janelle's article on blogging

Basher blog, (it sells sheet metal fabrication) shows, you can sell any business or service from a blog. 4. Blog for others If you enjoy blogging, you can blog for others. Many businesses want to create and maintain a blog, but they don't have the staff to do this in-house, so they hire professional bloggers. The first, and most profitable way of monetizing the blog, is to promote products and get a commission from any sales made. This is known as affiliate marketing, and there are literally thousands of affiliate products available to promote. The products can be digital information products, software, etc. or physical products. Each affiliate program will provide the blogger with a simple piece of html code that just needs to be pasted into the blog. This creates a hyperlink to the products website.
Of course, you will need to learn the ropes of generating visitors to come to your blog and then how to make money by guiding these people to get what they want. Notice the last sentence is in 'italic' so you better pay attention.
Content for your blog should be updated actively. It can be scheduled to be on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, according to your time availability. In the case of multiple blogs, efforts should be doubled in terms of apportioning the right amount of time to each blog. Different kinds of blogs may require different treatment. If you have a blog that is health care related, you can post it on a daily basis. With a sports-related blog, posting can be done weekly.