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How to start blog and grow into a megablog like Huffington Post?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by tradester, Sep 8, 2011.

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  1. #1
    Starting a small blog is easy- any 3 year old can do it :)
    Question is how do you start and grow it into multi-million $$ megablog like Huffington Post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffington_Post ?
    Assuming you have small budget of say about $300, you would probably have to use following method:
    -Get free guest expert blogger to contribute authoritative content as you do not want to blog yourself.
    -Utilise free/cheap and viral marketing/ promotion techniques.
    -Gather community of volunteer bloggers to post and later if blog becomes multi million $$, give shares to these contributors?
    Any other ideas? :)
     
    tradester, Sep 8, 2011 IP
  2. ApocalypseXL

    ApocalypseXL Notable Member

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    Don't bother doing that unless you're in America and you want to create hatespeech .
     
    ApocalypseXL, Sep 8, 2011 IP
  3. MrVen

    MrVen Peon

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    1. start a blog ON TOPIC
    2. Have great design - people should die for it (keep SEO in mind)
    3. hire 20 people (good writers)
    4. Make that 20 people to write 2 blog posts per day (ON TOPIC + something useful to reader)
    5. That means in 1 month = (20x2) x 30 = 1200 blog posts per month
    6. Spend $500 for advertising per month (at least for first 6 months) <= advertise on search+social tools
    7. In next 1 Year from today - You are a Mega...Mega...Mega...Blog

    Do this work ? i believe YES !
     
    MrVen, Sep 8, 2011 IP
  4. sophix

    sophix Peon

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    Content is king. Keep it original and of a high quality, soon you'll find people not only linking to you but discussing what you've written.
     
    sophix, Sep 8, 2011 IP
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    jmbinfo Well-Known Member

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    Very good points but the OP said they have a $300 budget. Not sure this is possible with that budget. Instead I guess you could trade out something of value to the bloggers like links, future earnings, etc.

    OR....just save up until you can do what MrVen states. Good game plan.
     
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  6. tradester

    tradester Well-Known Member

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    LOL. Sounds like a good plan but very expensive. 1200 blogposts per mth and assuming they are above average quality posts, may have to pay at least $5 per post so that is $6000 for content. Plus $500 for marketing so that is $6500 per mth. For 6 mths, that is $39K . OMG. If have $39K budget, can do many more projects instead of just 1 blog. Your plan may work but probably need to pull in investors with deep pockets who are willing to fund it. :)
     
    tradester, Sep 9, 2011 IP
  7. amor_fati

    amor_fati Active Member

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    Unique quality content is of course very important. Then you have to spread your blog via social bookmarking and blog link sites and blog toplists and such.
     
    amor_fati, Sep 9, 2011 IP
  8. sambling

    sambling Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    I saw this sort of idea on "wall stree- money never sleeps", you need BREAKING news and doing a wikileaks would help. Do some under cover work and gather all the dirty stuff.
     
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  9. g36

    g36 Peon

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    It takes very long time for a blog to turn to megablog. You need a lot of writers and traffic.
     
    g36, Sep 9, 2011 IP
  10. MTbiker

    MTbiker Well-Known Member

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    Easy. Before starting the blog, be famous like Arianna Huffington. Then, just the fact that you are starting a blog will get tons of press and publicity, be featured on national TV, etc.
     
    MTbiker, Sep 11, 2011 IP
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    chant Well-Known Member

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    This is the #1 reason. The OP needs to be Huffington or someone well known. Famous people automatrically create traffic for their website.
     
    chant, Sep 11, 2011 IP
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