How To Make Money With Your Feet Up On The Desk
A long time ago I was a young manager of a finance and loans company. I was working all hours and one day the Regional Director asked me why.

At the time I thought this was a strange question as I obviously wanted to make my office successful. He went on to explain how it isn’t what you do yourself that matters, but what you get others to do that’s important. In other words you delegate.

He actually said he wouldn’t mind if he came into my office unexpectedly and I was sitting with my feet up on my desk doing nothing - providing, of course, that the figures and stats were good.

This was an important lesson to me and this older, very experienced director taught me a lot about business and life in general.

Okay, what’s this got to do with making money from blogging?

I’ve said before that I don’t make as much money out of Mikes Money Making Mission as I do some of my other blogs. And that’s true, but only partially true.

I also make money out of MMMM because other bloggers sometimes sign up to affiliate and money making programs that I mention. On these I get a commission. So it’s really a case of what that director said, in as far as getting others to ‘work’ for you. This can make money and sometimes more than what you directly do yourself.

For example there’s no way I could make money with something like FrenchFriendFinder and KoreanFriendFinder. I don’t have sufficient visitors from those countries, but what I have managed to do is introduce affiliates living in France and Korea.

I’m also making money in the same way with similar programs such as JewishFriendFinder and SeniorFriendFinder. I have referred affiliates in those niches.

When we join any money making or affiliate program there is usually an option to be able to refer others into the business. This is sometimes something that many bloggers overlook.

If, however, you look at any of the well known big money makers you’ll notice that they are always mentioning various money makers with appropriate links.

It’s not necessarily what you do yourself, it’s what others can do for you. So put your feet up and earn some money!

Good luck,
Mike.

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Making Money On Blogs With Your Own Products
As you may have read in previous posts I’ve been playing around with various money making programs and reporting on them.

Then Matt Jones left a comment saying, “If you need something to promote, why not create and sell your own product?”

And Matt is absolutely right. Why flog someone elses stuff when you can make more money promoting your own products?

I think this idea goes right across the board of blogging. You could also ask yourself, for example: Why run AdSense ads when you could run your own? Why do sponsored posts through a third party when you could do your own?

The more this idea goes around in the mind the better it gets.

I do take ads direct on my celebrity blogs, and all of the profit is mine, but I must admit I haven’t promoted any of my own ‘products’.

Own products work. I know this from my magazine publishing days when I used to sell all sorts of manuals. Some of these were written by me and with others I bought the resale rights.

I know that How To information is big business and enormously profitable. The added beauty is that once you have created your manual / guide / ebook, or whatever, you have this for life.

In other words the same material can be reproduced for many years with perhaps just a few updates to keep everything current.

I used to have a portfolio of manuals and How To books, dozens and dozens of them, which I sold over and over again. When I felt they were getting a bit tired I then sold the reprint rights to others for added income.

So I think that Matt has really hit the nail on the head.

It’s fine to promote various affiliate and PPC programs but just think if all of the profits were yours and yours only.

This doesn’t mean that this is a quick way to riches. All blogs need the same basics to succeed. The main one being traffic. Quality traffic.

Own products - food for thought.

Good luck,
Mike.

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