Having people who share the same passion with you is one of the greatest feelings ever. That’s why I’m glad to have you here with me and this article “How to Make Money with WordPress”, because that suggests one thing we have in common, that is: the desire to make money.
As a WordPress user, you should have known the pervasiveness of WordPress. In case you’re still confused how widespread this most powerful blogging and website content management system is, let me present to you some figure: WordPress powers 60+ million websites and has 65 percent of the CMS-powered websites market share, hosting a community of millions of professional developers, designers; over 37 million searches made on Google each months are WordPress-related. So, what doubts would there be anymore? It’s crystal clear WordPress is a place for us to be benefited from, economically!
Since many people have been quite at a loss as how to make profits with this popular CMS, I’m writing this article to give you some possible answers, respectively:
And right up there are some ways I’ve come up with when it comes to question how to make money with WordPress. You can see how popular WordPress is these days, it would be a waste of chances if you don’t do something to get the best out of WordPress once you have embarked on it! Though some of the measures mentioned above require expert skills to get things done, but some others only need an adequate understanding about WordPress and is really worth a try.
Choose one among those, and get ready to earn some money!
Now you may think of yourself as an amateur and wondering how you can offer a blog setup service. But don’t worry, I can assure you that even a newbie of WordPress may have enough skills to start this service. You haven’t heard me wrong! Let’s find out how.
First, your task as someones doing the blog setup include to install WordPress, upload a WordPress theme, add recommended plugins and so on. Then, how to draw attention to your service? You can do this either by adding banner of your business to your own website, guest-blogging, making full use of the social medias or even more costly, by paid advertising.
The only probable problem is that there may not be many people who are ready to pay for this service. It’s okay, you can offer the service for free, but don’t forget to have affiliate links in your services page. There are many hosting services, themes, plugins, security services that pay quite very high commission on successful deals. By suggesting these products to them when they register through your service page, you can get paid more than you expect. However, offering this service, you must bear in mind one thing: only offer products that you know fore sure are good.
If you have quite a good writing skills, you can make money from it with the help of WordPress. Here I can give you some specific matters to look at before going into how and where to offer them:
These are some places you could get content writing jobs: ProBlogger Job Board, Elance, Odesk, peopleperhour, etc. You can also go to your favorite or famous online blogs where they have a contributor application page, get into contact, submit your appropriate articles and get paid for them. In this way not only you will get backlinks from renowned brands, but you could get money too! However, this type of services requires quite excellent, or good at least, skills of writing.
Regarding how to make money with WordPress, I must tell you this is one of the most money-productive method, also one of the most difficult ones. By “WordPress-related products”, I mean mostly themes and plugins. Now we’re going into details what each needs.
When designing themes, you don’t have to be an excellent or famous designer, but you ought to know what your customers want and design themes according to their needs. Only by that can you get money from your products. There are a lot of competition in this niche with many different companies having existed for years and years, offering themes at varying costs. Therefore, it’s kind of hard for a newbie to get famous in a short time. So, if you’re new in this business and do not have enough confidence yet, you can always join a team of designers who are already making themes to sell. In this way you can avoid competition while still making money.
Tip no.1 you should know when it comes to creating plugins is basing on your experience. What I mean here is that if you’ve been using WordPress for a long time, you may have detected things that don’t work fine with this CMS. Whenever you find a solution to one of those problems, don’t hesitate to create a plugin for it, because there are many people out there probably encountering the same problems with you. You can also learn from famous plugins by analyzing them to figure out to make a constant cash flow like they do.
After creating WordPress themes and plugins, what’s next is to find places to sell them on. For themes, you can always count on ThemeForest, Creative Market, Mojo Themes. For plugins, CodeCayon might be a good market. You can also sell it from your own blog or website.
This is said to be one of the easiest ways to make money with WordPress. But it can only be conducted once you’re good at WordPress, either in giving tutorials to beginners and advanced users, or creating custom designs for customers.
To get your service known, how about offering it for free to influential bloggers on WordPress and ask them to give feedbacks and reviews if they’re pleased by your work? I believe this is an effective method when it comes to marketing your service. Moreover, you could also make use of the idea of productized services, which are services condensed into a fix cost similar to a product. By so doing you can keep your expenses low yet still offer great value to customers.
Almost all experienced businesses understand the importance of regular check-ups on their WordPress website and hire experts to carry out this practice. Therefore, if you’re an advanced WordPress user, you can offer such services as:
Many people have earned lots of money by providing paid membership and tutorials. So, if you’re experienced enough and confident about your WordPress knowledge, this is a great way to make money! Usually when you have premium content on your website, simply offer lessons and paid subscription for customers who want to access those areas of your website.
There are many plugins that can help you to build such website, including necessary features like discussions forums, exclusive “areas”, premium content, etc. You can check out one of these plugins, Paid Memberships Pro, MemberPress, Restrict Content Pro, or find something of your own needs.
Having a blog of your own is highly recommended as a way to make money with WordPress. By creating a blog with great content, useful tips, you can attract people to it and start doing business. Another helpful tip is to befriend with influential figures on WordPress to create a network circle around your blog to get more visitors. You can also earn money with the help of affiliate marketing, selling ads, sponsored reviews, etc on your blog.