How to start a blog and earn money from it - A guide for newbies 2020

How to start a blog and earn money from it. This is relevant to you and vital if you must have a resource to present as a portfolio.

Your blog is a portfolio that you recommend to clients. It is proof that you can do what you talk about. All you need to do is share a link with them.

Freelancers often meet roadblocks when pitching for jobs. If you ever talked with a potential client on the works that you could do together, and they ghosted you, here's why:

They were not convinced that you could do what you talked about. If you had a blog, that would have been proof that they could read for themselves.

How To Start a Blog and Earn Money from it– A guide for Newbies 2020

Starting a blog to earn money in 2020 is a great idea. 

What is the fastest way to get started building your blog? I was a new blogger once and I know how you feel.

I was a hopeless blogger. I blogged for fun and then when I wanted to start blogging for money, it was hard. I had to change many things.

ImagineIt Media Company started and I was working with other reputable companies building their profiles and making them digital. 

When I went out on my own, I was making money that I could not collect into Nigeria. 

Wasted work!

I did not have the work experience although I knew what to do and no one wanted to work with a newbie or they worked with you and you got cheated because you did not know when you solved his problem.

They were probably right. I loved my job. I loved seeing my strategies work and bring solutions to the brands that I worked for. I loved brokering international partnerships and starting new things that affected people's lives.

I am great at making systems work and getting rid of bugs.

How to start a blog and earn money and why joining the blogging community will change your life forever.

Let me give you the exact steps to setting up your personal blog.

NB: If you already have a solid idea of the whys, then skip this and go right ahead with the guide.

Before that, let me give you some of the benefits of blogging in 2020.

1. Blogging is like content marketing. It is the way to improve your brand awareness. You can use it for spreading news and information that helps.

2. This helps in expressing yourself, and at the same time share information with others in an entertaining way.

3. You can become a more effective writer and a great person

4. The most important reason is that you make money while doing it.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's learn the steps to starting a successful blog.

One very last thing before we get started:

Disclosure: This guide to starting your own blog contains some affiliate links. If you purchase any service through one of these links I may earn a small commission, this is at no extra cost to you.

How to start a blog and earn money: The five steps

• Choose a blogging platform
• Choose a web host for your blog
• How to set up a blog on your own domain
• Design your new blog
• Useful resources to help you on your blogging journey

Step I Choose a blogging platform

Everyone uses WordPress because it's one of the biggest platforms and it has compatible plugins and addons.

It is easy to use.

It has many themes that you can use in building the platform you dream of.

It has over 80 million users. There are other alternatives.

• Blogger
• Tumblr

WordPress is the best when it comes to having a self-hosted website.

Some of the benefits of using WordPress are:

1. Easy setup, free to use and great navigation

2. Many free themes and layouts

3. Massive support forum

4. Fast opening blog

5. Easy interaction. You can like, share, and comment easily

Step II: Self-hosting or free domain

• Using WordPress domain

When using a free blog (That is not self-hosted) your URL is ugly. It looks like:

imagine.wordpress.com

imagine.blogger.com

imagine.tumblr.com

None of them looks as great as:

imagine.com

• Limited

It is difficult to monetize. There is not enough space for all your images and videos. You also do not have access to the free themes offered by WordPress.

• You are a tenant, you don't own your blog

You are a tenant on .wordpress.com or .blogspot.com. You are hosting on properties belonging to WordPress or Blogspot. It is their web property, if they delete it, you lose all that you have worked for.

With a self-hosted blog, you OWN real estate on the internet. You get to pick your own domain names and you have the chance to put up unlimited videos, images and content. You get to win free themes. It is a win-win.

The hosting costs $2 - 4 monthly for hosting depending on if you are using Hostgator or GoDaddy

Step III Start your blog on your own domain

Get a domain name. It is a URL and you can get one from GoDaddy.comf

Get hosting from a reputable company. You should not pay more than $2 monthly.

Step IV: Design your blog

Explore with different themes. Buy a theme if you want. You can also choose a professional theme. You can continue changing themes at will without losing your content.

Make your blog easy to navigate for audience retention purposes. 

Resources: The website below has the best design and digital tips. Study and become better. 

Design blog: Red Website

Step V: Resource to make your blogging journey easy

You need resources. No matter how social media savvy or blog savvy you are. Mistakes that you make along the journey will make you grateful for the resources available to you.

This article will help you solve pain points that may crop up on this journey to being a perfect blogger.

Blogging Resource: Hustle Africa

I feel so fulfilled right now. I have armed you with resources that will help you become a successful blogger in a shorter time.

This guide can help anyone become a successful blogger.

If you need any additional help, get in touch or leave a comment below. I will help out with any problems.

Make money and have fun blogging