Over the years blogs have seen a huge shift from being used primarily as a social platform to becoming a highly profitable business model.
Blogs generally focus on growing an audience through content marketing, building relationships with their readers and teaching others how to achieve a goal and make money by offering services or products such as how to ebooks and videos, selling affiliate products, selling software and a host of other viable income sources.
If you posses a skill that people want to learn or are willing to pay for you can make a good income with this type of business model.
If you’re a photographer you can create a blog to show off your best work and build an online portfolio which can help you get work offline or you can sell your photographs online to make some extra cash.
If you’re a software developer you can create software and sell it to your audience.
If you have a particular skill that you can teach to you can make an income online.
Blogging is about sharing your knowledge with, building relationships and growing a large dedicated following of raving fans that can’t wait to read your latest content, buy your products or services and tell all their friends about you.