How Can Blogging Help Writers Make More Money?

I’m doing a lot of interviews lately, but this was definitely one of the best. Ray Edwards has embraced blogging wholeheartedly and is making serious changes to his business model to focus on his blog as the linchpin of his operation.

Ray’s core skill is copywriting and he has a lot of students who learn from him how to use words to their advantage. We’re talking authors, freelancer writers, copywriters, speakers and general small business folk who use words to sell (pretty much all of us who have an online business!).

I jumped at the chance to present to Ray’s audience through an interview and offer my thoughts on how blogs could be used to help authors, speakers and writers who want to translate their words into an income stream through blogging.

You can download the podcast here - Blogging For Six Figures? Writers Take Note!

It’s worth listening to this podcast to hear Ray speak too. As a copywriter he knows how to speak good copy as well, so listen how Ray leads this interview and you can learn a lot about good podcast technique.


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Hey Yaro,

Great interview, I know when I hire writers I like to see they have some kind of a blog or personal website as I know thats the writing style they feel comfortable with. When I see a blogger has great writing style on their blog and they convey personality and emotion it makes me want to hire them.

Comment by Peter Laurent @ 2008-08-22 01:00:40
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Yes, a writer who just writes for money (i.e. sells articles) does not have the same skills as someone who writes for a blog 5 times a week.

Plus, you get to see how great of a writer they actually are, not just the one or two samples they send.

Comment by Quitting The Day Job @ 2008-08-25 23:40:19
 
 
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I really enjoyed this. It is always nice to hear from other people in the blog world.

Comment by Ultimate Blogging Experiment @ 2008-08-22 01:05:11
 
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Thanks for the interview, Yaro. I’ll be listening to this in the car soon. I’ve been meaning to see what Ray Edwards is about, so this will be a good start :-)

Comment by Dave Navarro @ 2008-08-22 01:16:56
 
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Great interview. Thank you very much. It’s good to get a coaching like this for free on the web. ;-) BTW: Isn’t the blogosphere the only place where people who are making a lot of money tell many of their success secrets for free and help the newbies? I don’t know of any similar place to start learning and improving.

And Yaro, since you’re coming to Europe, is there any chance you’ll visit Germany??

Comment by Haris Erfolg @ 2008-08-22 01:29:31
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Germany is a maybe on the list Haris.

There’s too many things in Europe to see and I only have a few months plus I’m trying to avoid the super cold, so it will be a progressively southern journey as it gets closer to Christmas.

Comment by Yaro @ 2008-08-22 02:27:10
 
 
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I’m so glad that Yaro shares all this wonderful information with us!

Comment by Jennifer @ 2008-08-22 07:00:29
 
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Blogging is definitely a path to monetization. While I still don’t consider mysef a writer, my blog has nonetheless led to a syndicated column, which led to a book, and the litany of opportunistic tentacles have literally become countless. I would strongly encourage those looking to blog to stay the course, as it will pay dividends with a dedicated effort.

Comment by Mike Myatt @ 2008-08-22 12:55:12 Subscribed to comments via email
 
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Awesome interview Master Yaro, I can´t belive you are giving all this info for free. I´m sure that with your wise advise a lot of people will be able to at last make money online. I hope that with a lot of practice I´ll become a good blogger in no time. Thank you very much. Please keep up the good work (I know you will, it is clear that you enjoy it so much)

Thanks again and,

Best Regards,

Daniel Cajiga

Comment by Daniel Cajiga @ 2008-08-22 14:05:49 Subscribed to comments via email
 
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Hi Yaro,

that was a really good podcast, gave me a lot of new ideas to improve my starting business.

If you plan to come to visit Munich while your stay in Germany let me know, I was told to be a good tourguide and I can probably give you some insides that you won’t find in the tourbooks. Or if you simply need some travel advises let me know.

Thanks for all your great information.

Greetings from Munich

Ben

Comment by Ben @ 2008-08-22 20:59:57
 
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Great podcast, lots of good information. I think blogging can really take off and provide a full-time income. However, it does take a lot of hard work before it starts to pay off. So be patient.

Comment by Justin Wright @ 2008-08-26 08:44:51
 
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Great post! I have learned a lot about blogging and it opens my eye to those writers, who blog only for money.

Comment by Amit Ganguly @ 2008-08-26 09:36:23 Subscribed to comments via email
 
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Ray is a great guy and excellent copywriter. I always enjoy hearing what Ray has to share. Love to get those free nuggets of wisdom he puts out there for us.

Thanks to both of you for making this available.

I look forward to meeting you along the way some day Yaro.

Henry Griner
http://whoishenry.com

Comment by Henry Griner @ 2008-08-27 08:22:54 Subscribed to comments via email
 

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