Comments on: Making Money With Your Blog http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/ Helping People Use Technology Online Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bill Stevens http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Bill Stevens Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:01:26 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-212 @Michael - "Well, I guess you can count on me to not go with the conventional wisdom." - And that's why I keep reading your blog. "...but trust and audience-building are paramount to me." Yes, I think you've made that clear at your blog and it shows. I'm not trying to suck-up here, but I do like the way you think. @Michael – “Well, I guess you can count on me to not go with the conventional wisdom.” – And that’s why I keep reading your blog.

“…but trust and audience-building are paramount to me.” Yes, I think you’ve made that clear at your blog and it shows.

I’m not trying to suck-up here, but I do like the way you think.

]]> By: Michael Martine http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Michael Martine Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:04:44 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-211 @Bill - Well, I guess you can count on me to not go with the conventional wisdom. ;) When you're out to build an audience, a lack of ads and monetization shows a lack of greed and builds trust. Your primary concern in the beginning is building an audience with great content and strategies to spread your name. Once an audience has been built, they already trust you. Correct monetization efforts will not damage that trust. If you continue to provide great content with no signs of selling out, you'll do great. There is no right or wrong way, of course, but trust and audience-building are paramount to me. Michael Martines last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/michaelmartine/ymYs/~3/323961078/" rel="nofollow">What Conversion Is, Why it Matters, and How to Improve It</a> @Bill – Well, I guess you can count on me to not go with the conventional wisdom. ;) When you’re out to build an audience, a lack of ads and monetization shows a lack of greed and builds trust.

Your primary concern in the beginning is building an audience with great content and strategies to spread your name. Once an audience has been built, they already trust you.

Correct monetization efforts will not damage that trust. If you continue to provide great content with no signs of selling out, you’ll do great.

There is no right or wrong way, of course, but trust and audience-building are paramount to me.

Michael Martines last blog post..What Conversion Is, Why it Matters, and How to Improve It

]]> By: Bill Stevens http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Bill Stevens Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:05:49 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-210 @Michael Martine - Yes, nice clarification on the relationships between business, money and blogging. Thanks. When I first started blogging (a few months now) I had learned from other pro bloggers to decide on monetization in the context of "make the decision to show your readers now or later that you're monetizing. If you build an audience and start monetizing later on, some of that audience will get turned off and bail from reading your blog." I do agree on the "write great..." @Michael Martine – Yes, nice clarification on the relationships between business, money and blogging. Thanks.

When I first started blogging (a few months now) I had learned from other pro bloggers to decide on monetization in the context of “make the decision to show your readers now or later that you’re monetizing. If you build an audience and start monetizing later on, some of that audience will get turned off and bail from reading your blog.”

I do agree on the “write great…”

]]> By: Michael Martine http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Michael Martine Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:04:30 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-208 Thanks kindly for the mention. For what it's worth, I'd like to say that I don't think of it as making money from my blog. I make money from my business, which is blog consulting. I sell services. When you make money second-hand because of the content you write, that's making money from your blog, or having a monetized blog. There are many ways to play this game, and your article has a lot of great resources. Almost <strong>none</strong> of these strategies will make you a dime until you have built up an audience by writing great content. Resist the temptation to monetize too early. No audience = no money. Michael Martines last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GatewayBlogging/~3/318895694/gateway-blogging-lands-clients-with-a-single-blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">How I Used Gateway Blogging Techniques and Landed a Client with a Single Blog Post</a> Thanks kindly for the mention. For what it’s worth, I’d like to say that I don’t think of it as making money from my blog. I make money from my business, which is blog consulting. I sell services. When you make money second-hand because of the content you write, that’s making money from your blog, or having a monetized blog.

There are many ways to play this game, and your article has a lot of great resources. Almost none of these strategies will make you a dime until you have built up an audience by writing great content. Resist the temptation to monetize too early. No audience = no money.

Michael Martines last blog post..How I Used Gateway Blogging Techniques and Landed a Client with a Single Blog Post

]]> By: Bill Stevens http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Bill Stevens Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:21:08 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-75 Thanks for stopping by. Nice sites by the way. Thanks for stopping by. Nice sites by the way.

]]> By: Piper http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Piper Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:29:32 +0000 http://www.thespinningdonut.com/making-money-with-your-blog/#comment-69 Great list of resources - I'll definitely be forwarding this one on to a couple of friends I know who are just getting started in blogging. <em>Piper's last blog post..<a href='http://www.foodandcandygifts.com/cheese/wheeloffortune-of-cheese/' rel="nofollow">Wheel?of?Fortune - Of Cheese?</a></em> Great list of resources – I’ll definitely be forwarding this one on to a couple of friends I know who are just getting started in blogging.

Piper’s last blog post..Wheel?of?Fortune – Of Cheese?

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