
Blog Business Model 6: Sell Consulting Services
This post is by Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project. It’s the sixth and final post in our series on Blog Business Models. I’m well-mannered, I like pearls, intelligent opinions, and fine French cheeses. (Ditto fine French wine.) (And fine French men.*) I also happen to run a six-figure blog ...more
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Tips and Techniques for Selling Training on Your Blog
Training and electronic courses are common product offerings for bloggers, and as the range of tools and services available to help us create and market engaging courses has grown, so has the competition in this space. Jules Clancy talked earlier today about offering classes and training as a blog business ...more
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Blog Business Model 5: Sell Training and Courses
This is the fifth post in our series on Blog Business Models. When you think of online training as a blogging business model, cookery classes may not be the first topic that springs to mind. But Jules Clancy of The Stone Soup has created a successful cooking class business around ...more
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10 Popular Affiliate Programs for Small and Medium-sized Blogs
As we’ve already seen today, affiliate marketing is a relatively trouble-free way for bloggers and other website owners to earn money. In fact, these days, even social media sites can become lucrative platforms for affiliate marketing campaigns. Because affiliate marketing doesn’t require affiliates to offer their own products or services ...more
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More Affiliate Marketing Advice, Tips, and Techniques
Affiliate marketing is one of the blogger’s mainstay business models. It’s simple, and as Anshul proved when he shared his story earlier today, it works—but it does take effort and commitment. The first challenge is to understand how the process works, and for that I can point you to no ...more
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Blog Business Models 4: Affiliate Marketing
This guest post is by Anshul Dayal of Nichsense Niche Marketing. This is the fourth post in our series on Blog Business Models. Many entrepreneurs who own successful online businesses have followed similar paths through the world of blogging, internet, and affiliate marketing. Perhaps they were working a never-ending grind stuck ...more
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Get Started Selling Electronic Products on Your Blog
Today I explained a bit about the strategy I use to sell electronic products through my blog at Digital Photography School. I sell ebooks, but as technology evolves, bloggers face a growing array of product creation possibilities. Just as many hop on board the product bandwagon, so many keep well ...more
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Blog Business Model 3: Sell Electronic Products
This is the third post in our series on Blog Business Models. On Digital Photography School, we currently sell nine ebooks on different aspects of photography. When you look at the blog now, it looks as if it was built to sell products, but it wasn’t. The site is five ...more
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Starting Points for Selling Your Print Book Through Your Blog
Earlier today we heard from Kevin Cullis, who’s successfully using his blog to support his self-published print book, How to Start a Business: Mac Version. As print publishing evolves, we’re seeing more and more bloggers release printed books—either themselves or through established publishing houses, like I did. This is an ...more
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