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A 40min cradle-to-grave presentation on how to pick a topic for a blog, fill it with good content, and monetize it.
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Making Money Blogging
- Making Money Blogging by Matthew Haughey
- Making money blogging is a real challenge
- We all have blogs and many here would love to do it full-time
- Finding an audience — and beyond that — finding revenue amid the sea of millions of blogs seems impossible
- Stake out your place and make the hard work pay off
- Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
- Find your passion
- “ The most important thing is to do something you love, whatever that is. It goes back to the definition of a good job, which is, if you could afford to, would you do the same work for free? If you would, you've got a great job -- if not, what the heck are you doing? -- you're going to be dead a long time. We're in a field that allows you to look forward to that work, not watch the clock, be creative, and even get paid for it. I've often thought I make a living from my hobby.” -- David Carson
- MetaFilter and PVRblog
- What are you passionate about?
- You have hobbies, right?
- Passion doesn't feel like work
- You'll need passion for the long, thankless hours
- The democratic web
- Fakery will get you nowhere. Don't just do it to make a buck.
- Start small, avoid creating a network
- Stephanie Quilao’s story
- The paradox of love (also works with money)
- Find your audience
- Content. Is. King.
- Just say no to SEO
- The road to success is long and takes a lot of hard work.
- Be patient. Stick with it.
- Ideas for content
- Time spent doing research= dozens of posts
- Review products
- Google news alerts
- You can interview anyone if you just ask
- Mine the forums, deliver the gold
- Op/Ed beats news any day
- Find the Money
- Some numbers
- Text Ads
- Google is easy
- Google is flexible. You should be too.
- Typical adsense use on a blog
- Don't overdo it.
- Image ads
- Blogads is easy
- Eventually, larger networks are better
- Don't overdo it
- Diversify: Affiliates, Jobs, etc
- “We’re all one greasemonkey script away from poverty”
- Amazon Affiliates is easy
- Monthly/Annual subscriptions, memberships, or swag
- Lots of people get hired because of their blog
- Companies you blog about will need business bloggers
- Can you find a topic, gain an audience, and stick with it?
- Generating revenue from your slice of the blogosphere is a challenge
- Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
- Hard work on a topic you love can pay off.
- Pro Blogging: a lot of work, a lot of fun, perhaps a lot of money
Editor's Notes
- Hello, great to be here! I want to talk to you today about making some money with blogging and eventually becoming a blogger for a living.
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