Don’t you love it when people ask you these questions!

I do try to answer as best I can but without knowing the person or their blog speciality it is difficult to give a helpful answer.

Unless you’re one of the blog gurus who have been blogging for many years then I suppose the answer has to be “no”.

But don’t let that put you off, you can make a tidy living from your blog but it comes with a price. You need to put a lot of time and effort in, the old saying, “write it and they will come” is a fallacy.

The magic word is traffic. You need to drive traffic to your blog. Sure, regular posts will attract the search engines over time but you need to grab your marketing with both hands and promote yourself in the right places. See my previous posts on marketing in places like LinkedIn and Twitter to drive traffic.

If your blog has an underlying business, as does mine, then I suppose my answer to you could be “yes”, your blog can make you rich but your blog needs to be one tool in the toolbox, you need other tools to market your business like networking and good email campaigns and of-course you need something to sell. You could do worse than learning “The Image Attraction System“, the profile builder, to create the right image using your blog and to enable people to see you as an expert so that you are someone that they would like to buy from.

It’s not about intelligence or education or who you know. It’s purely about how much you’re prepared to put in at the beginning to build your profile and how hard you are prepared to work to keep the momentum going.

Once you have a good online profile you need to start to create customers. You need to become an Internet Celebrity, you just need to be seen and be heard by everyone.

Comment on other people’s blogs, answer people’s queries on social sites like LinkedIn and Facebook and set up genuine messages to automatically thank people who follow you on Twitter. One thing that is soooooo important at this stage is NOT TO SELL TO THEM YET!

Create that relationship, don’t mention what you do, allow them to research you themselves, I promise you they will. If you have done a good job on your profile then they will be impressed – that’s for sure!
Pat Sutton

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Pat Sutton is Forbes Listed as one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter.