Comments on: Blogging tips #18: Making money from your blog - Chitika eMiniMalls http://www.thetlog.net/2005/10/18/blogging-tips-18-making-money-from-your-blog-chitika-eminimalls/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Arturo F. Munoz http://www.thetlog.net/2005/10/18/blogging-tips-18-making-money-from-your-blog-chitika-eminimalls/#comment-724 Arturo F. Munoz Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.thetlog.net/?p=134#comment-724 Pedro, I've followed your series with interest. It is well researched, clearly written, quite informative as well as brief, which are all attributes of a competent blog writer. I've paused to comment after reading your last entry about making money from blogging because there is one important element in online money-making that I think you should make your readers aware of. A blogger can target a particular audience of readers and ask them to download special content from the blog or to enter a special section of the blog for a fee. This is a sophisticated way of generating revenue from a blog, but not an unfeasible one. It all depends on how valuable some of the material in the blog has become to the reader and how well the blogger has targeted the readership with it. Commercializing a blog is not a far-fetch idea and this is a topic that is discussed regularly in the direct marketing circles where I work. Anyone interested should read up on it. All blogger are investors. They're investing their time and effort, and even cash resources, to create blogs for someone to read in return for their labor. If they wish to make money off their blog, then bloggers should consider at least recovering their costs up to the break-even point, as part of a return on investment (ROI) plan. A <a href="http://reach4polaris.blogs.com/personal/2006/01/how_to_measure_.html" rel="nofollow">blogging ROI calculator</a> would come in handy for that purpose. Cheers, Arturo LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/160986/ Blog: http://reach4polaris.blogs.com Pedro, I’ve followed your series with interest. It is well researched, clearly written, quite informative as well as brief, which are all attributes of a competent blog writer. I’ve paused to comment after reading your last entry about making money from blogging because there is one important element in online money-making that I think you should make your readers aware of. A blogger can target a particular audience of readers and ask them to download special content from the blog or to enter a special section of the blog for a fee.

This is a sophisticated way of generating revenue from a blog, but not an unfeasible one. It all depends on how valuable some of the material in the blog has become to the reader and how well the blogger has targeted the readership with it. Commercializing a blog is not a far-fetch idea and this is a topic that is discussed regularly in the direct marketing circles where I work. Anyone interested should read up on it.

All blogger are investors. They’re investing their time and effort, and even cash resources, to create blogs for someone to read in return for their labor. If they wish to make money off their blog, then bloggers should consider at least recovering their costs up to the break-even point, as part of a return on investment (ROI) plan. A blogging ROI calculator would come in handy for that purpose.

Cheers,

Arturo
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/160986/
Blog: http://reach4polaris.blogs.com

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