adding a forum, but they are just different sections to the same Website.
The only other option is to innovate!
What other business opportunities do you see for blogs?
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I hope to launch a couple of theses in the future based of the success of my new blog. Starting a blog leads to so many opportunities, mainly through networking with other bloggers.
Good luck with them, let me know how they go. You are right about networking, starting a blog in a niche is great way to enter it.
I´m selling memberships to marketing resources and sites with recurring monthly income.I concentrate on quality content and the monetization comes second.
Quality content is definitely a great thing to focus on!
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Great thoughts. I certainly hope my blog leads to one of the paths you mentioned. Thanks for sharing.
I hope people use these ideas too and improve upon them.
Great article but one thing you missed is a blog can be an effective advertising business. More and more bloggers are choosing to sell advertising directly rather than mess with affiliate programs to monetize their sites.
Otherwise, keep up the good work !!