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ProBlogger

My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com, a blog, podcast, event, job board, and a series of ebooks, all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience, to create amazing content that’s going to change your audience’s life in some way and to build profit around your blog. I saw people buying books.

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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

ProBlogger

product sales (ebooks, presets, course and printables) – 31%. They were costing me money, and not just from me buying domain names and hosting. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. AdSense – 8%. sponsorship – 6%. ProBlogger job board – 5%. ProBlogger events – 3%.

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Six First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

ProBlogger

Amazon will give you a cut of everything a person someone buys within 24 hours of following your link. I often get commissions from people buying books, cosmetics, jewellery, and even nappies (diapers). Being an “affiliate” for a product means you recommend it to your readers and get a commission each time someone buys that product.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

ProBlogger

Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Promoted eBooks and products for other blogs. Added other advertising networks. Launched an eBook on ProBlogger. We have since launched 35 eBooks. 20 a month on first one.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

ProBlogger

Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Promoted eBooks and products for other blogs. Added other advertising networks. Launched an eBook on ProBlogger. We have since launched 35 eBooks. 20 a month on first one.

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PB154: How to Grow Your Blogging Income

ProBlogger

The same thing happened when I moved from just having advertising and affiliate promotions as the bulk of my income and then started to create ebooks. Advertising networks, that was my first one. It’s very easy to say monetize your blog with courses but I only did courses because I did ebooks.

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PB154: How to Grow Your Blogging Income

ProBlogger

The same thing happened when I moved from just having advertising and affiliate promotions as the bulk of my income and then started to create ebooks. Advertising networks, that was my first one. It’s very easy to say monetize your blog with courses but I only did courses because I did ebooks.

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