Blogging is a very effective marketing process and can be a very profitable tool if used in the right manner. Making money online from a blog is just a matter of seducing the attention of a prospect or audience without directly selling to them. By following these steps to blogging you will begin to see results over a 4-6 month period.

1) What is the best starting point?

There are a number of free blog hosts and blog platforms available online today, Google offers possibly the largest of all platforms with it’s popular Blogger Service.  The aim of a blog is to create a body of work using words, pictures and videos to entertain, educate, inform of seduce your audience so the platform is quite important.

I always opt for WordPress, independently hosted with Bluehost as I always like to remain in control of my destiny, at least more so than the hosted versions of Blogger and WordPress offer.  A wrong word or a slip of the proverbial tingue can result in your blog being de-listed by Google Blogger or WordPress, so the moral of lesson one is “take control of your blogging destiny”