Comments on: Someone Always Pays: The Truth About Blogs and Money

By: Aqeel

Aqeel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:54:59 +0000

Bloggers are investing their time to inform us about things happening around us, so they have every right to make money from their blogs.

By: adam quean

adam quean — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:25:59 +0000

It’s a great point, I just wish people would understand that although bloggers do love what they do, they still need to pay the bills. Brilliant rant!

By: Lori M. Connelly

Lori M. Connelly — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:09:31 +0000

Jonathan,

Excellent comments. As a fellow blogger who hopes to make this world a better place through my blogging, but also make an honest living- Forward thinking is essential on many levels.
Perhaps Aldous Huxley said it best with this:
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance, innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Thank you for your insights and contributions.
Keep up the good work!

Lori

By: Chris Slinger

Chris Slinger — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:45 +0000

Hi.
I have yet to monetize my blog yet, apart from adscence of course. I just hope you are right and people will be interested in buying related stuff. I’ll let you know how i get on.

Keep up the good work
Chris

By: Arturo

Arturo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:15:41 +0000

Very well said Jonathan.

What’s up with people who want everything for free and they don’t see the value. Don’t you worry about those whiners, keep doing what you are doing, providing excellent content and lifting up our spirits.

Keep it up pal,

By: lorrie

lorrie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:55:20 +0000

your welcome i like leaving feedback on blogs and doing writing on mine its my outlet for writing since i left the writing career i had as a reporter for a small paper to focus on my petsitting business

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By: Joel Libava

Joel Libava — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:51:25 +0000

Joel,

Cmon! Us Joel’s have to stick together…

I need your support!

By: Joel D Canfield, Chief Heretic

Joel D Canfield, Chief Heretic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:48:58 +0000

Free television and free radio and free content have set expectations. Those who do free as a hobby have blurred the picture, too. And, some of us bloggers who spend a lotta time creating free and forget that our business blog had darn well better be part of our business; well, we’ve added to the problem.

I gave away a copy of your book at a workshop I did. When I asked to buy a copy for this purpose, you graciously sent it without cost. The recipient was delighted, they really appreciated it. And I firmly believe that part of her delight was the knowledge that this physical souvenir of your intellectual property had, indeed, cost *someone* money, even if it wasn’t her.

I wrote my first two business books before I got serious about business blogging; then did a poor job of focusing on the physical souvenirs I make available. I feel badly for the bloggers who started out giving content away, then dared to (*gasp*) ask for money for a book they’d written.

Folks who don’t get this probably aren’t in our target demographic anyway, right?

By: Joel D Canfield, Chief Heretic

Joel D Canfield, Chief Heretic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:43:36 +0000

I hereby surrender my crown as The Most Sarcastically Witty Joel On This Blog.

I am so waiting for someone to flame you for missing the point. (That would be, like, meta-ignorance, or something.)