Comments on: Ten Rules for Profitable Blog Startups

By: I Love Boutiques

I Love Boutiques — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:20:48 +0000

As a brand new blogger I have found this list very interesting, Most of it I already assumed, but it is good to see it on screen and learn that it is mostly just common sense and not some black magic that only a boffinn can understand, keep up the good work! Cheers Max

By: random ranter

random ranter — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:36:30 +0000

hey i was thinking of starting a blog just 2 vent bcoz i had some free time on my hands and your site rele made me consider trying 2 make some money out of this….ive never written a blog before so i hav next to no idea what im doing, but im opinionated and i have faith in my writing abilities if i get a good topic.
the real problem is i live in sri lanka (….yes il give u a min 2 google it ) and i was wondering if its rele possible to receive money 4 my blog while being here? i find a lot of thing ppl take 4 granted in more popular counties cant be done here…
any advice u can spare will be much appreciated :) tahnks

By: Interesting-webhost.com

Interesting-webhost.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:36:10 +0000

thanks, i started my own website few months ago, and even it isnt a blog these hints&tips you wrote were very usefull FULL credits to you man.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:45:13 +0000

Great post. The part that helped me the most was thinking through your niche. And you’re right, it is tempting to start blogging about something profitable just because it’s profitable, even if you don’t get a great sense of joy from it.

Cheers,

By: 10 Rules For Profitable Blog Startups - Sketch Ideas

10 Rules For Profitable Blog Startups - Sketch Ideas — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:08:57 +0000

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Ten Rules for Profitable Blog Startups &middot Useful Tips — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:35:42 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse has posted Ten Rules for Profitable Blog Startups – which is in turn an adapted version of a post by Evan Williams also called Ten Rules for Web Startups. [...]

By: Peter Mount

Peter Mount — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:47:34 +0000

I would’ve thought that competition is good because it’s existance will show if there is a market for what you want to do. In my business module at TAFE we were taught that at least a 10 percent growth rate of businesses in a certain field is a good indicator that there is a good market for that field of business. I should think it would be no different for blogs

Which reminds me, I’d better get off my “proverbial” and get some coding done :-)

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:10:35 +0000

I especially like ideas 2 & 3, if one wants to create separation and independent popularity, creativity is the means of pursuit. I think if anything, a lot of us are involved in blogging for a mix bag of reasons — personal, professional, and monetary, and we are pursuing this disconnected from the 9-5 workplace or our normal professions, which makes it unique (though not unique to Internet commerce).

By: Blog Business » Blog Archive » Starting up

Blog Business » Blog Archive » Starting up — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:49:59 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse has a piece on rules for blog start-ups. Most of it I’d agree completely with (he says as someone who doesn’t have much interest in sticking advertising on his sites!). It is, after all, about defining and developing a niche, taking advantage of revenue opportunities when they arise, and being flexible. [...]

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:37:57 +0000

#10 Be Balanced

I can’t say I’m sticking to that one even though I know how important it is. It’s the old truth, it doesn’t matter what you do – job, blog, business etc – if you haven’t got time for exercise and relaxation, you’re doing it wrong.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:37:32 +0000

John – refer to my most recent post. To be honest my audit figures were not too surprising or different from my previous audit figures. I’ll not be ditching them – even after the audit they’ll earn me well over double what Adsense makes made me in October.

Yep they have some problems to work out but I think as a company they’re pushing new boundaries and are making a great product that in the long term will be one of the better options going around.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:19:56 +0000

OT, John, way OT. But hey, we commenters are good at that. Your tone sounds a little antagonistic though, as if it’s Darren’s fault somehow…

FWIW I barely lost anything on October’s – less than 10% though I haven’t worked it out precisely. Of course figures vary. I don’t think 90% or 50% are average loss figures.

By: ProfitsGuru.com/blog - Helping you build your profitable business

ProfitsGuru.com/blog - Helping you build your profitable business — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:08:47 +0000

[...] As these points can easily apply to starting a profitable blog, ProBlogger, Darren Rowse has reworked these same ten rules, but this time applying them to blogging. The outcome is a valuable set of 10 blogging tips that will be of interest regardless of whether you are a Pro Blogger or an aspiring Pro Blogger. [...]

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:56:06 +0000

john, I don’t know about Darren, but I only lost about 10% during the audit, which is what I’ve been told to expect.

By: Small Office, Home Office Information » Blog Archive » Starting Your Small Business

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:07:25 +0000

[...] That means that successful bloggers often have a lot to teach small business people. That is certainly the case with Ten Rules for Profitable Blog Startups. A lot of what Darren has to say there is very applicable to any small business person who is trying to get their business (whatever it might be) off the ground. Technorati Tags: small business [...]

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:51:48 +0000

“…there is also the opportunity with blogging to be outrageous, entertaining, shocking and out of the ordinary in ways that are not a part of natural everyday life.”

But don’t attack other bloggers in some desperate hope to get page views. It only reflects poorly on you and any new readers you do get won’t stay long.

Personally I would also suggest that you don’t try to ride to fame and fortune on the coat tails of others. Using the names of well-known bloggers, like Darren, in your Technorati tags is just a sign of desperation.

If you can’t make it on your own merits then you shouldn’t be there at all.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:49:50 +0000

I added AdSense to my first blog two weeks after I started it, when nobody was reading. I got my first check seven months later. But it’s always been an integral part of the site.

I talk to people all the time who are looking into adding AdSense to their blogs, and the common thread is they either never considered monetizing their blogs, or they did, but never got around to it. It usually turns out to be a fairly significant project to retrofit ads into a site.

There’s also something to be said for getting away from the computer for a while. Go read a book, have dinner with your girlfriend/SO, whatever. It’ll greatly improve your life. Besides, who did you think was going to spend all that money, anyway? :)

By: john

john — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:41:35 +0000

So, Darren, how much money did you make with Chitika in October? How much did you lose in the audit? I mean after pushing the program so hard and now hearing others who lost 90% of their money in the audit, how can you remain silent?

Jenstar is thinking about ditching Chitika after she lost 50% of her referral money because of the audit, how about you?
How much referral money did you lose? Are you ditching them?

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:13:19 +0000

Darren, thanks for the post. Good one!

By: markku

markku — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:05:58 +0000

Darren, I think you mean “Evan,” not “Eric” as you’ve written in several parts of the entry. :)

Nice work on explaining these ideas in relation to the parallel world of blog startups.