The Six Figure Blogging course has finished up and they are just about to launch the home-study version that no doubt draws heavily on the resources developed from the live course (teleconference recordings etc). Andy Wibbels just informed me that on Monday (Nov 28th) USA time a discounted version of the home-study course is going up for sale for five days. The course will be $245 at the discount rate and after the five day sale will be priced at $325.
Right now I love blogging. I love writing and enjoy the feedback, contacts and intereaction that blogging provides. I’m fairly motivated and considering I make next to nothing from my blogging efforts I can’t imagine how motivated I would be if I was earning even 25% of what Darren Rowse of ProBlogger earns (he makes about $30,000 per month from blogs). Darren is by far the most well known professional blogger and is probably in the top 1% of earners as well. Therefore he made the perfect trainer for the Six Figure Blogging course and I have no problem recommending it to you.
Darren and I are often in touch during the week through MSN and while the live Six Figure Blogging course was running he certainly seemed to be enjoying himself, helping others to learn how to profit from blogging. His partner trainer in the course, Andy Wibbels of Easy Bake Weblogs, provided a nice counterpoint to Darren. No one can ever say it’s easy to make money blogging – you have to become an efficient writing robot if you start getting into managing multiple blogs like Darren and Andy, but clearly the rewards are significant if you commit.
Right now I wouldn’t mind being a professional blogger, especially while my motivation to write is high. To earn even $2000 per month from a blog or three would be an awesome achievement. If you are passionate about a specific topic and enjoy writing about it then professional blogging is a fantastic way to get into online business. It can also act as a springboard for all kinds of other Internet business opportunities and certainly is the best tool for personal exposure that I have ever used. If you are the type that prefers to have a clear blueprint to follow, you have a little cash to invest in quality education and think that blogging is the way you would like to go to make money online, then Six Figure Blogging is perfect for you.
thanks for your links and kind words mate.
Hi, I read this blog in my newsreader but read that you made next to nothing so came here to click on some ads and couldnt find them. Just wondered if you’ve thought of moving your ads to the top of the page?
Tonya – thanks for the help. I should clarify that I have made a couple of hundred dollars through affiliate sales in the nearly a year I’ve been running this blog, but I haven’t tried up until the last month or so to monetize it. It’s been more of a hobby and exposure thing for me.
I don’t think AdSense style campaigns are the best way to monetize a site like this. I’ll probably set up some more specific advertising opportunities for individual sponsors (like the text links on the right) but I also want to keep a balance between content and ads. Personally I don’t like AdSense that much so I’ll only use it sparingly.
At the moment I’m testing the yellow box ads at the bottom of posts to sell products that I think are good. I feel a lot better endorsing products that I have tried and/or know are top quality, rather than contextual based ads that I know nothing about.
So if you want to help take a look at the products I recommend and maybe one of them can scratch an itch for you.
The problem with using Adsense on a blog about blogging or making money using a blog is that you only get blog type ads. Someone suggested to me to avoid the word “blog” in your writing and try and say something like “marketing diary”.
Yaro,
I am going thru some of your older posts I remember reading back in 2006-2006…you sure have come a long way and achieved what you set out to do and what you hoped for in this and many other posts! How does it feel? What were your greatest successes and your worst investments? Please write a post anbout it, or if you have written such a post updated for 2010, let me know where it is!
BTW your achievements gives people hope they can do the same – AND an idea of a general time-line and idea of level-of-effort to do so – it definitely does not happen over night – so this will help us all manage expectations while still pressing towards the goals!