If you look around there's too much of emphasis on blogs and how to make money from them. There are few well known bloggers who talk at length about making money from blogs. And content sites (but it's a fairly similar concept). Have articles / photos / videos / scripts / downloads / communities. Do SEO. Buy traffic. Exchange links. Sell ads. Use contextual programs. Write sponsored posts. Blog directly for money blah, blah..
Good tips, good material. Yet most people don't make a lot from their blogs. Or
niche / hobby sites.
It's way too much of effort for the returns.
For some people that formula is just great and they are very satisfied and
there's nothing wrong with that. Even I used to do it at one time. But the real
money lies elsewhere.
Some bloggers wouldn't agree. Blogs like Techcrunch make a lot.
Apparently, $240,000 a month. But that's a big setup with a lot of
employees; it's more
like a
proper business! Normally, blogging conjures up images of one guy in
his underwear typing away poolside. The top 10% of these bloggers may average
about $10,000 per month. To them, that's a huge whack. It's the basis on which
some sell themselves: look at me, look at how much I earn, read my blog
regularly and you can do it too.
Read their blogs and slog your guts out and maybe you can do it, too. But $10K a
month is dwarfed by the money available elsewhere. Money that is easier to make.
Thousands of internet entrepreneurs would laugh at $10K a month. These are
people you never see or hear. I know a few of them. I drink with them at
Pubcons. I ski with them in the French
Alps. I can tell you this: They earn their money differently. They don't blog
about it. They don't wear their income on their sleeves. But that doesn't stop
them laughing all the way to their offshore accounts. Just like it doesn't stop
me.
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