Making Money Blogging
- 1. Making Money Blogging by Matthew Haughey
- 2. Making money blogging is a real challenge
- 3. We all have blogs and many here would love to do it full-time
- 4. Finding an audience — and beyond that — finding revenue amid the sea of millions of blogs seems impossible
- 5. Stake out your place and make the hard work pay off
- 6. Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
- 8. “ The most important thing is to do something you love, whatever that is. It goes back to the definition of a good job, which is, if you could afford to, would you do the same work for free? If you would, you've got a great job -- if not, what the heck are you doing? -- you're going to be dead a long time. We're in a field that allows you to look forward to that work, not watch the clock, be creative, and even get paid for it. I've often thought I make a living from my hobby.” -- David Carson
- 10. What are you passionate about?
- 11. You have hobbies, right?
- 12. Passion doesn't feel like work
- 13. You'll need passion for the long, thankless hours
- 15. Fakery will get you nowhere. Don't just do it to make a buck.
- 16. Start small, avoid creating a network
- 18. The paradox of love (also works with money)
- 20. Content. Is. King.
- 21. Just say no to SEO
- 22. The road to success is long and takes a lot of hard work.
- 23. Be patient. Stick with it.
- 25. Time spent doing research= dozens of posts
- 26. Review products
- 28. You can interview anyone if you just ask
- 29. Mine the forums, deliver the gold
- 30. Op/Ed beats news any day
- 31. Find the Money
- 32. Some numbers
- 33. Text Ads
- 34. Google is easy
- 35. Google is flexible. You should be too.
- 36. Typical adsense use on a blog
- 37. Don't overdo it.
- 38. Image ads
- 39. Blogads is easy
- 40. Eventually, larger networks are better
- 41. Don't overdo it
- 42. Diversify: Affiliates, Jobs, etc
- 43. “We’re all one greasemonkey script away from poverty”
- 44. Amazon Affiliates is easy
- 45. Monthly/Annual subscriptions, memberships, or swag
- 46. Lots of people get hired because of their blog
- 47. Companies you blog about will need business bloggers
- 48. Can you find a topic, gain an audience, and stick with it?
- 49. Generating revenue from your slice of the blogosphere is a challenge
- 50. Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue
- 51. Hard work on a topic you love can pay off.
- 52. Pro Blogging: a lot of work, a lot of fun, perhaps a lot of money
Editor's Notes
- Hello, great to be here! I want to talk to you today about making some money with blogging and eventually becoming a blogger for a living.