How To Make $1,200 A Month From A Blog That Has Only 250 Readers
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Angie Mecklenburg, a mother of 4 in Sutter, Ill., blogs about chickens, God, and her farm. For an estimated $15, she’ll write about soy-wax candles for a marketer.
Over the last 18 months, Mecklenburg has kept up 3 blogs, the most popular being Ang’s Chicken Coop, which has the tagline ‘a view of the world from the coop.’ With about 250 daily visitors to her sites, she said she manages to make as much as $1,200 a month, collecting fees from Google advertising and marketers who pay her to write about their products via the blog ad network iZea.
For example, iZea recently paid her about $15 to write about candles from the Maddison Avenue Candles Company. She also was paid to write a blog about the Christian movie The Last Sin Eater earlier this year.
‘iZea sent me a synopsis and movie clip. I blogged it and then I went and saw it,’ Mecklenburg said at the BlogWorld conference and expo here, a 3-day event for blog entrepreneurs and professionals. She said she loved the movie.
Mecklenburg’s story is just one of many here this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is also playing host to GodblogCon, a gathering of religious bloggers. Many of the attendees are trying to figure out how to make money from their small publishing ventures, whether it’s a political, military, or God-related blog.
iZea, formerly called Pay for Post, is one company trying to capitalize on that desire. Founded in June 2006, the company pays as many as 85,000 bloggers to write about a range of products, including household products, cars, wireless phones, and new movies. According to Randy Mountz, vice president of sales, iZea has roughly 11,000 advertisers in its network, including Hewlett-Packard, Ford, and MGM.
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