Wordpreneur Carnival #011
No intro fluff this time… let’s go straight to a post that pretty much entirely embodies one of the major reasons most of you come here to Wordpreneur: In Blogging Spells Money, Peter (Success With This blog) shares some excellent yet simple suggestions to help turn your blog into something special that may very well become a real income generator for you.
Still staying within the realm of the simple: Is Your URL Digg Compatible? by Muhammad Saleem in Pronet Advertising. He’s absolutely right to remind us of this. After all, if our tech gets in the way, it’s not much of a solution at all, now is it? By the way, stick with a popular mainstream platform (e.g., WordPress) or keep it simple (e.g., plain HTML) and you very likely won’t have much to worry about in this area.
Some more basic but really good to know material: Build a Blog’s Mandy Jones gives us her Top 5 Ways to Increase RSS Subscriptions. All very sensible and practical and, even better, very easy to implement.
Going past the basics into the “stuff for serious hmmm-ing” category (i.e., the potentially most profitable gem in this edition) is How to Monetize Wikipedia by Sutocu (in the Your Website Profit blog). The post is summed up pretty well in the first paragraph: “With all that free content floating around, there’s one question you should ask yourself: How to monetize it?”
We all know that commenting on other blogs is free content for them and a great way to bring traffic/attention to yours, right? Well, not necessarily. Just like everything else worth doing in this world, you have to do it right. If you’re out of the know-how loop where that’s concerned, Caroline Middlebrook’s Do You Have a Blog Commenting Strategy? may just be all you need to get you back in.
Let’s end this edition with a bit from the lighter side of what we do: bwritenow.com’s Brad and his 9 Ways to Spend Your Second Day of Self-Employment — “I’ve read about the pitfalls of self-employment… it’s all true!” Hang in there Brad. When things look bleakest, remember Woody Allen’s immortal words: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
That means just keep showing up here and checking out these Wordpreneur posts, boys and girls. You just never know what you’ll find, do you?
What the heck, the season’s putting me on the good side of generous, so let’s do a bonus “lighter side of trying to make money writing” entry. Besides, Internet Duct Tape’s How to Earn a Six Figure Income From Blogging in Two Easy Steps is spot on!
Be well.
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2 Responses to “Wordpreneur Carnival #011”
By Kilroy_60 on Dec 23, 2007 | Reply
I was just putting together a list of carnivals to attend carrying into the new year.
You have an interesting project here and I’d like to get into the next carnival if you tell me when it is.
As far as how to make money writing, the first step is to have a passion for writing. The selling part will come as any business venture does; plan your work and work your plan. It’s that easy.
By Wordpreneur on Dec 23, 2007 | Reply
Hello Kilroy_60
The Carnival’s weekly, every weekend, usually Saturdays. Thanks for the money from writing tip. Happy holidays!
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