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According to our recent survey, it looks like you are interested in learning how to make money blogging.  Blogging can be such a financial blessing and over the next few weeks, I am going to share ways to make each money-earning avenue work for you.  Today we are going to  start with Linqiq.  

I have recently starting working with Linqia and I really liked it!   So, if your are ready to learn how to make money with Linqia … you have come to the right place!

Linqia is a company that pays per click.  I am going to explain how it works:
Linqia will tell you how many clicks they want you to reach.  For our example today, lets put that number at 400 clicks.  This means that you need to have your special link, that they give you, clicked 400 times.    So, you will write a blog post and include the link.  You will share that link on social media.  They will be keeping track of how many clicks it gets, from your special link.
If you can get clicks, you will earn a certain amount of money.   To make our example easy, lets say that they have set your 400 click limit at $400, so $1 per click.

So, if you only get 200 clicks, you only make $200.
If you get 400 clicks, you make $400.
If you get 900 clicks, you still only make $400…. but you will qualify for more the next time! 

Step 1-  You need to apply here at Linqia

Step 2- Be patient.  It was a five months before I was accepted to my first campaign.  I consider that a lot, but maybe its not.  My second campaign came while I was right in the middle of my first campaign.

Step 3- Once you get a campaign, you want your personal goal to be NOT ONLY the number of clicks, but MORE.   You want your next job with them to be higher than this one, so keep going after you have reached your clicks.  (as I explained above).

With my first campaign, I ended up getting almost five times the number of clicks, but then again, it was a kid-related company and I post about children on my blog a lot.
With my second campaign, I had three times the number of clicks.
You may get way more… this was just my personal experience.  So, how do you get your clicks?  Read step 4…

Step 4- PROMOTE!  I did not just leave the link in my post, I took it everywhere.  I shared it on twitter with enticing words “I love to save money with ____”  or whatever fits the company.

Step 5- Share it on Twitter & ask your blogging friends to share with you.  Ask them to retweet it for you.

Step 6- Make MULTIPLE pin worthy images to post on your blog post or to take them to the page.   You could even upload a picture from the webpage that you are taking them to, but use your special bitly link (provided for you by Linqia) as the link source, instead of a very general one.

Share all of the images (I like to share them multiple times a day to get everyone- morning, lunchtime & evening).   Ask that same group of blogging friends to share for you, too.   (and ask them how you can help them!)

Step 7- Don’t give up.   When you see it not being clicked as much, make a new image & go for it a little more.
It PAYS off (literally!)  

Do you have any other questions?  Just leave a comment and I will answer it as best as I can!

Also, we offer “Your best blog” consults, in which we can give you personalized advice on all things blogging, including how to get your site moving toward monetization!

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There are a lot of ways to make money on your blog, even if you aren’t doing sponsored posts. Some of the biggest bloggers don’t do many sponsored posts, because they are making so much through affiliate links.

1- Sign up through companies like Share-a-sale.  You may have seen on Saturday how I showed you to make $10 just through referring someone! That’s a huge (& quick) money maker! Gymboree is a great company, among many, on Share-a-sale.   Deby, from Sew-so-Easy  shared with me that Share-a-sale will send you all of the sales that affiliates are having once you are signed up with that specific affiliate. If you notice certain bloggers sharing about a great Wooden Cross on sale for Easter or a beautiful Vase on sale, it is because they have just gotten an e-mail notification from their affiliate company. Now the reader will save money and you will make money. It is a win-win!

Another one that I use a lot are commission junction.

So–how does this work?  Say I am signed up with York Photo or Shutterfly through one of these websites.   Now, every time that they have a sale, I am the first to know! They tell me to promote a sale like this one (P.S. This is a real sale happening right now & here is my image from my blog with my affiliate link):

Ok- so what will happen? Your reader will buy this for $2 and they will pay the shipping. That will happen no matter who they go through (me or someone else). From the money that is being paid, by the purchaser/reader, YORK photo is going to give the person that made the sale (for example, on my page, it would be me) $3-$4. If I sell just three of these on Facebook, I have just made $9-$12. You can see more about signing up with York Photo here.

With a deal like this one (another real sale with my affiliate link), I would make $9 on it if the person buying it is a new customer. If they are a repeat customer, I make 3% of the sale. If the item is free, I make that percentage of the shipping. Their goal is to drive new customers. You can sign up to be an affiliate here.

Another company that I like to work with is Mabels Labels.   They will send an email, usually around the holidays, to tell you that if you post the sale that they are having, they will send you $5. I normally just write a post & include my top 5 best sales or deals of the week and have that one included. You can find out more about Mabels Labels here.

I live in NC, so I can’t sign up with Amazon Affiliate, but if I could, I would be posting great products that I use in every single post. I was just approved to be an affiliate of Wal-mart, so I plan on linking my products to their page. Paula just listed her book, When Baby Becomes Big Sibling, on Amazon, so she will be posting all about Amazon Affiliates in the next few weeks.

Selling e-books is a huge money-maker on my blog. If I need a book about cookies, I usually can find one on a blogger’s page, find their affiliate program, sign up and post it within minutes. So, if you sign up to sell my Potty Train in a Weekend book and make 50% of the sale, or sign up to be an affiliate of You Can be a Stay at Home Mom on One Income, and make 40% of the sale. (these links are to sign up at e-junkie, the affiliate company that I use).

P.S. Remember that if you ever BUY an ebook, become an affiliate FIRST and buy the book through your own affiliate link… This way you making back some of your money.   That was a tip that I was given when I first started blogging.

These are just a FEW ways that you can make money without writing a sponsored post. Next week, I will share how I approach companies. You don’t have to wait for the sponsored posts to come to you… Go to them!

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