June 30, 2008

Make Money Create Blogs for Your Neighbors

Filed under: Main Posts, mmo — admin @ 3:12 pm

MoneyNow that you know how to build a WordPress website, why not put your talent to work and make some extra money?

Look around your neighborhood and talk to storekeepers and manufacturers that you know. Ask them if they have a website? If they do ask them if they have a Blog?

The normal answer to question number two is, No. They may tell you that they can’t be bothered, but in reality it is probably more like they are scared to Hell to get into it figuring they would make some serious blunders and do not want to look like an idiot.

That’s where you can put on the salesman’s cap and give them your best pitch.

A Blog is DYNAMIC. It is ever changing with new content and the Big G (and other search engines also,) just LOVE new content.

With new content the client/customer will be able to impress their readers with new products, discount sales, special promotions and so on. Their Blog sites will get indexed much more often then their old canned spam static website.

Here is where you put on your techie beanie. You will build them a website or Blog and customize and fine tune it to just what their needs are. You already are friends with all of the plugins and themes and bells and whistles that you have struggled to tame, and now it should be cake to implement all of just the right ones for this project.

How do you make money?

Well let me tell you how I do it. Offer to work cheap, say fifty bucks an hour. Most web design companies have to charge $150-$200 per hour to cover their costs, overhead and profit. You won’t have much of an expense and the work is going to be done in your spare time, and it will keep you out of the bars anyway.

I figure a minimum of 40 hours is needed to set up a site from the ground up. That’s name, registration, hosting, and miscellaneous minor expenses. Then you will work with the client to design a system that suits them and you will keep getting input from them as you are building it. They usually do not have any idea what they want until you show them what you have in mind, and then they might get the design juices flowing themselves and feed you with a bunch of good material.

So after a couple of weeks of spare time and about 40 hours invested you should have a half dozen or so articles posted and the client should easily be able to take over the posting. If not, then you might be able to continue posting, say a minimum of a couple of times a week for X amount of dollars on a continuing basis.

I have done this a few time so far and to date I have never drawn any of the above named rates, but I make sure to let the client knows what a great deal they are getting even with my low rate. Here is what I do for payment. Think about what the client has a lot of that could be worth something to you. I have taken goods in trade, and I have also negotiated a commission payment or piece of the action, which you will have to try to negotiate yourself. Most people in business are willing to give it a try if they do not have to actually fork over hard earned cash.

I know it works for me. My customers are thrilled with the results, and they are on their happy Blogging way!

Go for it…

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8 Comments »

  1. I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
    Very interesting posts and well written.
    I will put your site on my blogroll.
    :-)

    Comment by Dan Waldron — June 30, 2008 @ 3:16 pm

  2. Make Money Create Blogs for Your Neighbors | LinkMoney.org…

    Get the idea on how to create Blogs for your neighbors and local businesses….

    Trackback by [Vote 4 Me] Blog Vibrations — July 1, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

  3. My link doesn’t show above. Http://jbsolis.blogspot.com

    Comment by kenjebz — July 2, 2008 @ 3:38 am

  4. Superb post Rich

    This is something I have thought of doing for a while now. You have given me the passion to get my butt into gear.

    Cheers bud

    Regards
    SolReka
    Brighter Energy Solutions

    Comment by SolReka — July 28, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

  5. To SolReka,

    I can tell by your Blog that you will have no problem with pulling this off. Don’t be afraid to barter or discount. It is all good exposure and bigger and better things will come from it. I know it has already for me.

    Thanks for the comment. Please come back and tell us of your success.

    Rich

    Comment by rich — July 28, 2008 @ 6:31 pm

  6. [...] and hosting and build websites. You will recall that I wrote about this previously in another post: Make Money Create Blogs for your Neighbors Well this is an update. I have built way over a hundred websites and with each one there are new [...]

    Pingback by I am a WordPress Butt Boy! | LinkMoney.org — August 15, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

  7. I just looked at your RSS feed and it gave me an error. Can you post your RSS feed url when you have a chance? I don’t check email very often.

    Comment by Marco Rigby — October 14, 2009 @ 10:44 pm

  8. Hi Marco,

    The RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/linkmoney/mvZE
    Glad to have you as a subscriber.
    Thanks
    Rich

    Comment by admin — October 14, 2009 @ 11:29 pm

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