‘At what point should someone start paying for the advice or sharing the benefits that they receive from the input from others?’

The answer is an exchange of energy

You’ve talked about taking borders off your ads which many of us have found to be a winner – but I’d also love to see a post on your ‘best spots’ – would you be willing to tell us what you’ve found them to be so far? I know we can draw some conclusions about this by looking where the ads are but I’d be interested to hear you share more about this and how you’ve come to your conclusions.

thanks

I don’t know Jason Calacanis very well, but of course, if you are a bit interested into the b…

Enhancing your content also helps to boost the “rising tide” effect by expanding the audience that can find interesting value in the blogosphere (or syndisphere or whatever it’s called these days).

BTW, the term syndisphere seems to be a misnomer since its nominal domain is aggregation rather than syndication. Syndication is the process of making content available for use, or publishing content. Aggegation is the process of filtering, combining, republishing, and otherwise pulling together or aggregating content, culminating in subscription and viewing. We should call it the aggresphere, the world where aggregators and users operate. The term syndisphere should be reserved for the world of bloggers, where content is created and published.

– Jack Krupansky

If people get paid to give out Google Adsense advice that’s fine, but I’ll reserve the right to share information about optimization freely on my blog and if those folks who charge for the service don’t like it too bad… they need to find something more valuable to do in order to get people to pay for their service. I’m sure that these Google Adsense consultants do more then just give tips. In fact, I’m sure most of them are sort of outsourced experts… in that case it’s not the tips that matter but the work of putting those tips into action.

If people send me tips to my email (jason at calacanis dot com) I’ll post them to my blog as I’ve been doing all along.

If everyone in the blog community learns how to make more money that is good for us… right now it’s not about one blog/blogger vs. another, it’s about all of us getting advertisers to embrace blogs…. that is why I’m sharing all our experience… if we can make advertisers fall in love with blogs–which they are doing–we will all win.

A rising tide lifts all boats… regardless of the size of the boat or how many boats ya got! :-)

The advice is a tidbit, but not the major thing. A small line.

Paying for advice: You do pay for advice with your time also. There are things you can do without any effort, and there are things I can do without effort. With a fingersnip. The great thing about Adsense? One can do barter business on the net and the part of bringing bread to the table is taking care also. ;o)

If you ask questions, why not? If it helps you make more money more easily, you have more time for doing problogger *g*

But you hit a weak spot: Blogs are public and this is great, but sometimes you need a smaller circle, more private to feel comfortable enough to do stuff. And please, add me to that ‘people available for questions like that to give feedback’ list. ;)

Those of us who are tuning in and are able to do something with the knowledge that comes out of such posts will benefit as well. I’m a big Open Source advocate, so I believe information should be as free as possible.

In terms of the Calacanis situation, I think we should all email him and tell him if he wants to ask us for advise then he needs to blog about the answers he gets and how well the advise plays out. That would make for some very valuable information.

Second, what is different between what Jason is doing and what most of us do? Bartering services. I’m trying to get people who will write articles on one of my blogs right now. They won’t be getting paid, I’ll be offering any promotional assistance and linking that I can give them. Is their work less valuable just because I don’t earn a lot of money from the blog?

Is he trying to get what he needs as cheaply as he can? Yes probably. But thats really what we all do.

I’m with you on that – it’d be an interesting dinner for sure and one that I wouldn’t knock back (especially if I had the choice of venue :-) )

I guess it just brings up all kinds of questions in my mind – many of which I don’t really have any real answers to.

thanks for the comment though – good call.

I think there’s a lot we could learn about building a mainstream blogging network from Jason Calacanis. By posting and asking for Adsense tips he’s admitted there’s a lot he can learn from us as well.

Now, if Jason were to simply toss someone a 2 for 1 cupon for dinner at Wendy’s and say “Thanks for the tip.” THAT would be kinda cheesy ;-)