Let's just examine some facts: 98% of all people starting an online business fail, that only leaves 2% generating serious incomes for themselves and their families.

So then what does this 2% have going for them that the other 98% does not? Knowledge is first on my list because I was taught that "knowledge is power" and those who are without it will pay to obtain some of it. So in my humble opinion it is fair to say that this 2% also fit into the fairly intelligent or smart group. Let's also face the fact that this group is the minority of the greater population of the world. So do you qualify, I don't know but I was always told if you have to ask if you possess it then you probably don't.

I don't want to hurt people's feelings or anything but the truth is that this area is not alone look at sports,movies, and music. How many people do you know that love these areas of interest and are very passionate about them but they just don't possess the knowledge, skills to be a professional athlete or a movie star or even a rock star etc. They can still dream and play at their amateur level but will be forever watching from the sidelines as the professionals steal the show.

So then what knowledge, talents, and or skills must one possess to be a professional blogger and create make money blogs?

• The ability to install and setup their blogging platform
• The ability to handle some coding issues with HTML and CSS { and I'm not talking about being an expert here so don't worry}
• The ability to leave quality blog comments leading back to your make money blog and deleting the spam on your own make money blog
• The ability to set up RSS feeds and syndicating them
• The ability to setup feed aggregators in your chosen market to pull consistent good quality unique content
• The ability to send pings letting others know you have fresh updated content on your make money blog
• The ability to setup linkbacks, trackbacks, pingbacks, and reciprocal links
• The ability to setup and receive full and partial feeds since we can stuff them with ads and affiliate links
• The ability to host and submit to blog carnivals with your chosen market to begin traffic building stage
• The ability to submit your make money blog to search engines
• The ability to setup your make money blog and post titles and tags to be search engine optimized (SEO)
• The ability to manipulate and grow your page rank for your make money blog
• The ability to organize, save,and manage all your make money blog social bookmarking
• The ability to handle all your meta data and tagging
• The ability to setup and organize and manage your advertising to keep it contextual with your market
• The ability to setup, organize, and manage affiliate programs both yours and those you are generating income from
• The ability to track and to test your make money blog to increase it's traffic statistics
• The ability to setup, organize, and manage your email, and email marketing using autoresponders
• There are some other related such as chats,podcasts,webinars,and mobile marketing.

There are even more, I'm sure I may have even forgotten some important ones but you get the idea. Also let me say that new technology is improving and automating many of these tasks but without knowledge and skill and action your make money blog may very well fall to the 98% of failure.

A REAL long term make money blog is not a get rich quick scheme but an actual real life business asset and thats why it must be treated as such so no not everybody can or will be successful in making money online with blogs ONLY those who are knowledgeable and continue to grow in knowledge, wisdom, and experience of both successes and failures that have the persistence and perseverance to keep driving forward even in times when it seems your going nowhere. 

If you can believe it, then you can achieve it " Keep Driving Forward" 

• Can you create a make money blog

Truthfully, there are some requirements that are needed by you before you can begin counting money.

#1-Proper Attitude and the right kind of thinking are first because if you can think it, then it is possible to achieve it. Seriously it is your mind that everything else is going to be built off of so you must start from the get go thinking and treating this like a Long Term Business not a "Get Rich Quick Scheme". If this was so easy why isn't everyone doing it, and rich? The facts are that the majority of people that start blogging actually only about 98% fail, that leaves 2% actually have what it takes to commit themselves to working on first building a new and better mental self. Ok, you now know the facts which are: you carry the sole responsibility for the skills and commitment which are required to be a successful professional blogger who owns a make money blog {an actual business asset that may be sold later for big bucks just maybe even millions or billions if you so choose}.

#2-Proper Skills in Business, Marketing, and Blogging are absolutely a requirement that you can learn along the way but everyone learns at different rates and in different ways. Only you know the actual skills that you already possess. You may have come from a business background and already have knowledge and skills that will cut this learning curve down by months or years. Study yourself, what are your weak points and strenghts and them with proper mental toughness start building your skills. Do you see what we"re doing here, you"re going to start investing time and money into yourself, until you reach a point that you will be using these new found skills to help others get their dreams and before you know it you will already actually be living yours.

#3-A Proper Plan is then required and this depends on how your going to be setting up your make money blog which also can be determined by the market or niche In which you decide to begin operating in. I won't go into full detail of the planning stage yet but it should begin by first looking into the markets that already are filled with lots of customers that are already spending money and the more the better. You see there is no need to jump out into untested waters in the beginning or to think that you need to reinvent the wheel. There are many different business plans that could be applied depending on how your going to utilize your make money blog and the kinds of customers each different market are the variables. Let me give you an example as to what I am trying to teach you, The planning and preparation required to build a network of ad sense blogs is a little different then if you were targeting the Internet marketing market and it would be different from say  mazon or  bay markets. Another variable is how will you utilize your blog, is it going to be more of a personal journal or news outlet. maybe even video hosting, maybe even the next big social network or membership site. You see each of these present a different set of circumstances that would require a specific plan. One of my most favorite quotes is by  Winston Churchill who said "He who fails to plan is planning to fail". On the flip side don't over plan so much that you fail to take action because you never have a perfect plan because you can;t account for everything along the way. Just keep the surprises to a minimum with good planning.

#4-Proper Resources and Tools are a requirement both of the free and paid variety. In the starting of business you should try to probably stick to the basic essentials and then let your reinvesting be from the profits to scale the plans and markets that are profitable and to dump those that are not meeting your goals and expectations. What are some tools: domain names,web hosting,niche and keyword research software to start. It is not entirely out of the scope of reason to be able to build a make money blog empire off free resources like blogger or wordpress or squidoo, or hubpages or any combination there of. For niche and keyword research the big G has this covered with it's G  Trends, G Insight, G wonderwheel it just takes more time, but if you have more time then money and you have the previous requirements met the only other thing that can stop you is you yourself.

#5 Action is where the rubber meets the road. Sometimes people try to wait till everything is perfect and don't take any action. A lot of people have bought some marketing products and read them and never took an ounce of action. It's sometimes better to action and make a mistake and learn from it along the way then to of never gotten off the couch so to speak. I've heard of a few people who purchased stuff on a whim and never even read any of it. Some folks even let Information paralyze them from taking action, but you don't have to be one of those causalities. Another great quote I like is by Theodore Roosevelt where he says:“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

That's All For Now Folks-Thanks for reading please feel free to share and pass along.

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