To paraphrase real estate huckster
Tom Vu
,
"do you have the guts to get rich blogging?"
Dan Lyons, more famously known as Fake Steve Jobs, wrote Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale for his "day job" at newsweek.com.
It gives insight and some figures on the financial opportunities for bloggers. To cut to the chase: there's not a lot of opportunity! Certainly that's not why I blog, though it's nice to imagine the claimed average earnings of $5,060 per year.
It also gave me more insight into Dan Lyons, the person. As often happens, I liked the "fantasy person" Fake Steve Jobs better. I was disappointed to read that getting rich was a big reason for his launching the Fake Steve Jobs blog, which I found absolutely hilarious. Mark me naive for wishing he just wanted to share his creative gift with all of us. You do have a humourous gift, Dan. May you find a way to re-launch it and make a good living while you're at it.
4 comments:
Hi John:
After reading the article, all I have to say is that it's a perfect example of an old-media person trying to make it big in a new-media space, and sweating the wrong stuff. He clearly didn't give much thought to the "how" of monetizing his blog. Google adsense was clearly a loser - but there are other ways.
Then again, don't look at me for all the right answers, I've made $0 for my effort so far. I'm keeping my day job.
Clearly the biggest benefit I've reaped so far is in the networking. There's a few people out there I would have never met were it not for my blogging, including you.
I figure I'm taking the slow ramp. My readership as been steadily increasing throughout the 3 years I've been blogging, and I figure that'll be worth something to someone one of these days...
JMF
Here's an interesting take on whether on can "make money" on a blog...
How I Made Over 2 Million With My Blog
JMF
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