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Turning Your Blog Into a Business

Today I gave a presentation at the Bloggy Conference on the subject of Turning Your Blog Into a Business. There was so much I wanted to share, but we had such little time! This is seriously stuff I could talk about all day (and will get to all day next week at the Savvy Blogging Summit).
First and foremost, if you are completely new to blogging for profit (or hobby), check out our post, How to Start Blogging to get several suggestions to get off to a great start.
Establish Goals
- Establishing Goals for New Year *with Small Business Checklist*
- Forecasting for Your Business
- Vision Boards – Why You Should Create One
- Quarterly Planning Meetings – Why You Should Do Them
- Map Out the Steps to Make Your Blog Business Successful
Understand Business Law and Accounting
Focus on Diversification
- Earning from Private Ads
- Why Affiliate Programs Work Well for ALL Bloggers
- Earn Online with Affiliate Marketing *list of recommended affiliate companies*
- How to Manage Your Affiliate Program with eJunkie
- List of Sites to Promote Your Giveaways
- Use Surveys to Take Action
- 5 Simple SEO Tips
Work Smarter
- How to Set up Domain Email with Google Apps
- How to Create and use Canned Responses in Gmail
- Finding Unread Email in Gmail
- Going to the Previous/Next Email in Gmail
- Creating Gmail Email Signature for Multiple Accounts
- Google Calendar Tip: Creating Tasks from an Email
- How to use Maxblogpress Ninja Affiliate Plugin
- Sign Documents Online with SignNow
- Manage Your Gmail with ActiveInbox Plugin
- Create Forms and More with Gravity Forms
- Create Your own Graphics and Creatives
- Top 12 Plugins for WordPress
- How to Hire a Virtual Assistant





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