Yobie Benjamin and Pat McCarthy got us off to a discussion on Monetizing Your Blog. Here are some great discussion points on how to make money from your blog (even if you dont have a lot of traffic)

1) Advertising Based
a) Adsense
b) Text Link Ads

2) Affiliate Based
a) Check out Revenews.com
b) TicTap for Amazon Ads

3) Services Based
a) Sell Your Consulting

4) Product Based
a) Sell Your Ebook (37Signals based)
b) CafePress/GoodStorm Model

5) Niche Content Sites
a) Setting up a blog specifically for Niche Content

6) Donation Based
a) the Kottke Model ( Asked his readers for donation so he could blog for a living)

7) Know Your Audience (Direct Ad Sales)
Direct Ad Sales to Niche Markets. Demographic Models using surveys. SurveyMonkey.com

8) Syndicate Your Content
The potential of sites like BlogBurst to syndicate content

Pat co-headed up this discussion which was really enjoyable. You should check out his blog. He works at Right Media and has a cool blog.

Publisher’s Note: Another good monetization program is AzoogleAds.

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