CategoryBlogging for Dollars

This guest post is by Jane of Runaway Jane. I recently secured the position of Resident Blogger at PLUS Hostels, a large hostel and camp site chain based in Europe. I’d spent more than two years blogging on my independent travel blog RunawayJane.com, and that experience undoubtedly led to me ...more

At the start of this month, I began releasing details of this year’s ProBlogger Training Day. This is a big event for me and my team, and there’s a lot to organize. The Training Day won’t take place until October, but already we’ve spent months organizing speakers, booking venues, releasing ...more

This guest post is by Sean Davis of SDavisMedia.com. Blogs do not produce income. Simply writing and publishing content does not increase your bank account balance. The idea that money is a direct result of blogging is a myth that the best bloggers have dismissed, but most choose to treat ...more

This guest post is by Chris Guillebeau of ChrisGuillebeau.com. More than a decade ago, I began a lifelong journey of self-employment “by any means necessary.” I never planned to be an entrepreneur—I just didn’t want to work for someone else. From a cheap apartment, I watched what other people had ...more

If you’ve been blogging for a while, you may already have tried a range of methods to monetize your blog. Some will have worked better than others, of course, but most mid- to long-term bloggers are continuously looking for new ways to meet our readers’ needs through products or services ...more

This guest post is by the Web Marketing Ninja. Earlier today, Greg explored the question of pricing products that you’re creating for sale on your blog. Setting the right price for your products is extremely important, but I wanted to take that discussion one step further for those who are already ...more

This guest post is by Annika Martins of AnnikaMartins.com. You think you want more traffic, but you don’t. You want I’m really interested in your stuff traffic that converts into social media sharing, new signups to your list and of course, sales. But how do you make that happen? How ...more

This is a guest post by Shaun Connell from Live Gold Prices. I remember when I first began reading about “passive income”. It seemed brilliant: work hard and make sure you leverage your time and capital so that instead of being paid once, you’re paid a little bit every month ...more

In our first article from the series Build Blog Products that Sell, Greg McFarlane makes an interesting point. “Don’t be afraid to solicit feedback,” he says, “but on the other hand, don’t cede the responsibility of initiative by asking your readers, ‘So, what would you like to see?'” I wanted ...more