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Turning your passion into profit

November 17, 2006

What’s your passion? Whatever it is, cooking, photography, or even shopping, you can create a blog and make money. “Blogging for a bargain Dracut resident launches shopping site” notes: Since her shopping blog went live in August, Garnhum, a Chelmsford native who lives in Dracut, has been spending two hours a day scouring the Web [...]

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Blog: prepare to create a money-making blog

November 13, 2006

I’ve always called a blog a one-minute business, however to launch a blog which will be a real money-spinner, take the time to do a little planning. How will you monetize your blog? Monetizing a blog doesn’t just happen. Unfortunately, while your blog is a one-minute business, and most of your business development costs will [...]

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Blogging and the search engines: avoid supplemental hell

October 12, 2006

If you’re tracking your search engine results for your blog, and you also follow discussions on Web publisher forums like WebmasterWorld you’ll soon get the sense that the Web search arena is changing. It’s becoming stratified. Search engines are dividing their indexes. And, more Web pages are consigned to “supplemental” hell because they’re clones of [...]

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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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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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I don’t want a blog, I want a Web site

July 3, 2006

As a copywriter, I often work with high-priced consultants who are using (expensive) offline marketing, and who aren’t Web-savvy. These folks are wary of that strange new animal called a “blog”. They have an image to protect, and to them a blog seems unprofessional. “You don’t have to call it a blog. A blog is [...]

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Blogger jobs: who’s hiring bloggers?

June 30, 2006

Who’s hiring bloggers? Businesses, primarily. Thousands of businesses from single-person micro-businesses to major corporations. Type “blogger jobs” into the search query box at www.google.com — this gives you a small (very small) notion of what’s available. However, because of how long it takes pages to index on Web search engines, most of these jobs are [...]

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