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How to do upfront work

Were talking about making money. Sometimes you need to do upfront work without certainty of potential income.

Many people assume, go on YouTube post videos and you’re golden, but many people just give away their labor for some views.

If you want to make money by doing upfront work, you need to get a deal before you do the work.

That could include writing a Kindle book, but publishing it with the deal attached.

It can be making a blog with monetization in place.

So you can definitely make money doing upfront work, but you won’t be certain about the income.

That’s why contracts and agreements are important.

Nobody would make 10000000 kebabs before they get the deal, but people make thousands of videos before they even have a change to earn… And that’s the problem of modern internet.

So the problem isn’t that you can’t do upfront work, you can, but you need agreement of potential revenue for the work you did or are doing.

Not like YouTube, Facebook – we will monetize your work someday, if you reach the monetization threshold.

So the platforms exploit their users who want to make a business, if they valued your work – they would pay you from the beginning. On Facebook or YouTube, it’s not upfront work when your content is not monetized, it’s just free labor for the platform, because when you publish you will get views, but not profit. So they benefit from your free labor.

They run ads on your content, but not for you, but for them. So you are left with nothing.

Don’t waste time blogging

I blogged online for 16 years and I made donation money and generally broke even.

So the problem isn’t the fact that you can’t blog – you can.

The reality is that most bloggers blogs are not monetized from day 1. And donations, tip jars are lousy ways of making money because most people are indifferent and they won’t support you.

So the good way of making money is getting ads from day 1, so that your visitors got used to the blog with ads, don’t say them: I like blogging that’s why I blog and then ask for support.

You can write a blog because you like it, but most people these days don’t waste time blogging because they like it. Blogging has evolved and it is a business.

Nobody would pay for hosting just to work on a blog for free, because you can blog on Facebook and pay nothing.

So the way to approach blogging for money is to get into ad program from day 1, then when you build some traffic introduce some affiliate link.

You don’t have to review every single item you don’t have on Amazon for affiliate marketing to be worthwhile.

But most problem people make is they post about their lives, nobody is searching for you online unless you’re some celebrity.

You can’t monetize your personal life with ads because nobody would bid on your posts or the ads would be very low paying.

I’m not saying you can’t monetize personal stuff, but it has to be an angle rather than the fact that you ate a cookie.

Many people waste years writing about their lives and wondering why their ‘business blog’ doesn’t boom.

Writing about your life is such a waste of effort. I know it because I did it, the problem isn’t the fact that you have interesting thoughts and ideas, but the fact that majority of people don’t know that you exist.

The other fact it that most people’s content isn’t competitive and compelling.

If you want to rank #1 on Google you need to have the best article for a search term, that’s it.

So instead of doing random articles and hoping they will rank, go to Google in incognito mode, and actually see what is written and consider if you can make a better article.

You see if you write articles, that are not searched for, people just won’t find you via Google and other search engines.

When you don’t have an audience search is crucial. Back in the day blogging wasn’t competitive because the web was small, today the web is HUGE and it’s getting HUGER.

So to sum it up: monetize with ADS from day 1, add affiliate later, don’t write about personal life and you title should be the EXACT phrase people search for and write helpful content that solves a problem, or entertains, then later someday when you have 1000000 email subs you can write whatever the hell you want, because you will have an actual audience.

Is It Worth Advertising Free Content

When I first started creating content for the internet I had a website. I didn’t sell anything nor I had ads and whatnot, but I wanted views.

So then I decided to advertise my website, I got the attention but it costed me 100 Litas back then.

But the problem wasn’t the views, it was that I didn’t sell anything.

If you are thinking of advertising your website which is just some blog, or some other social media post – don’t do it. Attention is fleeting, people who pressed or engaged with your ad will disappear as soon as you stop paying for the ad.

Ideally when you buy ads, you want attention to convert into a return of customer acquisition.

Typically the return of an investment is 10%, but if you don’t sell anything the return will be 0%. So you will be losing money for attention, views, likes, comments and these are vanity metrics which don’t buy kebabs for you.