Our Daily Bread Devotional – Turn Your Passion Into Profit

Our Daily Bread

For devoted bloggers, every day we need to write something. It’s our daily bread. It is what feeds us – spiritually and figuratively.

Whether writing is in your blood or you are just new to it, it takes hold of you and you just need to blurt out something.

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I was born into a family of writers. My grandfather was a published author of many short stories and some great novels. He was a journalist and editor for some of the leading magazines and newsprints of the time.

He bred 4 boys, all successful in their own right, and accomplished writers in their own fields – education, agriculture, industrial relations and medicine.

So surely it was natural that I was to start writing too?  Not really, so it seems. It has taken 50 years for me to get the bug. But now I have the bug.

Writing is the Passion

It is our daily bread devotional. No, I am not very religious, but this is as close to what I can understand religious devotion to be.

what is the best internet businessI get up in the morning and want to write something. It doesn’t have to be published, it just has to be written.

So I needed an outlet. I needed somewhere that I could focus my writing and give it ‘purpose’.

Being involved in the Information Technology world I learned about websites and information marketing – content marketing as it is also known.

Content marketing has given me the opportunity to write articles for my own websites and earn an income at the same time. I get to be my own boss and work my passion as I want.

How fabulous can it be to turn your passion into a money-making business?  How much would you like to do that?

Well, I’m here to tell you that there is nothing stopping you. What is your passion? What is your daily bread – the thing that makes you get up in the morning?

We have the opportunity right here and now to turn our passion, our daily bread into a money making business.

Let’s look at some objections you might have:

I don’t have time.

Ok , so you work at a job that you need to pay bills, or you are a full-time parent or career. That’s fine, so you can create a website and add some content in the evenings when you are watching TV. On the weekends, when you are sitting around – spend an hour learning how to design your very own website.

It’s going to cost too much and I can’t afford it.

What if you could create a website or two for free and start building them up to a point they are ready to start marketing? What if you could earn an income from them? Could you invest $47 a month or better still, $359 a year in an education?

Online businesses are just scams.

For something to be considered a scam it will need to be ripping you off and taking money from you without providing the result it advertised. Now there are plenty of scams online. So, obviously, you need to avoid these. Look for reviews of online businesses and judge for yourself.

I have been there. I have chased the golden carrots but have been fortunate enough not have lost much money on the bogus opportunities.

Create Good Engaging Content

Then a few years ago I read about affiliate marketing – which is basically marketing and generating sales of products that belong to other people and then you earn a commission from the sale.

what is the best internet businessAffiliate marketing allows you to create niches that target market products to groups of people. This is where the content marketing comes in.

Writing good quality content will engage your readers and get them coming back to your website and hopefully, buy from your affiliate links.

Earning Money Through Trust

I read a fabulous article recently by a colleague in a marketing group I subscribe to.

He talked about the concept of content marketing. Many people create an article or blog and then rush out marketing that piece of content in the hope that it will attract people and make a sale.

But what he said really rings true. And that is that when we write we need to create great content that will engage our readers. We want them to trust what we are talking about and get them to come back for more.

Write from the heart and your readers will see that you are not trying to scam them. Give them the information that they need from your website that will help them to make a decision or understand how something works.

Incidental sales will happen as a result of people believing that you have a solution.

Affiliate marketing is not about selling. It is marketing information that will lead people to make informed choices.  You profit from earning trust.

Earn money, you don’t make money.

Giving up a slice of our daily bread to help others. Neat huh?

If you would like to know more about that I do and how I direct my energies then feel free to check out my website information on affiliate marketing.

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8 thoughts on “Our Daily Bread Devotional – Turn Your Passion Into Profit”

  1. JB,
    You definitely shocked me, but captured my attention still the same, with the first section referencing the Our Daily Bread publication… I read this everyday!

    Even though my personal interest is in online work, I am a Christian and a servant of God first and foremost…

    Any who– I appreciated how you pointed out that you can earn money online through TRUST. This is soooooo important and this article just made me realize how I need to emphasize the trust aspect of affiliate marketing and converting more leads into sales.

    Very encouraging post.

    All the best,
    Nerissa S.

    1. Hi Nerissa, thank you for your comments. I admire anyone who has strong beliefs that they are willing to stand by. Having something to believe in can be a huge driving force in our daily lives. And trust is a major influence in the online world and worth building into your affiliate marketing strategies.

      Thanks again .. all the very best,

      James

  2. This is some great information James.

    Lately I have also caught the writing bug lately. I’m very passionate into gold investing and right now I only write on my local computer.

    I figured why not try and make this text that I’m writing into some helpful content for someone else. Maybe even make a sale one day. My number one reason for doing this is not because I want to make a bunch of money.

    That’s good if it happens but mostly I want people to read my content.

    You talk about that you can get 2 websites for free. Can I just start going for free and build my websites or will I have to pay in the future?

    You also talk about Wealthy affiliate being some kind of education? Do you learn how to create your website there?

    Thanks for the information

    1. Hi Marcus, I reckon you have the right focus. If you dwell too much on the money generation its easy to loose focus on your readers. I love the idea of gold investing, having done a little commodities trading myself in the past.

      As you mention, you can start up producing free websites, and you can continue to develop them and market them for free as long as you wish. However, if you want to create a serious online business then you will need to eventually upgrade to a premium subscription. You get access to a lot more website and hosting options, 24/7 support and a huge amount of training on taking your affiliate marketing business to the next level.

      The Wealthy Affiliate platform that I promote provides this training above in structured learning tutorials and courses, They use written online tutorial formats and back up with video training and practical exercises. You get to learn all about creating websites from scratch through to adding content, pages, posts and structuring your site. Learn also how to monetise your sites and marketing techniques. Its all there from go to woe.

      cheers James

  3. Hey James,

    This is a really interesting article.

    I have recently signed up to WA and would recommend it to everyone. I am still learning a lot of the things you have mentioned and am really enjoying the experience.

    There is a lot of potential to be realised from learning how to do this kind of thing properly.

    1. Hi Craig, thanks for your comments. WA is an excellent platform to learn affiliate marketing on. Having the right tools will certainly make it easier to succeed in this business.

      cheers James

  4. Thanks for an interesting article.

    I know just what you mean. I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I do enjoy it, and I do it every day.

    I’ve had blogs for years now, and some of them have earned quite a bit of money for me. As you say, it can sometimes be hard to find time, especially if you have a demanding job. However, I usually find a way to fit it in – sometimes I get some writing done during my lunchtime at work. There’s always a way.

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