I’ve been blogging for the past five years and I’m just seeing huge and fresh opportunities to make an impact and money with it.

This is not my first blog. It’s probably the 10th or so.

I felt compelled to explain how anyone can make money with their blog.

Why?

It’s easier to blog today than any other time even with your smartphone.

Here are twenty-five legitimate ways to do that.

1. Promote an affiliate product.

This process is making life easier and easier for everyone.

Why?

You don’t have to create products for you to earn from it.

Just know who owns it.

Sign up as an Affiliate.

And push links to relevant targets…

… then the dollars will roll in.

Read more about Affiliate Marketing here.

2. Sell ad space

Here, you allow certain adverts of certain products to be displayed in your blog for a fee.

However, it’s becoming too common to see bloggers selling just banner ad spots.

What about your pop-up box, social media headers, the “P.S.” on your email newsletters, and others?

3. Develop a business directory

How?

Get to know the type of products and services your audience want always.

Then, get a good list of it. Reach out to business owners to sign up for the service to allow their information to be visible on your site.

You get paid by the business owners.

The business owners get leads as customers from your blog. That’s money for them. And your visitors are happy.

Everyone is happy.

4. Offer services

These offers should be related to your niche. These can include graphics designing, copywriting, audio transcribing…

Your blog gives you the ground to stand as an authority to offer the services.

5. Offer consulting services

A lot of persons want to learn how to blog. But they are looking for professionals who will help them learn fast.

Some of them want advice on the next step to take. And so, they need you to help them.

Charging them a fee to show them how is another way to get some money rolling in.

6. Offer coaching services

The difference between this and consulting is that coaching is more of a one-on-one service while consulting is targeted at organizations.

So imagine the kind of products an individual will need that’s around your niche.

Create them and use them for your coaching classes.

7. Write sponsored posts

Sponsored post, also known as a promoted post, is a post to any community-driven notification-oriented website which is explicitly sponsored as an advertisement by a particular company in order to draw a large amount of popularity through user promotion and moderation to the most active or most viewed page on the website.

Wikipedia

I’m sure it’s self-explanatory.

As you become good in your niche, businesses and brands will pay you to reach out to your audience.

8. Write an ebook

If you notice a particular question or problem that people ask about again and again, you should go write an ebook on it.

It can be sold on Amazon.

9. Create online courses

People are learning more online than offline.

Although, there’ll still be a need for offline learning.

What if you create your courses and sell them online?

That’ll be extra streams of income.

10. Create a private community

Online communities are the next big thing that will bring in serious money for a lot of people.

We like belonging to communities where we can connect and share as humans.

Even though we work more with online tools, there’s a gap that an online community can fill for us.

Learn to build one and you’ll have ravaging fans coming to you all along.

11. Host webinars

If you want to do this, make sure you have something super valuable to offer.

Because webinars are usually free and used to generate leads.

12. Job board

The job market is always saturated. A lot of persons are looking for jobs everywhere.

If you add a job board to your site, you’ll get more traffic made of people who are looking for jobs.

In doing this, companies who’re looking for a certain kind of talent will place their listings there and that’s more money for you.

13. Private bootcamp

Tony Robbins does this and few other high-impact coaches.

This is always super nichy where you take up few persons for a kind of retreat to achieve a particular goal and connect people.

The result is always a phenomenon if planned well.

14. Speak at offline events

One major advantage of being successful online is the authority and influence you have offline.

You can use this to speak at offline events.

With this, you’ll increase your influence and make more money.

15. Premium gated content

Before this time, sites like entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, and few others didn’t use gated content plans.

But that is changing fast..

Remember that this is controlled by how valuable your contents are to your audience.

And several platforms like WordPress are making this easier using certain plugins.

16. Dropship products

If you want to sell products but hate the challenge with inventory and risks, then do drop shipping.

You can target what your audience wants.

17. Create your Affiliate System

Instead of selling other people’s products, make your audience sell yours while you pay them a commission.

You’ll have more traffic and more money in the long run.

Finally, as the years go by, more and more opportunities will open up for this.

While you’re taking advantage of this, make sure you’re open to learn more.