Making Money On My Blog

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More to come on WordPress 2.5

This post is a quick post about making money with a blog. I have not spent a bunch of time trying to make money on this blog and the blog I made money on was my Smart Saving Investing blog. Specifically the article called Zen To Done – The Ultimate Simple Productivity System from a November 26, 2007.

Although I haven’t updated that blog in over a month and some of the updates have been sparce, it goes to show you that it’s possible to make money with a blog even when you don’t update it. Not a whole lot of money in this case, but some.

Now, the pay out for the ebook is 50%. So, the ebook costs $9.50 and I was paid $4.75. Not a lot, but pretty cool to be paid for anything online instead of me paying for something. So if you haven’t been paid for anything that is advertised on your blog, there is hope. 🙂

Now, I will say, buying the product and writing a blog post about it probably helps. Providing a bit of commentary on parts of the ebook helps as well. With a big image that is clickable and takes you directly to the shopping cart so you can check out quickly.

Here’s the post from that blog. The concepts and principles that Leo talks about are sound and are timeless.

Zen To Done – The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

Leo Babauta of the wildly popular Zen Habits blog has released an 83-page e-book called Zen To Done for $9.50.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 Why ZTD?
2 Overview – What is it?
3 Minimal ZTD – the simpler alternative
4 Forming the 10 Habits
5 Habit 1: Collect
6 Habit 2: Process
7 Habit 3: Plan
8 Habit 4: Do
9 Habit 5: Simple, trusted system
10 Habit 6: Organize
11 Habit 7: Review
12 Habit 8: Simplify
13 Habit 9: Routine
14 Habit 10: Find Your Passion
15 A Day with Zen To Done
16 ZTD FAQ
17 Resources

If you’re a fan of GTD – Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen or a Stephen Covey fan – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, then you’ll like this e-book.

Leo teaches you his ZTD or Zen To Done by combining and simplifying some of Allen’s and Covey’s productivity concepts. Narrrowing your focus on what you need to get done by way of MITs or Most Important Tasks.

Habit 10: Find Your Passion is one of the best sections of this e-book because it helps guide you through that over-arching question everyone needs to answer or update in their lives – What Are You Passionate About?

Leo guides you a long a path of questions that put you in the right mindset to help you determine what it is you’re passionate about.

I highly recommend this e-book as you can’t beat the price. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with all the stuff in your life and need a way to get organized Zen To Done will help you.