Archive for: October, 2004
Written on October 31st, 2004 at 10:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Bloggers adopt a revenue stream more lucrative than panhandling
‘The odds of making a living by writing a blog are a lot like the odds of a garage band turning out a hit album: It can happen, but you better enjoy the music and hang on to your day job in the meantime.
Two years ago, the odds were even longer. The main source of […]
Written on October 31st, 2004 at 04:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Spy Journal ProBlogs
Tim has emailed this week while I was taking a bit of a holiday in New Zealand to let me know of a mini problogging network that he’s started reading the tips here on Problogger. You can check his new blogs at:
Blog Tips
Tech Tips
Excel Tips
Personal Blog
He’s using Adsense as an income stream. He’s asked for […]
Written on October 31st, 2004 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Blog Business Summit
The Blog Business Summit will be held between 24-25 January in 2005 in Seattle. It looks like a good gathering to get involved with if the founding board are anything to go by. It might be a bit out of reach of the average blogger at $795 for the two days but for US bloggers […]
Written on October 30th, 2004 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse
The Stylephile
The Stylephile is a new commercial blog from the Variety stable of blogs that is focussing upon Shopping.
They’re posting on sales, openings and products/picks of the day.
At this stage their income stream is not overly evident - although the topic of the blog will definitely lend itself to all kinds of options including static advertising, […]
Written on October 30th, 2004 at 10:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Weblogs Inc. adds top execs
‘Touting itself now as “the world’s largest blog publisher,” Weblogs Inc. announced it has hired an editorial director and a vice president of sales and marketing. Judith Meskill, a communications consultant who writes a blog about social networking, will oversee the editorial side of the company. “We’re going to have 100 blogs by the end […]
Written on October 30th, 2004 at 10:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Shawn Collins on RSS: RSS & Blogs and Affiliate Marketing [MarketingStudies.net]
Here is an interesting interview with Shawn Collins (an affiliate program manager) on the topic of RSS & Blogs and Affiliate Marketing.
‘Since it’s increasingly challenging to reach the inbox of affiliates, with Spam filters, ISP black lists, abandoned email addresses, etc., I think RSS will emerge as the preferred tool for communicating with affiliates….
It […]
Written on October 30th, 2004 at 10:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Blogs a good buy for Advertisers
‘Advertisers including Paramount Pictures, The Wall Street Journal, and The Gap are successfully reaching niche audiences for a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising and a handful of bloggers are earning six-figure incomes from their blogs. Why aren’t more advertisers and bloggers getting together? Fear, ignorance and the knowledge that a lot of pioneers […]
Written on October 26th, 2004 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
Google Sees Brand-Advertising Opportunities
Those of you using Adsense might be interested in some of the upcoming changes and directions of the program being talked about by Google executives.
‘ After building its business through direct-response search listings, Google is likely to expand into brand advertising.
Speaking to investment analysts on the company’s first-ever earnings call last week, Google executives said […]
Written on October 26th, 2004 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
The World of Contextual Advertising
Puneet Mehrotra has a good article introducing the The World of Contextual Advertising. He writes - ‘How much? Good question. I know of webpreneurs whose earnings range between $200 to $2,00,000 per month. Of course, it’s not child’s play. But no one said earning big bucks is a child’s play!…’
‘So what’s the next boom. Well […]
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