DISQUS

Donny Gamble · 11 months ago

I think these are appropriately ordered from greatest income to least income potential. The more money that you make from something, the more money it is going to cost you to make it

Dan Massicotte · 11 months ago

Great Post! Thanks for sharing.

Colleen Lilly · 11 months ago

Hi Dr David. Please advise the twitter link at the beginning of your blog post. Thanks much!

Colleen Lilly · 11 months ago

ps. thanks for the great article, have retweeted it!

Chris Brogan... · 11 months ago

To answer your question, I make beer money on the random affiliate links from Amazon, and the old posts that have a bit of adsense stuffed into them. There's no dayjobquitting salary coming from the blog, but that's by design.

I do run an occasional paid advertisement on my blog that pays 2.5 mortgages per month, but I'm choosy, thus no ad for January or February.

My money is primarily from my agency (newmarketinglabs.com), my speaking gigs, and then the random thing like my upcoming book.

Swell list!

terababy · 11 months ago

freemium is one good term.

Nathan Hangen · 10 months ago

I really like this list. More than just a "top 10 list" that actually offers sound advice. I am really excited about the future of information marketing and personal brands.

David · 10 months ago

Thanks for the comments, guys, and thanks to the main man, Brogan, for coming by to comment. :)

Matt · 10 months ago

Its amazing the different ways to make money online. Thanks for pointing this list out. There are some great ones there, especially the freemium option.

Paramendra Bhagat · 7 months ago

http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-money-... The Big Money Is Not In Blogging

James Reyes · 6 months ago

Great info. I might suggest that if you choose to sell your own ads, use Google Ad Manager. Ad Manager is a free ad serving platform. You create your own campaigns, traffic ads and creatives and then target the placements to specific ad tags that you then place on your site.

It's basically a lighter version of DoubleClick DART for Publishers, for example.

http://www.google.com/admanager/

Ivan · 6 months ago

You forgot one approach that I would actually list as #1 in order of priority - it is a Cost Per Deal advertising model which stands out separately from traditional advertising.

The main supplier of campaigns for this model is IdeaMama Ad Network. It helps blogs with even low, but targeted traffic to make about $5K-$10K per single sale do your math). It works like affiliate marketing, but supported by different tracking technology and different process, for deal that convert offline. It mostly suitable for B2B blogs or B2C with higher end audience. Campaigns that can be picked up from the network are for enterprise software solutions with an order that exceeds $50,000, medical tourism, hospitality industry equipment, business and marketing consulting services, yachts sale etc.

Why it's my favorite motorization tactic is because all I need is to generate 30-50 leads for each client every month, as a result they close 1-5 deals within 2 months in average, and my writers get fat checks for writing advertorial copies to presell such campaigns. (We develop content to be designed around the offering, but that is relevant to readers and factual. We do as well some off page SEO) I expect that at the end of this year we easily can reach $500K blog revenue milestone, while with any other stuff I hardly could make $20K.

Jason · 5 months ago

I would agree with that order for the most part. I might switch a couple a around, but that is just based on my experience and obviously people succeed in different areas more than others. I particulary have enjoyed my most sucess and have been most fullfilled with product creation and direct sales.

work at home · 2 months ago

All are some best blog monetizing option. I prefer google adsense for monetizing my blog .