Comments on: How To Turn Your Blog Into A Profitable Business

By: ireshagun

ireshagun — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:39:56 +0000

Really liked the article, but I think the reality is that very very few people make decent money from blogs. The rest of us just plug away hoping for a miracle :)

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:37:42 +0000

Enjoyed reading this article and as I’m new to the business of blogging, I will certainly be looking into this book to help build my knowledge around better blogging practices.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:04:28 +0000

I actually have had an issue with Skellie over the past several years. It all started maybe 3, possibly 4 years ago when she wrote an article on FreelanceSwitch. It was apparent that she did not have much experience on the topic and it was quite irritating to see (i also stopped reading that site as often then). Not too long after she wrote another post in a similar fashion, it irritated so many readers that Collis actually had to come on and write somewhat of an apology to the reader base.

I know she has been involved in some excellent things over the years (and has her hand in some very profitable cookie jars) but i guess I just never got over those posts from years ago.

By: Banner Stands

Banner Stands — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:48:50 +0000

I never considered a blog as a ‘business’ before. For me, writing a blog was a means to generate more content for our website so it grew. I was actually surprised when I looked at our stats and found so much organic traffic from some of the articles I was writing. I will be sure to check our Skellies blog!

By: konde

konde — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:23:25 +0000

Word-of-mouth has been used for a long a times ago, and this is brillian idea to use in internet business… thanks :D

Best Regards

By: speak_english

speak_english — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:37:32 +0000

A profitable business with a blog? I failed many times, it’s too difficult for me!

By: Russell Tiffin

Russell Tiffin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:26 +0000

You are correct. Different strategies needs to be adopted to make a blog successful.

http://blog.pixelbytelab.com/

By: AC

AC — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:36:09 +0000

i think word of mouth is as important as you advertising everywhere else. I am curious about the book :)

By: Paluka11

Paluka11 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:45:00 +0000

Today, it is extremely difficult and competitive to use a blogging platform to make money. All this is great information but you have to be getting the steady traffic to implement.
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By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:07:27 +0000

Its very much true that making money through blogs is really difficult these days mainly with affiliate products and of course adsense. To succeed as a blogger, a new strategy has to be developed.

Thanks Darren for recommending to Skellie. Got to her blog and found some additional tips.

By: warehouse shipping supplies

warehouse shipping supplies — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:31:53 +0000

there are great amount of bloggers nowadays. It seems the number of them sreadily increasing…but I believe it`s necessary for them to get the picture of this work to turn it into prosperous business. To begin something is always very difficult. Thanks for this blog!

By: Belize

Belize — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:16:09 +0000

I did not learn anything from this post except that it appears this blog is becoming more like an infomercial.

Perhaps that was the message – make your blog an infomercial and funnel the readers into buying the content via ebooks or subscriptions to forums?

By: len

len — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:22:21 +0000

I bought the book so soon I’ll blog like a seasoned pro. My initial thoughts are that this is a great book with lot’s of good practical information that works. It’s great to read real comments on good information.

So much information goes over peoples heads or is pitched above their level of understanding I have tried to address that at my site http://www.bloglikeaseasonedpro.com

By: network marketing jed

network marketing jed — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:21:08 +0000

Good stuff. The thing I love running a home biz, and yes its not the same for everyone, is the time freedom, what is your own?

By: network marketing

network marketing — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:15:13 +0000

Good info. The thing I love running a home business, and yes its not the same for everyone, is the money freedom, what is yours?

By: Nicholas Wind

Nicholas Wind — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:10:31 +0000

I really believe this Tribe process where we share each others info is a great answer.
This is what we teach inside our free marketing.
There must be good content to share obviously but this is working well for me in a short time I’ve done it.
Of course where we share is important.
I am a member of ThatMLMbeat which has folks inside who understand this.
Also BetterNetworker is huge.
If many folks would simply realize that blatantly puking your opportunity at folks IS A HUGE TURN OFF there may start to be more success all around.
We can all network with each other ,buying each others stuff and promoting each others stuff.
But we seem to have a scarcity mind set that has and is still being taught in main stream media ,schools and corporations.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:53:32 +0000

Its very much true that making money through blogs is really difficult these days mainly with affiliate products and of course adsense. To succeed as a blogger, a new strategy has to be developed.

Thanks Darren for recommending to Skellie. Got to her blog and found some additional tips.

By: network marketing

network marketing — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:56:05 +0000

Awesome stuff. The thing I really like about my own biz, and absolutely it is different for all, is the time freedom, what is your own?

By: Dan Keller

Dan Keller — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:47:02 +0000

Is it just me or is this blog turning into an infomercial? This is the third post in a row that was nothing more than blatant promotion. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for making money blogging but I expect more from this blog.

By: Jade Craven

Jade Craven — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:59:26 +0000

Nabeel – good question :-)

I wrote this review 2 months ago and my business has evolved a lot since then. I took down any mention of my freelance work because I have one client that takes all my available hours – I’m now the official media girl for Dave Navarro.

Basically, my best friend and I created http://www.socialmediasolutions.com.au. We’ve generated that much interest via word of mouth that we both aren’t available for any major projects so have changed the website to funnel traffic to our other projects. It is hard to explain but the book helped so much. Specifically the section on having a launch cycle for your services.

@Daniel Roach I would agree however I have turned my blog into a business. It takes a lot more work then the act of blogging, but that is primarily how I earn my income.

The concept Skellie put forward is that you leverage your blog to funnel traffic/interest towards your freelance services which you mention on your blog. I have friends that do this and earn a full time income via staff blogging and other freelance services. I can provide specific examples if that helps.

- Jade