5 Books Blogging Beginners Need to Read Now

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Last Updated on January 7, 2023 by Ellen

Today I’m sharing five books blogging beginners need to read before they do anything else. I’ve been blogging for nine years, and I wish I had read some of these books before I ever started blogging. It would have saved a lot of mistakes and got me started earning money a lot sooner.

5 Books Blogging Beginners Need to Read Now

Take these recommendations as a starting point. We all struggle with different things and are at a different place in our blogging journey. If you don’t do recipes, you can probably skip the food photography books. If you don’t monetize using affiliate income, you probably won’t need the affiliate books (although I highly recommend you start).

How To Blog For Profit: Without Selling Your Soul

Whether you have been blogging for years or just a few weeks, How to Blog For Profit (Without Selling Your Soul) offers solid advice and practical action plans for creating an authentic, successful, and profitable blog. With wit, wisdom, and the insight of someone who’s been there, Ruth Soukup shares how she grew her own blog, Living Well Spending Less, to over one million monthly visitors, earns a full-time income, and still is able to write about the things she truly cares about.

 ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

There’s a reason why the first two editions of this book have sold thousands of copies worldwide. Written by two of the world’s most successful bloggers, it’s one of the clearest books out there on how to earn an income from your blog. This new edition gets you up to date on the very latest changes that affect the blogging-for-business landscape. Featuring new material on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn; plus new ways and tools to grow your audience and expand your business beyond your blog, this professional blogger’s bible is better than ever.

• Helps novices choose a blog topic, analyze the market, set up a blog, promote it, and earn revenue
• Gives aspiring bloggers proven techniques and the tools they need to succeed in building a business from their blogs
• Reveals 20 key ingredients for a successful blog post
• Offers solid, step-by-step instruction on how bloggers actually make money, why niches matter, how to use essential blogging tools and take advantage of social media and content aggregators, how to optimize your advertising, and much more
• Includes techniques for attracting and growing an audience and how to mine new business opportunities beyond your blog

Written by two full-time professional bloggers, this exciting, updated edition of ProBlogger tells you exactly how to launch and maintain a blog that makes money. Buy this book now!

 Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling

Food photography is on the rise, with the millions of food bloggers around the word as well as foodies who document their meals or small business owners who are interested in cutting costs by styling and photographing their own menu items, and this book should serve as your first course in food photography. Discover how the food stylist exercises unique techniques to make the food look attractive in the finished product. You’ll get a taste of the visual know-how that is required to translate the perceptions of taste, aroma, and appeal into a stunning, lavish finished photograph.

• Takes you through the art and techniques of appetizing food photography for everyone from foodies to food bloggers to small business owners looking to photograph their food themselves
• Whets your appetite with delicious advice on food styling, lighting, arrangement, and more
• Author is a successful food blogger who has become a well-known resource for fellow bloggers who are struggling with capturing appetizing images of their creations

So, have the cheese say, “Cheese!” with this invaluable resource on appetizing food photography. Buy this book now!

Affiliate Marketing: 2017 Updated: Beginners Handbook

Make Massive Profits – Build an Affiliate Marketing Money Machine! Are you curious about the affiliate marketing lifestyle? Would you like to make the internet work for you? Do you want to make money in your sleep? If so, look no further – Affiliate Marketing: Proven Step by Step Guide to Make Passive Income is the book you need! You’ll also get a Special FREE Bonus: 16 step-by-step training videos on how to get started and make money with CPA marketing

Inside Affiliate Marketing: Proven Step by Step Guide to Make Passive Income, you’ll discover everything you need to get started:

• Knowing What Affiliate Marketing Is — and Making It Work for YOU!
• Understanding Affiliate Marketing Terms and Lingo
• Creating Your Blog/Website – The Cornerstone of Your Success
• Identifying and Succeeding on the Top Affiliate Networks
• and Using Social Media to Boost Your Affiliate Sales
• You’ll even learn how to avoid common affiliate marketing scams!

Don’t delay – get this valuable information today and start making the most of this powerful income source! Buy this book now!

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:

• How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirementsâ€

Buy this book now!

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