How does John Chow make money blogging?
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I've been watching this video off and on. It's a presentation that answers the question 'what does John Chow do to make money with his blog?'. This is very good information! There's a lot of marketers on the net that would charge for this kind of information, but here it is, free to the web.
You can either see it at JC's blog, which can be found here, or watch the video below.
My Blog Business Model from John Chow on Vimeo.
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Using Craigslist to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
This week, something political was happening that I felt was very...bad. So I wrote up a post (or a couple plus an email) and put it on one of my blogs. It was so major that I even posted it to Craigslist in my local area.
Somebody also thought it was a good idea, and posted it to their local Craigslist page.
If you have a good blog post that you feel should be shared with people, don't be afraid to throw it to the wolves at Craigslist (specifically in the categories like Music, Politics, etc.). You never know how much traffic will come in from it.
In my case, the post caused a major spike in my traffic on the site. I'm talking like 4x. Yes, it's that attention-grabbing.
Don't be afraid to try non-standard means to drive your traffic.
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Bloggerwave: Still Going?
You know, sometimes I just have to scratch my head and ask myself what the point is to sticking with a paid-posting company that really doesn't have much at all to blog about? Well...
For those that may not know, Bloggerwave is a company that helps you make money blogging...at least theoretically. To date, I have only seen two offers (the one from Bloggerwave, about their service, and another that may be on here soon, even though it's totally unrelated to ANYTHING that I generally talk about). The truth is, I have made a little bit of money with them (due to the fact that you can add multiple blogs and they allow you to take the same offer on each blog). Personally, I like them. They are a bit slow to pay, but they DO pay out. I hope one day business picks up for them.
If you haven't checked them out, you really should sign up with them, just as a 'standby' source of an extra ten bucks here and there. It's worth that, at least.
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Blogroll Update
I've just added Gather Little By Little to my permanent blogroll. It's a site that discusses ways to save money, increase income, and how to do it responsibly.
From their latest guest post, Whatever Happened to 'No Other Gods'?:
And not only have we replaced our gods with money and money movers; we also traded our heroes for the same. We, the little people, no longer need Heracles to fight for us since we have Capital One in our wallets protecting us from the Nordic raiders. When the bi-weekly salary harvest falls short, we can always call upon the gods of plastic to pay for our addictions of choice. We chase money and debt like they’re our best friends while ignoring what really matters.
The post was a guest post by That One Caveman, which I just realized. Nonetheless, it's an excellent post that's worthy of getting the site a permanent blogroll link. Excellent job!
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WordPress 2.5
I can stop biting my nails now.
I've successfully upgraded to WordPress version 2.5 without any problems (and only about 5 minutes of downtime). The UI looks a bit different, but it's very nice looking...once you get used to it. I do like the 'settings', 'plugins' and 'users' menu links being off to the right-hand side, separate from everything else.
WordPress seems to be getting easier to use every day. No wonder it's considered the best blogging platform around!
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