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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Well, my point is they are both writers. If a writer wants to get paid to write... it is a possible avenue. I'm familiar with a blogger that quit his day job and he only writes one blog post a week. I doubt he spends more than a day on each topic.
So, if your a writer and you want to get paid to write... start a blog... make it interesting and targeted. Once you've got a revenue stream from that... will you can work on a book. You will also have a built in audience to market it to.
BOb
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Lessee, I started my blog about 3 years ago, because I'd read how you can make money from Google ads on your blog. To date, I've earned something over a hundred dollars. In 3 years. And that's mostly coming from ads on my website, not my blog.
I think this model works only if you happen to know a lot about one particular subject that a
lot of other people are interested in. I write about a lot of different things, but much of it is book related. The ads I see on my blog tend to be for self-publishing, more than anything else. This does not bring in a great deal of money, I'm afraid.
I'm sure there are ways I could have targeted it better, and maybe plastered the ads all across the top my blog rather than discreetly along the sides. But mostly, I think it's just like all the other get-rich schemes. They maybe work for a few people. But for most? Uh-uh.