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10 Ways to Make Money BECAUSE of Your BlogYesterday

What if I told you that there’s a way to make money as a result of your blog where you don’t need to have a single ad on your blog, where you don’t have to run any affiliate programs and where you don’t have to write any paid reviews?

Would you be interested?

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Much is written about how bloggers make money through selling advertising space or running affiliate programs on their blogs. However there’s a second, somewhat hidden, group of bloggers who make a great living not directly from their blogs - but indirectly as a result of them.

Instead of using their traffic to sell advertising or promote products to earn commissions from - they leverage the traffic to their blog in another way - usually to sell themselves.

Today I want to highlight 10 ways of making money BECAUSE of your blog - as opposed to making money directly from it via advertising, paid reviews or affiliate programs.

1. Consulting

The blogger consultant model is simple. You

Killer Titles Project is Over - And the Winner Is…Yesterday

What a week it has been here at ProBlogger with the Killer Titles Group Writing Project!

I’ve just updated our submissions page with the final batch of 77 submissions for the project. This brings us to a total of 343 entries.

Please head over and surf through some of the posts submitted - bookmark, comment, subscribe to and link up to those that you like the most.

The Winner Is…

This project has been generously sponsored by Logo Designer David Airey who has put up a $2000 logo design for one random participant. Thanks to David - I can’t wait to see the logo that you come up with for our winner.

I’ve just drawn the winner of this prize using a random number generator.

The prize goes to Mjuboy for their title Sacrificing Goats and Eating Brains - congratulations, I’ll email you with details of how to get your prize (update: Mjuboy’s thank you post is here).

Thanks again to everyone for participating - I hope more than just Mjuboy feels a winner and benefited from this project. To be notified of future Group Writing Projects and c

Just 3 Days Left to Get My Bonus Offers with Blog MastermindAugust 28

There are 3 days left of my personal coaching bonuses for the Blog Mastermind Blog Mentoring program.

To recap - Blog Mastermind is a fantastic blogger mentoring program with some great teaching from successful Blogger Yaro Starak and his team. BlogMastermind is a six month program which you can either sign up for month by month or for the full six months at once (at a discounted rate). I’ve written about my impressions of Blog Mastermind here and have also shared some student mini reviews here (I’m getting more positive emails about the course from readers every day or two).

For those who are still thinking about it - here’s what I’m offering for those who sign up here at ProBlogger:

1. For all those who sign up whether it be for one month or six I’m putting you in the draw to win one of 3 ProBlogger books which I think would make a great accompanying text book for the course. I’ll draw this on 1 September.
2. For each student who signs up for the full six month package

12 Tips To SNAP Readers Out of Passivity with Calls to ActionAugust 28

The vast majority of visitors to your blog are paralyzed by passivity.

They never comment, they don’t vote in polls, they won’t subscribe to your feed or newsletters, they won’t buy the affiliate products that you recommend, they won’t email a friend about your blog, they won’t vote for you in social bookmarking sites and most of them will never come back.

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Depressed? You’re not alone.

Some days it gets me down that readers can be so passive too.

In this post (a part of our crafting blog posts series) I’m going to share how using Calls to Action can significantly increase the interactivity on your blog. I’d also love to hear what you have to say on the topic.

The Problem of Passivity on Blogs

I still remember early in my blogging expressing my frustration to another blogger. At the time my main concern was that while I was getting a lot of visitors, so few of them left a comment.

He responded to

Day 3 of Killer Titles Project are LiveAugust 28

Just a short note to let readers know that I’ve just added another 103 reader submissions to the Killer Titles Group Writing project submissions page. Those still wanting to participate need to get their skates on - there’s less than 24 hours and I’ll be closing this off and picking the prize winner. See how to enter here.

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