Written on July 20th, 2005 at 08:07 am by Darren Rowse

Subscription Base Revenue Stream for Blogs - PixelPass

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I just stumbled upon PixelPass - a method of adding an income stream to your blog where your readers pay a small monthly fee to subscribe to your content. Subscriptions are never more than $2 per month and allow readers to access your whole blog.

I’m not sure that a system like this would work for […]

Written on July 12th, 2005 at 09:07 pm by Darren Rowse

A Question about Selling Documents from Your Blog

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I have a question for readers who have experience with e-commerce.

What is the simplest way to set up the ability to sell a document/file from a blog?

For example if I were to have a file (pdf) that I wanted to sell to the readers of a blog for a smallish fee - how would the […]

Written on July 9th, 2005 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

Serial Blog Buyer on Valuing Blogs

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Blogging Pro’s new owner (Jacob) has written a good post (in response to this one)on some of the factors that he, as a blog buyer, takes into consideration when valuing a blog to buy. Whilst current earnings is a factor for him he writes that Traffic levels are perhaps more so. I’ll let Jacob […]

Written on July 6th, 2005 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Syndicating Your Blog in Offline Media

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A journalist yesterday asked me if anyone had ever asked to syndicate any of my blogs in any other form of media (newspapers or magazines). I answered that I’ve had a few requests from online media outlets to syndicate some of what I write (which I have allowed in some cases and disallowed in others). […]

Written on June 20th, 2005 at 04:06 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Fund-raising

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The following post has been kindly submitted by a reader of ProBlogger - Bruce Allen. I’ll let him introduce himself - but I asked him to share a little about how he brings an income to his blog Boston Sports Media - you see made a comment on my blog a while back talking […]

Written on May 15th, 2005 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse

How Much Would you Sell your Blog For?

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Yesterday I reported that Bloglogic was up for sale - today I’m wondering how one would determine the worth or asking price of a blog (or network of them).

How much would you sell your blog for? How would you determine it’s selling price?

A few months ago I was offered $13,000 for Digital Photography Blog - […]

Written on May 14th, 2005 at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse

Tips on Selling T-Shirts on a Blog

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After my post earlier in the week on making money by selling T-Shirts from your blog - a regular reader by the name of Chris (from Poker Geek and Jedi Scribe) sent me a message saying that he’d done ok out of T-Shirts himself and that they were definitely worth getting into as another income […]

Written on May 6th, 2005 at 12:05 pm by Darren Rowse

How are your Blog’s T-Shirt Sales?

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This is a question that might start becoming more and more common if an article at the Wall Street Journal is any indication:

By Accident or Design, Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web says that the online sales of T-shirts are booming.

‘All over the Web, bloggers, artists and entrepreneurs are unexpectedly finding that T-shirts are […]

Written on April 20th, 2005 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse

Donation Buttons on Blogs

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Jeremy Wright has a good post answering the question - Why I Don’t Have a Donate Button? His answer:

‘Because: my users already donate to my well being by simply reading this blog and clicking on various ads. I already trade against my reader’s goodwill by displaying ads. To me, having a donate button on top […]