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SETTING UP A BLOG

You can design a website from scratch, which should be easy if you are a programmer. If you have no expertise in coding or website design, then you should consider a content management system like WordPress. WordPress is free and it is the most popular blogging platform today. The open source software which is used by more than a hundred million people can be hosted for free using the WordPress platform or you can host it on your own. You can opt for shared hosting or dedicated hosting. 

You may have your own server and configure it to host a site if you know the technicalities. The best strategy is to go for a WordPress site and shared hosting. You can move to dedicated hosting in the future when you make more money as it is substantially more expensive than shared hosting. 

Getting started with WordPress is pretty simple. You can download WordPress directly from the official site and start building your blog

using the simple guidelines. Or, you can choose a web host and a shared hosting plan that supports WordPress. The control panel of the hosting account will get you WordPress. Thereon you can build your blog from within the website builder offered by the web host. Even as you pay for the shared hosting plan, WordPress would still be free. If you don’t wish to pay for hosting, opt for WordPress directly and use its free hosting platform. This will have its limitations in term of bandwidth, storage and site features but you can keep your initial investment contained.

THE EASIEST STEPS TO SET UP WORDPRESS WEBSITE

• Choose a webhost and a shared hosting plan. Go to the website of the webhost and sign up for the plan. Provide all the details you are asked for, get a domain name if you don’t have one already and make the payment to get access to your exclusive control panel. Most webhosts will offer a free domain with a shared hosting plan. 

• Set up your account, choose the password, the features you want and check into the Site Builder section. You will get the WordPress icon. There will be many options in the Script List such as Backups, Utilities and Blogs. You would find WordPress in the Blogs section. Click it, get redirected it to the installation page and install it. 

• Use your domain name and set up your WordPress site, the blog which will be blank at this stage. You would have to work on the layout, design, features including plug-ins and everything from font to the unique elements of your blog. Don’t worry as there are drag and drop options from WordPress and from most webhosts that you can use to create your blog. You don’t need to write a single line of code.

  EASY WAYS TO MONETIZE YOUR BLOG QUICKLY

You could use your blog for paid blogging. There are companies and individuals that want their products, services or entities to be promoted. These would normally pay a price for every blog post. You could take this route or you can write about what really interests you and think of monetizing the blog using advertisements. You can consider affiliate marketing, which is essentially blogging to promote and endorse certain products or services. When the audience you are targeting or your readers check out the post and click on links redirecting them to the official pages of those products or services, you would get paid. There are programs paying you for every user that clicks on the links and gets redirected. Other programs pay you a handsome commission should the users sign up for the service or purchase the product after being redirected from your blog. 

3 KEY ELEMENTS TO MAKE YOU A  BLOGGING MILLIONAIRRE

• You need to attain popularity. You cannot make money when your blog doesn’t have any dedicated readership. You need a loyal audience that would keep returning to your blog and would keep checking out new contents that you upload. The audience cannot be limited to a few dozen people and it cannot be sporadic. You cannot rely on rerouted traffic. Your blog must be popular and obviously it would have its target audience. The target audience shouldn’t have to search for something and then get to your blog. They would follow your blog. You don’t need all those readers to become subscribers or commentators. As long as they follow your blog and repeatedly visit it, the blog can be monetized. An unpopular blog or one that doesn’t have a substantial readership can have ads or affiliate links but the monetization will not generate any revenue. 

• You need consistent traffic as that will pave the way for advertisements, paid contents and promotions which will help you to make money with your blog. Without traffic, posting ads or optimizing new contents and sharing of the content will be futile. The nature of the traffic, the target audience and the kind of outreach a blog has along with the focus or the niche will determine the type of ads, promotions and paid contents. A blog shouldn’t lose its value or core in the process of monetization.

• There are many ways to make money with a blog. You could offer free content to entice the audience and then offer exclusive or academic content for those who want more information and would be willing to pay a subscription fee. You could just use the readership and get paid through ads, affiliate marketing links, sponsored banners and all kinds of product and service placements on every webpage of your blog. You need a strategy that will allow you to target your niche readership while monetizing the entire space available on every webpage of your blog. From banner ads to sponsored posts, affiliate links to promoted contents, pay per click ads to paid promotional posts; you should consider every prospect of monetizing.

HOW TO FACILITATE THE SIGNING UP OF NEW SUBSCRIBERS AND READERS:1000 SUBSCRIBERS IN 30 DAYS 

• There should be social media plug-ins to facilitate immediate following, liking and sharing. There should be opt in sections where readers can provide their email address and sign up for the blog updates, newsletters or emails and other types of communications. Aside from the RSS feed and other obvious plug-ins you should have a simple popup asking if the reader or visitor will want to get notifications from the blog. This may happen on a traditional browser, mobile browser or via social network, media and apps. Notification has become an alternative to the conventional following. 

• Don’t ask for more details than what you need. Social media plugins immediately connect visitors to the blog using their existing credentials. Use email authentication or social media authentication instead of asking for email address, first name and last name, city and other unnecessary details. Your blog is not building a database of readers. You simply need a following to get a substantial readership.

• Always have a call to action on every webpage. Many bloggers opt for standard calls to action, suggesting they share the post or like, comment or check out more posts. While these are acceptable, you should think of unique calls to action. Host polls, get people to agree or disagree, encourage readers to write counterpoints so you can take the discussion further. Every blog post can become an asset provided it has enough stuff to trigger a conversation and subsequent engagement with a larger audience. A blog post that doesn’t generate any traction is a waste of space and effort. 

• Incentivize your followers to entice more. Offer something to your new readers so they would be inclined to follow you or become subscribers. Give something precious, which could be rare tips or some insider knowledge, to your existing readers so they continue to follow you and read what you post. Today, not many people are interested in following for the sake of following unless they get rewarded in some way.  You will use your social media profiles and presence on multiple social networks to get more readers or subscribers. That would still limit your outreach unless you take a few quintessential steps. These are to be factored in at the time of starting a blog because otherwise you would need to rethink everything, right from your blog layout to the kind of content you are penning down.  Here are some of the most important factors that will affect your readership. 

• Your blog must stand out. You need an impressive design. You will need to have all the imperative features, from social media integration to relevant plug-ins. At the crux of the design should be a theme, one that impresses your target audience. Be unique in as many ways as possible but not quaintly that would be off-putting for some. Check out blogs like the one you are trying to create and find out what’s working for them and what’s not. 

• Nothing is more important than content. If you have the most compelling content in your niche then it wouldn’t matter how popular you are or how exquisite your blog layout is. People will read the piece. But you cannot have such priceless and unmatched content all the time. This is why you need to focus on the quality of content throughout the year. Remember the reason why you are blogging and why someone should read your blog. This alone should lead you to the type of content you should be working on. Do not just replicate what is already out there. If thousands of people have already read a blog that has discussed what you are about to write then chances are you wouldn’t get even one from that readership checking out your blog. Focus on originality. Use your own voice. The personality of a blogger is the best weapon to make any content unique. 

• After content and design comes marketing. No blogger can survive today by solely being a writer, photographer, videographer or cinematographer, painter, graphic designer, chef or cook, fashion enthusiast, gadget lover or even as a satirist. One must market the blog and oneself. The blog and the blogger are inseparable. They are a single entity unless there are other bloggers on the same site. Use search engine optimization, target keywords and have a specific target audience. The target audience could be people of a certain age, gender, socioeconomic background and of a certain kind of intellect or a myriad of interests. The target audience could be confined to a city, district, suburb or neighborhood. 

• You need multichannel and cross platform marketing strategies. Use other and more popular blogs to publish guest posts. Make your blog’s presence felt on all popular social networks and social media to intertwine the activities to generate interest on all platforms simultaneously. Get listed on every relevant directory of blogs. Use email marketing if relevant, host live events, podcast is applicable for the kind of blog you are planning and produce videos to highlight inspiring content. 

BECOME AN INFLUENCER BLOGGER AND DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE

No matter what you do, your traffic will fluctuate. No matter how hard you work and how much you ransack your mind, you will come up with content that will not reach a hundred thousand readers. Only some of your blog posts will go viral, perhaps just a few in a year. That alone would be enough to get you exposure but the outreach will waver from time to time. The only way you can ensure sustained profit is when you ensure a bottom line. Say a thousand hits on a particular blog post will trigger the commission of a pay per view ad that is placed at the top of the post. You need the thousand hits for every blog post having that ad for the page to be financially viable. Else, your effort is futile. 

The only way you can always get the minimum traffic, which could be a thousand or fifty thousand depending on the nature of your blog, is to become an influencer. This is the era of influencers. You may have seen them on social media. You are perhaps following some of them. These influencers are experts in their niche, ranging from politics to food, sports to music, architecture to history, pop culture to spirituality, business and investment to education among others. These influencers are opinion makers. They have a few million followers in some cases and in most cases hundreds of thousands fans. One tweet or post by them and it reaches everyone following these personalities. You need to become an influencer blogger. 

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO TO BECOME A MASTER BLOGGER. 

Be a great writer if you are not a photographer, videographer or designer. Anyone who can use images or videos and have a blog that is all about the visual experience would not rely on words. All other bloggers will only have words, from those writing about current affairs to those reviewing restaurants in a city. The quality of writing has dwindled in recent years. Grammar has jumped ship, literary skills have succumbed and substance is a rare commodity. Blogging is not ranting. It is not just writing whatever you want in whichever way you want. If you wish to be a famous blogger, then you must be an expert writer. Writing is as much a skill as it is an art. You need to be a master or at least highly proficient in the language you are writing in. You don’t need to have a degree in literature or journalism to become a great blogger. You just have to be a great writer, regardless of your academic qualification. 

Write on issues that would get you some attention. You may pick popular topics which you can source from current affairs or pop culture. You can write on politics, movies, music, technology or whatever that will entice readers. Do not write on a topic that is unlikely to get you any views. You may be interested in medieval art but not many would share that interest. You may write a stunning piece on the Italian Renaissance and yet get very few views. You can pursue any niche you want but make sure you manage to entice your audience. You should have a target audience for your blog but that should not be a small section of people. That will not make you famous. You need to reach out to the masses if you truly want to get famous or become an influencer. More importantly, you need a large target audience if you wish to monetize your blog and generate consistent profit.

Be originally argumentative. Have a view that may not comply with the norms and present your opinion without being overly offensive to anyone. The objective is to get people talking, to make the audience sit up and notice, to get them clicking and reading. Engaging the audience, inciting a discussion, interacting to fuel further conversation and generating activity is the best way to become an influencer. 

Develop a personality as a blogger. This may be the natural extension of who you are in real life or you may create a certain style and portrayal as a blogger. It is this personality that people will follow, like and talk about.

Last week we talked about discerning faith. Heb. 11:1-3 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval. By faith we understand that the world was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. 

In the last messages we have been discussing the difference of receiving by exercising personal faith in the anointing within your spirit man and receiving by exercising faith in the anointing upon another person’s ministry. There are similarities but we need to know the differences so that we know when we should be exercising personal faith in the anointing within and flow with the principles involved. And when we should be exercising faith in the anointing upon and flow with the principles involved. 

Bear in mind that the spiritual realm is not a realm that we can not understand. The spiritual realm as far as God is concerned is systematic. His administration is well organized and there are laws that govern the spiritual realm. Of course when we don’t understand something it is a mystery. Just like electricity was a mystery to men. Only when the man grew in the understanding of how electricity operates can man tap on the laws of electricity to their benefit. Similarly the spiritual realm is a mystery only as long as you don’t understand it. But once there is an understanding of the laws that govern the spiritual realm its no longer a mystery. It is no mystery when people get healed. It is no mystery when miracles take place. We understand the laws that govern those areas. In talking about receiving by personal faith and receiving by the anointing of God, for the past few weeks we have been touching on the difference between acting by faith in the anointing within your spirit man and acting by faith in the anointing upon a minister of God. Then there is difference between discerning faith under the anointing within and discerning faith by the anointing upon. There is also a difference between receiving what we believe by the anointing within and receiving what we believe by the anointing upon. There is a difference. 

In the life of Jesus Christ you would notice that every healing is to an extent instantaneous. Every time when He spoke the Word, there was a healing. And even when there was a gradual healing it does not take longer than an hour or a day. Under normal circumstances we would consider that quite instantaneous. And the question rest in Christians’ minds is why is it that in Jesus’ life it is that way. And today sometimes when people are exercising faith it takes them a year or two or even ten years before they see results. Why is it there is such a difference? 

We need to understand in receiving by faith there is a difference in the time it takes to receive from the anointing within your spirit man and the time it takes to receive from the anointing upon a minister’s life. When Jesus was on this planet earth during His three years ministry He ministered primarily by the anointing upon. In fact I would go as far as to say that was the main way and the only way He ministered in His three years of ministry. See the anointing within was not manifested until after the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost when there was such a thing as being born of the Spirit. So in all the incidences in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Jesus ministered by the anointing upon. You would read about passages of faith. But as we see that even in the anointing upon faith is required. So the faith that is exercised under the anointing upon and the principles that govern the receiving by the anointing within fall under the laws of faith. All those miracles in Jesus’ ministry took place because of the anointing upon. Therefore there is a difference

Below are key points to help us understand the power which God has deposited in every human and how to apply them to become a winner always

• Faith is the only force that release the totality of God’s power to everyone who would correctly put it into practice. The greatest force which God has freely given to every person on this earth as a gift is FAITH. In the Bible, the only place where Jesus Christ was not able to do a lot of miracles according to Mark Chapter six versus five, was when the people were acting in unbelief. Jesus has all the power to do anything, but the unbelief of the people hindered his power from flowing smoothly. Therefore, this subject is worth studying.

• Faith is a spiritual energy which has the ability to affect the spiritual and the natural world. Faith on its own is not matter but it creates matter and actually becomes matter. For example the faith used in calling forth the manifestation of healing and finances changes form when the manifestation takes place.

• Faith energizes words, converts words which are also form of energy to matter.Words are the carriers that turns the substance of faith into its physical manifestation.

• Faith is the raw material or the foundation for all matter. Faith is a spiritual force which forms the basis for the material world. Hebrew 11:3 states that by faith we understand that, the world was framed by Gods word. The spoke about the fact that, this natural word came out of the invisible world. So this universe was created as a result of  God speaking words full of faith to bring it to existence. Words not back by faith does not have any effect.

• Words are very important when it comes to understanding this subject, because words are the carriers of the substance. They carry the substance to when they are directed, to direct your faith to your bank account with the intention of  causing it to overflow, then your words energy vibration causes your bank account to become a magnet for the substance of money. Faith is the the only force which commit God to act no matter what the situation may seems like

Heb. 11:1-3 Now faith is the assurance (some bible translate it as substance) of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval. By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. Heb. 11:1 is the only definition of faith that the bible gives. The bible does talk a lot about faith but it’s the only definition that explains what faith is. You can not develop your faith unless you understand the concept of faith and what it actually covers.

Some of the English translations define faith as the substance. The word substance is actually not a noun in the Greek New Testament. The word substance in the Greek is hupostasis, which is actually a participle. A participle describes a position or a state of being. And here it describes faith not just as a substance. It is describing faith as a state of being. There are certain things that require the exercise of faith in our lives. In fact the New Testament in Greek translate faith as a substantiating or the substantiation the causing of some thing into a substance. Faith is substantiation or the substantiating of things that are hoped for. That describes faith as a movement rather than a substance. And that should be the way we understand faith. But the emphasis in the bible speaks about faith as a condition and a movement and state of being. Being a state of being you can move out of it from time to time. Like running is a state of being. When I say that he is running, I am describing a person in a state of running. I am describing a movement that is taking place. When I use it as a noun I will say the run was marvelous. Its different since I am describing a race which makes the word run into a noun. The word substance describes not just a noun form. Its actually talking about a process. Faith is a process of being that takes place continually. It’s a process of substantiating things that are hoped for into the realm of reality. 

Heb. 11:1 for the evidence of things not seen. The word evidence conveys a very dormant personality. The word evidence does not convey the fullness of what the Greek word actually conveys. The word evidence is another Greek word, which is used to refer to a reproof or a correction. The word elanchos is a noun. In its verb form it is elancho. The verb form is a word that is used for rebuke. It carries more that just evidence. It is not just the presentation of an evidence for somebody. I can say, “I can give you evidence.” But if I say, “I give you a rebuttal,” that describes the character of a counterargument. The rebuttal contains evidences and facts to prove you wrong, like in a debate. Team A and team B will debate over certain issues. Team A will present certain points. Team B will present certain points. But as they present their points they will contradict their opponents’ points; they will try to prove their opponents’ points wrong with facts. And they will present a rebuttal. This speaks about strong action than just evidence. 

Lets look first at the word evidence as it is used. The word elanchos is used in II Timothy 3:16 All scriptures is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness. Reproof is that word elanchos. When you reprove somebody you are using evidences in an argumentative form to bring down, to pull down the wrong theories that people are having and to present the true facts and evidences. So the word elanchos present not only the elements of bringing the facts to a person, but it presents the concept of pulling down those false facts and then bringing in the evidence. That will be a true rebuttal. 

The word elanacho which is the same root word in its verb form is used in the book of Titus 1:9 He must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it. In the Old King James it translates to reproof or to rebuke. Here it is translated as confute. Verse 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke (elancho) them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. If we try to put the word evidence here it does not carry its meaning. This testimony is true. Therefore evidence to them sharply. It does not convey the meaning.

The only Biblical approved way through which a person can receive faith is by hearing and understanding God’s word. The Bible States it emphatically clear that, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. When a person devotes his or her time to listen to God’s word, faith is developed and the impossibilities starts to change to possibilities.

In the other hand, if a person listen to things which are contradictory to God’s word, he develops faith in the negative angle and this is call fear. Whatever a person listens to has an effect on his or her spiritual life; negative or positive.

Mark 9:23 Jesus said “all things are possible unto him that believes”. To believe means, to be convinced of the truth , to be fully persuaded. When a person holds unto something that, it is true, it develop a kind of supernatural force that causes whatever he or she believes to manifest in his or her life. Anyone who can cling onto the truth (God’s word) would eventually manifest whatever he is believing for. It is just simple believe and receive, that comes the supernatural force of faith