Monetization

Holy Moly! I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing  at the "how do get corporate sponsors" session at BlogWorld. I was amazed, astounded and somewhat stupified by…

I was working with a client this week on getting their site concept down and putting together their keyword theme map and site structure (which is one my services, by the way), when they asked about revenue generation. (more…)

So this week, I spent a good amount of time talking about repurposing content. If you have a bunch of stuff sitting around that you’ve already done (ie informative e-mails, recordings of phone calls, e-books, blog posts, etc)- you can reuse these.

You can take 5- 10 blog posts about a topic and turn them into an ebook. You can transcribe phone calls (webinars) and turn them into a real book, blog posts, articles, website material, a home study course, etc.

You could even sell real CD’s by uploading the info to kunaki.com and having them mail the recordings out – or turn them into a bound notebook and have vervante.com mail it for you.

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So we spoke a bit about keywords on FreeWeeklyMastermind. I’d encourage you to listen to that keyword discussion time and again. There was certainly some good stuff in there.  As you learn more, the parts that were “advanced” are really going to be valuable to you.

I’ve told you many times, don’t let picking a niche get in the way of progress – which some of you are doing. Just pick something and try it out.  But the problem is, most people don’t know where to start even if that’s their goal.

So I put together a video tutorial on how to create a niche website that makes $5/day. I suppose if you made 10 of these you’d be doing pretty good.

The reason I decided to do this was because I found a new keyword tool that’s not only fun and practical BUT is a way to find highly trafficked keywords in a niche. (more…)

I got asked this question this week, “I don’t understand how Google Adsense Works. I and another blogger have about the same traffic and have ads in the same places but she makes a lot more money. What am I doing wrong?”

Now this isn’t a bad question because Google Adsense isn’t the easiest thing to understand. But it was clear to me the way she asked the question, she just didn’t understand how Adsense worked.

So, let’s talk about it from the beginning. Google built a search engine that attracted lots of people. In fact, something like 70% of all searches go through Google.  With all those eyeballs, Google decided to sell advertising space in the right sidebar and at the top. (more…)

What if Google didn't exist? What would that do to your blog's income stream? Let's examine how at risk your income is. You've worked really hard to get where you're at now. Can you imagine how devastating it would be if that magically went away?

So I'm using "Black Friday" as a metaphor for any campaign you just undertook which also just ended. Just like list building, just like conferences and events, just like ebooks. . . a campaign is a tool to learn and grow your business.

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked here at SavvyBlogging is about optimizing AdSense accounts (most recently in this very popular blog post). And a good question it is because rarely do I run across sites that are fully optimized.

There are few jobs easier than blogging. In its simplest form there is little to separate the writings of a private diary to those of a blogger. With a computer,…