How To Make Money Blogging in 2020-2021 - 35 Ways to Earn Money as a Professional Blogger Easily and Practically

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This post is for all the people out there who have a passion for blogging. Did you know that blogging can also become a source of income for anyone? It is true. 

Blogging is a major source of income for millions of people in the entire world, even for Vloggers.

A man named Michael Arrington earns $500,000 – $800,000 per month.

Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income made over $2 million last year through his blog.

Matthew of True Valhalla is a 20-year old game developer who is on track to make $500,000 this year from his blog.

And Anil Agarwal of Bloggers Passion isn't getting rich but takes in around $70,000 a year from his blog.

So whether you want to make an extra $1,000/month from your blog or are looking to quit your day job to blog full time, this post will help.

There are 100's and 1000's of bloggers out there who depend completely on the income created by blogging, and there are millions who have just started, but they are off to a good start. 

There is no reason why you should lack behind. There is no easy way for you to make money on the internet, but surely I can help you.

Now, first, let me clear the air.

Some beginners often have a slow start, some beginners start off with the wrong approach, some people don't know what they're getting themselves into and the risk of it. We need to talk about that first unless you are willing to face possible disasters later on.

If you have a job, do not quit just yet. Yes you can earn a lot of money online, the harder you work the more you earn online. You can have multiple blogs to increase your income as well.

But no blog grows overnight. You need a large collection of quality articles before search engines, your audience, and your blog can support you.

So basically, before you get into making money within any form online, make sure that you have a stable income coming from another source until you start earning enough from your blog.

Next, as a beginner, people tend to be unaware of the online trends. For example, not being able to choose the right niche, being unaware of your target audience and their needs, not knowing the proper ways to optimize your blog for earning, etc.

Some important factors have been discussed in these posts.

READ: Important Beginner Blogger Tips - 18 Dos and Donts for New Bloggers in 2020
READ: How To Start A Blog Using Blogger And What Things You Should Do Before You Start Publishing + Infographic
READ: How To Use Blogger's Post Editor to Write Posts + Some Beginner Post Writing Tips
READ: Top 10 Common Mistakes Every Blogger Makes + Infographic

The posts I have linked to above will tell you about the right ways to approach making a blog. They give you insight on the common mistakes me and many others have made and how you can learn from them. It'll take a few minutes of your time but will give you a major head start.

Now, we'll discuss the ways you can earn money from your blog, and I'll also tell you about some requirements and things you'll need more research on to get started.

Also note that if you are planning to promote your business by creating written content first, and then you'll create and promote your products, then this is the wrong approach.

READ: Marketing Myths That Are Killing This Generation Of Businesses - The Right Approach to Grow Your Business

 
I would recommend focusing on your products/business first, properly promoting it, then writing content around the product, and getting a loyal buyer audience.

How to Earn Money With Through Blogging

We will discuss the following methods in this post.

Note that some methods can be done simply on Blogspot or similar Blogging services, while some more advanced methods would require WordPress Blogs or other Website builders with great services and lots of room for customization. To maximize revenue opportunities, stick to WordPress Blogs.

B - Beginner Level

I - Intermediate Level

E - Expert Level

1. Display Google Ads/Adsense Ads on Your Blog - B

2. Use Affiliate Marketing to earn Huge Commissions - I/E

3. Monetize your content through Newsletter Subscriptions - B/I/E

4. Use Infolinks Ads or Media.net Ads on Your Blog - B/I

5. Write Sponsored Posts - B/I/E

6. Sell Sponsored Ad Spaces on Your Blog - I/E

7. Get Paid to Write Reviews - B/I/E

8. Build and Sell Blogs - Flipping Blogs - B/I/E

9. Hold Paid Webinars for Your Audience - E

10. Hold Paid Seminars for Your Audience - E

11. Become an Influencer on Social Media by Driving Your Blog's Audience to Your Socials - I/E

12. Create a Paid Membership for Special Content on Your Blog - E

13. Sponsor Other People's Products through Your Mailing List.- B/I/E

14. Write a Book/eBook and Sell it - I

15. Make a Podcast and Sell Access to it - I

16. Create Paid Video Content - B/I/E

17. Create a Private Forum to Allow One-on-One Interaction with you - I/E

18. Create a Question and Answers Interactive Community - E

19. Create a Job Board or a Job MarketPlace with Paid Listings - E

20. Create an Event Calendar or Promote Other People's Events in Your Emails/Posts - I/E

21. Create an Online Paid Course - Train Newbies.- I/E

22. Create an Online Paid Bootcamp - achieve specific goals, different from an Online Paid Course. - B/I/E

23. Get Paid for Guest Post Writing or Regular Writing Gigs - B/I/E

24. Become a Coach or Consultant - I/E

25. Start an eCommerce Store - B/I/E

26. Build Your Own Useful Paid Online Tools - E

27. Start a Dropshipping eCommerce Business - B/I/E

28. Create an Online Buying and Selling Market Place - E

29. Make an Auctions/Bidding Website - E

30. Make and Sell WordPress Plugins or HTML Gadgets for other Bloggers - B/I/E

31. Sell Blogspot, WordPress, etc.Themes/Templates. - B/I/E

32. Accept Donations - B/I/E

33. Create a Business Directory - E

34. Freelance and Earn from Many Platforms - I/E

35. Get paid for Graphic Designing Online - I/B/E

Now, let's discuss these methods in detail. I'll give you a brief description of each method, platforms to do it, successful examples, and the process as well as the scope of success.

1. Display Google Ads/Adsense Ads on Your Blog.

This is one of the most common and popular ways that bloggers use to earn their income from their blogs. 

Commonly, with quality content and a right start to your blog, you can earn around tens of dollars to thousands of dollars over the course of a few months or years. 

This depends solely on how much effort you put into each and every article, how you are able to place your ads, how large your audience is, and how much effort you put into your SEO.

READ: How To Place Google AdSense Ads Between Blogger Posts

Google Ads are of multiple types.

 
One of the types is CPC Ads, i.e, they are 'Cost-Per-Click Ads'. This means that every time a viewer clicks one of the ads you display, you earn a little money.

Another type is CPM Ads, i.e they are 'Cost-Per-Thousand-Views Ads'. M is the Roman Number for One Thousand. This means that you will earn a specific amount for every Thousand Views on the Ad.

READ: How to Get more Page and Site Views

These ads have different earning rates, each set by the Advertiser. Depending on the niche, the product, the Keyword Values, etc, the Ads can earn you more or less.

You'll need to aim for a lot of viewers to earn a decent amount from Adsense. Let's aim for 15k views per month for now. That will require you to build up your quality content, increase your domain authority, build relationships within the community, and get backlinks, to guest post on good blogs, etc.

Make sure you have a profitable niche. People say that you should follow your passion while creating a blog. Sure, go ahead, but don't expect to earn much out of it unless it falls under the top niches in the market trends. 

So basically, aim for profitable niches like Marketing, SEO, Money Earning or Management, Cooking, Health and Fitness, Medical, Tech, and related blogs. 

You can find more profitable niches but be sure to thoroughly research its market trend and to note down the possible amazing content you can produce for it.

READ: 48,000+ Highest Paying Keywords / Niches for Blogs 2020

 

Although AdSense helps you earn a lot, your income will remain rather limited. That's why most bloggers look for multiple other ways to monetize their blogs.

Also, check out Ezoic.com which is an amazing AdSense Ad Manager and a Google AdSense certified partner. It can increase your potential revenue by up to 300% when fully optimized. It is my personal recommendation and it has way more amazing tools and features than any other competitor platform.

2. Use Affiliate Marketing to earn Huge Commissions

Affiliate Marketing basically involves you promoting another person's products and earning commissions for every item that your viewer purchases or signs up for.

All you have to do is sign up to be a brand's / company's affiliate, get your own personalized affiliate link, tell your audience about their products or services, and earn a fixed commission per successful conversion made through your special link.

Finding products and services relevant to your niche and target audience is important, but not as hard as you might think.

I personally recommend using plugins or software that help you organize such affiliate links and products.

My number one recommendation for ClickBank Affiliate Promotion on any Blogging Platform or Social Media Platform is CB Affiliate Magic.

Many affiliate marketers have used CB Affiliate Magic to make a catalog of all the top products available on the ClickBank MarketPlace and have taken their affiliate game to the next level. 

But fair warning, this is not a product for mere beginners. It is also a much cheaper alternative as compared to all its competitors that also provide half of its features.

One popular competitor is CB Ad Rotator, but do NOT fall for their offers since they promote Malware and Viruses. Instead, use popular WordPress Ad Rotator Plugins and other trustworthy tools.

You cannot drive sales by just making a simple catalog of the products and displaying them on your blog or on a social media page/post. 

You need to promote them, give your honest reviews about them, and take care of your entire brand image as well by only promoting the finest products that you would use yourself.

Specifically for WordPress, there is a very popular plugin called PrettyLinks. This does not allow you to catalog your affiliate's products, but instead, it organizes all your affiliate links and provides useful tools to make affiliate marketing on your WordPress blog a bit easier.

There are many large affiliate networks available that help you research a bunch of affiliate programs from many brands and services across the globe.

There are also affiliate networks that you can find manually on the majority of the sites you might already visit. 

These sites usually include links to their Affiliate programs in their page footers, so the nest time you shop online and use services related to your niche, keep an eye out for possible affiliate program memberships. 

For example, SheIn and Amazon have affiliate memberships. Go ahead and try to find them, and if it seems relevant to you, sign up for it. I highly recommend Amazon's affiliate program for many niches

Some great affiliate membership networks include ShareASale, ClickBank, FlexOffers, Commission Junction, etc. Be sure to slowly check all of them out to find 1-2 that suit you.

You can write great articles relevant to the affiliate's products, that are SEO optimized, have good keywords, etc, to increase sales. But make sure that you always include a disclosure for every link that can help you earn commissions, as required by law.

3. Monetize your content through Newsletter Subscriptions

When you start getting a large audience, the primary goal becomes retaining them and making sure that they come back again for more. To do that, many of us enable alerts on their devices to give them feed updates through email and ask them to sign up for your newsletters.

Newsletters are basically emails that you write to the people who enroll for them, in order to give them extra content, updates, announcements, etc. They re all customized emails and you can think of it as your side blog channel.

There are multiple ways you can monetize your email content. Some ideas that I can give you are -

1. Write emails about your affiliates and use affiliate links to earn commissions.

2. Enter the HTML editor in your email editor and add AdSense Ads if possible.

3. Display sponsored ads in your emails.

4. Write Sponsored emails.

etc.

There are many platforms that help you provide this service to your audience, but my favorite is MailChimp.

Read my article to learn how you can properly monetize your content, step by step, on MailChimp.

READ: How to make money with Newsletter Subscriptions on MailChimp

To get started on the full process, I would recommend Ericstips.com and their very useful guides on how you can improve your content, increase traffic, perform affiliate marketing, etc. Their articles and eBooks are amazing and worth a read, whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or an expert blogger.

4. Use AdSense Ads Alternatives on Your Blog

No doubt about the fact the AdSense is everyone's first approach, but as I said, the earning possibilities are limited. 

There are many other Ad Networks that are legitimate and offer great payouts along with many opportunities for new and site-wide placements and pop-ups.

Another factor is that newer bloggers find it difficult to be accepted into Goole AdSense's Network, and so, these networks make it easier for them to start earning.

Some of the very famous networks are Propeller Ads, Infolinks, PopAds, RevenueHits, Media.net Ads, etc.

Propeller Ads - Propeller Ads is a great, trustworthy Ad Network with high CPM rates and it is also really easy to set up their Ads. It is perfect for beginners and intermediate bloggers. - CPM and CPC Ads

Infolinks Ads - Infolinks makes it really easy to set up and display ads on any blog or website. It is one of the first few Ad Networks I tried out but it is no longer the best for Ad Displaying. - CPC and CPM Ads

PopAds - PopAds is one of the Ad Networks that is used by many sites that are illegal, made for adult content, cannot comply with Google AdSense's policies, or just want an extra way to monetize their income. It's easy to set up and has great payouts, plus, there is no minimum traffic requirement. - CPC and CPM Ads

RevenueHits - This Ad Network doesn't pay you for clicks and views on ads, instead, they pay you when an action has been completed. Examples of such actions could include filling out a form, purchasing a product, signing up for an event, enrolling for an email list, etc. - CPA Ads

 

Media.net Ads - Media.net has one of the highest payouts in the industry. You can have a five-dollar CPM easily, and earn three times more than AdSense with ease. But you need to have a blog that is already moderately established.

Don't excessively place ads all over your website, otherwise, it will annoy your viewers. Also, do not solely depend on such ads because people are increasingly starting to use AdBlockers.

5. Write Sponsored Posts

As your blog starts to grow, you can start expecting multiple emails regarding sponsorships. Depending on your niche and traffic, some sponsors will be offering you more or less money per sponsored post.

Sponsored posts give you the option to earn money even if you don't want to display any advertisement on your blog.

Ads from Ad Networks are usually always random and you lose control over what is shown on a few portions of your blog, so some bloggers prefer not to show any ads at all.

While it may seem compelling to accept every offer and to earn more and more, do not accept any offer that is irrelevant to your niche and does not hold value for your viewers.

It is usually a good idea to provide a statistic page that your advertisers can view to make sponsorships more appealing to advertisers. You can include your monthly audience, revenue, traffic sources, etc.

But remember, do not expect sponsorships at the beginning. You need multiple good articles and a very decent amount of traffic to get good or any sponsorship offers at all.

6. Sell Sponsored Ad Spaces on Your Blog

Another way to profit off of sponsors is from Sponsored Ads. This involves saving space on your blog that is clearly visible and profitable and auctioning them off to interested sponsors.

You can save large banner spaces in your header, ad spaces in your sidebars, or place them in each post if you have the proper coding knowledge or plugin.

You can place a disclaimer in a space that is available to display sponsored ads, or simply wait for sponsors to contact you about sponsoring their products or services. 

Or, you could approach people with products related to your niche, and offer to sponsor them, but only do this if you have a decent amount of traffic.

The reason why this method is beneficial is that, unlike Ad Networks, this does not involve middle-men taking cuts from your income. You can directly get paid from the advertiser and you can negotiate the earning amounts.

Another upside is that these ads aren't randomized, so you have complete control over the ads displayed in those specific Ad Spaces. 

Usually, managing such ad spaces can get difficult along the road, so it is highly recommended to use a plugin such as AdSanity for WordPress

7. Get Paid to Write Reviews

Similar to sponsored posts, yet much different, sponsored reviews involve you getting to try out a product for free, and to write your honest review for it which you'll be paid for.

You might've seen this happen a lot already. Influencers, top channels, and blogs for a niche, and celebrities give sponsored reviews for products they're directly sent for free, and they get paid for the reviews.

This is very popular in the marketing world for clothing and apparel, technology, health, and fitness, and many other niches.

If you are able to build a large enough audience, then brands will approach you on their own for sponsored reviews, but if you aren't that vibrantly in the limelight yet, then you can approach them on your own.

Sites like Payperpost.com, reviewme.com, etc pay you to use your skills as a blogger to provide honest and useful reviews that can help the online community, while actually paying you for it.

8. Build and Sell Blogs - Flipping Blogs

If you have good knowledge of SEO, web-marketing, and content writing, this is a very amazing market you can tap into. It just involves buying websites/domains/etc at cheap rates and selling them at higher rates.

You can either buy a website and build it from scratch, or you can buy a website that has already been built. In both cases, you have to improve its SEO, PA, DA, traffic, etc, and then sell it at a higher price to earn large profits.

Shout Me Loud's article on flipping websites can give you a small insight on how to successfully do this. You'll get a small insight into what type of websites are in demand.

If you know how to build WordPress blogs or high-quality sites on any other platform, then you can sell them on flipping marketplaces like Flippa, that can help you auction off your websites at high prices, and can also serve as a source for businesses to find quality websites.

9. Hold Paid Webinars for Your Audience

If you have enough to offer, like an in-depth insight into your niche, a tutorial, a well-developed plan to reach a specific goal, etc., then you can host webinars to share that very valuable original content with your audience.

In light of the Global Pandemic, this is the best way to directly reach out to your audience and to interact with them on a professional level.

You'll need to thoroughly create your content, create a bright web presence, gather an audience, and then you can hold paid webinars to connect with your audience.

They're similar to online courses, instead, it is a live online session. People can ask you questions live and you can help them out better.

If you have a successful blog and are hosting a webinar in the same niche, then you can use your blog to promote the webinar, and with the help of plugins, you can hold your webinar on the site, or you can use other services to hold the webinar.

10. Hold Paid Seminars for Your Audience

Instead of interacting with your audience online, if you have a strong enough user base/audience, then you can go ahead and hold a seminar offline.

This is definitely a greater hassle and will have larger expenses, like booking a venue, having the proper equipment, and proper promotions. Plus, you will need to have an influencer reputation in order to drag in your audience.

Many bloggers get paid to speak at conferences, and even if you do I for free, it will have a great impact on your blog's and your own public authority It will help you in promoting your brand and in creating a better and reputable image.

You'll need to brush up on your speaking skills, your appearance, be prepared with all the important data and stats enough to be called an expert in the field, and most importantly, be ready to answer all questions. 

It will be hard to find speaking gigs right away, so you need to announce your interest in public speaking on your blog and social media platforms, but do not hesitate to start from very small gigs, even if they're free and in some small corner of the world.

11. Become an Influencer on Social Media by Driving Your Blog's Audience to Your Socials

If you are successfully able to connect with your audience through your valuable resources, content, events, and brand authority, they will learn to accept you as their guide.

Humans have the tendency to be curious about the tiniest things, so if you mention introducing yourself, their guide, then they'll want to hear you out. This is what you have to take control of.

Build your brand and introduce yourself on an influencer level, build your own authority along with your business' authority. 

Influencers have the privilege of obtaining multiple sponsorships, freebies, invites into large events, and amazing side jobs or gigs with large pays. 

So, use your blog to promote yourself to your fullest extent, and then focus on your influencer-minded game plan.

12. Create a Paid Membership for Special Content on Your Blog

Some well-established bloggers have hit the jackpot with this method. It involves creating your regular content, along with special content for your very loyal readers when they buy your membership.

For example, you could have monthly or yearly special content membership plans, and in exchange for their money, you can offer very valuable and original video lessons, secret lessons that aren't easily found on the web, access to special photos, freebies, or whatever your niche specializes in.

This is similar to paid email subscriptions because both methods provide users special content, the only difference is the platform where you provide the extra content and how valuable you can make it.

Keep in mind that the best bloggers do provide at least some type of special content, if not paid, then for free. That is why you need to add special value to your special content to give your users a good reason to choose you over others.

There are many services, plugins, and tools available online that can help you set up your special content membership, but to make this feature way better and way more flexible, be sure to choose a good platform like WordPress to host your blog.

13. Sponsor Other People's Products through Your Mailing List.

We've already talked about sponsored posts, sponsored reviews, sponsored ads, sponsored social media endorsements, etc., but let's discuss another important method to promote sponsorships.

If you already have built up your mailing list, then you can't stop there of course. You'll regularly make special content for them, you'll update them, and you'll reach out to them, but even though you're building a stronger audience, you are failing to tap into a great source of income.

Take your emails as seriously as your blog, write content that can earn you some greens. How? Well not only can you use affiliate links in your emails from platforms that allow this option, but you can also tell your audience about special products that you want them to try out. 

Write a short email, with strong content, that can attract people to the product your sponsoring. Remember that your audience doesn't always want to read long product reviews for something they never thought they needed. 

They just want to be updated on whatever is useful to them, so keep such emails consumable by the public and properly complete sponsorship deals with the help of emails.

14. Write a Book/eBook and Sell it

There are many services and software available online that will help you create beautiful ebooks, and it isn't too hard to create a book either. Or, you can provide both formats for your book.

Once you find the right software, jump into making your content. You just have to write good content and the rest won't matter too much. Writing an ebook is the easiest method, but being able to provide a whole real book is a whole other level, yet both are highly effective.

If you have been blogging for a long time, you can compile or take inspiration from your older posts to make your killer book, but remember that no one will buy your products if they can easily find the content/services for free online.

You can easily create a pdf and then you can create a cover using Canva.com and add it to your first pdf page. 

You can easily upload to sell it on platforms like Amazon, or you can sell it on your blog itself with the help of third-party tools or plugins.

Nonetheless, you can definitely promote your book on our blog by talking about it regularly, asking people to buy it through pop-ups, banners, word-of-the-mouth, and more.

15. Make a Podcast and Sell Access to it

Just like creating a paid membership or an ebook or something similar, you can use content from your previous posts as well, but you need to add extra amazing value to your products to really make it sell.

Making a book engaging is a fun process and can be done easily if you're transparent. But, podcasts give you way more opportunities to connect with your audience.

If you can talk with confidence, yet in a way that humbles you, and also shows that you truly know what you're talking about, well then your audience just might truly become yours.

When your audience will be listening to you, they want to hear your real thoughts, they want to hear something new, they want to feel like they haven't just wasted their time and have given themselves a headache for no reason whatsoever.

You need to create a good script that doesn't beat around the bush, is full of multiple amazing insights or helpful tutorials, provides good guidance to them, or entertains them enough. You need to put yourself in the shoes of your viewer.

Once you are aware of what you want to say to your audience, you might want to learn exactly how to get it done. Well, you have to grab a quality microphone and say what you want to say, and then use proper editing software to get the job done.

Afterward, you can upload it to your blog and use plugins to sell access to it if you use WordPress, or you can use third-party applications to get the job done on a Blogger Blog.

Making a podcast series is even better. I would recommend reading
How To Start A Podcast: A Complete Step-By-Step Tutorial if you're interested in this method.

16. Create Paid Video Content

You can write a book that's full of graphics and great content, or you can make a podcast and engage with your viewers through the power of your voice, or you can do both and turn it into video content.

If you have the content, the script, and the camera, all you need to do is go ahead and make your video.

Softwares like After Effects by Adobe or free video editors, or even video editing phone apps like Alight Motion make it so easy to make beautifully edited videos with graphs, good presentation, clear audio, etc.

Or you can simply hire someone to do your video editing for you. Afterward, you can really easily promote your video content as well.

17. Create a Private Forum to Allow One-on-One Interaction with you

Some third-party tools and plugins can help you create paid, private forums where your most loyal audience can get one on one guidance from you.

Managing forums can be a great hassle, answer everyone's questions one by one while managing your other content, but if your audience has paid for your service, you have to deliver it to them on time as well.

It is not easy, but if you do it right, this can become a great source of revenue powered within your blog.

Most brands, big blogs, and good services have forums, while some of them are private and have paid access. This is because it is one of the major ways grow your audience can reach out to you and trust you as an authority or guide.

18. Create a Question and Answers Interactive Community

You must be aware of sites like Quora, Yahoo answers, etc unless you have been using the internet for less than a month.

These sites are some of the best examples for a Question and Answer Interactive Community, where people write their own content to help each other.

Making such communities can be a great hassle and will require a high end set up and people to moderate the community, this is the downside.

But on the upside, the people will create their own content for free, and you can monetize it while creating a loyal audience.

But unless you have the budget to create a multi-topic community, it's best if you stick to making the community around a specific niche to avoid unnecessary competition.

It's better to create a community of 100 interested people rather than making a community of 1000 uninterested people regarding your primary niche.

If you do not wish to create separate community websites like Quora, then you can simply do this on your blog with the help of dedicated plugins and services, depending on the size-scale of your community.

Also, focus on providing value to your community. Why would they choose your community? Why would they write content for your community if it would just end up as a waste of their time? Be aware of all of these doubts that your audience will have.

19. Create a Job Board or a Job MarketPlace with Paid Listings

Companies who want to advertise an open position to your audience can pay you to submit a listing. But this requires you to have high authority in the niche and a really high amount of traffic.

With WordPress, creating a paid job board isn't too hard. But it won't be possible with Blogger at all. You can use the WooCommerce Paid Listings addon to charge for job post submissions.

And, unlike a regular job listings website, a job marketplace allows you to make money on each job listing. Fiverr, Indeed, Naukri.com and UpWork are probably the best examples of online job marketplace websites.

It’s easier to create a successful job board or job marketplace if you narrow down to a specific niche. That way you can become the go-to site for anyone looking for a job in that industry, with minimal competition.

This will help you easily find customers and professionals who are unable to use large platforms because of too much irrelevant competition.

You can charge a small fee for job listings or when a job is completed. More successful completion of jobs will bring you more customers and freelancers in the future.

20. Create an Event Calendar or Promote Other People's Events in Your Emails/Posts

If you have a large audience, especially in a particular niche or demographic, then companies will contact you to promote their events. Similar to sponsoring their products, you can promote their important events.

There are multiple ways to advertise their events. You can write an article about it, or include the info in a related article. You can use a banner in between your post content, or in your header/sidebar. You can also email your audience bout the event and talk about it.

Another amazing way to promote other people's events and to charge them for it is by creating an event calendar with paid listings. As I've said before, to make the calendar face less competition, it would be better if you choose a very specific niche to be the number one go-to calendar.

There are multiple third-party services or blog plugins for WordPress blogs that can help you create such an event calendar, but it would be best if you have complete control over your calendar through tech-know-how, even though it isn't necessary.

21. Create an Online Paid Course - Train Newbies

An online course that can help people that are new in your field can be considered as an extremely useful product to most people, and if the content is valuable and from a trusted source, there are higher chances to buy it.

Let me explain.

If an expert blogger earning a 6-7 figure income releases a course for beginners on how they can learn blogging and basic online marketing and SEO, then people will trust them and buy it.

If you are able to establish your authority in your niche, then you should go ahead and use your blog and various social media to promote your courses as well.

No, you do not need to have a large income or years of experience to become successful, that was just an example, even though that would definitely help. But you do need an expert level of knowledge to make a course that will have people satisfied with their purchase, to keep the income recurring.

You can sell access to your courses on your blog, through email, or by uploading them to popular places for such courses like Udemy.

These courses will be to teach people how to get on their feet and do something that they want to do, otherwise, you can make a paid boot camp instead, which leads us to the next point.

22. Create an Online Paid Bootcamp - achieve specific goals, different from an Online Paid Course.

Paid Courses and Paid online Bootcamps aren't too different, but I have a different way of explaining both. You already read about paid courses, so let's talk about paid boot camps.

Online boot camps can be considered to be a series of courses that not only teach people the basics of something, but they are designed to help the audience achieve specific goals by the end of the online boot camp. It could be a series of training courses for example.

So if you can help your audience reach a specific goal, develop a new skill with a level of expertise, etc. then it can be considered the purpose of a boot camp, whereas simple courses are just for knowledge without promising a specific achievement.

You can use the same methods that I mentioned before to promote your online boot camp, or you can incorporate the idea of a recurring membership with the online boot-camp method.

You can also offer specific extras or freebies that can help your audience achieve the goal at the end, this can be considered as an entire package. As if they're going to a real boot camp and are being provided the important resources to flourish.

23. Get Paid for Guest Post Writing or Regular Writing Gigs

This is one of the easier and important methods regardless of wanting to earn money from it.

You should be aware that writing guest posts are really important to improve your blog's SEO, DA, and PA. Without this, your blog will barely have good ranks and authority. Plus this will also help you make many important connections with other bloggers.

Your SEO, DA, and PA improve when you write guest posts and are able to add backlinks to your own blog. This tells Google and other search engines that your blog is the real deal.

Coming back to the point, guest posts are welcomed by many large and small blogs, and you can approach people to ask if it's possible, otherwise people will approach you to guest post for them.

It can be done for free but, if you want to earn from this method, you need to have good content to prove that you're worth their investments. You can even approach them to be a regular writer for their blog, posting xx times a month.

Once you are in contact with such bloggers, you can negotiate your rates and terms of your deal, and turn this into a profitable income.

24. Become a Coach or Consultant

If you can show that you know what you're doing and that you're an expert in your niche, then reach out to your target audience and tell them about it. Tell them that you're willing to spread your knowledge as a coach or consultant.

Once you rope in clients, you'll be able to get regularly recurring payments, more client-recommendations towards yourself, and a larger client-base.

You can create an online portfolio website where you can explain your achievements and the services you're offering and you can promote this on your blogs.

Becoming a coach or consultant means providing regular service and answering all of your client's doubts and solving their problems. So you'll need to have a proper management system set up for your service, and you might need help in managing your service.

25. Start an eCommerce Store

If you have ideas for products related to your niche, then you can bring it to life and expect great profits from it. 

If they're physical products, then why not start selling them in your own eCommerce store? You can get in contact with the required people to develop your products and to produce them, then you can start selling them.

Different ways to sell them include-

• Selling and promoting them on your blog with the help of third-party apps or plugins.
• Selling them on sites like Amazon and promoting them on your blog.
• Creating an eCommerce store on sites like Spotify and embedding/linking to it.

etc.

26. Build Your Own Useful Paid Online Tools

If you do not have products or services to sell, then you can create a tool instead. That is if you have the technical knowledge and the right equipment and budget to do so.

For example, Neil Patel created an amazing SEO and Keyword research tool and offered the basic version for free. He also offered paid upgrades to his tool for other amazing services that are honestly worth the buy for many people.

Providing such a tool will help your target audience out a lot, so when you can't attract them with your content, they will be attracted to your tool.

But remember, such tools need a lot of promotions and user reviews in order to have a position in the market. But if the tool is great, and has been set up, then you can expect a lot o amazing results.

27. Start a Dropshipping eCommerce Business

If you don' have ideas for your own products, or if you don't have the resources to create your own tools or services, then there is a method which requires minimum investments and maximum profits with low risk.

Yes, that's dropshipping. Dropshipping eCommerce businesses involve you creating your Spotify, Amazon, or in-blog store and adding products that aren't yours, instead, they come from different manufacturers. Basically, you're the middle-man between manufacturers and customers, taking your profits.

But what's special about dropshipping is that you never even have to touch the products. You don't have to keep an inventory or buy a huge stock beforehand.

Instead, you just have to create the shop, display the pictures you received from your chosen manufacturers, choose a price, and buy products one-by-one while shipping directly from the manufacturer's inventory to the customers.

As your shop grows buying and shipping products one by one can become a hassle, which is why you'll need proper systems or third-party services or employees/co-workers to help you out.

28. Create an Online Buying and Selling Market Place

If you do not wish to sell your own products, sell someone else's products, create a tool, or sell virtual products, then you can have other people do it for you.

Amazon, eBay, SnapDeal, etc are great examples of online buying and selling marketplaces. You can create a niche-specific marketplace where you can take a cut of the profits from your sellers, display ads, take commissions for sales, etc.

This can be a profitable business but it will require a team to properly build the service, investments, etc. to have a decent user-interface and a good scope for success.

Otherwise, there are plugins like WooCommerce for WordPress and its complementary plugins that can completely turn your blog into an online buying and selling marketplace.

29. Make an Auctions/Bidding Website

Similar to creating buying and selling marketplace, you can simply make an auctions/bidding website, with the help of similar plugins, third-party apps, or by your own self.

Or you can have both the features to make the store features even better.

Auctions and bidding websites similar to eBay allow sellers to sell at the best rates and for their customers to get the best deals, which is a very attractive function.

There are tutorials online that can help you such stores up with ease.

30. Make and Sell WordPress Plugins or HTML Gadgets for other Bloggers

If you have some coding experience and a good idea, then you can create your own Blogspot gadgets or WordPress Plugins and sell them.

WordPress plugin development honestly is very profitable since there are a lot of serious website makers and bloggers on WordPress, so there is a much larger buyer base for WordPress plugins.

You can sell it on the WordPress plugin marketplace, and promote it on your own blog. You can tell your audience about it and get more people to use it.

31. Sell Blogspot, WordPress, etc.Themes/Templates.

This is one of my personal favorite methods from this list. There are a lot of template marketplaces for all blogging services that allow theme/template customization.

Template creation isn't too hard and can be amazingly profitable. All you require is enough knowledge in CSS, HTML, and optionally a few other compatible coding languages. 

Once you've designed a template, you can upload it on template marketplaces for free with copyright marks or for a price. You don't need to worry much about the promotion either since such marketplaces already have a lot of viewers looking for templates.

Otherwise, you can use third-party plugins to sell the templates on your own blog and handle the promotion and catalog on your own. Whichever way you prefer, it is possible to generate revenue.

32. Accept Donations

If you are confident in your services, content, etc. and are okay with the idea of accepting donations, then go for it. This won't really be a real source of income for you, but it will most definitely help you get a little extra money or motivation.

Your loyal readers will be able to support your content and can help you improve your services to earn even more revenue online, so you can think about utilizing this opportunity.

33. Create a Business Directory

An online business directory is a website listing of businesses within niche based categories. Businesses can be categorized by niche, location, activity, or size. The business may be compiled either manually or through an automated online search software.

If you are able to create a niche-specific online business directory, then you can allow paid listing submissions using plugins on WordPress like Formidable Form or third party services.

People looking to contact niche or factor-specific companies can use your listing service and this is why companies will want to list themselves with you.

34. Freelance and Earn from Many Platforms

Blogging is one of the many forms of Freelance work. So, if you already have experience as a blogger, why not take your skills to the next level.

Once you have established yourself a bit, as a good content writer, then you can look for freelancing gigs. A very famous platform to do so is Freelancer.com

You can bid on projects and if you're lucky, you'll get the gig, or you can contact people on your own to be hired for projects as a blogger.

There are many other freelancing websites that can help you get gigs, and there are multiple professions you can look into as a freelancer. Blogging is one of them.

35. Get paid for Graphic Designing Online.

Graphic design is a significant skill that has its place in the market. From the thumbnails of Youtube videos to banners, graphs, and charts in companies, there are multiple roles for a graphic designer.

You can head on over to freelancing sites like Upwork, Freelancer, etc.and get paid for graphic designing gigs. 

You can try options like video and photo editing for Instagram based influencers and brands, tee-shirt designing, making book covers for authors, and can help fashion designers to digitalize their creations.

You also have the option to use your designs and make physical products out of them, this technique is called "print-on-demand". The options for physical products are limitless but the most common ones include, mugs, T-shirts, bags, books,  other items of clothing, wall-art, etc.

Several websites offer a paid-only service for vector designs and graphics. Sites such as Shutterstock, 123RF, Istockphoto, etc. give the option to upload your vector designs, graphics, or photos.

These designs are then available for the world to buy for their usage whatsoever. You might not own the images directly anymore, but the website will pay you with the due royalties.

There are also multiple other ways to earn from graphic designing, so keep researching the topic if you are interested.

I hope that this article was able to help you out, and if so, please share it on social media. Thank you.