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Can YOU make big money blogging? Brutal honesty from Steve Pavlina

November 9, 2006

If you want to make money blogging, you need to read Steve Pavlina’s brutally honest post “How To Make Money From Your Blog”. Steve tells it like it is, and he knows whereof he speaks: currently he’s earning $1000 a day from his blog: StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it [...]

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Your blog as an enterprise: blog early and often

November 8, 2006

This blog, the site, and the ebook of the same name are dedicated to you, professional freelance blogger, and also to you, blogging entrepreneur. The success of your blog(s) depends on you – how much time and effort you’re prepared to put into your blogging. David Sifry is quoted in the BBC article “Blogosphere sees [...]

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The big business of blogging

October 30, 2006

Jason McCabe Calacanis’s “Email with a journalist..” exchange is an excellent primer on how to make money blogging: > > 1) Quite simply: CAN blogging be business? If so, can it be a money- > > maker in its own right for a lot of people, or just for a few, like > > yourself? [...]

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Money-making blogs – pick a topic

September 29, 2006

If you want to become a blogging entrepreneur, that is, someone whose online business is based on blogs, you can questions, lots of questions. The primary question you have is — how do I pick a blogging topic that will make me money? Well, luckily someone else has already done the work for you, and [...]

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Giggle of the Day: The blogging consultant

September 27, 2006

Another funny cartoon from hugh macleod at gapingvoid. Related PostsGiggle of the Day: spam-beggingLorelle on WordPress posted a spam comment she received: “Hey, be a pal. Don’t delete this so…Giggle of the Day: I iz blogginzTechnorati Tags: blogging fun, humorGiggle of the Day: the peasants and the kings of the blogosphereNick Carr’s very funny post [...]

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Making serious money blogging: you (yes YOU) can do it

August 23, 2006

Great article on CNNMoney.com: “Blogging for Dollars: It’s not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money. Here’s how to turn your passion into an online empire”: With Internet-like speed, blogs have gone from self-indulgent hobbies to flourishing businesses. Real businesses, with real revenue streams from real advertisers–not overhyped next big things [...]

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The world’s funniest blog. Ever.

August 14, 2006

I don’t know who’s writing “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs”, but it’s an amazing effort. Just brilliant. Don’t read it while you’re drinking coffee, or eating, because you might just laugh so hard that you choke. To me, the blog looks as if it’s a book blog; that is, whoever is writing the blog [...]

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Make money blogging: Keep control of your content

August 3, 2006

OK, you’re blogging. But who owns the content? Who, effectively, owns your blog? You may be surprised. Where there’s content (text, images, sound, video etc) there are people and businesses who’re looking to make money from it. Heather Green of Blogspotting writes in “Ze Frank, YouTube, and Making Money”: Frank is deliberately trying to create [...]

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Your blog is Internet real estate: it’s a real business

July 26, 2006

When you start blogging, you may get a lot of weird looks when you tell people that your blog is your business. However, YOU know it’s a real business, don’t you? One of my hobbies is buying domain names. I’ve got a tiny collection, compared to people who have tens of thousands of domains, but [...]

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Hand-crafted blog content: build a real blog

July 18, 2006

If you’re new to the blogging community, it’s easy to be seduced by the concept that the more blogs you have, and the more content you slam onto them, the richer you will become. Usually via Google AdSense or similar. Avert your eyes, dear blogger, and pass swiftly by on the other side of this [...]

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