Post your blog, and talk about it

[Colin]

I have a trading blog that mainly focusing on the forex (foreign exchange) market. It started out primarily as a journal to chronicle my trades and progress, but has lately also started to contain some hints and tips, and maybe a few words of wisdom, that other aspiring traders might find useful.

While most posts assume at least some knowledge of what trading and forex is all about, these posts offer some good information on some of the basics:

Trading Background

Keys to trading success

Look! No indicators

[Hilary]

I wonder how many people's blogs make money directly - with Adsense or other ad revenue, like Steve's - and how many are there for something else.

I'm not going to add Adsense; I hope people'll get to know me well enough through my blog that they'll be interested in buying something - from me. Is anyone else approaching blogging this way?

[impaul99]

My blog is titled " Make Money, Achieve Success and Create Abundance in Every Area of Your Life " and it's a self development blog I recently started.

- Paul

[Scott Bird]

Originally Posted by Hilary

I'm not going to add Adsense; I hope people'll get to know me well enough through my blog that they'll be interested in buying something - from me. Is anyone else approaching blogging this way?

I've got a few blogs, and they range from non-monetized to completely ad-supported. It really depends on the product/service being offered by the site: if it's news, information or entertainment then a few ads are held in a different light to a company selling a product that does x.

What's your site?

[Tadhg Kelly]

I have two. One is particleblog, a blog about videogames as an art form and (more recently) about design methodology (I'm a game designer in my day job).

The other is a writing project called American Hate which is an attempt at portrait through fiction, which I think is the most useful way of writing fiction on a blog. A lot of attempts to write novels have been made, but they fall short because to do so relies on blog readers having read everything up to date, which they generally don't do (I don't anyway). What I'm trying with AH is something of a more rounded, serial approach, more like television shows do it. The attractive thing about TV is that it delivers small stories and slowly developing characters rather than complete pieces, and I think fiction blogs are basically the same, but with shorter attention spans.

I'm thinking of starting up a third blog discussing the writing of AH, specifically the serial method that I'm experimenting with, but I don't know if anyone in creation is really interested to hear about that or not. If so, I'd likely just hang that blog off of my own domain. What do you think?

[Scott Bird]

Originally Posted by Tadhg Kelly

I'm thinking of starting up a third blog discussing the writing of AH, specifically the serial method that I'm experimenting with, but I don't know if anyone in creation is really interested to hear about that or not. If so, I'd likely just hang that blog off of my own domain. What do you think?

Well you'd have at least one reader

Actually, they all sound like my type of things. Consider them added to an evergrowing list.

[NoelKuhl]

I have a Self-Help blog, a Shoe Blog, and a few blogs intended for profit along with some other sites which I don't think will be appropriate to post here.

[Scott Bird]

Originally Posted by NoelKuhl

a Shoe Blog, and a few blogs intended for profit

Isn't the shoe blog intended for profit? It seems like an area that'd interest a lot of people. Personally, I think it's worth spending the time growing that one.

[SamBeaven]

I have a flash fiction blog, linked in my sig. I post a new piece of original flash fiction every day, and I avoid continuity wherever possible, to avoid the same problems Tadhg Kelly talks about above. It's got adsense on it, but I'm making very little money through it (partly due to low traffic - internet ficiton tends not to get much, I get ten unique hits on a good day). Honestly, it's mainly a personal writing experiment to see if it's possible, and to keep my composing while I'm editing my novel. Plan is to monetize it through publishing collected works from the blog.

I really want to look at something else, but I can't think of a good niche that I'm reasonably familiar with - There's personal development, but that's a seriously crowded niche. Self publishing is something I've been thinking about, but I'm not enough of an expert to really work on it. Same goes for general writing or speculative fiction writing, at least in my experience.

[Hilary]

Originally Posted by Scott Bird

I've got a few blogs, and they range from non-monetized to completely ad-supported. It really depends on the product/service being offered by the site: if it's news, information or entertainment then a few ads are held in a different light to a company selling a product that does x.

What's your site?

I Ching Reading and Resources with Clarity and the blog is ‘Answers’ I Ching blog
The site is about the I Ching (oracle): I sell readings, an ecourse, and a few audio recordings of live events.

So the commercial purpose of the blog is to
1) let people get to know me
2) demonstrate the I Ching working in practice - mostly by using myself as an example
3) introduce new products/ services/ sales as and when I create them

I imagine that any time you have something of your own to sell, you don't want to dilute the message with Adsense?

[Erik Mazzone]

Newbie here, too, to these forums and to blogging. Great thread, btw.

I'm a former divorce lawyer, and I just quit my job this past summer to try to restore some balance to the force.

I'm working for myself doing coaching, consulting and speaking about the People Side of Business: management, leadership, and career. My blog is at Erik Mazzone’s Blog.

Thanks for checking it out!

[leahj77]

Just in time for my third anniversary today! I started my blog three years ago while I was living in London as a way to stay in touch with family at home. It has morphed over the years, but has always been a personal blog. Originally called Leah In London, it became Leah In Chicago and is now Accidentally Jewish, but has always lived at leah in chicago|accidentally jewish

I have a blog for playing the prosperity game with a few friends. It is at 1000 Dollar Experiment

I also contribute to http://www.jewishgfringe.com and Shebrew Magazine. The second isn't so much a blog, but allows comments on the articles.

And finally, I blog for the PR company where I'm employed.
Talkshop

I don't have ads or get paid for any of my blogs, but the prosperity, friendship, and opportunities have been worth more than any text ad or ad network could offer.

[Nneka]

Leah,

I've visited the $1000 Experiment. I love the idea and I've been looking around the site to figure out how to participate. How do I participate?

My blog is Balanced Life Center. The intent is to build a space that talks about balancing your life from a spiritual perspective. I think that next year, it's going to be heavy on spirituality, but I want to talk about how your life improves when you get centered and how you can get centered.

Some articles that people keep coming back to include.
Why I Tithe
Achieve Big Audacious Goals The Smart Way
Transform Your Life in 3 Easy Steps
Is God All God?
Serenity Prayer Experiement

I recently hosted the Season of Gratitude, a 30 day project in which I talked about gratitude everyday and invited other bloggers to submit links to their gratitude posts. It's now over, but there's quite a collection of posts if you ever need a pick me up.

[barbesj]

You all have such inspiring blogs, I'm a bit embarresed to post mine.

I have a private Live Journal blog that is just friends & family oriented. I have created a blog for my art business at Barbe Saint John-Fiber, Art & Creativity
Basically I just advertise my art and talk about what I have put up for sale...not very inspiring I'm afraid!

My goal for that blog in the coming year, will be to have it generate some $$ thru the various means I've read about on here other than just sending people to my webstore. I'm not computer literate so have to wait for my husband to do all the coding stuff for me.

Thanks for posting all your blogs!

Barbe

[fourthdan]

My Blog's gone through several stages of reincarnation, where I tore it down, and then decided to bring it back up again. But it's a simple blog on PD, and my life, and more specifically my journey towards becoming a fourth degree black belt in Taekwondo, and in life.

I must point out that this was something i did not copy from anyone else, as I can see that there are one or two more martial arts related PD blogs. However my blog is beginning to deviate from just TKD related stuff ... just pure PD these days.

[Hilary]

Barbe, your blog feels warm and friendly and very much alive! Oh, and colourful Maybe you could get hold of a friendly person with a camera and add pictures of yourself making things - the whole creative process from twinkle in your eye to 'you can buy it here' link. I've an idea that might draw people in still more.

And now I have a bundle of subscriptions to add to Google reader...

[mind-energy]

I have a blog for more than a year now called "Parapsychology articles and blog" and it's about... right.. parapsychology, healing, some alternative medicine, ESP (Extra-Sensory perception), ESP tutorials, interviews and all the similar stuff. Maybe a niche but there are many readers.

Some content is from the visitors as well.

[ebookdownload]

Hello all
I've run my blog E books for everyone form October 2006.As my blog title,all my post contain e books with download link .Kindly review my blog and feel free to comment or suggest.
Thanks

[kthdsn]

My blog at Kate Hudson's Blog started out being about how to be happier. I guess it sort of still is about that in a round about way, but it's getting to be more about my thoughts about how things are and how they should be. Ok that sounds a bit sucky, let me try again.

I have loads of ideas about how people could improve themselves and the world, and I my blog is where I share them.

[Hilary]

Originally Posted by ebookdownload

Hello all
I've run my blog E books for everyone form October 2006.As my blog title,all my post contain e books with download link .Kindly review my blog and feel free to comment or suggest.
Thanks

Your blog title says the ebooks are free to download, and this is quite true. But all the ones I tried so far require a password to open them. In other words - free to download, but you can't read them!

Also - are these actually free books - did the author/publisher give them away?

[AshlyChua]

Hi all, it's great to see that steve has actually set up a forum, woohoo that's so cool. I got to know his blog incidentally when viewing my friend's blog and find that his articles are very inspiring, and I do find it particularly useful as most youngsters like my friends do not think much for their future or what do they want to do, most of us are like 'take a step at a time and see how thing goes'.

I do not think we should wait for something to happen then have a reaction, and I realised that this blog has attracted like-minded people who are keen to improve the quality of their lives.

I have just set up a blog to introduce my country, Singapore. Please do take a look and gimme comments to help me improve.

Blog - To Re-discover Singapore: Singapore own Artificial Intelligence - Dashboard

Many Thanks,
Ashly

[MamaDuck]

What a diverse population we have! My two blogs are both about toddlers - Lil Duck Duck is my personal one with more of his things along with the business designs, then one with 451 press with which I just provide content about parenting toddlers (and have NOTHING to do with those millions of ads placed all over the place, agh!).

[Velvet]

My blog is personal, mostly about music and films, but I find it to be a fun and convivial exercise:

Intellectual House of Pancakes