6 Ways I Make Money Blogging with Vocal Media (And You Can Too)

Hello! Welcome to a new post on various ways I earn money with Vocal Media (and how you can do the same!) I've been meaning to make this post for a while, and when a friend recently signed up for Vocal we started brainstorming all the different ways we could up our earning potential.

We're both creators at heart, and work towards gaining financial freedom through following our creative visions. Vocal Media provides a beautiful platform to share your thoughts, ideas, innovations, stories, and much more.

I've been writing on Vocal for over two years now. It's a great form of expression, and allows writers a lot of creative freedom in their work. You can check out my interview for Vocal's 'Creator Spotlight' here to learn more about me or read one of my personal favourites "10 Cool Facts About the Universe (that are worth knowing)".

Here are the top ways I make money through Vocal, and how too can start making a creative living!

6 Ways I Make Money Blogging with Vocal Media (And You Can Too)

1. TIPS

Tipping is the top way I earn money on Vocal! The best thing about tipping is that your readers can choose how much they would like to gift you based on the content you provided them. This is great because it creates a sort of mutualistic relationship between the reader and writer. If you: the reader, feel the writer provided you with value you can gift them value in return. And as a writer, we love to get tips for our work! Even if it's $2.00 - the fact that you took the time to send it our way means we're doing something right.

2. READS

Aside from tips, creators also earn from their work on a per view basis. Founding members currently earn $6.00/per thousand views on each article. So as you can see, if you're wanting to earn high amounts of money from views on your posts you will have to get a lot of eyes on them. This means you'll have to learn the art of driving traffic:

Check out my post on how to drive a lot of traffic to your blog!

Let's break it down really simply. How much do you want to earn? Let's say you wanted to make $1000

$1000 divided by $6 (per thousand views) = 166.67 (x1000)

Meaning you would need about 166,670 views to make $1000

That's a lot of eyes! But it's doable. This is why it's so important to learn what works best for you to drive traffic towards your work. You can easily attain this number if you continue to deliver creative and persuasive content. Be sure to check out my posts on traffic and SEO content.

3. AFFILIATE LINKS

Affiliate marketing is when you recommend products and/or services from another company to your viewers. You include a link to the product which is specifically designed for your audience, so when they buy- you earn!

The beauty of affiliate marketing is you can promote products you're passionate about, while not having the stress of inventory or back-end business hassles. Most brands now have affiliate programs: from Forever 21 to Walmart, Target to Amazon!

When I want to share something with my readers from a different company I can include an affiliate link, which allows me to still earn from my recommendations. It also gives the company a sale, and the viewer a note worthy new product or service.

4. PROMOTE YOUR OWN PRODUCTS

This is my favourite way to earn because it allows my creativity to be portrayed in a number of ways. I can write about my designs, which allows for me to promote both my clothing and my articles, while simultaneously earning for both.

I own an online clothing store called The Soul Shop. It's a mix of soul and style. All things free-spirited, light, and empowering. I started it while I was still in university, always passionate about digital entrepreneurship and design. I use blogging to talk about behind the scene tells of ecommerce, brand collabs, digital marketing, and making money online.

Check out the rest of my recent posts here.

5. EMBED YOUR YOUTUBE CONTENT

This is another cool feature! If you're doing some vlogging along with your blogging, you'll love this. You can embed your youtube videos into your posts and share the post with friends and family, along with a background story or brief synopsis of your latest release. It will give your audience a choice between whether to they want to watch or read; and either way you're getting a view count (if not two!)

6. CREATE YOUR PORTFOLIO

Another reason to post your work on Vocal is to use it as a digital portfolio for other writing gigs! If you put effort into writing solid pieces and publish them on Vocal, then you'll have links and samples of your work you can show when applying for other freelance jobs. You can do freelance writing work on sites such as:

Upwork

Iwriter

FlexJobs

Freelancer

Writer Access

BloggingPro

You'll not only have this online portfolio, you'll also earn money from it at the same time. So always put forth your best pieces because quality pays off.

Have you ever wanted to start a blog? I hope this information was helpful. Thanks for reading!

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