If you treat your blog like a Business, you could one day blog for money. This is Part III of my series on the Blogging for business. In Part I we talked about how to develop a content strategy. In Part II, we discussed how to promote your business blog. This blog is focused on how to monetizing your blog and get paid to develop content. If you are looking for a secondary stream of income to complement your small business. becoming a professional blogger and social media influencer could be a good idea. Especially if you enjoy writing, blogging could be make money for you. Top writers can get paid $3 per word for writing. And if you have decent traffic to your blog as well as tons of followers on social media, there are ways to financially benefit from your blog as an brand influencer. Here are a few different ways to monetize blogging. Write for Other Sites While writing for your own business’ blog may not directly turn into money, becoming a paid writer on another blog can be lucrative. There are dozens of online publications looking for talented writers to add to their portfolio so that they can continually offer higher-quality content with a fresh perspective. You might not get paid very much when you start out, but the more you do it, the more followers you have the more you can charge for your work. How to Get Started: An editor for a major publication will only consider you if you have a decent writing portfolio. If you don’t yet have one, start guest blogging on other sites for free. While these opportunities won’t pay you, you will get links to build credibility that you can present when you apply for paid gigs. Accept Sponsored Content You don’t even have to write content to make money from blogging. Companies looking to get in front of your audience are willing to pay to publish their content on your blog. Typically, you only want to accept informative articles and you must disclose that you’ve been paid to…