A reader e-mailed me yesterday with this exact question. (I accept questions, by the way. So don’t be shy.)

She’d read Desperate Buyers Only and knew how anti-typical marketing I am. Yet here I am blogging my arse off a whopping 4 days a week.

And even though I wouldn’t call myself a bonafide expert on the topic – (I’ve only been blogging on a consistent basis for the past month and some change) – I would have to say yes… blogging does affect book sales.

It’s NOT oodles and oodles of cash. Maybe 17 new sales for DBO and Get In Google Now in the month of September.

Which really ain’t a bad deal for less than 3 hours of work a week. (Technically I make more blogging than some of my 9-5 worker bee friends.)

I won’t know the true bottom-line affect of this blog until I release a new ebook. Which I’ll be doing very soon.

The new ebook?

Well I think the first one will be all about hot topics and where to find them. It seems that many readers have a difficult time finding good, salable topics.

Anyway I digress… Back in July this blog had 760 total visits. This means the same people might have been visiting over and over again.

As of today, I’ve had 1,759 visits for the month of September. 466 of those were first timers. So I get a lot of repeat visitors, which is awesome. And I’ve had 6,511 page views.

I don’t promote this blog in any blog directories or anything.

I don’t purposely use any targeted phrases in my messages to rank well. (You don’t have to be an optimzing machine all the time!) And still I get a fair share of traffic from Google and Yahoo.

Everytime I post a new message I get anywhere from 4-9 new blog feed subscribers, which I’m able to track through Feedburner.

And even though I do have an option allowing readers to subscribe and receive the blog messages via e-mail – (see the sidebar) – I only have 6 e-mail subscribers.

A lot of Internet marketers say the money is in the list.

Perhaps I’m being a winky head because I have fewer than 10 e-mail subscribers, but isn’t it better to have people willingly visit your site over and over again, than trying to compete with 500 other e-mail newsletters?

I think so. (So thank you my foxy and incredibly smart repeat visitors!)

The bottom line?

I like this blogging thing. I will definitely continue. And I would highly recommend it.

Blog and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes

Filed under: Passive Income

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