Hello Everyone!

You might have heard the age old saying – “Money never grows on trees.”

Logically speaking, it is only half true. Yes, directly you do not see money on trees – instead you see fruits, leaves, flowers instead. However, if you use this and sell in the open market, you will get money. You will also get money by selling wood. Money does grow on trees but indirectly.

Anyways, the proverb is only meant to stop unnecessary spending of money. Leave it.

How about creating a money generating tree and that too via blogging? You might laugh thinking this idea to be ridiculous but this post is created to end confusion.

It is difficult process

You want to run a profitable blog and you want to do it with ease. Sorry, but you are overly optimistic. You need to have patience. Be consistent and try to market yourself very well.

But it is possible

All those troubles do not make the process impossible. Please see the table below.

Some websites with revenue generation approximations are mentioned. If they can do it, so can you. But again, none of these were made in a day. It was years of practice and too much pain involved in building these.

How to do it

Please read the very beginning. I talked about money making tree. Similar is the concept over here.

You can sell tree’s wood. A wood is directly associated with the tree and forms the most important part of it. Selling wood is analogous to selling ad spaces in your website for that is directly and clearly visible on your tree.

You can sell tree’s flowers. The best thing is: you don’t have to sell them. Just show them. Their fragrance will sell them. This is indirect sales and known as affiliate marketing with reference to website blog. You are selling products which you did not produce. You don’t have to sell these products. Their worth will sell them. Just show the worth.

You can become a grocer and sell the fruits. It is the seed of the fruit which created the tree in most of the cases. With reference to the blog, sell your own stuff because that worked as the seed of your website. You can sell stuff like ebooks, webinars. You can also offer services (coaching / problem solving) which make users visit your websites and get attracted to the system.

You can also join a nursery and grow the tree. You will be paid for that. With reference to website, this involves seeking donations. Make no mistake: this is the primary revenue model which keeps Mozilla (the mother of Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client) up and running. Don’t ignore this as a stupid idea – who knows it works for you.

With analogy to getting paid from trees, we learnt to monetize blogs. Just to add, there are other ways too but if you ask me, you do not have to delve deeper there. If you understood these, you are done. In future posts, I shall discuss what to do.