Calling All Bloggers Who Have Made +$50 From Their Blog

[impaul99]

Hi All, I would like to interview any bloggers who run a blog that has made +$50 so far. If you are interested, I would like to ask a few questions about how you did it and write a post about you on my blog (www.InspiredBlogger.com). The purpose of this is to demonstrate the different ways people have been able to make at least $50 from their blog.

The interview questions will be emailed or PM'd to you and it should only take you a few minutes to answer them. The post will have a link to your site, and a nice write up.

If there are others who have made bigger amounts like $100, $250, $1000, $10,000 etc. I welcome your messages as well.

If you have such a blog, please let how I can contact you or PM me.

[impaul99]

68 Views of this thread and not one reply. Either nobody is making +$50 with their blog or they don't want to share if they are.

Well... here's a little gem I found today that made me a quick $20:

Make $20 With PayPerPost.com | Make Money Online with InspiredBlogger.com

Maybe it will help someone crack that first $50 milestone.

[InterfaceLeader]

Combined between my blog and writing articles I've made over 50. Do you want to hear from me?

[mind-energy]

I currently make around $600/month from my blog.

[MartialDev]

Originally Posted by impaul99

68 Views of this thread and not one reply. Either nobody is making +$50 with their blog or they don't want to share if they are.

Aren't you asking for a free list of profitable niches? After you publish it, they won't be so hot anymore.

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by InterfaceLeader

Combined between my blog and writing articles I've made over 50. Do you want to hear from me?

Yes! For sure. I'd love to hear from you. Could you PM me your email address?

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by mind-energy

I currently make around $600/month from my blog.

Would you mind if I asked you some questions about it? Could you PM me your email address or we could chat via MSN or Yahoo Messenger?

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by MartialDev

Aren't you asking for a free list of profitable niches? After you publish it, they won't be so hot anymore.

No, not really. Just because I know what your Blog is about doesn't mean I or anyone else is going to start or be successful with the same thing. I'm looking more for patterns of success that really have nothing to do with a Niche. For example, lets say that someone runs a Blog about Vegetarian Cooking and says "Everything turned around on my Blog as soon as I committed to writing 3 articles PER DAY for 90 days." that wouldn't really make their nieche "not so hot" anymore. You might write a blog about martial arts so you can use that advice to make your blog more successful, but your blog suceeding doesn't make the other blog any less successful. In fact, it will probably make it more successful.

I believe in a very creative, cooperative model of the universe where there is abundance for everyone. I don't think "hiding the secret" is the path to success. For example, imagine if a healthy person hid the secret to being healthy. Why would he do that? Because he's worried that you're going to go out and buy all the green vegetables in the grocery store?

It's not hard to figure out what's healthy, it's hard to get yourself to do it. Same with Blogging. Just because I report that something is working, it doesn't mean that it will stop working because everyone jumps on the bandwagon.

Anyone I interview also has the option not to disclose what Niche they are in. They don't have to even say the name of their blog or their identity if they don't want to. I'm just looking for success patterns of what's worked for people for the greatest good of all,including the people who are contributing.

Hope that helps to dispell any fears you might have about competition.

[impaul99]

I posted my first interview with a blogger making between $600-$750 online. It's Jacob from Mind-Energy.net. Anyone interested can take a peek here:

http://www.inspiredblogger.com/index...ind-energynet/

If you find the article valuable, Diggs / Stumbles are much appreciated!

Thanks.

[Addict]

Great interview, Paul! I really like your insight about the bloggers that are just now breaking through and thus have more relevant models that we can follow.

I have an idea for an article or series you could write that would be valuable to new bloggers such as myself. I'm wondering what typical traffic should be in your first few months. I remember Darren on ProBlogger talking about how it seemed like in the beginning you are speaking to an empty room. I'm sure you understand how demotivating that is. If you could write about what is typical to expect for traffic and then maybe what to do if you are below that, that would be awesome.

Did that make any sense?

Oh, and I don't know if you changed it or not, but I really like the design you have now. I seem to remember a different, not so good looking design before, but I could be mistaken.

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by Addict

Great interview, Paul! I really like your insight about the bloggers that are just now breaking through and thus have more relevant models that we can follow.

I have an idea for an article or series you could write that would be valuable to new bloggers such as myself. I'm wondering what typical traffic should be in your first few months. I remember Darren on ProBlogger talking about how it seemed like in the beginning you are speaking to an empty room. I'm sure you understand how demotivating that is. If you could write about what is typical to expect for traffic and then maybe what to do if you are below that, that would be awesome.

Did that make any sense?

Oh, and I don't know if you changed it or not, but I really like the design you have now. I seem to remember a different, not so good looking design before, but I could be mistaken.

Thanks Addict! Yes, I did have a different design before. It was more earthy with green trees and such. I used it during a time when I was more connected to the "Earth" element spiritually (mentally) just getting grounded. I found this new theme which more suits my default spiritual bias towards the "Fire" element. It might sound like spiritual gooblebob but I feel a lot more "at home" with this theme. (Incidentally, based on the blue theme Steve picked I would be willing to bet he is either more of the Water or Air/Wind element. I would guess water though.) Anyways.

Yes, your article idea is perfect. I've actually been thinking the exact same thing for a while now. Here's how I see it. Imagine you're a brand new Salesperson. You have no idea how to sell anything yet, you're just getting your feet wet. Ok, so you come to work on you first day and you see 3 other sales people. The other 3 are Tony Robbins, Zig Zigglar and Tom Hopkins. You're trying to sell your first order for $50 and they are selling $8.9 Million per month average. You go for lunch with them to see if you can get some pointers and they say "Oh it's easy kid, just send out an email to all your current clients and ask for referrals." and "Just make 100 phone calls per day and you'll build a client base." etc.

Yeah...it's EASY for them, because they're already selling $8.9 Mill/month. THey are ALREADY sales superstars. You're still sitting there crapping your pants filled with doubt, wondering if you're in the right career, scared to go home without making a sale and thinking about how you're going to pay rent this month. Email to clients? You don't HAVE ANY CLIENTS! Make 100 phone calls? To WHO? What do you SAY?

Then the next day you come to work and you meet Billy. He was sick the first day you were there. Billy is a new kid. He's been there for only 3 months, and he just sold $10,000 for the first time in his 3rd month. That pays him just enough in commissions to make sure his lights don't get turned off at home. You take Billy out for lunch and ask him for advice.

Billy says "Ok, listen...here's what you do. There is a database of clients that we have who have fallen off the radar. The other sales guys don't want them because they are too small. A lot of them haven't even heard from us for years. A lot of them are actually quite furious. But here's what I do. I call up a former client, and I ask them why they don't order from us anymore. I really suck on the phone, but I just ask them 'Why don't you order from us anymore?' and usually they hang up on me.

The thing is though that every once in a while I'll get a guy who doesn't hang up, he sits there and yells at me for 30 minutes, really angry for how the other reps treated him and just ditched him. I'll just sit there and listen...I have nothing else to do. I had one guy two months ago yell at me for 45minutes... I just listened. At the end of the conversation when he finished yelling I told him that I have no clients, and if he bought from me I would take care of him because he's my first and only client. I also told him I would shoot a rubber band at the sales guy he doesn't like here, and that eventually I want to overtake his sales on the sales board. So the guy gave me my first order, and also sent me 10 referrals and now I got $10k in sales this month!"

You like my story?

See, the point I'm trying to make is that sometimes you can learn a lot more from a BILLY than a "Superstar". That's what I hope to achieve on my site.

I will do my research and find the answers you are looking for Addict. Keep an eye on my site for it. Better yet, subscribe to my feed so I know I'm not talking to an "empty room"

Thanks.

[MartialDev]

Originally Posted by impaul99

Hope that helps to dispell any fears you might have about competition.

I am not worried about competition myself (or I wouldn't have my blog address in my signature), just playing Devil's advocate. I've made more than $50, and I will be happy to participate in an email interview.

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by MartialDev

I am not worried about competition myself (or I wouldn't have my blog address in my signature), just playing Devil's advocate. I've made more than $50, and I will be happy to participate in an email interview.

Could you PM me the email address you'd like me to send the questions to?

Thanks.

[impaul99]

I just posted another interview. This time it's from Suzanne Fleming of Words, Words, Words. She's making +$2000/m from blogging. The interview can be seen here:

http://www.inspiredblogger.com/index...s-words-words/

[Andreas]

I liked that story Impaul.

You seem to be honestly driven to help people succeed. I'll read your blog later.

[Gene]

Originally Posted by impaul99

I just posted another interview. This time it's from Suzanne Fleming of Words, Words, Words. She's making +$2000/m from blogging. The interview can be seen here:/

I like the article, it had a lot of good information in it. I liked it enough I will stumble it later when I am on the other computer.

[actualize81]

Hey everyone,

I'm a new blogger actually and I plan on making at least 50 bucks on my blog:
Jumping Ship Happens.com : A Blog About Raising Consciousness | Jumping Ship Happens

It's about alternative medicine/healing and self improvement. Several of my favorite topics. I truly understand healing as I've made several mistakes that have cost my my health and I've gained my health back completely several times. Pretty awesome. Come and check it out to see some of the latest energy medicine!

Otherwise, if you guys have any feedback for me about my site just email me @ Steve@jumpingshiphappens.com

[JeffS]

Hi there,

I'd be happy to answer questions for you.

I have two 'successful' blogs that make money in very different ways. One of them is a baseball team blog: Brew Crew Ball :: A Milwaukee Brewers Blog ...thanks to SEO-crazed ticket brokers, I make plenty of money from that.

The other blog is called GMAT Hacks: Improve Your GMAT Score!. I don't have outside advertising, but it's a tremendously valuable marketing tool for me. I am a GMAT tutor, so it generates much of my business for me, and I have created a handful of PDF resources, which I sell through the site. I'm not in Pavlina territory yet, $$-wise, but if I had a day job, I could quit it .

There are prominent e-mail links on both of those sites if you'd like to contact me.

Thanks!

[impaul99]

My latest interview is now available here: Successful Blog Report: Interview with Jeff Sackmann of GMAThacks.com | Make Money Online with InspiredBlogger.com

Thanks Jeff!

[JeffS]

My pleasure.

Thanks for including me. I look forward to reading more of these features on your site.

(And maybe I got some karma out of the deal, too: I just closed a new advertising deal for $600/yr for my baseball blog.)

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by JeffS

My pleasure.

Thanks for including me. I look forward to reading more of these features on your site.

(And maybe I got some karma out of the deal, too: I just closed a new advertising deal for $600/yr for my baseball blog.)

Of course! Anytime you provide true value you get paid in today dollars or future dollars or both. Looks like your dollars showed up really quick.

Thanks once again.

[Andreas]

Sweet hotcakes, Batman. Another interview!

Thanks for doing this, Paul. I'm getting value out of it. Looking forward to more!