CategoryOther Income Streams

Today freelance writer Jenny Cromie shares 5 areas in which blogging can help you to improve your writing. Several years back, a friend of mine started a blog and e-mailed the link to me and a bunch of her other friends. I didn’t *get* her blog or anyone else’s. In ...more

Skellie wrote this post. For more advanced blogging tips and strategies, visit her blog, Skelliewag. When people think about making money with a blog, they tend to think about things like AdSense and affiliate links. You write good content, people come to your blog, people click on links, and you ...more

This guest post is part of a two part series (see part 1 here) written by Kelly Phillips Erb, a tax attorney who blogs for b5media at taxgirl.com. You can find out more about Kelly here. For more information about tax and blogging, check out her handy list of prior ...more

Today I was chatting to Leo from Zen Habits who told me that he’s just launched a new site. When Leo tells me he’s starting something new I always take notice – he’s got a habit of making things work and has built his blog from 0 to over 50,000 ...more

An interesting new monetization strategy for bloggers is emerging today – letting readers subscribe to your blog via Text Messages. TextMarks has launched this new service which allows bloggers to either charge $4.99 or $9.99 per month to their readers to get these instantaneous alerts. It’s currently only available to ...more

Wouldn’t you love to have your very own product to sell? More and more bloggers are looking to diversify their income streams, rather than having all their eggs in the AdSense basket. Others are just now discovering blogging, and they recognize right away that it is an ideal platform for ...more

Chris has posted a couple of good posts on related topics over the weekend. Both focus upon bloggers adding income streams to their business through selling products and not just relying upon advertising or affiliate programs. Monetizing Through Packaged Content – looks at the topic of repackaging your blog’s content ...more

Dane from Business Opportunities Weblog has been presented with an interesting opportunity to make a few dollars from his blog by being paid by American Express to blog about a speech to be given by Richard Branson and to host a discussion afterward. Dane writes: ‘I’ve been hired, with two ...more

Quite a few readers have asked how successful the T-Shirt competition has been. How many shirts have we sold? Is it worth it? I’m not going to go into specifics about which shirt sold how many or even what the total sales have been in the ProBlogger shop – but ...more