PLAN: Planning involves brainstorming ideas, selecting a niche, your domain, hosting provider and monetization strategy. Planning should take maximum amount of your time as future growth of your business depends on it.

ACT: Execute your plan. Be unique and yourself. Build a professional blog from beginning. Post awesome content. Start building an email list from day one. Understand problem of your readers and work on to provide them with awesome solutions.

GROW: Grow your blog. Treat it like your baby. Get traffic from different sources. Build a community around your niche. Interview other bloggers in same niche and see your blog growing and generating money for you sooner than you had expected.

MONETIZE: Put some ads or do affiliate linking on your blog. Look out for sponsored posts. Once you become an expert in your area, create a course and sell it on your blog. Being a beginner, you can create an eBook and start selling on your blog.