How to Start a Blog That Makes Money Forever

From the desk of Elijah “The Realist”
Subj: How to Start a Blog That Makes Money FOREVER
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Everyone wants to make money online… and absolutely EVERYONE wants to be completely totally FREE.

Great news, you can accomplish BOTH… if you’re a very successful blog artist.

I recently wrote a post called “Take Off the Mask and Expose Your Inner Entrepreneur“.

In that post I critiqued a BUNCH of different readers’ business ideas.

Quite a few of the business ideas were for blogs.

The desire to be a blog artist is almost certainly definitely REALLY there.

You’re in luck, boys, because if there’s ONE thing that I know how to do very well – write a bad-ass blog… that totally pays.

In this article…

I’m going to share with you some of my BIGGEST… never-before-told SECRETS… about blogging…

and I’m going to give you a step-by-step blueprint guide to making money online starting out from absolutely NOTHING.

I’m going to show you how to become a Professional Bad-ass Blog Artist.

Let me explain to you EXACTLY how I got started…

I lived life, I succeeded, I wrote about SUCCESS.

That was my very specific beginners formula.

As Frauds and Liars has evolved the specific formula is STILL completely uncomplicated – live life, succeed, write about it.

I’m not a “numbers” guy… and I’m certainly NOT a copycat.

I’m a gut instinct guy, I have NEVER followed any marketing guru advice (scoundrels and liars, ALL of them).

I always just did what felt right.

It worked out and EVERYTHING that I’m going to share with you… is what I’ve learned from blogging successfully for three years.

Before you ask why you should listen to me, I’ll answer: I’m an expert and I comfortably make 6 figures per year as a blog artist.

My word is as good as gold, and you can take that to the bank.

Follow my tips (tips, NOT rules. Remember, there are NO rules) and you can do the EXACT same thing.

And remember ONE thing:

“The how is NOTHING. The mindset and the will is EVERYTHING.”

— Elijah “The Realist”

Let’s get started…

Who is a good candidate to be a successful blog artist?

You need to be a REAL actual person who lives a REAL actual life and has REAL actual answers.

Only authorities make the REAL actual BIG money.

To be a REAL authority… you have to be a REAL person.

You have to live… what you write about.

Your word means shit… if you aren’t actually living it.

Be the man who you truly actually REALLY wish to be.

Don’t fake it ’til you make it, *be it*… before you actually even dare to write about it.

Show REAL actual proof on your blog.

If you DON’T live a REAL exciting entrepreneurial life… your blog is going to be boring, useless and eventually 100% totally bankrupt.

Frauds and Liars has more than 10,000 different copycats but they won’t ever make it.

Your blog is your heart, soul, blood and guts.

That can’t be faked if you want true, REAL, actual SUCCESS.

You need to expose yourself to the whole ENTIRE outside world.

Proof is simply required to become a REAL actual authority.

Becoming an actual REAL authority… is how you begin to start making some REAL actual life-changing money online.

Help your readers trust you and show who you REALLY actually are.

No one will truly actually believe in you… if you DON’T believe in yourself enough… to put your REAL actual beliefs, thoughts, philosophy, and ideas out there for public scrutiny OR praise.

Do you start ONE blog or several different niche blogs?

A niche blog is a very small blog that focuses on a very specific topic and attracts a smaller, highly targeted audience.

Generally a niche blog will NOT have more than 5-10 articles, each of those articles are some very thinly veiled attempts to get you to buy some product or to click on some type of dumb stupid ad.

Niche blogs are all the rage and the “experts” will tell you to start 10 different niche blogs so that you can diversify your income.

Just ONE problem, the “experts” are all liars and niche blogs are absolute total shit.

Let me explain…

A niche blog is NOT an authority, it’s just a bunch of dumb useless articles about the EXACT same subject.

A niche blog is a filthy piece of bullshit that someone stumbles on when they want an answer to something.

After they get their answer, they immediately leave and DON’T ever come back.

On the other hand…

When they stumble onto an article on your blog and get their answer… they can then check out all of your OTHER material and, if they like it, they’ll stay.

They’ll stay… because you’re very clearly an authority.

Crappy niche blogs throw away readers, REAL blogs that are truly high-quality… KEEP readers.

Ten crappy niche blogs are worth less… than ONE authority high-quality blog.

Is there a way to diversify your income if you only have ONE authority blog?

Yes.

Here’s the unknown hidden SECRET that NO ONE else currently knows:

Each GREAT article that YOU write… is it’s very own niche site.

But instead of having those articles floating around in cyber-space on a separate niche site…

They are all inter-connected to your main site and they’re building your authority, reputation and ever-growing bank account.

If you want to truly MAKE MONEY ONLINE from a blog, not just once but FOREVER, you have to make GREAT kick-ass content that truly absolutely stands the test of time.

Each day, articles that I’ve written as long as three years ago STILL make me money.

Care should be given to each and every single damn article.

Each article should be the absolute BEST that it can truly be.

You want your reader to stumble on killer article after killer fucking article.

If they find the answer to their question on a niche site where do they go from there?

Away from YOUR site.

If they find the answer to their question on YOUR blog where do they go from there?

If you’ve done a good job of internally linking all of your articles and products in every single article… your NEW readers will STAY on your site reading all your great wonderful material.

Don’t start niche blogs, start only ONE absolutely kick-ass amazing blog.

You can diversify your income through only ONE blog… and you DON’T have to waste ANY your time, focus, or energy running ten separate, completely silly stupid blogs.

Your focus should always be on only ONE thing.

So how do you make multiple streams of income through one blog?

Two ways:

Affiliate marketing
Satellite sites

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is when you indirectly sell another company’s products and they give a commission per each sale you generate. In layman’s terms, you get paid for referrals who buy.

Affiliate marketing will give you multiple sources of income (for each product that you endorse) and it can truly be passive income after you have put in the work.

Some of my older articles STILL make me 1k+ each month. Put even just a tiny few GREAT kick-ass articles together and you’re talking some REAL life-changing money.

Satellite sites

Satellite sites are the problem solver’s answer to niche sites.

Satellite sites are your own personal projects (eBooks, podcasts, courses, video etc.) but they are on NEW, separate pages of your EXACT same domain.

Example: My main site is FraudsandLiars.com, some of my satellite sites are FraudsandLiars.com/badass-bodybuilding and FraudsandLiars.com/monk-mode

Satellite sites revolve around your main site, so they carry the EXACT same authority of your main site… BUT… they give you the absolute FREEDOM to design them in other separate ways.

You don’t want all your projects to be stuck with only ONE design.

On the other hand, you DON’T want all your work disconnected and discombobulated either.

You want EVERYTHING connected, even if they are on separate different pages of your EXACT same domain, they should STILL all be branded under your reputation and your authority.

You want MULTIPLE sources of income… but NOT multiple sources of focus.

Diversify the income stream, keep the FOCUS on only ONE thing.

Don’t throw away your energy on building MULTIPLE projects because you’ll eventually spread yourself WAY TOO thin.

Build one, finish it completely, then move on to the next one.

But make sure to keep your focus on only ONE thing – your #1 main authority blog.

How to write articles that PAY… every single day

They say that the money is in the list… but that’s absolute complete bullshit.

The money is in the reputation.

The “list” just simply facilitates your very specific business needs.

Email marketing is NOT the absolute #1 BEST strategy for making money online from a blog.

The #1 BEST strategy to make money online from a blog is:

Writing timeless content that can live on for absolute eternity on your blog.

Each article you write is it’s completely own little old niche site.

But those articles are all connected to something MUCH larger – your blog.

Blogging vs email marketing

When I write a blog article it’s online FOREVER.

When I write an email, it has a timeline of realistically only one hour. After one hour, the clicks begin to drop very rapidly.

Good blog articles will make you money daily WITHOUT any more further involvement from you.

Emails, on the other hand, will make you money in the hour after you send them and then immediately NOTHING else.

So if you rely on email marketing to make money online, what do you have to do to KEEP sales coming?

You have to KEEP ON sending emails.

Articles, on the other hand, receive traffic day in and day out and you only publish articles ONE single time.

Here are two examples of niche articles on Frauds and Liars:

I could send those two articles out as emails and they’d be forgotten immediately within 24 hours.

As blog articles, they’ve been read by millions of people and they’re STILL read by thousands of folks every single day.

Internet marketing vs content creation

I have absolutely ZERO respect for internet marketers because they’re BOTH lazy and sometimes just plain stupid.

Their goal is to have a very successful product launch and make a lot of money only once… and then immediately move on to their very next product launch.

That’s literally all what they do.

They’re take the money and run hucksters. When the money very quickly eventually runs out they come crawling back with yet another dumb stupid product launch.

Their products don’t ever last because they don’t make timeless content, they only put effort into the launch.

The launch makes them money for a VERY LIMITED period of time, then the money completely runs out and they have to do the same damn thing completely over and over and over again.

The launch model is a VERY dumb, useless, and stupid business model.

Instead of MAKING MONEY… hand over fist… every single day of the whole ENTIRE week… they only make money ONCE over the course of the launch… and then they basically make totally NOTHING until they launch yet another dumb, useless, and totally stupid product.

They may as well rely on a “job” or a regular 2-week paycheck.

On the other hand, I make money online… every single day… from books I wrote a long while ago, because the content is damn good and absolutely timeless.

I never pushed a big launch, I never cared at all ANYTHING at all about a launch.

Marketing for the pros 101

What’s the #1 SECRET to making money online from seemingly absolutely NOTHING?

Non-invasive marketing

The non-invasive marketing strategy is VERY SIMPLE: place some links to your products in your articles.

Don’t sell them in the articles, just say that “these are available“.

It’s the downright MOST simplest strategy in the whole ENTIRE world but I swear that it absolutely works wonders.

Don’t harass your readers with constant emails or nasty pop-ups offering them a free guide to learn how to breathe better just so you can add another email address to your list of prospects.

Offer value and they’ll buy, it’s really that simple.

Hidden-in-plain-sight promotion

Nearly all of my articles promote one of my books.

But they are always very subtle. They aren’t “hard sales”.

They aren’t thrown in your face but they definitely are a call to action.

Soft sales

The non-invasive marketing strategy can also be called the “soft sale”.

Save the hard sale for the sales page.

When you mention your products in an article the soft sell will convert much BETTER than the hard sale.

People don’t want to be sold, they only want a solution to their problem.

Try to push sales on people and they’re just going to run VERY FAR away from you.

Offer them an excellent solution and they’ll immediately come running to you with handfuls of money.

Make it rain

Your business is just like a tree, keep feeding it water and it will grow very big and strong.

When your tree grows very big and strong, it will bear fruit for YOU (money and freedom).

Stop feeding your tree and it will very quickly wither away and die.

Plan for growth.

Your blog starts out as a little root, you need to water it to make it grow into a very BIG tree.

That means, yes, you actually have to work.

You work hard RIGHT NOW… so that in the future you can work less.

Anyone can understand the make it rain plan…

How to start a blog that truly actually PAYS

Read the Blog Money Blueprint System for a total blueprint to run a blog like a BUSINESS.

The Blog Money Blueprint System will teach you EXACTLY how to start your own location-independent online business and make GOOD money from ANYWHERE.

Start writing

The Blog Money Blueprint System will help you plant your tree… but YOU will still have to actually write the articles.

Just write about whatever YOU personally actually know.

You need an audience and you need some very high-quality articles.

Put those two things together and YOU can make money online… rather easily.

Quality articles are the rain that absolutely grows your tree of wealth and freedom.

Sell something

You don’t make money online WITHOUT selling something.

You can sell ad space, you can affiliate market products OR you can create and sell your very own products.

It’s easier to put in affiliate links to products you currently use and enjoy but it’s absolutely BEST to create your own products and stay in complete control of all of your money.