Darren Rowse, the six-figure blogger I linked to the other day, links to a post about other profitable bloggers:
- Instapundit earns $8,000-10,000 per month.
- Andrew Sullivan raised $80,000 in one week (though that was an isolated incident)
- Markos Moulitsas Zuniga made more than $100,000 on his site in 2004.
And there are others, but those are the impressive ones. This is becoming an obsession for me. It’s just so hard to ignore folks making big money from blogging. I want to make big money from blogging. Heck, I’d settle for a little money. Just something to chip away at the college loans.
I think it’s also just encouraging to see that blogging doesn’t have to be the waste of time some people think it is. I know it’s not a waste of time, but for some people it requires a montary value to be worth any time at all. I think the big money bloggers are pretty rare at this point, but what’s not rare are the folks like me who have made a few connections through blogging, which have possibly led to a job or two. That’s justification right there, assuming my countless hours of joy and satisfaction aren’t enough for you.
But I still wouldn’t mind raking in $10,000 per month.
Kevin,
Thanks for the trackback. I believe those who are most determined will find a way to make good money off of blogging, from a combination of advertising, paid subscriptions, or reader donations. High-quality material that people really want to read or that meets a need of theirs has to have monetary value.
Regards,
Jim Buie
http://jimbuie.blogs.com
I think Kevin is right. The blog content must be high-quality and unique. People must want to comeback, recommend the site, put up trackbacks and participate on the comment threads.
And those bloggers who earn a substantial income has been blogging for years, so consistency is also an important aspect. I see quite a lot of dead blogs around, guess many people get bored after awhile.