How to Make Money Blogging (Example: This Blog Makes $100K / Month)

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <figure class="post-image left" itemprop="image" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="color: #333333; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16.96px; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://smartblogger.com/make-money-blogging/" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="How to Make Money Blogging (Example: This Blog Makes $100K / Month)" data-pin-nopin="true" height="703" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/make-money-blogging.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="703" /></a></figure><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16.96px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Want to learn how to make money blogging?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, I can show you. I’ve built three different sites to over $1 million per year, including this one.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Here’s a screenshot of just one month of revenue for Smart Blogger:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="We made over $178,000 in January 2016" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6016 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/monthly-income-from-blogging.png" data-srcset="" height="257" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/monthly-income-from-blogging.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/monthly-income-from-blogging.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/monthly-income-from-blogging-300x129.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Granted, it was a good month. We don’t always make that much money.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But we almost always cross $100,000 in sales.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> How?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-1962" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, I’ll tell you. Not because I want to brag (well, maybe a little), but because most of the advice out there is complete crap.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> For instance, do you see any ads on this site?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> No? How about e-books for sale?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> None of those either, huh?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> There’s a reason why.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The Best Way to Make Money Blogging</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Over the past eight years, I’ve had the good fortune to work with some of the <a href="https://smartblogger.com/smart-blogger/" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="smart blogger">smartest bloggers</a> on the planet. I worked with Brian Clark as he built <a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/" rel="noopener" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Copyblogger</a> to a multimillion dollar brand. Neil Patel and Hiten Shah also hired me to help them launch the KISSmetrics blog, eventually creating a multimillion dollar SaaS company.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Combined, I wouldn’t be surprised if both blogs have earned more than $50 million. In comparison, the $100,000 per month I’ve managed to generate here is a pittance.</div> <div class="tve-leads-shortcode tve-tl-anim tl-anim-instant tve-leads-track-shortcode_9298 tve-leads-triggered" style="margin: 0px; max-height: none; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;"> <div class="tl-style" data-state="64" id="tve_tcb2_multi-step-set-054_m1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve-leads-conversion-object" data-tl-type="shortcode_9298" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve_flt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve_shortcode_editor" id="tve_editor" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="thrv-leads-form-box tve_no_drag tve_no_icons thrv_wrapper tve_editor_main_content tve_empty_dropzone" data-css="tve-u-6859ad928ca670f" style="background-color: #dedede; background-image: none !important; border-radius: 1px !important; border: 1px dashed rgb(239, 229, 175) !important; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 2px 0px 4px !important; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px !important; min-width: 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 20px;"> <div class="thrv_wrapper thrv_contentbox_shortcode thrv-content-box" data-css="tve-u-15fce37feb5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 10px; min-width: 10px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) !important;"> <div class="tve-content-box-background" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 54px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px; width: 586px;"> </div> <div class="tve-cb tve_empty_dropzone" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; min-height: 10px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 586px; z-index: 1;"> <div class="thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element tve_empty_dropzone tve_ea_tl_state_lightbox" data-css="tve-u-6859ad928ca683f" style="background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; min-width: 20px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"> <div data-css="tve-u-15fce3528e0" style="font-size: 1.06em !important; line-height: 26.0613px !important; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Want to know how much money you could be </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">making</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> from your blog?</strong> Find out with our free <a class="tve_evt_manager_listen tve_et_click" data-tcb-events="__TCB_EVENT_[{"a":"tl_state_lightbox","t":"click","config":{"s":"66","anim":"instant"}}]_TNEVE_BCT__" href="https://smartblogger.com/make-money-blogging/javascript%3Avoid(0)" style="color: #47a7d7; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blog Profit Calculator</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> I’ll also be straight up with you… it wasn’t easy. For the first several years, I worked 80-100 hours a week, and even now I usually put in at least 60 hours.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The good news?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’s paid off. If you’ll take some of these lessons to heart, it’ll pay off for you too.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Before you get started though, there’s one crucial lesson you need to understand:</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> How Do You Make Money Blogging?</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The moment you decide to use your blog to make money, you’re no longer <em style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">just</em><span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a blogger. At that moment, you also become an entrepreneur, and your blog becomes a small business.</span></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> You’ve probably heard of financial planners giving free seminars to attract clients, right?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, blogging is a lot like those free seminars. You’re giving away your expertise and knowledge in the hopes of attracting customers and then gaining their trust.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="How blogs make money." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6018 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/how-blogs-make-money.png" data-srcset="" height="351" sizes="(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/how-blogs-make-money.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/how-blogs-make-money.png 402w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/how-blogs-make-money-300x262.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="402" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> In other words, if your goal is to make money with your blog, use it as a lead generation mechanism. Nurture those leads until they are ready to purchase, and the profit can quickly snowball.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Let me tell you how it happened for me…</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> My Story of Making Money Blogging</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It took me about five years to earn my first dollar.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> During that time, I started four different blogs, working on them at night and on the weekends. The first three failed. Despite investing hundreds of hours into each one, I made too many mistakes, and I eventually had to shut the blogs down. I didn’t earn a penny from them.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And I won’t lie to you… it sucked.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Each time a blog failed, I seriously thought about quitting. I felt like I was putting in all that time and energy for nothing.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But it wasn’t true. I was learning.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Yes, I made a lot of mistakes, but I didn’t repeat them. So, while those first four blogs were all “failures,” each one was also closer to success than the last.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> With the fourth blog, everything finally clicked. I was getting 1000 visitors a day within about two months, and I sold it for $10,000. That’s when I knew I was onto something.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> From there, I went to work for other big blogs for a few years, helping grow Copyblogger and KISSmetrics into what they are today. Eventually though, I felt the itch to go out on my own again, so I left and started this blog. It now turns a fairly steady $100,000+ a month.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> In total, it took me about eight years to get here, but in exchange for investing those eight years, I now have enough money to support me until the day I die. Also, every day I get emails from people telling me how I changed their lives for the better.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> So, it was worth it. No question.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But was it easy?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> No. It was just as hard as starting any other business.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> I did learn a thing or two that might speed along the process for others, though. Let’s start by talking about the exact step-by-step process for how to make money blogging.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Here’s How to Make Money Blogging</h2> <ol style="line-height: 23.744px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 44px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Set up your blog</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Write content that gets lots of traffic</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Convert visitors into email subscribers</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Send those subscribers content that builds trust</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Sell products or services your audience wants</li> </ol> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The problem?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’s hard to do. The process is simple on the surface, but each step is enormously complicated and requires extraordinary skill. Especially the last one.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> For instance, do you want to sell your own products or services? If so, which ones?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Here are just a few of the options:</div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6017" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 610px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Make money blogging by selling these things" class="wp-image-6017 size-full lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/types-of-things-blogs-can-sell.png" data-srcset="" height="318" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/types-of-things-blogs-can-sell.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/types-of-things-blogs-can-sell.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/types-of-things-blogs-can-sell-300x159.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.96px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 16.112px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.3344px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Make money blogging by selling these types of things</div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Or… what if you don’t have any products and services to sell? What should you do then?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, you can also make money blogging by selling <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">someone else’s</em> products and services.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The most conventional (and least profitable) method is selling advertising, where you allow companies to promote their products and services to your audience in exchange for a fee. You can also form partnerships with other companies, promoting their products and services and earning a commission each time one of your readers purchases. This is called “<a href="https://smartblogger.com/affiliate-marketing/" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="affiliate marketing">affiliate marketing</a>.”</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Which model should you choose? What should you do?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, I can give you my thoughts. After a decade in this business, I’ve learned a few things, and I believe some of them might surprise you…</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Don’t Sell Advertising (or Use Google AdSense)</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Ask your average beginner how they plan to make money blogging, and they’ll say they plan to sell ads on their site. After all, that’s how big newspapers and magazines monetize, so why not them?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But it’s a mistake.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> When I was at Copyblogger, we ran a little experiment. Normally, we refused to sell any ads on the site, but just as a test, we decided to put three ad spots in the right sidebar. The site looked like this:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="Copyblogger ad placement experiment." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6019 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ad-placement-copyblogger.png" data-srcset="" height="405" sizes="(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ad-placement-copyblogger.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ad-placement-copyblogger.png 458w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ad-placement-copyblogger-300x265.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="458" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Initially, we placed ads for our own products in each of the three spots, and we tracked all the sales resulting from someone clicking on the ad. I don’t remember the precise numbers, but we had something like $50,000 in product sales over 30 days. Not too shabby.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Well, out of curiosity, I shopped around to see how much advertisers would pay for the same ad space. The absolute highest rates I could negotiate would’ve brought in only $5,000 per month per ad spot, totaling $15,000 per month — 70% less than we made selling our own products.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And this was for a big, authority site! Imagine the pitiful rates a beginning blogger would get trying to make money blogging that way.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Granted, it’s not really a fair comparison. With your own products, you have to consider the cost of development, support, and other miscellaneous expenses, but even factoring those in, advertising our products was still more profitable by far.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The next most profitable strategy would have been to partner with other companies, collecting a commission on each sale as an affiliate. We never tested it, but I would guess we would’ve made somewhere around $25,000 per month on the spots — 60% more than advertisers would have paid.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The point?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you have an engaged audience that trusts you, and you’re trying to figure out how to make money blogging, selling ads is never a smart move. And that includes all the variations like Google AdSense, sponsorships, and advertising networks. None of it will make nearly as much money as promoting your own products or earning commissions from promoting someone else’s.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Let’s talk about that next…</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Start with Affiliate Marketing (or Services)</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> As I write this, it just so happens that I’m in the initial stages of starting a new blog (more details to be announced soon). It’s in a completely different space where I have no products, so I’ve been pondering the best way to monetize it, and here’s what I think…</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Affiliate marketing is the smartest strategy.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s a business model where you endorse other people’s products or services in exchange for a commission. On software and information products, affiliates typically earn a 50% commission or sometimes even more, so it can be quite lucrative.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/" rel="noopener" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Pat Flynn</a>, for example, makes over $100,000 a month in affiliate commissions. Here at Smart Blogger, we mostly promote our own products, but we also make a tidy sum promoting LeadPages and SiteGround:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="Our Lead Pages affiliate commissions." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6020 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/affiliate-commissions.png" data-srcset="" height="234" sizes="(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/affiliate-commissions.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/affiliate-commissions.png 427w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/affiliate-commissions-300x164.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="427" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Granted, you won’t make that kind of money when your blog is small, but when you’re just starting to learn how to make money blogging, affiliate marketing is still a good way to start for several reasons:</div> <ul style="line-height: 23.744px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 44px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It’s faster. Instead of investing months or even years creating a product, all you have to do is publish a link on your site. Assuming your audience is engaged, you could be earning commissions within hours or even minutes.</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The income from affiliate marketing is almost entirely passive. You don’t have to worry about creating products, supporting customers, or any of the technical complexity of selling your own products or services. You can also invest the time you save into growing your traffic, leading to more revenue later.</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It can guide future product creation. If one affiliate product sells 10X better than all the others you promote, you might want to think about developing your own version of the product, because you have proof your audience wants it.</li> </ul> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Personally, I think the advantages are so enormous that when it comes to how to make money blogging, no one should consider any other business model… with one exception:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Service providers.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you are a graphic designer, real estate agent, attorney, or any other type of service provider, you probably want to offer your services on your blog from day one. The profit you make will almost certainly outstrip anything else, at least in the beginning.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Lesson #3: Build the Funnel in Reverse</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Even if you’re making fantastic money from affiliate marketing or selling services, chances are you’ll want to try your hand at developing your own product at some point. So, where should you start?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> My answer: with blogs, the most profitable price is usually the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">end </i>of the funnel. Here’s what I mean…</div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6021" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 610px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Build a sales funnel in reverse." class="size-full wp-image-6021 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/reverse-sales-funnel.png" data-srcset="" height="467" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/reverse-sales-funnel.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/reverse-sales-funnel.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/reverse-sales-funnel-300x234.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.96px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 16.112px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.3344px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Build a sales funnel in reverse, starting with higher prices.</div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> You’ve seen a sales funnel, right? A company entices you with a freebie, then they offer you something cheap but irresistible, and then they gradually sweet talk you into buying more and more expensive stuff. It’s a tried and true marketing tactic, and you should absolutely build a sales funnel for your blog.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> What you might not know is you should build it in reverse.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> A lot of bloggers launch a cheap <a href="https://smartblogger.com/viral-report/" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="viral report">e-book</a> as their first product, and then they get frustrated when they don’t make much money. Here’s why: the real profit is at the end of the funnel, not the beginning.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Selling e-books is fine and dandy if you have half a dozen more expensive products to offer your customer afterwards, but it’s downright silly if you don’t. You’re much better off creating and selling the expensive product first, and then gradually building cheaper and cheaper products.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> When you do have some less expensive products to sell, you can offer those to new people first, safe in the knowledge that you have something more profitable up your sleeve to sell them later.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Here at Smart Blogger, our products cost $9,997, $1,997, and $997, $497, $197, and $47.  We started on the expensive side first, and we gradually worked our way down. It’s been much, much more profitable this way.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> There’s No Such Thing As a “Cheap” Market</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> “But Jon,” I can hear you spluttering. “I can’t sell a $10,000 product! My customers don’t have that much money.”</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> My response: you’re 98% right. Unless you’re selling exclusively to multimillionaires, the vast majority of your customer base won’t be able to afford premium products, but what’s interesting is it doesn’t matter. Often, you can make more money selling to the 2% than you can to the entire 98% combined.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> For instance, our $10,000 product is a year-long coaching program for bloggers — a group that’s not exactly known for their wealth, but I always fill all ten spots within minutes of opening the program. Here’s why: the last time we opened it, I notified 40,000 bloggers. 2% of 40,000 writers is 800 people. By only accepting 10, I’m creating a situation of extreme scarcity.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="Sell high end products to the 2%" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6022 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blog-products-sales.png" data-srcset="" height="72" sizes="(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blog-products-sales.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blog-products-sales.png 566w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blog-products-sales-300x38.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="566" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> You can do the same thing, even if your list is much smaller. If you have 100 subscribers, chances are two of them might be willing to buy premium products or services from you, and those two will often pay you more money than the other 98 combined.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And let me be clear…</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> I’m not saying you have to charge $10,000. We actually make even more money from our $2000 product than we do the $10,000 one:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="$266,132 profit from selling our writing course." class="alignnone wp-image-6023 size-full lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/writing-course-income.png" data-srcset="" height="31" sizes="(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/writing-course-income.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/writing-course-income.png 499w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/writing-course-income-300x19.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="499" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The point is, most people are afraid to charge more than $200 for a class, believing that’s all people can afford, but it’s just not true. Every market has customers who are and willing to pay for a premium experience. Give them one.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Just be aware… higher prices demand bigger promises. Let me explain.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The Price Depends on the Promise</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Let’s go back to the example of the $10,000 coaching program. How on earth did I get people to pay me that much money?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’s not because they were stupid. They didn’t get one of my emails and say, “Oh, look honey, this is a fabulous opportunity to throw our money away. Let’s give this good-looking fellow $10,000 just for the hell of it.”</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> On the contrary, they expected a lot of me. In exchange for that $10,000, I promised to help them launch their blog from scratch and get their first 10,000 email subscribers in only 12 months.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> That’s one hell of a promise. Just to put a dollar value on it, you could probably sell a blog with 10,000 subscribers for at least $100,000 in most markets. So, I was essentially promising them $100,000 of value in exchange for only $10,000.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> This, my friend, is one of the fundamentals of business.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you want to charge high prices, you absolutely can, but you must make big promises. Similarly, if you want to charge low prices, you absolutely can, but you must make small promises. In either case though, the value of the promise should be at least 10X the price.</div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6028" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 598px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="The value of the promise should be at least 10X the price." class="size-full wp-image-6028 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/product-value.png" data-srcset="" height="374" sizes="(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/product-value.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/product-value.png 588w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/product-value-300x191.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.96px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="588" /></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 16.112px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.3344px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The value of the promise should be at least 10X the price.</div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> For instance, we have a guest blogging course that retails for $497. In exchange, we promise to help students get featured on a big blog or magazine like The Huffington Post or Forbes. I think it’s fair to say that exposure is worth $5,000 to the right person. So, the product sells easily and well.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Not to say everything is sunflowers and daffodils here, though. In fact, there are two easy ways to screw up:</div> <ol style="line-height: 23.744px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 44px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Charging high prices but making small promises (result: the product doesn’t sell well, and you waste a ton of time).</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Charging low prices but making big promises (result: lots of customers, but you make no profit).</li> </ol> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> There’s a rumor floating around that I’ve made each of those mistakes on multiple occasions. Some people also say I have to be repeatedly reminded about the graph above, lest I slip up and nearly bankrupt the company (again).</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But come on, who are you going to believe? <img alt="😉" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/1f609.svg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> No, in all seriousness, I learned all of these lessons the hard way. If you’re wondering how to price your product or service, you’d be wise to heed my words.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Oh, and a few final points before we move on:</div> <ul style="line-height: 23.744px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 44px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Needless to say, you should only make promises you can actually fulfill. Anything less is unethical.</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If people immediately think you’re full of shit upon hearing your promise, then you’re in trouble. In my opinion, this is what marketing is really about: getting people to trust you when you say you can help them. The better you are at it, the more money you’ll make.</li> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">In the above graph, “value” refers to how much the customer values what you’re promising them, not your own personal value. For instance, I personally think my guacamole is worth $10,000 a bowl, but none of my friends agree with me, so I’m forced to give it to them for free. Bastards.</li> </ul> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Also, I’m skipping a lot of other important topics like price testing, competition, economics, and lots of other variables that affect how to make money blogging, but in my opinion, none of those things are even worth considering until you know the answer to this one simple question:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> What can I offer people that’s worth 10X what I charge?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Answer that, and you’ll at least be headed in the right direction.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Webinars Kick Butt</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you’ve been on our email list for long, you know that we do a lot of webinars. Here’s why:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> On average, each webinar generates about $60,000 in sales. It’s by far the most profitable thing I do. Nothing else even comes close.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you’re wondering how on earth we make that much money, part of it is how many people attend. For instance, here’s a webinar where we had over 3,000 people registered to attend:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="We've had 3650 registrants for our webinars." class="alignnone wp-image-6024 size-full lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/webinar-registrations.png" data-srcset="" height="73" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/webinar-registrations.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/webinar-registrations.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/webinar-registrations-300x37.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But that’s only part of it.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The other part is just the skill of doing a really good webinar. If you want to know how we do it, all you have to do is attend one of our webinars to find out. Everything we do is on display, and you can study it, free of charge.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Automated Funnels Are Even Better</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> You know what works even better than webinars for us?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Automated funnels. Take a look at this bad boy:</div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6025" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 610px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Use automated funnels to make more money." class="size-full wp-image-6025 lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/automated-sales-funnels.png" data-srcset="" height="230" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/automated-sales-funnels.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/automated-sales-funnels.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/automated-sales-funnels-300x115.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.96px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 16.112px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.3344px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Use automated funnels to make more money.</div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Now, before I get into the nitty-gritty details, a word of warning: this is extremely advanced marketing. I don’t even recommend you think about this until you cross $100,000 per year in revenue.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> But here’s the idea:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Through the magic of technology, we have sales happening every minute of every day. We can automate who gets discounts at what times, as well as when those discounts expire.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> We can also chain together promotions. If you don’t respond to a $2000 offer, we might follow up with a $497 offer, which now seems cheap by comparison.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Oh, and did I mention we are tracking your every move?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> For instance, you’re reading a post about how to make money blogging. If you’re a subscriber, what do you think the odds are that you’ll receive an email from us sometime soon offering you a product about how to make money blogging?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Hmm. Pretty good, I think. <img alt="😉" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/1f609.svg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And just to be clear, this is all automated. I’m not doing anything. No one is.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The computer is following rules we set up in advance, and it’s following them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Welcome to the future of marketing.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Your Email List Is More Important Than Anything Else</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Okay, enough flashy technology. Let’s get back to foundational principles.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> In analytics, there is a principle called “the one metric that matters” (OMTM). The idea is that you find a single number that accurately predicts the success or failure of your project.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> In the case of blogging, that number is the size of your email list. (Not RSS, mind you — it’s dying a slow but certain death.) In my experience, your email list is the most accurate predictor of how much money you’ll make.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="We have 217,229 people on our mailing list." class="alignnone wp-image-6026 size-full lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/email-list-size.png" data-srcset="" height="111" sizes="(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/email-list-size.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/email-list-size.png 569w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/email-list-size-300x59.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="569" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Here at Smart Blogger, we strive for one dollar per subscriber per month in sales, and I think that’s a good place to start when you’re a beginner too. In other words, an email list of 1,000 subscribers should result in at least $1,000 per month in sales, 10,000 subscribers would result in $10,000 per month in sales, and so on.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The more subscribers you get, the more money you make. Granted, your relationship with your subscribers and the quality of your products or services and dozens of other factors still matter, but to drive revenue, focus on email list growth. To make money blogging, it’s absolutely essential.</div> <div class="tve-leads-shortcode tve-tl-anim tl-anim-instant tve-leads-track-shortcode_9298 tve-leads-triggered" style="margin: 0px; max-height: none; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;"> <div class="tl-style" data-state="64" id="tve_tcb2_multi-step-set-054_m1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve-leads-conversion-object" data-tl-type="shortcode_9298" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve_flt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="tve_shortcode_editor" id="tve_editor" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="thrv-leads-form-box tve_no_drag tve_no_icons thrv_wrapper tve_editor_main_content tve_empty_dropzone" data-css="tve-u-6859ad928ca670f" style="background-color: #dedede; background-image: none !important; border-radius: 1px !important; border: 1px dashed rgb(239, 229, 175) !important; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 2px 0px 4px !important; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px !important; min-width: 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 20px;"> <div class="thrv_wrapper thrv_contentbox_shortcode thrv-content-box" data-css="tve-u-15fce37feb5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 10px; min-width: 10px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) !important;"> <div class="tve-content-box-background" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 54px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px; width: 586px;"> </div> <div class="tve-cb tve_empty_dropzone" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; min-height: 10px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 586px; z-index: 1;"> <div class="thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element tve_empty_dropzone tve_ea_tl_state_lightbox" data-css="tve-u-6859ad928ca683f" style="background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; min-width: 20px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"> <div data-css="tve-u-15fce3528e0" style="font-size: 1.06em !important; line-height: 26.0613px !important; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Want to know how much money you could be </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">making</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> from your blog?</strong> Find out with our free <a class="tve_evt_manager_listen tve_et_click" data-tcb-events="__TCB_EVENT_[{"a":"tl_state_lightbox","t":"click","config":{"s":"66","anim":"instant"}}]_TNEVE_BCT__" href="https://smartblogger.com/make-money-blogging/javascript%3Avoid(0)" style="color: #47a7d7; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blog Profit Calculator</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Lesson #9: Start Selling from Day One</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> How long should you wait before you begin selling? 1,000 subscribers? 10,000 subscribers? More?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Nope. Start selling from day one. Here’s why:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Motivation.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> If you’re not making any money from your blog, it’s hard to stay motivated to continue. The opposite is also true. For instance, how do you think I feel when I see this number pop up on my dashboard every day?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <img alt="We've made $579,905 from blogging so far this year." class="alignnone wp-image-6027 size-full lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ytd-blogging-income.png" data-srcset="" height="259" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ytd-blogging-income.png" srcset="https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ytd-blogging-income.png 600w, https://smartblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ytd-blogging-income-300x130.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.3s;" width="600" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’s pretty easy to feel pumped with numbers like that. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/1f642.svg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And honestly, the numbers don’t have to be big.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> I remember the first morning I woke to discover I’d made $100 overnight. It felt… magical. It also gave me the motivation to do the work necessary to make sure that happened <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">every </i>night.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’ll be the same for you. When you have money being deposited into your account every day, it’s a whole lot easier to keep yourself motivated.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It will also give you the funds you need to build a team around you. You can hire an assistant, a tech person, a billing person. The faster you get rid of stuff you suck at doing, the faster you will grow.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Now, a caveat: don’t turn your blog into a gigantic sales pitch. Nobody likes that. You should, however, be offering something your audience wants and needs. Don’t push them on it, but do make it available, and do remind them from time to time that they can purchase it.</div> <h2 style="font-family: "Titillium Web"; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25em !important; margin: 20px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Share What You Learned</h2> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Now, we come to the reason for this post.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Why on earth would the CEO of the company (me) work hours to <a href="https://smartblogger.com/how-to-write-a-blog-post/" style="color: #47a7d7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="how to write a blog post">write a post</a>like this, sharing all our secrets for how to make money blogging? It’s nearly 4,000 words, for God sakes!</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Simple:</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> It’s my responsibility. If people are ever going to respect blogging as a legitimate business model, those of us who are successful have to speak up and share what we’ve learned. None of us works in a vacuum. The only way we can advance our field as a whole is to collectively share what we’ve learned.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> After all, isn’t that what we’re here to do? Help people?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> In the end, that’s what I love most about blogging: every article we publish, every course we create, every coaching call we do can change somebody’s life. Maybe not always in a big way, but we touch thousands upon thousands of people, and we make their lives just a little bit better. We inform them, we inspire them, and we give them the roadmap for achieving their dreams.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> And the best part?</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> We get paid for it. It’s our job.</div> <div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> I just wish more people knew it was a viable career. Let’s change that, shall we?</div> </div> </div>

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The stunning images of the winner of the Siena International Photography Competition 2017

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> It has been almost a year since we have seen the "amazing images of the winner of the Siena International Photography Contest 2016"; this is why you should have read the same address these days but with a simple change ... 2017!</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> The third edition of the Siena International Competition offers thousands of amateur and professional photographers from 161 countries with nearly 50,000 pictures! The categories of the competition varied as usual with suggestive names as seen in the category of "The Tale", "Fragile Ice", "Animals in their Natural Environment", "Charming Faces", "Characters" and other categories.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Along with the published categories and the winning pictures, there was the very distinctive picture of National Geographic photographer Randy Olson chosen by the competition committee as the 2017 image. The amazing image of a flock of turrets flies with alarm as lightning strikes a large sky near a spring of the Wood River Nebraska, USA, taken by Olson in August 2016.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Let's take a look at the great pictures that have won the Siena 2017 International ...</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-18-750x500.jpg" /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Photo Picture of the Year: Crane Birds by Randy Olson</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-17-750x500.jpg" /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">"Parachute" by photographer Peter Sabol: Award-winning in the category of "Beauty of Nature"</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-3-750x500.jpg" /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100016" height="500" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5-750x500.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5-750x500.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-5.jpg 1000w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100014" height="750" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-750x750.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-750x750.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-125x125.jpg 125w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2-120x120.jpg 120w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-2.jpg 1000w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100013" height="500" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1-750x500.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/Siena-2017-1.jpg 999w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100007" height="499" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-750x499.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-750x499.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-768x511.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-1110x739.jpg 1110w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-16.jpg 1200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100006" height="562" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15-750x562.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15-750x562.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15-768x575.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15-1110x832.jpg 1110w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15-80x60.jpg 80w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-15.jpg 1200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100004" height="498" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13-750x498.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13-750x498.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13-768x510.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13-1110x737.jpg 1110w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-13.jpg 1200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100003" height="397" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-12-750x397.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-12-750x397.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-12-768x406.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-12-1110x587.jpg 1110w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-12.jpg 1200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" width="750" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Arabic Naskh", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-100002" height="466" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11-750x466.jpg" srcset="https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11-750x466.jpg 750w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11-768x477.jpg 768w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11-1110x690.jpg 1110w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11-400x250.jpg 400w, https://www.ibda3world.com/file/2017/12/2017-siena-11.jpg 1200w" style="border: 0px; 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The trio includes a pulsar (illustrated, with bands of electromagnetic radiation in blue) in orbit with a nearby white dwarf. A second white dwarf orbits farther afield (red, upper right). ~~ NRAO Outreach/vimeo.com (CC BY-NC 3.0)" typeof="foaf:Image" width="860" /></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-op-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: -30px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 10px 30px;"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <strong>TRIPLE THREAT  </strong>A threesome of dead stars has allowed a new test of a tenet of Einstein’s theory of gravity. The trio includes a pulsar (illustrated, with bands of electromagnetic radiation in blue) in orbit with a nearby white dwarf. 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That agreement limits theories that predict Einstein’s theory, general relativity, should fail at some level.<br /> According to general relativity, an object’s composition has no impact on how gravity pulls on it: Earth’s gravity accelerates a sphere of iron at the same rate as a sphere of lead. That’s what’s known as the weak equivalence principle. A <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-galileo-gravity-experiment-re-created-space-einstein" style="color: #c64308; text-decoration-line: none;">slew of experiments have confirmed that principle</a> — beginning with Galileo’s purported test of dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa (<em>SN: 1/20/18, p. 9</em>).<br /> But the strong equivalence principle is more stringent and difficult to test than the weak version. According to the strong equivalence principle, not only do different materials fall at the same rate, but so does the energy bound up in gravitational fields. That means that an incredibly dense, massive object with a correspondingly strong gravitational field, should fall with the same acceleration as other objects.<br /> “We’re asking, ‘How does gravity fall?’” says astronomer Anne Archibald of the University of Amsterdam, who presented the preliminary result at the meeting. “That sounds weird, but Einstein says energy and mass are the same.” That means that the energy bound up in a gravitational field can fall just as mass can. If the strong equivalence principle were violated, an object with an intense gravitational field would fall with a different acceleration than one with a weaker field.<br /> To test this theory, scientists measured the timing of signals from a pulsar — a spinning, ultradense collapsed star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals. The pulsar in question, PSR J0337+1715, <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/unusual-three-star-system-promises-new-test-gravity" style="color: #c64308; text-decoration-line: none;">isn’t just any pulsar</a>: It has two companions (<em>SN: 2/22/14, p.8</em>). The pulsar orbits with a type of burnt-out star called a white dwarf. That pair is accompanied by another white dwarf, farther away.<br /> If the strong equivalence principle holds, the paired-up pulsar and white dwarf should both fall at the same rate in the gravitational field of the second white dwarf. But if the pulsar, with its intense gravitational field, fell faster toward the outermost white dwarf than its nearby companion, the pulsar’s orbit would be pulled toward the outermost white dwarf, tracing a path in the shape of a rotating ellipse.<br /> Scientists can use the timing of a pulsar’s signals to deduce its orbit. As a pulsar moves away from Earth, for example, its pulses fall a little bit behind its regular beat. So if J0337+1715’s orbit were rotating, signals received on Earth would undergo regular changes in their timing as a result. Archibald and colleagues saw no such variation. That means the pulsar and the white dwarf must have had matching accelerations, to within 0.16 thousandths of a percent.<br /> Many physicists expect the strong equivalence principle to be violated on some level. General relativity doesn’t mesh well with quantum mechanics, the theory that reigns on very small scales. Adjustments to general relativity that attempt to combine these theories tend to result in a violation of the strong equivalence principle, says physicist Clifford Will of the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved with the research.<br /> The strong equivalence principle might still fail at levels too tiny for this test to catch. So the door remains open for adjustments to general relativity. But the new measurement constrains many such theories better than any previous test.  The result is “really tremendous,” says Will. It’s “a great improvement in this class of theories … which is why this triple system is so beautiful.”</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Web Design vs. Web Development

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 article-headings" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: "gotham light", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 80.8281px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 808.328px;"> <h1 class="font-gotham-bold" itemprop="headline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gotham Bold"; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> Web Design vs. Web Development</span></h1> </div> <br /> <section class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: "gotham light", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 80.8281px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 808.328px;"><div class="custom-breadcrumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"> <ul itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <li class="font-gotham-bold breadcrumb-active" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: "Gotham Bold";">Web Design vs. Web Development</li> </span></ul> </div> </section><br /> <div class="content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: "gotham light", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-top: 5px;"> <br /> <section class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 80.8281px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 808.328px;"><article class="col-sm-12 article-details no-gutters" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 778.328px;"><div class="article-featured-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;"> <img alt="Image for Web Design vs. Web Development" class="img-responsive col-xs-12 wp-image-11951" itemprop="image" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/24155417/DEV_web-development-vs-web-design_M-940x400.png" srcset="https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/24155417/DEV_web-development-vs-web-design_M.png 940w, https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/24155417/DEV_web-development-vs-web-design_M-300x128.png 300w, https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/24155417/DEV_web-development-vs-web-design_M-768x327.png 768w, https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/24155417/DEV_web-development-vs-web-design_M-645x274.png 645w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; height: auto; max-height: 400px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 778.328px;" /></div> <div class="body-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">What is the difference between a web designer and a web developer? In the early days of the web, the answer to that question was simple: designers design and developers code.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Today that question requires a little more nuance–you’d be hard pressed to find a web designer who didn’t know at least a little HTML and CSS, and you won’t have to look far for a front-end web developer who can whip up a storyboard.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If you’re strictly speaking about the general concepts of web design vs. web development however, the distinction is a little more clear. Let’s take a look at these two concepts and the roles they play in building the websites and apps we know and love.</span></div> <br /> <figure style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.upwork.com/signup/?dest=home&forceHipo=1" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="Join Upwork" class="alignnone wp-image-29391" height="41" src="https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/11150212/Join-Upwork-CTA-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="210" /></span></a></figure><br /> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham medium"; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 30px 0px; padding-top: 16px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> What Is Web Design?</span></h3> <br /> <figure style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/design/what-type-of-designer-do-you-need/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">Web design</a> governs everything involved with the <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gotham Medium";">visual aesthetics</strong> and <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gotham Medium";">usability</strong> of a website—color scheme, layout, information flow, and everything else related to the visual aspects of the <a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/design/ux-ui-ia-digital-design-terms-explained/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">UI/UX (user interface and user experience)</a>. Some common skills and tools that distinguish the web designer from the web developer are:</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> </div> <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 18px;"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) or other design software</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Graphic design</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Logo design</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Layout/format</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Placing call-to-action buttons</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Branding</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Wireframes, mock-ups, and storyboards</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Color palettes</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Typography</span></li> </ul> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Web design is concerned with what the user actually sees on their computer screen or mobile device, and less so about the mechanisms beneath the surface that make it all work. 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href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~0168b0cb8c35069084" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Retoucher</span></a></div> </div> </div> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~0168b0cb8c35069084" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></a></div> </div> <div class="ng-scope" ng-repeat="profile in slide" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 no-gutters" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 259.438px;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"></a></span><br /> <div class="profile-card" style="border: 1px solid rgb(178, 178, 178); box-sizing: border-box; height: 120px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px;"> <div class="profile-rate font-gotham-light" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: "Gotham Light"; line-height: 22px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: -4px; text-align: left;"> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="font-gotham-bold ng-binding" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">$55</span>/<span class="font-gotham-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham medium"; font-size: 14px;">hr</span></span></a></div> <div class="profile-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 20px 20px 20px 10px; text-align: left;"> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="Jivko Paskalev" class="img-circle" src="https://odesk-prod-portraits.s3.amazonaws.com/Users:jivko-paskalev:PortraitUrl_100?AWSAccessKeyId=1XVAX3FNQZAFC9GJCFR2&Expires=2147483647&Signature=sKr0XaFxHvgmQXVYkjwzatr42gg%3D&1473622568757032" style="border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 60px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 60px;" /></span></a></div> <div class="profile-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-top: 6px; overflow: hidden; width: calc(100% - 100px);"> <div class="profile-name ng-binding" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 137.438px;"> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jivko Paskalev</span></a></div> <div class="profile-title font-gotham-medium ng-binding" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gotham Medium"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 137.438px;"> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">WordPress Website Design and Development</span></a></div> </div> </div> <a class="font-gotham-bold ng-scope" href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01b26d3a3b8eb20f10" ng-if="!profile.isCta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="slide-controls hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a class="slide-next" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" ng-click="vm.next()" ng-show="!vm.isLast" style="box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 1px 0px 5px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: "gotham bold"; height: 33px; position: absolute; right: -10px; top: 50px; width: 33px; z-index: 1;"><span class="icon-next" style="background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 16px; left: 0px; margin: auto; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: left; top: 0px; width: 8px;"></span></a></div> </div> </div> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham medium"; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 30px 0px; padding-top: 16px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> What Is Web Development?</span></h3> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Web development governs all the code that makes a website tick. It can be split into two categories—front-end and back-end. The front-end or client-side of an application is the code responsible for determining how the website will actually display the designs mocked up by a designer. The back-end or server-side of an application is responsible for managing data within the database and serving that data to the front-end to be displayed. As you may have guessed, it’s the front-end developer’s job that tends to share the most overlap with the web designer. Some common skills and tools traditionally viewed as unique to the front-end developer are listed below:</span></div> <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 18px;"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">HTML/CSS/JavaScript</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/css-cascading-style-sheets/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">CSS</a> preprocessors (i.e., LESS or Sass)</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, ReactJS, <a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/6-things-to-love-about-the-ember-js-framework/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">Ember</a>)</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Libraries (i.e., <a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/jquery-javascript-library/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">jQuery</a>)</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Git and <a href="https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/what-is-github-and-why-should-your-digital-team-use-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";">GitHub</a></span></li> </ul> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Front-end web developers don’t usually create mock-ups, select typography, or pick color palettes—these are usually provided by the designer. It’s the developer’s job to bring those mock-ups to life. That said, understanding what the designer wants requires some knowledge of best practices in UI/UX design, so that the developer is able to choose the right technology to deliver the desired look and feel and experience in the final product.</span></div> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham medium"; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 51px 0px 30px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> MEET THE “UNICORN”</span></h3> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">What started out as a joke in the industry—the designer/developer hybrid who can do it all—is now a viable endgame for both web designers and front-end developers, thanks to the increase in availability of educational resources across the web. Those developers/designers who have a good grasp of skills across both sides of the spectrum are highly sought after in the industry. The “unicorn” can take your project from the conceptual stage of visual mock-ups and storyboards, and carry it through front-end development all by themselves. Not that you’d want them to; the real value of developers who design and designers who develop is their ability to speak each other’s languages. This leads not only to better communication on the team and a smoother workflow, it means you’ll land on the best solution possible. As a general rule, feel free to rely on the “unicorn” for small projects, where it’s feasible for one or two people to handle both the back and front-ends of an application. For larger projects, even if you do manage to hire a few “unicorns,” more clearly defined roles are required.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://www.upwork.com/signup/?dest=job-posting&forceHipo=1" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "gotham bold";" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="Post a job on Upwork. It's free!" class="alignnone wp-image-15743" height="40" src="https://content-static.upwork.com/blog/uploads/sites/3/2016/11/17140510/post-a-job-its-free-green-bar.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="255" /></span></a></div> </figure><div style="background-color: white; color: #494949;"> </div> </div> </article></section><div style="background-color: white; color: #494949;"> </div> </div> </div>

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