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It seems like Allen Stern is looking for something with the ease and convenience of an RSS feed that people would be willing to pay for. Thing is, and I mean no disrespect to you, Mathew, but as you've indicated above, the value proposition might not be there for someone to pay for blog content on a subscription basis. Your blog does serve to:
a) provide you with a continual online presence
b) draw people's attention to things that you find interesting
c) provide some education
d) provide you with a promotional platform, if you choose to use it that way
Rex Hammock says it quite eloquently, doesn't he?
Matthew, a question: do you feel like you are "locked in" to blogging? In other words, do you feel that giving up a blog would actually hurt you as a professional and, to be blunt, as a product?
Another piece of data in my ongoing quest to come up with a new model to monetize content. I'm really enjoying your writing.
could promote myself, some of which might be even more effective. But I
think blogging is one of the easiest, cheapest and most rewarding methods,
and I really enjoy doing it. In fact, I do it as much for my own purposes
-- as a way of thinking things through and drawing comment from others -- as
I do for any other reason.
http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/11/26/what-if...
other ways to make money that are offshoots of their blogs. Think of your
blog as advertising, not as a place for advertising. I don't think making
money from a blog (or at least any kind of substantial amount of money) is a
realistic proposition, really, except in maybe a handful of exceptional
cases.
I'd rather pay for blog access to someone i'm interested in, rather than just the rss feed ;-)
Read: It's hard to make money from trying to sell something that no one wants.
Simple economics... make good things, get readers, make money... not the other way round