Now I know why I couldn’t link the Amazon site to my blog . . . .wordpress doesn’t allow ad revenue ops on their site. Their site, their rules.
So, since I hope to drive some revenue doing this, I have jumped ship from wordpress to a self hosted site. Come over and visit me there.
immyownclient.com is the new site and it will be up and running, and beautifully designed by Monday, July 13. See you there.
I have been trying to put an Amazon link to that great ProBlogger book by Rowse and Garrett and can’t figure out how to do it. What am I missing?
So I am on a site designed for bloggers (aren’t I?), and I click the handy spell check option before posting my content and the only words the spell checker doesn’t recognize are “blog,” “blogging” “blogger.”
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One of the books that has become my blueprint for this blog and the other one is ProBlogger Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. It is very readable, practical, and has walked me thru the steps to think thru a business plan for the other (yet to be launched) blog.
I have read a good few blog books in the last several weeks, but this one is, by far, the most helpful.
The fact that I continue to see this as doable, when walking thru the practical steps in their book is a good sign. Isn’t it?
One of the revenue sources they mention is the Amazon Affiliates program. I need to figure out how I hook in to that. Any suggestions?
There are a lot of things in life I do fairly well . . .I write well, I had a great career, I am a favorite aunt and well loved mother and I bake an apple pie that would win a blue ribbon at the state fair. Having embraced what I do well, I also embrace what I don’t do well–I don’t sew, I don’t camp and I don’t wait very well. Hence this blog.
I had a brainstorm over a month ago, to create a blog that would journal a much needed process of soul searching and self discovery. I wanted it to be serious. I wanted it to be widely read. I wanted to create an online community of others on a similar journey . . . .and I wanted a book deal and a mention on Oprah. THAT blog is still in development. I have talked to designers, agonized over names, created an outline of topics, fretted over self hosting, read a dozen books, etc. Good God. That one is work.
This blog will be about that work.
And since I really, really wanted to blog, once I had the idea, OVER A MONTH AGO, I decided to create this blog. It came from a need of having to DO something.
This blog will be about the “back of the house” work behind the other blog–which we will launch once it is named, hosted and pretty.
This blog is about the glazed over looks from family and friends when I tell them I want to blog for a living. What did your favorite 70 year old aunt say when you told her you blogged? Did she look concerned for your well being?
It’s about the worry over who will read the other blog, and for God’s sake, why would they read it.
It’s about how I try to drive readership to the other blog, what works and what doesn’t, which stats are important, and how I get my blog mentioned on someone’s tv show.
And the whole advertising thing. How does that work? That’s where the money is, apparently.
Since this is the world wide web, I have a whole world of tutors out there to run ideas past as I try to make a go of it with the other-yet-to-be-named-or-launched-blog. Chime in. Offer ideas. Tell me what you have read that is helpful. Who has the coolest blog out there? Who got their blog mentioned on CNN or Mornings with Hoda and Kathy Lee? What do I need to know? What stats are important? How do I land advertisers?
Offer ideas. Offer guidance. Offer a latte. I am open to all input and sources of caffeine.
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