E-Book Review: 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
12. Jul, 2010 
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If you have never heard of Nathan Hangen, it’s time to climb out from under that rock and get serious about running your own Digital Empire. Nathan, like many of us, started out his blogging lifestyle with goals and aspirations of living life under his own terms and moving away from living the nine-to-five routine and reporting to the higher ups.
After his own life investments offered the realization that average is not a pathway to happiness, Nathan made the conscious decision to pave his own way to life enhancement and during time in Afghanistan while in the military, he broke ground on building his Digital Empire.
Nathan’s Message Behind 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
There are many different viewpoints on blogging and how people can be successful in offering content and ideas based on their chose market. However, in almost every one of these differing ideas, the one common factor follows the ideology of, “Content is King”. Continuously generating valuable and unique content is the keystone to any successful blog and one of the main points that Nathan attempts to push is that when it comes to managing your Empire, monetization should not be the barrier keeping you from realizing your goals.
The first hurdle Nathan helps us get over is that, Making Money Online from your own efforts is not a bad thing. If you have been one of the fortunate to link your blogging efforts to your true passion in life, why not find a way to support your livelihood while sharing your own message with the world? If your message rings true to others and you are able to make an unbreakable connection with those looking for the answers to the questions that they have, more than likely, they are willing to pay you for those solutions.
What You Will Learn in 10 Ways
Nathan covers ten of the most effective and efficient ways to monetize your blog, now! Nathan has offered up his insight based on his own trial and error and shares those experiences in a way where new bloggers will not only learn how to monetize your blog, but also why you should use certain tools and and services. This goes a long way in teaching bloggers to understand the guts of the process rather than just being told to “go sign up for an account with XYZ, and slap their code on your blog”. Here is a quick list of the 10 ways to monetize your blog per Nathan Hangen’s free E-Book:
- Understanding that blog monetization is not evil
- Introduction to Google AdSense advertisements to make money on your blog
- Placing AdBrite advertisements and offering ad space on your blog
- Affiliate sales via Commission Jungle by offering related products and services
- Offering products and a referral offering via LinkShare
- Partner up with heavy hitter, Amazon.com for affiliate ideas
- Selling ClickBank offered information products related to your niche
- Link up to eBay auctions and offer them on your own blog
- Use private affiliate programs through products you already use and trust
- Selling your own products to spread your message and offerings
What I Liked About 10 Ways
Straight Forward Delivery – If you happen to follow Nathan on Twitter, you know that Nathan is not one to pull punches. If he likes or dislikes something, he will definitely make it known and you can bet that he also backs up his opinions with detail reason and passion behind those opinions. The way he delivers his insight in 10 Ways to Monetize is true to Nathan’s fashion in such, although he offers his picks on how to monetize your blog, he follows up with useful and valuable detail on how each specific path worked for him.
Detailed Overviews – New bloggers will find valuable insight in not only how each covered tool or service works, but how to sign up for each service and information on how each one pays out. It’s obvious that Nathan has spent countless hours honing and dealing with his own trial and error in an effort to optimize the use of each tool and those details can offer some comfort to the new folks looking to start out.
Priced Right for New Bloggers – Nathan’s 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog is FREE!!!!
Conclusion
Much like any E-Book out there available for download, one may beg the question on whether or not another E-Book is worth downloading and investing time into reading it over.
As with anything else…it depends. Are you a new but serious blogger looking to venture into the world of blog monetization, or are you a hobby blogger simply enjoying the ability to share your words, but not looking to make a career out of it?
Many bloggers start out with full intention of adding a new stream of income or two via their blogging efforts however, what I’ve learned myself is that blogging is not what makes the cash start to flow in. You can generate all the content in the world that would solve each and every problem that you market runs into, but without monetizing via affiliate or selling product, your blog is not truly a business entity.
If you are looking to start making some money with your blog, then I recommend that you download your copy of 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog now, and start making money online today.
Of course, if you’re already making enough money through your blog to pay some of the bills, then Nathan’s book probably won’t offer you much information than you may already know or are using on a day-to-day basis as it is.
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