Sometimes the action’s in the comments. In my recent post, The Bass-Ackwards Method of Starting a Business from Your Blog, my friend and productivity ninja Dave Navarro just up and decided he was going to tell commentors they could ask me their toughest questions on blogging. I gave him a hard time about it, but [...]
I wrote a post for PureBlogging, called 3 Ways an Editorial Calendar Improves Your Blog. It came out pretty good, I think. Go read it, because only then will you get the full impact of what I’m about to say next. I’ll still be here when you get back.
You’re back? Ok, here’s the deal. The [...]
February 27, 2008 – 6:38 am
The practice of accepting money for links is longstanding and has always been controversial. Services exist to broker and facilitate paid links between buyers and sellers, taking their cut off the top. The most famous of these is Text Link Ads. Some new ones have appeared, recently, but I’ll get into that later.
Paid links [...]
February 25, 2008 – 5:50 am
I call this post the Accidental Disclosure Manifesto because that’s what it became in the course of writing and recording it. Sometimes, these things happen. So kick back, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride…
Disclosure
If you’re catching this in a reader, you can watch the video on my blog, or here’s the Veoh link: Blogging [...]
February 14, 2008 – 12:46 am
There is no magic formula for making money in any way, online included. There is a formula, yes, but it’s quite mundane: sell people what they want to pay for. If you’re doing that, the blogging part is easy (well, okay, easier). If you’re not doing that, the blogging will be hard. Everything will be [...]
November 27, 2007 – 12:25 pm
Would you like an AdSense click-through rate of 30%? No, that’s not a typo. Hardcore Advice on Making Money with AdSense is by Alan Ocab (Grand Start) on Carl Ocab’s blog, a teenager who knows his stuff. I don’t post about AdSense much, but this is so on the money (pun intended) that I figured [...]
August 30, 2007 – 6:09 am
Does “The Next Internet Millionaire” show really have anything to teach us? Read my review!
The 5th Key to Better Blogging is Blog Monetization. Let me break down for you what your first considerations and steps should be.
I tell the story of how one of my blogs made money, but then I jumped the shark and began to lose money and traffic. Learn from my mistakes.
A review of the paid-to-blog service Smorty. Smorty is a good service because you can pick topics and your reviews don’t have to be positive, only honest and in line with the terms of service. Overall, it’s a good way to supplement your AdSense income.
An examination of how different motivations in blogging create different outcomes, and which motivations inspire better blogging.
The Google AdSense team has just announced AdSense Referrals 2.0, an expanded version of their current referral program. Currently, AdSense referrals were only available for a very limited number of Google services: AdSense, AdWords, Google Pack, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Google Checkout, and Google Apps.
Beginning soon, you will not only be able to refer your [...]
None of these links are affiliate links or ads. Enjoy!
Google AdSense Help Center Webinars is a collection of links to video/flash-based presentations and transcripts of seminars on using and optimizing Google AdSense. There is much written about optimizing AdSense, but if you’re a visual/auditory learner, these are for you!
GaMerZ WordPress Plugins used by Eric Giguere [...]
I have been super-busy with work at KnowledgeWave and getting my wife’s new endeavor, Tarot Readings Today off the ground. I’m learning all kinds of awesome stuff about SharePoint at work and using all my experience and know-how regarding Google AdWords, SEO/SEM, and WordPress to make Denise’s new site a success. It’s all quite exciting [...]
September 6, 2006 – 12:50 pm
This is the third post in a series called 7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business. Each post stands on its own, but I invite you to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
Welcome to Part 4 in my series called 7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business. We’re going to take [...]
August 31, 2006 – 11:54 am
This is the third post in a series called 7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business. Each post stands on its own, but I invite you to read Part 1 and Part 2.
The third way your website can help your business is that it allows you to create entirely new products or services. This [...]
August 28, 2006 – 8:51 pm
Are you concentrating on your MMAs? MMAs are an acronym I made up for Money-Making Activities. I find I need to remind myself to spend my time more productively. Before I know it, I’ve spent far too much time checking my feeds (which can be endless because when I get to the bottom there are [...]
August 27, 2006 – 4:36 pm
I like to have something going on the side in addition to my regular job. In the past, I’ve run my own websites and designed websites for others. I’ve had a go at a couple of different ways doing things, some of which have worked out to greater or lesser degrees of success. For all [...]
August 23, 2006 – 6:16 am
The second way your website can help your business is it can help you save more money if you use your website to make your business operations more efficient and cost-effective. What kind of business operations? Tasks such as:
managing your website
project management
document management
sales assistance (CRM)
Really? All that? Yes, all that! Your website can be hosted [...]
August 15, 2006 – 5:49 am
First in a series about using your business website to grow and improve your business and your bottom line.
I should add: What Everybody Needs to Read about Google AdSense Optimization… Again. Why? One of the best sources of information about optimizing your AdSense is Google itself, and they just reorganized their AdSense Help Center page on AdSense Optimization.
Particularly useful are the topics on color choices, optimizing AdSense for your blog, using AdSense for [...]
If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly, and even catastrophically, you stand little chance of ever getting rich.
If you care what the neighbours think, you will never get rich.
If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plough a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the [...]
Taking a break from work and blowing through my Bloglines feeds when I hit The New Publishing Model by Jason Calacanis. Love him or hate him (I totally <3 Jason), I think he’s dead on in his breakdown on the growth of sites in relation to their advertising revenue models:
Here is the new model:
Start a [...]
Scoopt Words allows you to place a button on your blog that lets editors purchase the rights to reprint your post through a journalistic channel.
We believe that your blog writing can be every bit as valuable as professional journalism. It’s the same idea that lies behind Scoopt the picture agency: in the right circumstances, [...]
February 19, 2006 – 2:45 pm
Well, since GVOD isn’t about refinancing, debt consolidation, or vioxx, I guess the AdSense keywords that attract advertisers to it aren’t very valuable. I did some research on what keywords are costing advertisers, which gives me an idea of what a blog with AdSense on it could potentially make from such high click prices. Turns [...]
August 14, 2005 – 10:50 am
Are blogs marketers’ new e-tool? is an article by Jeff Zbar in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that does a fair job of looking the benefits of business blogging. Zbar also shows that companies perceive blogging as a high-risk venture due to its uncontrollability:
Blogs scare some marketers, because they often welcome comments from their visitors, opening [...]
