Have you ever tried to find out why building blog on WordPress is so popular than other CMS? Why is marketers’ first choice is WordPress?
The answer is, WordPress provided the best customer support and equipped with plenty of plugins. Even Google loves WordPress websites, and most of the popular websites use WordPress platform for their content management as well.
Why You Need A WordPress Blog?
We saw how awesome WordPress is, now let’s talk about you, who are you? Are you a developer, a designer, an expert, a freelancer, or a writer? Whatever you are, you need money to survive, isn’t it?
If you are nodding yes, and looking for a way to make money online, then WordPress blog is exactly what you are looking for.
Let me show you how you can make money online with your WordPress blog.
1. Build and Sell WordPress Plugins
If you own a WordPress blog, you already know the importance of WordPress plugins.
Every blogger who works on WordPress uses at least 3-4 plugins. Using plugins improve their working speed and add some extra features on their blog.
There are thousands of WordPress plugins available in the WordPress directory, some of them are free, and the rest are premium ones.
If you figure out a problem that bloggers are dealing with and create a plugin for it, then there is nothing that can stop you from making passive income from it.
First, analyze some other existing successful plugins, find out how they work and learn how can you make one better than that?
If you have decided to earn money through selling plugins, then make sure it focuses on a particular need.
You can sell your plugin on your WordPress blog or other sites like Freelancer, Elance, etc.
2. Develop WordPress Themes
If you are a designer or a developer, then you can make money by developing WordPress themes.
You don’t need to be an expert coder or a developer to develop an elegant WordPress theme. All you need to know is what are you designing and who is it for.
Otherwise, you will end up with nothing but failure.
There are several companies and some Probloggers like Brian Clark, Chris Pearson, etc., are already making passive money through selling WordPress themes.
If you are an amateur designer or developer who doesn’t know much about the creating WordPress theme, then besides doing all by yourself you can take help of other professionals or developers’ team who are already building themes.
You can sell your WordPress themes at Themeforest, Creative Market, Mojo Themes, or you can sell it on your WP website. You can also provide custom WordPress themes services for some extra money.
3. Provide WordPress Consulting Services
One of the best ways to use WordPress for making money is by offering consulting services. If you are expert in WordPress then you can offer consulting services, create custom designs or WordPress tutorials for the beginner or advanced bloggers.
Create an excellent portfolio on your WordPress blog, if you want to use this option to generate passive income.
You can ask your existing customers to leave positive feedbacks on your website to create an excellent portfolio. It works like a charm for your potential clients, and they believe that you have provided this type of services before. You can develop logos for Bloggers by having a proper Logo Design Team.
To develop a complete WordPress blog, we need a proper logo + a kickass WordPress Web Design. So you can gather clients and customers by providing these services.
Logo Design: Prepare a color combination for your logo, it should match your niche topic. Make it professional, classy and attractive. Make the logo unique so that your client/customer can easily trademark it without any issues. The logo design should reflect the brand name as well. You should keep this in mind all the time.
Website Design: Since mobile rule the web, it’s better to optimize your website/blog theme for mobile first. Make your theme responsive and add all the possible needed resources. Make it fast loading and optimize it for better ad placements. If you take a look at all the popular website themes, they are not really loaded with plenty of features, most of them are minimal since they focus mainly on the content part.
4. Promote Product as An Affiliate
70% of the bloggers make money through affiliate marketing. You might already know what affiliate marketing is.
But, if you are a beginner blogger who doesn’t know about it then here is a quick definition of affiliate marketing:
Affiliate marketing is the way to earn money as a commission by promoting other’s product or services. You find a product in your niche, promote it to others who need it and earn a specific amount of profit on each sale that you make.
Fortunately, there are several affiliate products available online like Amazon Associates.
Be careful when you are choosing a product for affiliate marketing. Select the product which provides you good commission and have demand in public.
If you want to boost up your affiliate marketing, then do email marketing. You can also place your affiliate product ads on your website.
5. Offer Writing Services
If you are a content writer, then you can make money through content writing services. If you have good experience in writing, then you can offer your writing services on your WordPress blog.
Many writers offer their services through their blog.
You can find writing jobs on other websites like ProBlogger Job Board, Elance, Odesk, PeoplePerHour, etc.
You also can do paid guest blogging for other popular sites.
6. Provide Blog Setup Service
If you are a busy beginner blogger who wants to make money using WordPress, then a blog setup service will be a good option for you. Even if you don’t have many WordPress skills, you can do this job.
Don’t know how?
Let me tell you then.
Many people want to start WordPress blog, but the problem is they don’t have technical knowledge about the WordPress.
Your task as a blog setup service provider will be to install WordPress, upload themes, and add recommended plugins, etc.
All you have to do is create a separate blog set up service page on your WordPress website or blog.
Promote that page through guest blogging, social media, or banner ads to get clients.
Remember, maybe new bloggers will not pay to you for blog setup service, but you can use your affiliate links somewhere and make money out of it.
Final Thoughts!
WordPress could be an awesome way to generate passive income if you have talent. It not only enables you to make more money than you thought but also provides you the freedom to do anything that you want to do.
If you haven’t got any WordPress blog yet, then get one and start making money.
Which of the services do you think you can provide on your WP blog?
