We have seen over the last few years that blogs have become a hotbed for the blog owners to make money online. With text link ads, review me and many other options to bloggers I think that trend will eventually make it’s way over to Facebook.
Do you think that you will ever try to monetize your Facebook account?
If not, why not?
If yes, what would you see working for you?
A new webisode featuring Chuck and Bobby from our first video.
I would like to thank Rainer, George, Erin and John for putting this together so well. We are already crafting new ideas for the next video. If you have an idea let us know in the comments.
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For any locals (Vancouver) in the audience, the PNE opens tomorrow and if you get there before noon, entrance is free! But, as per tradition in this city, the weather forecast calls for rain, so your free admission to the fair comes at a price… sort of.
Anyways, on with our tour of the blogosphere to see what’s up on this beautiful Friday afternoon:
Vandelay Website Design gives us 10 tips for making your blog posts more del.icio.us. These tips aren’t specific that to particular social bookmarking service either! You can easily make use of these pointers to get yourself Dugg, Stumbled, Reddit’d, Netscape’d, or whatever other traffic generator you enjoy using.
Tyson from SomeMakeMoney.com went out and found a mission statement for living. We all talk about living a balanced lifestyle, not overwhelming ourselves with work, nor being lazy and focusing too much on our personal lives, and now there’s a quote that encompasses it all.
Darren Barefoot is back in Vancouver and he’s been pulled in all sorts of directions with meetings and such. After having a couple meetings cancelled at the last possible moment via email, he’s decided that it’s time to get an email-enabled mobile device. We’re pretty technologically-inclined here; you think you help point him in the right direction?
Mad About Movies has discovered what could be the most incredible piece of movie memorabilia known to man. OK, it might not be that great, but these Office Space toys are pretty darn cool. Poor Milton is getting his desk moved again, and he’s still got all those TPS reports to do! Have you seen my stapler?
Derek Semmler went and did a case study on the All-In-One SEO WordPress Plug-In, finding out if it really did make his blog more search engine friendly. In this case study update, he has found some rather remarkable results… but they’re not exactly positive.
I needed some tshirts for an upcoming event and needed them quickly.
Instead of ordering them through cafepress I called up my buddy Marty at Monster Press in Langley. I knew he would do a great job on the tshirts and have them to me quickly. If you need tshirts and you live in the GVRD I highly recommend them.
The tshirts are in and they look phenomenal. I hired a local model to show one off which you can see to the right.
My plan for this batch of shirts are…
So to win a tshirt here is what you need to do. If you fit in to a Medium or Large shirt just post a comment. We will pick a winner next Monday. The only stipulation is that you can not have won a tshirt already (sorry Matt). If you comment twice it will only be counted once, unless you blog about the contest with a ping back which we will allow as a second entry.
When it comes to Internet marketing, Google Adsense is inevitably the first name that comes to mind, regardless of whether you’re a publisher or an advertiser. In recent months, however, we’ve seen a huge proliferation of alternatives. For the blogger, it means that it is that much easier to not put all your eggs in Google’s basket, but the same can be said about the advertiser side of things too.
I recently had the opportunity to review a website that offers in-depth reviews of countless ad networks. Certainly, you could approach individual websites and offer a private sale, but it is oftentimes a lot easier to deal with these networks, because they can “get the word out” about your product or service through their 1000s of publishers.
Adwords campaigns are popular, to be sure, but it’s only because so many people use Adsense on their sites. If you start to look around the blogosphere, however, you’ll notice that folks are starting to expand their horizons and you can effectively get much better bang for your buck by looking at other ad networks like Bidvertiser, Exoclick, and even paid review services like PayPerPost and ReviewMe.
It’s not necessarily about thinking outside the box, but you should definitely weigh your options before blowing your marketing budget on an Adwords/Adsense campaign.
The above cartoon by J.D. Frazer really depicts the life cycle of most blogs. People get really psyched up to get involved in the blogging community only to find out that they only had 2-3 posts to write. Then they post maybe once a week or worse yet they post once a month.
Thinking about that as a problem with new bloggers I have come up with a possible solution.
Imagine if you could find someone else with the same interests as yourself who had the same problem with posting once a day. You both would be running sites with little traffic and most likely both give up shortly. A person that was the yin to your blogging yang.
Now what if you were to both post on the same blog?
I know that you would have at minimum double the content and traffic you would have had if you were only blogging yourself. Although if you were to increase your posts to a daily post I assure you traffic will more then double.
I can see an eHarmony style site where bloggers are matched up and then discuss a partnership to blog together.
Do you see this working? If not why?