Do You Sell a Product or Service of Your Own from your Blog? [POLL]
Time for another reader poll – this one is on a topic that many bloggers are getting into – monetizing your blog by selling something of your own from it. Many bloggers make money by selling other peoples products with advertising or affiliate programs – but do you have something of your own to sell and are you doing it? What you sell might include an e-book, membership are, consulting services, training, a DVD, real hard cover book, T-shirts….. anything! n Do You Sell Any Product or Service of Your Own From Your Blog (eg. ebook/book, membership area, consulting, other product)?

3 Ways to Make More Money with Amazon’s Affiliate Program This Christmas
Earlier in the year posted here on ProBlogger 11 lessons that I’d learned on the way to making over $100,000 with the Amazon Associates program (I wrote a followup post with 10 more tips too). In that post post I posted a version of the following chart of my Amazon Associates earnings: In the previous version of

The Insiders View of How I Launched My New Ebook
Over on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we have today launched our first ever ebook – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography. We’re launching with a 25% discount so if you’re interested in improving your portrait photography it’s well worth checking out – however I thought I’d jot down a few notes in a post here about some of the process that I’ve been through in putting the ebook together. I’ve been documenting the launch (and pre-launch) in the ProBlogger.com forums for weeks now but here are a few of the reflections IR

How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog
A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community.

Why Nobody Cares About Your Blog
A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the traction that you want. What’s going on? There is plenty to be said about issues like proper market selection, search engine optimization and other tactical things, but let’s go deeper. In fact, let’s go deeper than most bloggers really think about when it comes to their blogging. Are You Talking At Or Talking To Your Readers? I