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Blogging in a Recession
Blogging, Making Money Okay, so it’s no secret: the economy is half in the pooper these days. It makes you realize just how trivial the internet and blogs are, right? Wrong… You see, opportunities rarely exist in a vacuum. When one disappears, another one usually surfaces. You just have to know where to look for it. With this recession looming, you not only have the chance generate some extra traffic, but potentially get a piece of that shrinking economic ...
Continue readingChoosing the Right Affiliate Promotion for Your Blog
Making Money So if you’re going to make money as an affiliate blogger, you’re going to have choose what products you promote very carefully. After all, blogging is about building trust and communities. If you betray that trust by showing your community of readers ads and links that have nothing to do with what brings them to your blog, you’re going to look like a spammer. Not only will you end up not making any money, but it might cost you ...
Continue readingEthics of Affiliate Blogging
Making Money The decision to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing isn’t as simple as using your blog posts as advertorials. The real affiliate marketing potential of your blog, after all, lies with the influence you have over the community of your readers. Because blogs are a social medium, the readership is more than an audience. It’s a community. You have influence in that community because you’re a community leader (i.e. the blogger), and ...
Continue readingHow Bloggers Can Use Affiliate Marketing Tools
Making Money So you’ve decided to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, and you’ve chosen an affiliate network that’s right for you, your blog topic, and your audience. And that affiliate network offers you all kinds of “creatives” you can use to promote products and services that you’re willing to stand behind. There text links, and banner, and widgets oh my. Now the question that remains is “what are you ...
Continue readingWhat Bloggers Should Look for in an Affiliate Network
Making Money Last week, I covered how to monetize your blog with affiliate marketing. Of course, that just begged the questions: What should a blogger look for in an affiliate network? Now, affiliate marketing is a business model that emerged long before blogs ever existed, and it evolved to help the merchant make sales. Helping webmasters make money was only an incentive to help merchants make those sales. The result was that affiliate webmasters built ...
Continue readingMonetizing Your Blog Through Affiliate Marketing
Making Money So you’ve been blogging for a while. You’ve chosen a niche a topic that you’re passionate about and you’ve optimized your blog posts. You’ve become an authority blogger who generates organic traffic, and your visitors leave comments. But one questions still looms: how do you monetize your niche content? If you’ve built your blog into the community of readers that a blog is supposed to be (and not vacuous ...
Continue readingHow to Use Images in Video Blogs
Video Blogging A demonstration of how images make video blogs better… If you are having trouble viewing this video then please download it here. * You can check out more of my videos on my YouTube page.
Continue readingVideo Blogging Lesson from 3 Masters
Video Blogging For the last few weeks, here, at BloggingTips.com, I’ve been giving you video blogging advice on a wide range of things, from technique to equipment. Well, I learned everything I know from watching others. This week, then, I’m pointing you in the three directions of my favorite video bloggers. After all, sometimes you can learn best from watching, well, the best. Name: Loren Feldman Site URL: 1938Media.com This tough talking New ...
Continue readingVideo Blogging: Not Made for TV
Video Blogging Just because the root words of “vlog” is “video” and “blog”, that doesn’t mean that vlogging shares any of its fundamental principles with either of those media. Since blogs are not mainstream media content, they conform to an entirely different set of standards than print media. Well, the same is true of video blogs: they’re not made-for-TV clips, and are governed by entirely different rules of ...
Continue readingVideo Blogging Hardware and Software
Video Blogging The shaky cam is now seem as the most trusted form of media.– John Kerr (Director, Edelman Asia) Despite what so many people think, the barriers to entering the world of video blogging is nearly non-existent. In fact, there are fewer barriers to video blogging than there are to podcasting, if only because you don’t have to worry about bandwidth. The barriers that video blogging does share in common with podcasting, however, pertain ...
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