Maybe I haven’t been pushing the BUSINESS aspect of “make money blogging” as hard as I should have. Dead2.0′s “11 Suggestions For Not Being a Dot-Bomb 2.0″ reminded me that we all need to remember that if we want to make money blogging, our blog is a BUSINESS.
Please choose your business model before you start your blog.
You’ve got several choices:
* Your want to make blogging a career, so your blog is a portfolio/ resume to show potential employers what you can do;
* Your blog is an entrepreneurial venture. You intend to make money by a) selling a product (like this blog) b) selling advertising space (much as a magazine would) or c) selling affiliate products (as with our eBay-blog suggestion).
Of course, you have other options, and they’ll depend on what your own interests and experiences are.
As “11 Suggestions For Not Being a Dot-Bomb 2.0″ says, you MUST:
Have a revenue model, right now. Not something you’ll figure out when you get some traffic. Oh, and it cannot be 100% based on AdSense or being an Amazon Affiliate. It is fine to be ad-supported, pay-per-something, platform licensing, or anything that is predictable and based on existing economic models. Revenue matters, and if you aren’t thinking about it, then what you have is a hobby not a business.
Re the 100% AdSense-supported: this means that your advertising-supported blog should not depend on any one advertiser. Get lots of advertisers, so you can spread the risk.
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