19 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Music Marketing
When I first started investigating on how I can make money blogging, I was shoved in 20 different directions. After weeding through the garbage, I have compiled a list of what I feel are some of the best resources on the subject. After just two weeks of promoting and working these new blogs, most […]
17 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Optimization
Darren at Pro Blogger posted this a while back. I didn’t stumble upon it until I was doing some more researching on Blogging Experiment.Ben was using a scoring method in order to make sure he did enough daily to promote his blog. I started thinking about that as a very effective way to market a […]
16 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization
This is something.
I used to sit around trying to think of ways to use my music and band promotional skills to make money in other ways. I wish I would have thought of this about 4 years ago when my band was one of the top users of Myspace.
Needless to say, the article brings up […]
15 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Music Marketing
I spent the better part of the last decade in the music industry honing my marketing skills and when I switched over to web marketing, I wondered how many of my skills would transfer over. I was happy to see that promoting a blog is really no different than promoting an independent band. It takes […]
I understand the whole point of a content based website is to generate ad revenue. I understand that, really, I do. I put ads on my website dreaming of beach houses and cars galore. I target market my blogs. I work to build a readership and hope they like to hear what I have to […]
02 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Music Marketing
I spent the better part of the last month evaluating my finances and future goals of my ‘cyber‘ business. I ran some simple tests with this blog over the past two months, to see if a blog could actually create revenue. Just by posting ‘relevant’ content to current events I was able to generate a […]
14 Nov
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization
I have spent the last few days contemplating this exact same question. Is it worth the time and effort to promote your blog in an effort to make money. I have seen this question posed many times, and I thought I would put my two cents in.
I want to be a writer. That is what […]
07 Nov
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Weekly Column
I have decided to start a blog. The motive is two fold:
First off, I love writing and I have since I can remember. Even as a child, I would attempt to write my own columns. Sometimes for others amusement, sometimes for my own.
Now days, you can easily post a column on-line. It doesn’t make it […]