Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Bloggers Making 75K a Year?

The Wall Street Journal notes some bloggers are making as much as $75,000 a year.

Sure, maybe if they're sponsored by someone. As for the rest of us?

Hardly.
Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates. Most are white males reporting above-average incomes. One out of three young people reports blogging, but bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as "spokesbloggers" -- paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around -- but it can also be quite profitable.
A couple of points. Yes, I'm a well-educated white male reporting an above-average income, but it sure as hell doesn't come from doing this.

And how on earth do they translate 100,000 unique visitors generating $75K a year? On what planet exactly?

According to my Sitemeter, I should be pulling in over six figures this year just from blogging.

Funny, but I'm not seeing it.

Maybe I should start a tip jar and start begging for cash.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

My Welcome to the Riehl World

The Riehl World View, that is.

As a relatively new blogger, I'm always thankful to be linked at sites that I frequent, and today got a nice welcome. Not just added to the blogroll, but included in a post! Obviously, I have a mere fraction of Dan's traffic, but it's been growing steadily since November.

Welcome to all readers from Riehl World View and I hope you enjoy what you see, and be sure to check my links, as a number of relatively new bloggers and others you may not be familiar with are listed there. Included are some gracious blog heavyweights who've also added me.

Feel free to drop me a line (jammiewearingfool at yahoo dot com) if you'd like to be added here and thanks for visiting.