Blog and Bucks in 2005
Blog Bucks: The wild and wooly blogosphere itself will not make money for many, including blog networks like Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc. Nevertheless, blogs are already proving to be powerful audience retention devices for known media brands. Some B2B sites report that up to 10% of daily traffic now goes to columnist blogs. Blogging is less a business model than a thoroughly compelling communications model that keeps users coming back two and three times a day more effectively than standard content refreshes. Accept it and get sponsors for it.
Well if you look at the rates that the Gawker Media sites charge for advertisements and the amount of ads they have sold I find it sort of silly for someone to say at that Denton will not make money. There is money in blogs simply because they are websites like all the other sites on the web that have the potential to make money. Can you do it solely by just writing whatever you want? Probably not, but there are ways.
What do you think?
Note: Here is a good discussion going on concerning the subject.
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3 opinions for Blog and Bucks in 2005
Darren Rowse
Dec 7, 2004 at 4:37 pm
Agree with you - Steve Smith is a bit short sited in that article in my opinion. I think there is ample proof around now that there are a growing number of bloggers who are making decent money from their blogging in a variety of ways.
James
Dec 10, 2004 at 10:37 am
Blogging can be profitable. It just depends on how popular you are (You’ll note that Jeremy Wright is fairly well known at SitePointForums.com) and how close-topicked and frequent your posts are.
James
Dec 10, 2004 at 10:38 am
Oh sorry, forgot to elaborate on why I chose Jeremy Wright as an example: he gets 100s of thousands of readers to http://Ensight.org
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