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I was like you, I researched until I got confused and tired and now I got it and have decided to help others to make money with their beauty blogs.
Making money online with your beauty blog takes time, patience, and effort as you get started. The moment you get the hang of it, your beauty blog has a solid foundation then you can begin having passive revenue. There are many ways of making money online and bloggers mix a few of the following depending on their preference. This will add up to her/his monthly profit.
- Affiliate Links
- Ads
- Sponsored Posts
- E-books
- Online Courses
- Own Services/Products
Have you started creating your blog? If not, here is a Step by step-by-step tutorial on starting a blog.
Steps
· Owning a Self Hosted Blog
First of all, you have to own your own blog with your own domain or self-hosting .e.g BlueHost, HostGator, etc. You can’t use all these free hosting sites, you can’t put ads and their owners may pull them off air anytime without your consent. If you want to know in detail about hosting websites visit here.
· Create A Blog
There is a way of creating your blog in order to prepare it for monetization. Here is a check to guide you and then continue learning how to monetize. Remember to always give your readers the best content, quality information, and products they desire. Readers look for value and recommendations from experts like you. As you give recommendations, make sure it is a product you are familiar with.
· Be honest
When you create content for your beauty blog learn to give honest, helpful and relevant product information. This will make your audience and followers to really trust you and thus come back for your services. You can only be honest if you do this with passion something that you are familiar with.
Monetization of your Beauty Blog
It is now time to make money with your blog. It is called monetization. Let us take 6 common ways of monetizing your blog out of the many ways.
6 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
1. Affiliate Links
2. Ads
3. Sponsored Posts
4. E-books
5. Online Courses
6. Own Services/Products
1. Affiliate Links
Companies that have an affiliate program will pay you as a blogger, a certain amount of commission just for you to refer them to a new customer. As you blog about a beauty product, you can become their affiliate and market their brand. As you do this, you are referring to their brand/product/business in your blog for payment of course. When you are an affiliate, you will post links in your beauty blog posts to the beauty brand’s website.
The way this works is that every moment one of your readers clicks on your affiliate link, and then buys that product, that same beauty company will pay you a percentage of the sale.
Click here for a complete guide on affiliate marketing for beginners.
How to be an Affiliate?
Make a list of companies you chose. Look at their affiliate program on their website footer or contact them by email. The other effective way is to do a Google search of the Company Name + “Affiliate Program”.
Here is a
list of some of my favorite high-paying affiliate programs, which you can join.
2. Scatter Ads on your Blog
When you want to monetize with ads, make sure that you add a few. Do not put over 3 links in your post. A lot of ads in one post act as a distraction and will turn off your readers. Put ads that are classy and related to your content of that post.
You will usually get ads directly from the affiliate programs by logging into your affiliate program and then copying and pasting the code to your website. You will earn a commission whenever someone buys something after clicking on an ad.
The second way of making money through ads is the method of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. PPC pays you a few cents anytime a customer clicks on your ad. It does not matter if they buy or not. With PPC earning more money comes with having many page views one gets through their website or blog. You don’t earn a commission if there is a sale.
PPC Networks to Join
Awin –
Free to join
ShareASale –
Free to join
Google
Adsense- Free to join
Media. net-Free
to join
MediaVine-
you can join when you have over 50,000 sessions per month
3. Sponsored Posts and Becoming an Influencer
As soon as you have a large enough following, you can apply to become an influencer. An influencer is someone who gets paid by brands or companies to write posts for their products. They will pay you a standard amount in advance so as to post about their brand or product.
An example of an influencer is those nice looking and all made-up girls on Instagram or Facebook, with a cup of tea product claiming to be a 4-week weight loss tea. It is all sponsored posts. That certain tea company would be paying the Influencer for posting that photo with their brand. A great way to find paid blogging jobs is by joining an influencer agency.
Micro-influencers
There is a big demand for Micro-Influencers. Micro-influencers don’t necessarily need a lot of followers.
What Are Micro-Influencers?
Micro-influencers are specific influencers who have lower follower counts in a given niche. They have engaged audiences, yet have a relatively low follower count of about 1 000 to 20 000.
People are more likely to buy what a Micro Influencer recommends than a big celebrity is seen recommending. Micro-Influencers earn a living from their online following, getting paid to blog and posting on Instagram through sponsored brand partnerships at the same time gaining a ton of free products along the way.
You need to join influencer networks such as Linqia, in order to find brands for paid sponsorships. First, you have to prepare your media kit ready to go. Go here for Styled Customizable Media Kit Templates.
How Much Should You Charge For A Sponsored Post?
A typical rule for sponsorship pricing is: number of followers X 10% or $10 for every 1000 page views your blog gets per month.
4. Selling E-books
Creating and selling an eBook on your website is another good way of earning passive income. All you have to do is find out your passion or what are great at, no matter the niche, and write about it. After writing it you can sell it. When your readers buy it all they do is make a payment and then download it from your website.
You can easily create your ebook in Canva for free and then sell it on your own website, or use Blurb to sell it on Amazon, Apple, etc.
5. Create an Online Course
Create an online course about a topic you are passionate about and put it up on your site. This can be a very profitable source of passive income. You can create several lessons, usually in video segments, and then let your students pay a certain fee to watch them.
Offer a worksheet with course material and notes as well. One of the platforms you can use to run your courses on is called Podia.
6. Offer Own Services and Products
First you will have to create a” Work with Me” page on your site and then depending on what you are e.g. Web Designer, Make-up artist etc. , describe your services and the fee cost on that page. People are looking to hire someone providing your kind of service so this page will lead them to you.
Are you the creative type? Can you make designs, clothes, etc.? If so then after making those products yourself sell them through your site and start making money.
There are other ways of making money online through your blog besides the ones that I mentioned. I will write more as I update this post. Bear in mind that these are passive ways of making money online not get-rich-quick ways and you will have to work hard to start making money.
