The Content Dilemma and Blogging Minions
We all know about content and how important it is. We also know about time and how pitifully insufficient it is. Then we learn that keeping a few domains healthily updated is a key to earning through blogging. Furthermore, we discover that in addition to time being scarce and blogging demands being high, we must pay a lot to produce quality content on all our blogs, if we just don’t have the time to do so (ghost writers).
The solution to this is simple. Build your own blogging network. Aggressive, keypad-molesters who can write in perfect English. These are our blogging minions who potentially will help us build our blogging empire.
Who are they exactly?
1. Our friends we met online who we trust relatively well.
2. They are our family members and friends who still think of the internet as a fad
3. They are the friends of friends who get boggled by the idea of earning in dollars just by writing.
How do we turn these into minions?
1. Online friends - Give them a chance to earn away from their blogs. Build a popular community blog and let them post their quality articles, with the option of using their own adsense codes on their pages. The more articles they write, the more they earn through the traffic in the community. And, the more they post, the more frequently updated your blog is.
2. Family and Friends - Offline friends will be encouraged by shows of adsense checks or screenshots/printouts of paypal transactions. Reiterate, however, that the money came to you only through sheer dedication. Ask them to share a part of that by blogging too, and/or writing for you.
3. FOAFs - Friends of friends came by your name through referral. You must be at your most professional with this people and ask them to write for you in a way that is like a favor with benefits on their part. These are also the people who will potentially leave you hanging as they don’t really care about you as long as they get their dollar for the article. List their addresses and cellphone numbers on a wordfile and on paper.
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Writer Strike’s Over
