Three Top Money Making Blogs
Posted on November 13, 2007 - Filed Under Blogosphere News
The recent talk around blog town seems to be the ever hot topic of making enough money to quit your day job. That is probably the dream of many bloggers, though there are some of you who genuinely enjoy your job and prefer to keep blogging as a hobby. Taking a break from the ”How Web Design Can Affect Your Blog Branding” tutorial, I just want to highlight some (other) ordinary people who have been blogging for a while and are fast catching up with the “bigwigs” of bloggers.
If you are in the field of monetizing blogs, you would have heard of John Chow, Shoemoney, Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and recently, Skellie and Caroline Middlebrook. Another blogger who is a strong contender for the up and rising is Dosh Dosh. However, these are the people we all know about, among others. There are other bloggers who may not necessarily be in the “A-list” yet of blogging, but who are such extraordinary marketers that they are making way more money with fewer subscribers than some other blogs who may have double their readership.
Carl Ocab
This blogger has a readership of 562, far less than John Chow the King of Affiliate Marketing, but has already sold out all his ad spots, except for two text links. While his fee for reviewing your site is a mere $70 (far below John Chow’s $400), he has a marketing savvy that has persuasion weaved into every sentence of his writing. The shocker is, if you do a search for “Make Money Online”, you will find that Carl hits front page of Google, with Dosh Dosh on the third page, and John Chow in the fourth. That is not the only shocker. Carl Ocab is a 14-year-old Filipino student for whom blogging is a part time passion. He is a SEO expert, and has a lot of good advice despite being only a teenager. He uses himself as a selling point, and encourages beginning bloggers that if he could make good money online, then anyone can.
While he may be in the same market niche as John Chow, he occupies a very different branding / positioning than Mr Chow. While he focuses on SEO traffic and sales, John Chow focuses more on building mentoring relationships with loyal readers and subscribers.
J.D. Roth
JD is the author of Get Rich Slowly and to date has a readership of 35,474 and is earning enough money to quit his day job. That is, his blog now pays him $5,000 a month, which is the salary he gets from his day job. However, he is not jumping on the bandwagon of quitting his job and going pro, as having a monthly income of $10,000 allows him more financial freedom for other things he wants in life. JD is an unique blogger who provides very thoughtful articles loaded with sound advice. Some of his posts are so complete that they can even pass for a quick guidebook for the topics he writes about.
JD is an example that you don’t have to rush in and burn yourself out both ends in order to be a successful blogger.
Aaron Phang
I discovered Aaron Phang when I did a search for “making money online”. He appeared on the front page of Google below Carl and Dosh Dosh. If I were to describe Aaron, I would call him the “insurance salesman” or “real estate agent” of blogdom. He has discovered a method he calls atom-blogging which apparently is able to escalate the traffic to your site in a very short time. While he offers several free eBooks and seminars, you are never quite sure that it is free because of the hard sell. And pay indeed you will, not in cash, but in referrals of friends which is a good deal since you might be doing your friends a favor as well.
Aaron Phang is an entrepreneur who hits close to home as he is a Singaporean like me. I am thrilled that there is a blogger’s community here in Singapore that I can network and exchange pointers with.
The greatest thing I walked away with when I found these bloggers, are that even in a saturated and competitive niche like teaching people how to make money online, you can still earn success with your own unique style. Carl, the SEO genius and whizz kid (I can’t wait to see what he can accomplish when he grows up!), JD who prefers to grow rich slowly, and Aaron who has developed his own unique model of making rich online quickly. So whatever your style or personality is, do your own thing. It can seem frightening to be competing with “superstars” like Shoemoney and John Chow, or “super blogs” like Problogger and Copyblogger, but if you can make your personality stand out in the crowd, you can have success too. The Internet is (still) big enough for all of us.
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Hi Ivy,
This post is going to my inspiration bookmarks! Of course, when I’m alone here I need someone to pat my back for the good work I’ve done.
Thanks a lot.
By the way, Have you studied persuasion?
Hi Carl,
Thanks for dropping by
I am glad you liked my description of your blog. All of us need to learn the art of patting ourselves in the back. We work hard on our blogs!
No, I have not studied persuasion before. Any books or sites to recommend?
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