Bloggers Looking for $$
It shouldn't come as a big surprise that 800 people signed up for a free preview for a telephone course
on how to make money from blogging. It's the next step, I guess, in the
evolution of blogging as people go from doing it as a
ego/branding/creative outlet exercise to something where they can make
a few bucks. I think many people believe they can be like Darren Rowse,
the fellow offering the course on tweaking Google AdSense who claims he
makes more than $100K a year from blogging, but very, very few people
are going to make a living from doing it. You have to give Rowse
credit, however, for somehow convincing people to fork over $270 a pop for
the course.
Mea culpa: This post has been edited to reflect the fact 800 people signed up for a free preview rather than the $270 course.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
Mark
to be fair I know that when Darren says he make the money its true (trust me on this one) , but if you read Darren's blog you'll see that he regularly warns people that blogging is not a get rich quick scheme, because we all know its not, and anyone who says differently is lying. Also 800 people didn't sign up to the course, 800 people signed up for the free preview call. I'll admit that the name of the course does sound like a get rich quick scheme, but I know from working with Darren and Andy Wibbels that it will be anything but, call it an unfortunate choice of name.
Duncan (The Blog Herald)