Stay Home Stay Safe And Make Money Online: Stuck at home during the pandemic? There’s never been a better time to automate your income through a side (or main) hustle.
This can happen with a strategically built website. From affiliate marketing; offering a digital product; donations; and membership sites, these are all ways to monetize your brand.
Here are some essential tips on how to make money with a new website:
Affiliate marketing
If you’re an expert within a field, building a website with content based on your expertise can help you make money during the coronavirus. Affiliate marketing helps bloggers and other website owners monetize their website.
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“The way it works is, you link out to products and services from ads or contextual links. When someone makes a purchase from those links, you get a commission off the sale.
This is an excellent business model for content marketing. To be effective, you’ll need to focus on search engine optimization to reach people when they are looking for content related to your topic.
Sell ads (i.e., Google Adsense)
Another effective strategy for travel and lifestyle websites that focus on content marketing is to sell ads. You can do this using a service like Google Adsense, or you can manage the ad sales yourself. While managing the ads yourself can mean you have to invest more time, it can also mean more income.
When using a service like Google Adsense, you get paid when someone clicks the ad. For users to click the ad, you’ll need to have content focused on a topic that Google can serve relevant ads for. The more consistent your content, the easier this will be for Google to do well.
Offer a digital product
You can earn money when starting a new travel and lifestyle website by offering a digital product, such as an ebook or online course. This is another effective way for experts to monetize their know-how.
Offering a digital product means developing a strong SEO strategy to bring relevant visitors to your website. Additionally, you’ll want to have a social media management that showcases your expertise and earns your product visibility in your industry.
People want to buy ebooks and online courses from people who make it evident that they know what they are talking about. Showcase that expertise on a blog, social media videos and online interactions.
Enable donations
When websites have a strong and loyal following, they can ask for donations from their user base to fund their work. Wikipedia is an example of this funding model as they seek donations to fund the work that they do.
One simple way of enabling donations through your website is to place a PayPal or other digital payment option on your website. For this model to be effective, you’ll need to offer content that users can’t find anywhere else for free and prove your value in the marketplace.
Build an e-commerce business
Ecommerce websites enable you to sell a product and ship it to your customers. You can create a product or do drop shipping where you partner with existing product manufacturers as a way to spread the word about their product.
The key to building a successful e-commerce business is having an effective and custom web design that highlights the benefits of your products. For visitors to feel comfortable making a purchase on your website, it must exude a feeling of legitimacy and security.
Create a membership site
A membership site allows you to collect membership fees for individuals to receive exclusive content or access to resources. If you’ve built a strong following, your membership site could be premium business listings that businesses pay to be a part of.
Other membership websites find success in offering templates and services through an online membership portal.
Establishing a membership site can be challenging as it’s a more complicated web development process. Consider working with a digital marketing agency to discuss your goals and business plan to ensure success.
