CategoryPro Blogging News

I used to read articles like this one on Accidental Tech Entrepreneurs Turn Their Hobbies Into Livelihoods and think it could never happen to me but as time goes on I’m finding more and more people that the article could be about – people making a living (and some a ...more

Andrertoons Cartoon Blog shows us another way of monetizing a blog – by selling cartoons. See Mark’s post on it here.

A number of readers have emailed me about a new opportunity for bloggers to make money in a system called PayPerPost (the first to let me know was Brem). The short of it is that they sign up advertisers who want bloggers to write about their product, service or company ...more

If you’re in the UK and have a business blog (or know of any) Mark White would like to hear from you as he’s creating a resource to put the Spotlight on UK Business Blogs. Performancing are looking for Beta testing partners in their new Ad Network WeblogHits has posted ...more

Jen posts some concerning news for European bloggers trying to make money online. The short of it is that some European countries are considering making publishers pay VAT (similar to sales tax) on AdSense and other online earnings and that this could see them paying up to 83% of their ...more

Anne Handley has been asking experienced bloggers a simple question – What’s the Biggest Lie About Blogging? – the response has been most interesting and well worth the read. I love Jeremy’s list at the end – 40 lies in all. Here’s a few of his: 1. Blogging’s just a ...more

I am currently listening to a podcast of the Bloggers and Money session at BloggerCon. You can read a little about the session at ZDNet. A few notes from the podcast: Chris Pirillo made some good points about blogs being a branding tool to brand yourself – which is certainly ...more

MSN’s AdCenter predicts that 60% of ProBlogger’s readers are male with the biggest readership in the ‘under 18 years of age’ range. Hmmmm – the gender one might be right (my gender poll found that 72% of readers were male) but the age range has got to be out. I ...more

Yet another blogger, Rafat Ali from Paid Content, has raised Venture capital for his blogging business according to his announcement post today. Rafat explains the investment saying that the investment comes from Alan Patricof and that the amount will not be disclosed. What will Rafat do with the invested money? ...more