Making Money Blogging

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Making Money Blogging Slideshow Transcript

Slide 1: Making Money Blogging by Matthew Haughey

Slide 2: Making money blogging is a real challenge

Slide 3: We all have blogs and many here would love to do it full-time

Slide 4: Finding an audience — and beyond that — finding revenue amid the sea of millions of blogs seems impossible

Slide 5: Stake out your place and make the hard work pay off

Slide 6: Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue

Slide 7: Find your passion

Slide 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

Slide 9: MetaFilter and PVRblog

Slide 10: What are you passionate about?

Slide 11: You have hobbies, right?

Slide 12: Passion doesn't feel like work

Slide 13: You'll need passion for the long, thankless hours

Slide 14: The democratic web

Slide 15: Fakery will get you nowhere. Don't just do it to make a buck.

Slide 16: Start small, avoid creating a network

Slide 17: Stephanie Quilao’s story

Slide 18: The paradox of love (also works with money)

Slide 19: Find your audience

Slide 20: Content. Is. King.

Slide 21: Just say no to SEO

Slide 22: The road to success is long and takes a lot of hard work.

Slide 23: Be patient. Stick with it.

Slide 24: Ideas for content

Slide 25: Time spent doing research= dozens of posts

Slide 26: Review products

Slide 27: Google news alerts

Slide 28: You can interview anyo ne if you just ask

Slide 29: Mine the forums, deliver the gold

Slide 30: Op/Ed beats news any day

Slide 31: Find the Money

Slide 32: Some numbers

Slide 33: Text Ads

Slide 34: Google is easy

Slide 35: Google is flexible. You should be too.

Slide 36: Typical adsense use on a blog

Slide 37: Don't overdo it.

Slide 38: Image ads

Slide 39: Blogads is easy

Slide 40: Eventually, larger networks are better

Slide 41: Don't overdo it

Slide 42: Diversify: Affiliates, Jobs, etc

Slide 43: “We’re all one greasemonkey script away from poverty”

Slide 44: Amazon Affiliates is easy

Slide 45: Monthly/Annual subscriptions, memberships, or swag

Slide 46: Lots of people get hired because of their blog

Slide 47: Companies you blog about will need business bloggers

Slide 48: Can you find a topic, gain an audience, and stick with it?

Slide 49: Generating revenue from your slice of the blogosphere is a challenge

Slide 50: Follow your passion, find your audience, and gain revenue

Slide 51: Hard work on a topic you love can pay off.

Slide 52: Pro Blogging: a lot of work, a lot of fun, perhaps a lot of money

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