Blogging and Free Stuff

Seth Godin talks about freebies for bloggers in his book Meatball Sundae. He says that an office chair manufacturer send him an email saying they would like to send him a chair and ask that he review it-and give them a link to their website. He says its a six hundred dollar chair, but that doing a paid review for an office chair would not fit in with his overall business plans. It isn’t scalable and it would just drive his regular readers away. He goes on to say that the people making the chairs should look for blogs that…

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Make Money Blogging

For the Blogging Purist, blogging for money is not a good thing. An ad free blog is a mark of pride and those greedy sorts that want to make a few bucks with all those banners and text ads, well, they are to be pitied. And there are a lot of people who try to make money blogging-without much success. The common gripe about blogging for profit is there not being enough profits-like 3 cents a day with Adsense, or something like that. When I first started blogging for cash my plan was to have a three pronged approach. One…

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