Other Ways To Make Money With A Website
Besides the obvious of adding affiliate offerings to the content within our websites, there are other ways to make money with a website.
Let's take a look at a few.
Email Marketing
Growing an email list and marketing to it is something that everyone is doing these days, because it's such a direct and powerful sales tool. Emails could be offering free content, special promotions, affiliate offerings or even promoting your own products. Using the traffic that visits your website is one method of growing your email list, along with squeeze pages and utilising social media to get the word out. When your email list grows, it can actually be a lot more profitable than the content on your website as the marketing methods are more direct.
Sell Your Own Products
These could either be digital products (the easiest to deal with, as you don't have to store products, pack and ship anything), or they could be physical products if your website is more of an eCommerce site rather than an affiliate site, or a combination of the two. When you sell your own products, particularly if they are digital, the profits are greater and, in the case of digital products (think eBooks, for example), you don't have to keep manufacturing the product or buying stock. The product is created once and sold over and over again.
Sell Some Website Real Estate To Advertisers
Your website will need to look attractive to potential advertisers in several ways before you even contemplate selling off advertising space. For one, you will want your site to be aesthetically pleasing. Your niche will also need to be relevant to the advertiser's niche. Most importantly, you will need to be getting a decent amount of traffic to your site for it to be a viable advertising option for another company. The more popular your website is, the more you can charge.
Advertise Your Services
Just about everyone her eon Wealthy Affiliate is trying their hand at affiliate marketing. This involves writing a lot of content. If you feel you are pretty good at expressing the written word, then you could advertise your freelance writing services on your own website. This can apply to any type of service you think may be of benefit to others and something people would be willing to pay for. It's not just restricted to writing.
Create and Sell An eCourse
A lot of affiliate marketers branch off into creating courses at one point in their careers. It's a great way to produce additional income from your site, or even sell on sites such as Udemy. The course could even be given away as a lead magnet to get people to join your mailing list. This almost goes hand in hand with services in a way. Whatever you feel you could offer as a service could potentially be turned into a course. As an example - "How To Write Copy That Converts!"
The Takeaway
The above are just a select few extra ways you can use your website to increase your income level. If you have some ideas to add to the list, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
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You have some great ideas. I think I will try my hand at selling digital products. It makes sense now that I hear about it
I always appreciate this type of post, as it expands the possibilities in my mind, and you certainly do a great job in your posts, pulling many of us along the path of business diversification. Best wishes for your success!
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Thanks for the tips. We're only limited by our imaginations.
Imagination is everything.