Income Streams for Bloggers

Darren was pointing out the diversity of blog income streams and listed them down according to popularity of usage (well, at least from my point of view). I checked the listing in the hopes that I might (~~have missed some great opportunities~~) find some new or additional revenue sources along the way.

What surprised me was the last entry on that list — Consulting and Speaking. I didn’t really thought of that as an income stream from blogging but in the past couple of months that I’ve been doing some speaking engagements and blog consulting, I realized that the revenues coming from that side was significant enough.

I believe that sharing your ideas and expertise to fellow bloggers and blog enthusiasts should be given free but if (and when) you get paid for it, there’s nothing wrong about it. *grins*

Again, with the sudden growth of blogging and interests, I reckon this is going to be a really good year for most Pinoy bloggers. Cheers to all!

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jangelo · 21 years ago

Ah, yes. Free beer!

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

@ Rickey

I thought it was only significant/prevalent in the west but not here. I guess we’re moving towards western trends as well. :D

@ Jangelo

Free beer too!

@ Major Tom

Ahh yes. The numbers are growing.

And of course, there are the free lunches and dinners or even coffee. ;)

Rickey · 21 years ago

I’m surprised that you are surprised at the cosultancy angle. I think you are approaching blogging for blogging’s sake — which is what people like Darren do. But a lot of long-time established bloggers blog to communicate to potential customers, for whatever business they are in. Zeldman, Dominey and Baio come to mind. Zeldman sold tons of books through his blog and also consults. Dominey has a design business and so does Baio. You hardly see any Adsense on their blogs and yet they are hugely popular in the blogging community — getting huge amounts of traffic you and I can only dream of.