Happy New Year! In this morning's Houston Chronicle, taking up much of page D-1, is an article entitled "Blogging for a few extra bucks. " http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5409461.html
This guy blogs about cheap lunches in midtown Manhattan and advertisers pay him for every reader who clicks in. He's not getting rich, but he's taken a weekend trip to the Caribbean off of his profit.
He spends about 2 hours a day blogging about his passion (local food) and has found new friends.
The article goes on to say that 39 % of Internet users, or 57 million American adults, read blogs. and that figure is a year old. Where have I been?
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I saw that article too. Haven't made any money from my blog but it certainly has improved my writing skills. I think there is a Mastercard commerical in the above statement somewhere.
I saw it too. In addition to the lunch guy, there was a guy who has a college football rating blog competing with BCS. He has quite a few readers. But you don't have to have tons of readers to attract advertisers. If you have a niche interest and can write, you might have fun and make a little money. Of course, the midtown lunch guy spends two hours a day on his blog - and that's probably in addition to eating in midtown.
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