Make Money from your Blog the Smart Way

Since my initial logo for this blog has stacks of c-notes in the upper right hand corner, I thought a post on how best to make money off a blog was appropriate. After all, as much as I love trading the natural rays of the sun and actual human interaction for the artificial tan I’m getting from the light from my computer screen, it would be nice to have an income stream (or even a trickle) from sharing my thoughts on Marketing ROI.

Copyblogger has a couple of encouraging posts on this topic. Here is a post about smart monetization of your blog from Brian Clark that doesn’t involve third-party services such as AdSense.  I also enjoyed Sonia Simones’ related post of Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging – her response to a question at a seminar she gave recently was “Guess I’ll give it all back then.”