1. Transform Your Crochet Blog Series into an eBook
Consolidating similar topics into a short report or eBook and then selling it to your readers is one way you can turn blog content into cash.
For example, let’s say you did a series of posts on making ornaments for Advent. You wrote 25 posts with 25 patterns. Now, just take those 25 posts and put them into one document and you can sell the entire series as an eBook.
2. Re-purpose Your Best Content into Multiple Products
Re-purposing content is an effortless way to make money with your crochet blog. Did you host a Linky or other social blog gathering? Get permission from the participants and bundle all of the posts into an eBook.
For example, Kathryn of Crochet Concupiscence held her first Hook’d Up event in July 2011. Thirty-one bloggers participated and introduced each other to new blogs.
She could take those blog posts with the participating blogger’s permission and make an eBook and then give it away to newsletter subscribers or sell it to fund her current crochet designer’s book project.
Kathryn is also participating in a 365 ways to wear crochet project this year. Each day she wears crochet and photographs herself. At the end of the series she could bundle all the photos into a slide show or even a book and sell the finished product.
3. Rock Out and Turn Your Blog Into Audio or Video Versions of YOU
Audio and Video are additional ways to turn your blog content into cash. Host a webinar on hobby blogging or owning a handmade business. Did you blog about your latest published pattern? Host a webinar or teleclass, record it, and then sell it as a digital download along with a call guide or frequently asked questions sheet.
Reviewing products via video is another way to make bucks. Just take your review posts and record yourself using the product and post it onto Youtube. You can opt-in to the revenue sharing with Google ads and earn from people who view your videos. If you create an original pattern from the product i.e. yarn, you can sell the video tutorial to your readers.
4. Interview Crochet Designers or Industry Leaders
Interviewing a blogger or designer is yet another way your crochet blog can be transformed into a profit. Transcribe the interview if it was recorded (Sell it or add it to your next pattern or eBook as a bonus).You can even host a podcast featuring various bloggers, designers, or yarn companies – charge for sponsoring a podcast (example of transcribed interview turned into an eBook – Uncovering Experts by Nicole Dean).
5. Screencast Your “Smarticles” For a Paying Audience
Do you know how to use a particular site? Did you use screen shots to feature various Treasuries on Etsy or when explaining something useful to the Crochet Blogging community? Record a screencast using Camtasia or Jing and sell it.
For example, if you are good at making charted patterns and have found a way to make them with or without software, record yourself and then sell this as a digital product.
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There are certainly more ways you can turn your crochet blog into cash but these should get you started. One obvious way that I didn’t mention was to bundle your crochet pattern posts into an eBook with more detailed photos or video tutorials. Take a look at your blog.
- Transform Your Crochet Blog Series Into an eBook
- Re-purpose Your Best Content into Multiple Products
- Rock Out & Turn Your Blog into Audio or Video Versions of YOU
- Interview Crochet Designers or Industry Leaders
- Screencast Your ‘Smarticles’ For a Paying Audience
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