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How bloggers make money from blogs

Darren Rowse says he's been sick for the past week but he's cranked out another great piece at ProBlogger. Covers how bloggers can make money from blogs.

I'm not suggesting many of these for law firms and professional services businesses but I've got a heck of lot of readers looking to make a buck from their new found passion. Read Darren's full post but here's the list.

  • Advertising Programs – Not just Adsense and/or BlogAds, but now have Chitika’s eMiniMalls (the way Darren makes the majority of my blogging income) but add to that Adgenta, CrispAds, Text Link Ads, Intelli Txt, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Kanoodle, AVN, Pheedo, TextAds, Fastclick and OneMonkey.
  • RSS Advertising
  • Sponsorship – Business sponsors entire blog.
  • Affiliate Programs
  • Digital Assets – Other revenue streams such as e-books, courses and tele-seminars.
  • Blog Network Writing Gigs – By writing for and with others in a blog network, big and small.
  • Business Blog Writing Gigs – Increasing number of businesses are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs.
  • Non Blogging Writing Gigs – Bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums.
  • Donations – Tip Jars and donation buttons.
  • Flipping Blogs – Selling of blogs.
  • Merchandising
  • Consulting and Speaking – While popular for established consultants to add blogs, bloggers with no consulting background earning money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios because of the profile that their blogs have built them.

Tip jars are out for law firm blogs I hope, but maybe Darren's excellent list will make you think of a thing or two that could work for you.

For professional services businesses, forget most of these except possible selling e-books or consulting gigs. You are already selling something through your blog – yourself.

  • http://www.airbagindustries.com Greg

    It should be noted that some bloggers make money through these options. Hundreds of thousands more just clutter their blog with NASCAR astectic.

  • http://kevin.lexblog.com Kevin O'Keefe

    Agreed, advertising is losing proposition for vast, vast majority of blogs.
    Adds for lawyer blogs? Why not where an STP or Viagra patch on the sleeve of your suit when you go to court. You'ld look like an idiot.

  • http://www.problogger.net Darren

    thanks for the link.
    Interested to know how many laywer blogs use these methods?
    I usually draw a distinction between blogs that earn money directly from their blog and those that earn money because of their blogs.
    I would have guessed that lawyer blogs were more of the second option? Just a guess….any thoughts?

  • http://kevin.lexblog.com Kevin O'Keefe

    Definitely like you say Darren – lawyers earn money because of their blogs not from their blogs. It's a very hot area as professional services businesses create a brand by virtue of their expertise.
    To show that expertise lawyers need to get themselves out in front of their target audience as much as possible. In the case of large law firms, marketing directors push their lawyers out the door to get in front of their target audience.
    Traditionally, that's meant doing seminars, speeches, writing articles, being interviewed by trade & mass media and networking for prospective clients & those that influence them. People see you are an expert and hire you when the need arises.
    Blogs do this from the office or the kitchen table. You publish content of interest to your target audience (prospective clients, media doing searches etc) & and network with other bloggers who also reach your target audience. The result is you will be recognized as an expert and you'll be hired you when the need arises.
    But the great thing about blogs is that it's creating a brand like you are on steroids. Things spread fast on the net when you have these electric horseman talking about your content, your content is archived on search engines and it's way more effective in time and expense.
    - Kevin

  • http://www.jvwinc.com/articles-submission-site.html Ashish

    Hi,
    One more bloggers and webmasters can earn money is through combining the power of articles and adsense.
    You can learn more about it on http://www.jvwinc.com/articles-submission-site.html
    Regards,
    ASHISH T.