What is Quora?
With a currently reported 300 million monthly active users, Quora is amongst world’s most famous Q&A platform. Since 2015 is has grown constantly.
Now it’ has become so popular that if anyone wants to ask a question or find an answer to practically any problem, Quora is one of the first websites they visit.
It’s a great place to connect with like-minded people, share and find advice, and help others with your knowledge on any given subject.
Here’s some strategies to leverage Quora’s authority and reap the income benefits from everything you’ve ever learnt.
First up, there’s one thing you should know. Quora doesn’t pay you for answering questions. But when you’re visible an authority on Quora you’ll be able to make indirect income from the traffic it produces for you.
Who’s it For?
- Anyone with a specialist knowledge in any subject
- Anyone who loves to write
- Anyone who likes to answer questions and help people
Skills
- Good knowledge or expertise in almost any domain
- Good researching will help
- Consistent time management to help and respond
- Marketing knowledge will help you excel
Start Up
Rapid. Register and invest some time in making your profile look competent. Once that’s done you can start answering questions.
Guide to Success
- A positive attitude and an understanding that when people are looking for answers, there are no stupid questions.
- On open spirit and a welcoming tone in your writing style.
- Keep to your domain of expertise to ensure you capture your niche as a recognised authority.
- Keep to the point. No need to wander onto a different point because there will undoubtably another question asked elsewhere that you can answer.
- Write concise, digestible answers. It will be read by thousands of people around the world so stick to stand grammar, good punctuation, and no spelling mistakes.
- Use reference material. This is where you can include useful videos or links to demonstrate your answer and boost your authority. It’s also where you’re going to make your income
How You Make Your Income
Using the links in your answers you can now drive high-targeted audience to products that will give you a direct sale or a commission on selling someone else’s product.
- Your own services
- eBooks
- Online courses
- Subscription services
- Affiliate products
It really depends on your domain of expertise, but once you begin getting upvotes form users for your high-quality answers you’ll be sitting pretty.
Because you know that everyone reading your answers is specifically looking for a solution to a problem, chance are they’ll need to buy something in your niche to solve it. If not today, then at some point int the future.
Include links to your own web content (easily created with a page-builder) and you can keep them up to speed with a newsletter. Bring them back to your own content or keep them abreast of new products that may help them.
If you have your own services, them hook them up with great advice to ensure they come to your when they need to hire a specialist.
And that is how you use an authority platform like Quora to become an authority in your own right, spreading your knowledge to potential customers worldwide.