Friends, if you had been to my house lately, you would have noticed that my dining room table looks like this: Yup, piles and piles of receipts I’m sorting through and entering into Excel spreadsheets in preparation for doing my […]
A while back, I decided to teach myself about blog monetization. I should probably say that this blog has been monetized from day one. In fact, I created it as a marketing tool for my then fledgling publicity company. The […]
We made it! This weekend is Thanksgiving, and I’m feeling immensely grateful. First off, I just wanted to say thanks so much to you for taking this journey with me. Earlier in the summer, when I decided I wanted to […]
Allrighty then! Now that you’re monetizing your blog and rolling in the dough (;-)), it’s time to talk finances. Your blog is a business, and as such, you have both financial responsibilities and advantages. Let’s start with the good news. Writing […]
Since I’ve been doing the #MonetizeYrBlog series, I’m learning so much! One thing that recently crossed my radar is something called Alexa Ranking. PR companies, or people who want to work with bloggers, may check out your Alexa Ranking to […]
Today, in part 8 of my series on how to monetize your blog, we’re going to look at Affiliates. Really simply, affiliate marketing is when you promo something on your blog, and if that promo leads to a sale, you get […]
Today, we look at another way of monetizing your blog: books and e-books. Since June of 2009, I’ve been monetizing my blog by selling books. It all came about innocently enough. I had been teaching workshops at The Alliance for […]
Traffic. If you want to monetize your blog, you have to have it. Well, technically, you don’t have to. You can still put ads and the like on your site. You just won’t make any money from them unless you […]
As an adjunct to my “Monetizing Your Blog” series, I have a guest post for you today from Rob Greenberg. Why create a community around your blog? A sense of community produces devoted and dedicated blog readers– your Army, in […]
Welcome to my new series of blog posts on Monetizing Your Blog! Every week, for the next 10-12 weeks, I will publish a blog post on this theme. We’re going to start by looking at the issues that might […]