This month I introduced the idea of building a business around your blog and your book(s). You may be wondering how you can manage one more activity in your busy schedule. Actually, creating courses using membership site technology, like Premise by CopyBlogger, can help you use your time more efficiently by multi-tasking. Create Courses While […]
A Short Book with Bonus Content Makes a Great First Product
If you want to monetize your blog, one of the easiest products to create may be an ebook or short book. I’ve discussed these numerous times on this blog. As book bloggers and bloggers, you are uniquely set up to produce this type of content. And, of course, short books were the first products I […]
Will You Turn Your Blogged Book Into a Business?
You’ve got your blog set up, and you’ve started blogging your book. Have you considered what you might do to sustain your interest in your topic or story and to fill your wallet once you finish your manuscript and publish your book? Here are the cold hard facts: Making a living as a writer takes […]
Why You Need an Email List and a Subscriber List for Your Blogged Book
As you blog your book, provide readers with a way to subscribe to your blog’s feed. Encourage them to become “subscribers” so they can get the most recent posts using a variety of really simple syndication, or RSS, applications or readers or in their email box. But don’t forget to also encourage readers to sign […]
How to Decide How to Monetize Your Blog or Blogged Book
As you consider how to monetize your blog beyond your blogged book—and eventual printed book or ebook, you need to consider what types of activities you want to take on to produce information products and services–which ones are best for you and for your readers. Unless you want to put advertisements on your blog (and […]
Building a Business Around a Blog is Easier Than You Think
At the end of April, I began a series of posts about building a business around your blogged book. For a month, guest bloggers and I wrote about how you can have an attitude that allows you to take your book blogging to the next level, and what types of actions you can employ to […]
Build a Business Around Your Blogged Book
All my posts during April, National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMO), have helped you blog a book fast—in just 30 days. Blogging a short book fast provides you with something you may not have had before if you take the manuscript you created with your blog posts and actually get it edited and then publish it […]
Darren Rowse: On Creating Profitable and Successful Blogs
Not only do I want my book blogging to result in a traditional publishing deal or a successfully self-published book, I also want that effort to create a successful blog that continues to attract readers and income after the book is published. This should be your goal as well. That’s how you create a business […]
