The 8 Circles of Blog Revenue
May 2, 2007
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 about his revenue activities. It seems I’d missed a few areas of revenue that Darren has recently been delving into, and suggested that I add a few more circles. So I did.
I’ve added 3 more circles, for a total of 8. The diagram is below, and shows the wide array of revenue combinations available for bloggers. No one person is likely utilizing all of the options, at least not on a single blog - that I’m aware of, anyway. The diagram is pretty simple, but you are welcome to reuse it if you like (please copy instead of hotlinking). Click on the first to enlarge. The original diagram from 901am is after the new version - which you can republish as well.
Posted in revenue, online careers
May 5th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Hey, that’s pretty good.
Predominantly, my blog-derived income are from workshops/consulting (ie pick up & dating advice in real life). I used to have ads, but Google frowned on the “risque” nature of my blog. Ah well.
Eventually, I hope to move more into passive income via ebooks and other products, but that’ll be some time before I get off my lazy ass and do it.
Anyways, I wanted to say that you got yourself a pretty cool Venn diagram going on there.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:06 am
@AsianPlayboy: You know, if you aren’t already doing it, you could give dating workshops at places like Learning Annex. Dr. Rebecca Rosenblatt does, and she pulls in 50-60 people per talk. At even $25 each x 60 = $1500 minus half for L.A.’s booking services, you’re making $750 for an hour. And if you have a booklet to sell, well i’m sure you can do the math
Of course, you’re already doing workshops, and probably selling ebooks. You’re proof that a website does not need advertising to succeed. Still, there are adult store chains that may be amenable to running 125 x 125 (IAB standard) ads on your site. Good luck.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Those are pretty damn good suggestions.
Unfortunately, my particular niche, both Asian AND hardcore Pick Up, isn’t considered totally “respectable” in that:
1) Some assume PU involves manipulation and lying. Now, that isn’t MY particular style, but I know those who do think it’s ok or at least skirt the edges. I say feel free to big yourself up and forget the negative details (like wetting your bed till you were 10), but the negative perception of being a Player remains.
2) There’s also a school of thought that teaching guys to be successful with women is supposed to be FREE or otherwise it’s IMMORAL to get paid to teac hit. I mean, field experience is free and that’s how a lot of natural guys learn. But there’s still the clamor that it’s somehow WRONG to charge students for this kind of material. Trust me, it took me a long time to not only learn it myself successfully, but then develop an ORIGINAL curriculm as well as ACTUAL real life work in bars and clubs with students. As if 30-40 hours of a program isn’t worth a significant investment to change one’s life. I mean, if you go to a dance instructor, you still pay by the hour.
I digress though.
Anyways, I actually don’t have ANY products except the actual teaching. One of these days I’ll get around to it. But I do enjoy the teaching and traveling, or as I like to call it, getting paid to get laid!
Thanks for the input too!
May 6th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Isn’t that funny. If a woman teaches guys, it’s okay for her to charge. If a guy does it, he should do it free. Hmmm. Which is why you should consider an ebook, or several, even if you re-package and nicely present what’s already on your blog. Even if you only sell a few hundred copies per ebook before someone puts each on a torrent site somewhere, you earn a bit of extra income.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
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