I love WordPress. I’ve tried nearly every CMS and blogging platforms out there and I always come back to WordPress. I just like how extendible and configurable it is. You can do just about anything you wish to do online with it. Including creating your very own online store! Two themes I’ve tried that make…
Category Archives: Blogging for Dollars
Money Chat: Finally Jumping in to Making Money from Blogging
An anonymous JMMO reader recently sent me an email with the subject line “Help Me” and it contains this message – I have had a blog for 4 years and am FINALLY now looking to make some money off it. I am going to have a web designer recreate it, but can you help me…
WordPress Plugins For Selling Links on Your Blog
If you’re thinking of different ways to sell links on your WordPress blogs, here are some plugins that you might find useful – WPTextAds – This is a nice WordPress plugin that enable you to sell direct links on your blog. There are 3 types of ad link sales available: homepage, site-wide, and per post….
Beyond Blogging: An eBook Review (+a Giveaway!)
When my online friend, Deb Ng, first approached me about her ebook – Beyond Blogging: Using Your Blogging Skills for Bigger and Better Things – I was immediately intrigued. So, with a brief chat and a request – she sent me a review copy, which I didn’t get to read thoroughly until recently due to…
10 Basic Skills of Independent Bloggers
If you decide to blog for a content network (such as b5media), the only primary skill you need is creating content. Of course, knowing how to research, promote, market, and network will be very useful too. But, they’re ‘extra skills’ rather than primary ones. However, if you want to ‘go at it alone’ as a…
BWE and Making Money with Blogging
Since I’ve been sharing various highlights from BlogWorldExpo ’08 (here, here, and here), I thought I’d also share with you this article from the BBC on Making Money with Blogging. Writer Ewan Spence shared some of his own take from the Expo – including painting a nice picture of blogging as an income generator (“Larger…
Blogitive: Blogging for Dollars
I haven’t been writing about blog-for-pay sites for a while now. But, since I recently encountered Blogitive, I thought I’d share this with you. Anyway, from what I can see, it’s similar to Pay-Per-Post, where advertisers post ‘opportunities’ and bloggers can use those opportunities by blogging about the products/services advertised in exchange for money. Each…
Pepperjam’s Blogger Incentive Program (+$10 Sign-on Bonus!)
The Pepperjam Network has been named as one of the Top 100 fastest growing privately-held companies in the USA by Inc. 500 recently. That’s an honour that they’ve received 3 years in a row. And, they want to celebrate their success with bloggers through an incentive program. According to Pepperjam: The Blogger Incentive Program pays…
Money Chat: Making Websites and Blogs Work Together
A few months ago, I received this email from Jennifer Hofmann of Inspired Home Office – Hi Shai – I just looked through a bunch of your posts about how to make money blogging. I learned a TON! [edit]… am still learning the basic strategies behind blogging. I have a question about making money from…
PremiumThemes: WordPress Themes
If you own a WordPress blog and you want a more professional-looking theme, then you might want to check PremiumThemes*. They have over 25 themes available – a handful are for free, while others are for sale (licensing fees for personal or developer use). I haven’t bought a theme from them yet, but I’m seriously…
Constant Content: A Great Web Content Writer Resource
(Guest Post by Allison Boyer) Have old articles lying around? Most content writers do, simply from jobs where the deals fell though or samples that were never purchased. The good news is that you don’t have to wait for the right gig to come along to sell. Sign up at Constant Content, and you can…