CategoryOther Income Streams
Donation Buttons on Blogs
Jeremy Wright has a good post answering the question – Why I Don’t Have a Donate Button? His answer: ‘Because: my users already donate to my well being by simply reading this blog and clicking on various ads. I already trade against my reader’s goodwill by displaying ads. To me, ...more
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How To Make Money With Your Blog Site
Robin Good has a good post on How To Make Money With Your Blog Site which outlines 13 or so ways that bloggers can make money from their blogging. His tips range from Google Adsense, to Amazon, to other advertising programs, to donations, through to premium content sponsorships and online ...more
Adsense
Blogger for Hire on EBay
Blogger Jeremy C. Wright is in the news again – this time he’s auctioning his services as a blogger to the highest bidder! Yes you heard me right – Jeremy of Ensight is willing to blog for three months for the highest bidder – posting 5 to 10 times per ...more
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Tech Bloggers Wanted – AdverBlogging
Jeremy Wright’s employees are looking for tech bloggers willing to blog for a few dollars. ‘The company I do the majority of my writing for is looking to open half a dozen topical blogs. The content output expectations are fairly low. These are ‘entry level’ blogging positions. The positions are ...more
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Blog Buyouts
Wired News has an interesting piece on media buy outs. The article finishes up by predicting that in the next year or so that we’ll see companies moving in to purchase blogs. ‘According to Sam Whitmore, editor of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, over the next 12 to 24 months you ...more
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The Inside Story on the Sale of the Ensight Blog
Jeremy C. Wright, the blogger who sold his blog, has been getting a bit of criticism for doing so in the last few days and has decided to give his readers The Inside Story on the Sale. It makes for fascinating reading giving an insight into the thought process that ...more
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Revenue Generation Ideas for your Blog
Oristus has posted a fantastic list of Revenue Generation Ideas for your blog. It is one of the most comprehensive lists I’ve seen so far on the topic and covers everything from Premium Content Offerings through to Classifieds through to RSS Ads and RSS Premium Feeds. Here is one of ...more
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Blog Farming – Fatten your Blog up to Sell at Market
Another way of earning revenue from your blog is simply to build it up to sell it. There are not too many examples of blogs that have been sold yet but one that recently went on the market and was sold is Ensight. I have recently read The E-Myth Revisited ...more
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