Depends on perspective, right? Not really, it’s bloody simple. Ad blockers are harmful because they

steal potential revenue from publishers.
steal potential sales from advertisers
ultimately put both small publishers and small advertisers out of business, leaving the person ad-blocking with less quality content choices.

Traditional publishers are already in danger, unless they adapt. Now, there are a lot […]

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Whether you’ve decided to pursue blogging as a full-time career or as a supplement to other online revenue, the fact is that when you work for yourself, gross monthly income will fluctuate for most people. The trick to dealing with this is to not try to live on the expectation of top monthly income coming […]

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There are without a doubt several ways to make a legitimate living online providing the right content/ information to the right buyers. It’s also a numbers game, but you don’t need a lot of customers to make a comfortable living. Let’s look at a few examples.
Over at Bootstrapper, I have the first of several online […]

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My father, a retired math professor, is nearly 80, has an interest in blogging, and has been supportive of my online career. When he retired over ten years ago, he took up his old interest in homeopathy and naturopathy . He has been writing a couple of books and short articles since. He’s written math […]

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As part of my initiative to be more productive, I am streamlining my collection of blogs and domains. Many of them lie around dormant, begging me to work on them, nurture them. But alas I’m too busy with client projects, and my web properties are losing juice. So I’ve posted a big list of blogs […]

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Over at 901am, I put together a venn diagram for fun, to show the areas of blog revenue for some top bloggers and how they’re branding themselves online - based on a piece about blog brand arrogance by Valleywag. One of the bloggers I mentioned is Darren Rowse, who then offered a bit more detail […]

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Here’s a little secret that I stumbled upon a few weeks ago, trying to think of different ways to earn an income with a blog: buy a blog income. Investors in the stock market and real estate buy incomes all the time. For example, if you have $100,000 and you buy a $100,000 house then […]

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If you find that blogging is too much of an investment in time and commitment, something you may want to consider is domaining. It’s a venture I’ve started into recently, and plan to bootstrap my way into a large portfolio as I’m able.
In a way, it’s sort of like trading stocks or investing in real […]

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