Ultimate Blog Profit Model
Ultimate Blog Profit Model
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Table of Content
Copyright and Disclaimer................................................................5
Resource List ......................................................................................................6
Why Is This eBook Free? ..................................................................7
Who Is John Chow? .............................................................................8
Blog Income Case Study ................................................................10
Why Bloggers Don’t Make Money ..............................................13
They Are Bloggers, Not Internet Marketers ........................................13
They Do Not Take Blogging Seriously ..................................................14
Extremely Low Barrier of Entry ................................................................14
Easy In, Easy Out ............................................................................................15
They Blog For Money Only .........................................................................16
They Do Not Treat It Like a Business ....................................................16
The Average Blog Business Model ...........................................18
The Ultimate Blog Profit Model ..................................................20
The Money Is In The Backend ...................................................................20
Part 1 - Capture The Lead ............................................................22
You Email List Is Your Foundation .........................................................22
Email Makes The Most Money ..................................................................23
Your Email List Can Leverage Other Sites ...........................................23
Start Your List From Day 1 .........................................................................24
Choose The Right Email Provider............................................................24
Being Penny Wise and Pound Foolish ....................................................25
The Free Incentive ..........................................................................................26
Multiply Ways To Capture The Leads ....................................................27
Newsletter Signup Box .................................................................................27
Aweber Lightbox Hover ...............................................................................29
Ultimate Footer Ad .........................................................................................30
Signups From RSS Readers.........................................................................32
Signups From Facebook ..............................................................................33
Why Employ So Many Lead Captures .....................................................35
Part 2 – Build The Relationship ..................................................36
Setting Up The Auto Responder...............................................................36
• Aweber
• Action Comments
• Ultimate Footer Ad
• Ninja Affiliate
• WordPress
• Blog Profit Camp
• Google Analytics
• Squeeze Theme
• Keyword Elite
• Stats Junkie
• Bluehost
I can easily sell the information in this eBook but like my first
work, I am giving it away for free as well. You are holding in
your hands the operations manual for John Chow dot Com.
How many mega bloggers are willing to show you exactly how
their blog makes money and do it for free?
If you are looking to get rich quick, this might not be the
eBook for you. The fact is there is no such thing as a get-rich-
quick scheme. I am not a get rich quick guru, nor do I do want
to be associated with them. I do not make money selling
people on stupid schemes that lead to nowhere. I make money
on the Internet with real websites that offer real value and that
is what I am going to teach you. The single greatest piece of
advice that I can give you after reading this eBook is to take
action now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Right now.
John Chow
If you have a blog, then chances are you already know who I
am or at the very least you have heard of me. I run one of the
biggest and most profitable blogs on the Internet. John Chow
dot Com started in December 2005 and went from making
zero dollars a month to making over $40,000 a month in a
little over two years. Today, the blog has over 90,000 RSS
readers and over 50,000 people follow me on Twitter.
I am sure you have read many worthless eBooks that all say the
same thing. I guarantee you that this eBook is not like the rest.
If you have read Make Money Online with John Chow dot
Com, then you already know what kind of quality you are
getting from me. I did not get to be one of the biggest
bloggers in the world by rewriting the same crap that everyone
else rewrites.
The goal of the case study was to make full time income with
part time blogging. I defined full time income as $3,000 per
month. I believe that is the average income of a typical single
Canadian or United States tax payer. I defined part time
blogging as two hours per day, which was how much time I
spent on average updating the blog. I figured if you can make
$3,000 per month on two hours per day, you are not rich, but
now you have choices.
Chances are, you will still have your normal job so this $3,000
per month is on top of what you are already making. If you had
an extra $3,000 coming in every month, it can have a positive
impact on your life. You can live in a nicer place or drive a
nicer car. You can send the kids to a private school or make
bigger donations to charity. Whatever you want to do.
The really great thing about the above figures is it is still being
done on an average of two hours per day of blogging.
At this point, you may be thinking, “That’s great John, but can I
do this?” I believe that it is possible for anyone to make a lot of
money online use the Ultimate Blog Profit Model. However, I
am not going to mislead you by saying this takes no effort. You
will have to do some real work.
Most people start their blogs for fun and not to make money.
That is how John Chow dot Com started. I created my blog as
an outlet for me to ramble about whatever was on my mind. I
never intended for the blog to make money. In face, I donated
all the income the blog made in 2006 to charity because
making money from a personal blog seemed strange at the
time.
Because most bloggers work on their blogs for fun, they do not
take it as seriously as they should. Many are doing the “Let’s
give this a try and see what happens” approach. If the blog
makes money, great! If not, oh well. With that kind of attitude,
it is not hard to understand why so many bloggers do not
make money by blogging.
This extremely low barrier of entry also means you do not have
much, if anything, to lose. Should the blog fail to make money,
you curse me, say I do not know what the hell I am talking
about and move on with your life. This brings us back to point
number two. It cost you nothing to start so you do not take it
seriously.
If you do not enjoy what you are writing about, you are not
going to stick with it long enough see your blog become a
success. For the first eight months of my blog’s life, it made
zero and I was posting two to three blog posts per day. Now
that the blog is making five figures each month, I am still
posting two to three blog posts per day. If the blog income
were to go back to zero tomorrow, I would still be posting two
to three blog posts per day. I write what I want to write about.
What I am passionate about. I do not blog for the money only.
You can improve the cost per 1000 by optimizing the ads and
my first eBook talked a lot about how to do just that. However,
most bloggers will not do it because they feel that optimizing
ads is just a nice way of saying get in your readers’ face by
sticking the ads right in front of them. Many bloggers won’t do
this because they do not want to upset what few readers they
have.
Instead of making peanuts for your 1,000 page views per day,
you could be making upwards of $100 or more for the same
number of page views. How do you do that? That is where the
Ultimate Blog Profit Model comes in.
When most people view my blog, they assume all the money is
made from the advertising because they see many ads on it.
The ads and contents on the blog is known as the front end
because it is what every reader sees. The stuff that they do not
see is known as the backend and the backend is where the real
money is made in blogging.
The front end ads on the blog accounts for only one-third of
total blog revenues. The other two-third comes from the
backend sales system that makes up the Ultimate Blog Profit
Model. It is this backend system that accounts for the majority
of the blog profits.
The reason the backend is more profitable than the front end
is because readers in the backend are opted in. They took the
time to subscribe to your blog and that makes them far more
valuable than a reader who is not opted in.
Let’s look at each of the five parts that make up the Ultimate
Blog Profit Model.
When you have a big email list, you have a foundation that is
so strong that not even Google can break you. The main
purpose of my blog is to capture the leads coming to it. This is
why new readers are hit with a big Lightbox Hover signup box
the first time they visit. I am building my foundation.
Do not let all those social media marketing experts fool you.
Email is still where it is at. Hell, most of those social media
gurus use email marketing to sell you their social media
course!
The best time to start a mailing list is the day you set up your
blog. I cannot stress this enough. Start it today! The longer
you wait, the more money you lose.
This is a mistake I see new bloggers make all the time. They try
to save some money by hosting their own list on some free
software with the hopes of moving to Aweber later, “After they
have made some money.” I guess they forgot my point about
email marketing being the biggest moneymaker.
Waiting until you make some money before using a service like
Aweber is just being penny wise and pound foolish. You can
build a list for free but the instance you try to import that list
to a service like Aweber, you are going to lose 80% of the
subscribers because they will not opt back in.
If your blog does not have an email list yet, RIGHT NOW would
be the time to start one. Everyday you wait is money flying out
the window. Aweber is my recommended email list solution.
You can test them out for the first month for just $1.
Many readers tell me that they feel the Lightbox is too intrusive
and will turn away readers. Most of the time, this concern is
just in their heads. You will amaze at how much advertising a
reader can handle.
Because I have the Lightbox set to show only once per new
visitor, I have not received many complaints on the signup box.
Ultimate Footer Ad
You can try mixing and matching the Ultimate Footer Ad with
the Aweber Lightbox. For example, you can use the Lightbox
for your blog homepage and the Ultimate Footer Ad for all
inside pages. The main thing to do is to test and keep testing
to see what works best.
John Chow
The best thing about the Feed Footer plugin is the cost. It does
not cost anything. You can download it for free.
Feed Footer has many other uses beside getting your RSS
readers to subscribe. I have used the plugin to sell RSS text ad
and to run RSS only promotions. This is a great way to get
readers to subscribe to your RSS feed because Feed Footer
links only show up in the RSS and not the blog.
I run all my Feed Footer signup links through the Ninja Affiliate
Plugin to track the click rate and signup performance. The
You can select your default landing page in your Facebook Fan
page view settings. You will not have to worry about your
current fans seeing the signup page every time they check your
Just because a reader does not sign up from your blog signup
box does not mean he will not sign up when you send him a
thank you email for commenting on your blog. If all your blog
has is a single newsletter signup box, you are leaving a lot of
subscribers on the table.
Checking the screen shot above, you will see that my first auto
responder email goes out the instant a reader signs up to my
mailing list. The second email out goes out four days after the
Hello {!name}
Twitter: http://www.johnchow.com/twitter
Facebook: http://www.johnchow.com/facebook
FriendFeed: http://www.johnchow.com/friendfeed
Linkedin: http://www.johnchow.com/linkedin
YouTube: http://www.johnchow.com/youtube
Flickr: http://www.johnchow.com/flickr
John Chow
Future emails carry the same tone and are designed to push
the subscribes through the sales funnel so when they come out
the other end, they have a solution to their problem and I have
been rewarded for helping them solved it.
There are many affiliate networks you can join that will give
you access to thousands of different products to recommend.
The key is to find products or services that are truly valuable to
your readership. Don’t choose a product just because it offers
the highest commission.
After having the sales funnel up for a month or two, you will be
able to work out the average revenue per lead. For example,
say you have 500 subscribers go through your funnel and
generated $5,000 in revenues. Your average revenue per lead
would be $10.
Once you know the revenue per lead, the next step is to figure
out how much each visitor to your blog is worth. If everyone
coming to your blog signs up for your email and you average
$10 per subscriber, then every visitor to your blog is worth
$10. However, everyone is not going to sign up for your
newsletter so you will need to do a bit more tracking. This is
where Goals come in.
You can choose to make the first step in the funnel mandatory,
by selecting the 'Required step' checkbox next to the funnel. If
this checkbox is selected, users reaching your goal page
without traveling through this funnel page will not be counted
as conversions. Only users who reach the goal URL after
viewing this first page will be counted as conversions. This is
After you have thought of what your goals will be, start setting
them up by following these steps:
For most of my goals, I only have two funnel steps: the goal
page and the required page. The required page is my landing
page with the free eBook offer. The goal page is the download
page a subscriber it sent to after he confirms his subscription.
With Goals, you are not guessing. The data it gives you will
instantly tell you if the changes you have made are working or
not.
If you know your blog readers are worth $1 each then as long
as you are not paying more than $1 to acquire the reader, you
are in the money. This is where Pay Per Click and Pay Per View
or Cost Per View advertising comes in.
While you can use Google keyword tool to create your keyword
list, Keyword Elite is a much more powerful tool with a lot
more features. If you read the Keyword Minute report, then you
already have an understanding on just how powerful this
software is.
However, that report is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so
many ways to use Keyword Elite to make money online. For
example, a blogger can use the software to quickly build a PPC
keyword list or find the best keywords to put in their post to
ensure it ranks well on Google.
If you are not tracking PPC down to the keyword level, you
have no clue whether you are losing money, just breaking even
or when you could be making easy profits with a few bid
tweaks or keyword adjustments.
With Stats Junky, you will not only be able to see which
keywords are sending the traffic but you will also know which
keywords are converting. So if you see a group of keywords
that are sending traffic but no conversions, you can kill them
Tools like Google Goals, Keyword Elite and Stats Junkie gives
you the information you need to fine tune to your marketing
efforts. Having the right tools can make the difference between
a money losing site and one that is laughing all the way to the
bank. For a complete list of tools used by the Ultimate Blog
Profit Model, see the resource list on page six.
Like all fields of study, there are many levels and there is
always more you can learn. My system for creating a highly
profitable blog is reasonably straight forward and one I feel all
bloggers can take advantage of. However I also know that
everyone is coming at this from a different background and
some people require more help than others.
http://www.BlogProfitCamp.com/signup
The core 12 modules are released one per week, for 12 week.
Each module contains:
Blog Profit Camp is a 12-week course. You can check this page
for the date when the next program begins.
http://www.BlogProfitCamp.com/signup
Blog Profit Camp LIVE is a day long live event done in the
same format as a Wordpress Camp, except it is for blog profit.
If you have ever attended a Wordpress Camp and got sick and
tired of the “Wordpress and Social Media should only be used
to connect people and making money from it is evil” crowd,
you will love Blog Profit Camp LIVE.
http://www.BlogProfitCamp.com/LIVE
The first Blog Profit Camp LIVE will be held in Vancouver with
more cities to be added. Students of Blog Profit Camp will
receive special discounts to attend Blog Profit Camp LIVE.
Students who cannot make it to Vancouver will be given free
access to the live webcast. You will even see the webcast from
the after party!
That is it from me! I hope you enjoyed the Ultimate Blog Profit
Model and now have a much greater understanding on what it
takes to have a really profitable blog. From here on out, it is up
to you to do the work to make the dream a reality (yes, you
actually have to work).
John Chow
BlogProfitCamp.com
As hard it may seem to believe, you are already rich. Now, you
may not feel rich because the rent, car and credit card
payments are coming due and you have no idea where you are
going to get the funds to pay for it. How can I possibly say you
are rich given those circumstances? Well, let us look at the big
picture.
Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3
billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those
living on less than $1 per day are women. Did you know that
the kid making minimum wage working at McDonald’s makes
more than 75% of the world’s population?
You can appreciate and be grateful for what you already have.
To most of the world, you are living the dream life. You may
think your life sucks but there are billions of people who would
gladly trade places with you right now.
Take a look at all the things you have already – food, shelter,
clothing, friends, family, toys, etc. I am sure you have enough
food for dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow morning. You
probably got enough change in your pocket to get a Grande
Mocha at the local Starbucks. You are living in a place with
heat and maybe even air-conditioning. Your closet probably
has a few outfits and if you are female, I know you have got
more than one pair of shoes! I bet you got a cell phone, a color
TV and a computer with access to the Internet.
You attract to you what you are and you are what you think.
Change your thinking and you will change your life. If you are
always thinking, “My life sucks!” you will attract things that
suck. If you appreciate the things you already have and start
thinking, “My life is great!” you will attract things that are
great. It does not seem to make sense but that is how the
universe works.