“How to Make Money” BloggerCon session
We didn’t start from scratch this morning in talking about how to make money session at BloggerCon IV, and I think the un-conference group made a lot of progress in exploring the topic. (Dave had duct tape over his mouth.) Dan Farber of ZDNet has got a rockin’ round-up of the session, complete with loads of photos. Doc has his amazing outline in real-time of what was said. And the whole thing is available in mp3 format (along with all the others).
Here’s an outline of suggestions people have made — before, during and after — for the “How to Make Money” session:
- Making Money By Blogging
- Run ads
- On your own site
- Text/images on your site (BlogAds, Adwords/Adsense)
- Sponsorships on site (TechCrunch, or the “Be Mike Arrington” strategy)
- In feeds (Feedburner)
- In a podcast (Chris Pirillo)
- In a vlog (Rocketboom)
- Put other thing on your blog that generate money for you
- Classifieds (EdgeIo “listing” tag)
- Other feeds (Stylefeeder feed)
- Affiliate program (e.g., from Amazon with books or other products)
- Put up a tip-jar on your blog
- (Some) people at BloggerCon said they’d contribute to you (IT Conversations).
- Lean into the micropayment movement — it might be $10/year (Dan Farber’s suggestion) or it might be much less — make both possible
- Get hyperlocal (Lisa Williams‘ H2OTown, Nashville is Blogging)
- But maybe we need a new, easier way to give pizza parlors the ability to post ads, for which they’ll pay a higher cost per click/impression/whatever than what they will through Google Ads.
- Join a network of blogs
- Federated Media: John Battelle approach
- Pajama’s Media, Corante, Weblogs.com
- Sell your feed or other content itself to publishers (will someone pay? Gather, Squidoo)
- Generate payment via aggregators and revenue-sharing (Feedshow)
- Promote a specific product or products (Manolo shoe blog)
- Give it to charity (Goodstorm, as retold in TechCrunch)
- Making Money Off of Blogging
- Sell software, services (whether or not you blog)
- Blog to brand yourself (establish trust, credibility, relationships, goodwill), then…
- Sell consulting
- The Dave Winer solution (no ads, get famous, sell a pinger or the like for millions of dollars)
- Host a conference (Blogher, Gnomedex,
Web 2.0Conference) - Sell search etc. (Technorati, Feedster)
- Become a VC (make money off of other people’s work)
- Make money for other people, like charities, through the leverage of your blog
A Wired story about BloggerCon mentions the How to Make Money session. Frank Paynter has posted lots of good stuff in the lead up to the conference and in covering sessions like the Emotional Life of Bloggers.
Post a comment with suggestions for more examples to add to the list and I’ll try to keep the outline up-to-date.
(Disclosure: I have an interest in a few of the companies above — Stylefeeder, Edge.io — and am a part-time investor in other entities that are included by reference above.)
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June 26, 2006 @ 10:46 am
hmmmmmmm Nothing really Leaps out at me yet as a way to Make Money Blogging.
one thing that does Jump out is the amount of Traffic people obviously require to make anything even close to resembling Beer $Money.
i was intrigued about a company called JellyFish who were supposed to be demoing at Supernova2006*
they are supposed to Launch today & i’ll be interested in learning more about what they are up to.
it’s going to take a whole New Economic Paradigm shift to get this going!
but if it allows Artists, Musicians, Performers, & people worldwide to do what they Love to do instead of working for the Man – i think a lot of people will jump on board. but then who is going to do the hard work & real labour that needs to be done?
there’s a lot of issues at stake & no easy answers from what I can tell so far*
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February 18, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
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June 22, 2007 @ 2:05 am
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September 23, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
bloggerCon? thanks for the link to the mp3. It’s great to have information like this for on the go listening.
This list is pretty vague though. I’ve been trying to make money with my site, but it’s a pretty painful process, where nothing seems to attract the amount of visitors to the site that I need to become successful.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out this whole affiliate marketing world. There seems to be some real potential there for some serious money making.
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May 13, 2008 @ 9:38 am
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July 29, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
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October 4, 2008 @ 3:21 am
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October 21, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
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October 31, 2008 @ 10:44 am
This is a kind of old post but a GREAT one.
Chris Pirillo is a great guy, I follow his Podcast/videocast on Ustream
…And thanks to this post, I now know more blog networks
thanks!
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November 2, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
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You need traffic to make money.
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For example, on my blog I’m giving for free a Paid surveys ebook
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November 27, 2008 @ 11:32 am
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