Comments on: Can Your Blog Make Money For You While You Sleep? Google AdSense? Blogads? Sponsorships? Dare You Quit Your Day Job?

by: money dreamer

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:02:10 +0000

I thought making money while sleeping is like a fairy-tales. Only extra-ordinary people can do that. Your post has opened my eyes. Useful information, thanks for sharing.

by: Lynne

Wed, 16 May 2007 22:13:22 +0000

“For context, my wife and I publish two websites that reach a combined 260,000 absolute unique visitors a month. The sites appeal not to a geographic audience, but to targeted subject niches, and the money we make on these sites would barely allow us to support our family in Pasadena, a high-cost Los Angeles suburb. (Though, to be honest, we haven’t exactly broken a sweat trying to sign advertisers. All our revenue comes from Google AdSense and advertisers who have come to us. Plus, I’ve got the OJR and USC gig and my wife teaches and performs the violin, so we are not relying on our sites to put food on the table.) To make a living wage from a 45,000-visit website would require aggressive local ad sales, plus cut-to-the-bone expenses.”

Robert Niles’ comment on the blog AUSC Anneberg Online Journalism Review, May 11, 2007

by: Brother René

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:18:43 +0000

My faithful child,
Always listen to Brother René on the subject of ethics. Brother knows best when it comes to poverty. He’s still working on chastity and obedience.

Bro. R

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing ™: Brother Rene, I am sure I would declare any and all income. The thought of not doing so was fleeting!

by: Lynne

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:03:51 +0000

I have removed AdSense from my blog. In 4 months I earned $15.00. NOT worth the loss of space on my r-h sidebar.

Lynne AKA The Wicked Witch of Publishing

by: Brother René

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:25:00 +0000

Dearest Lynne:
Vantage Press as your “top-of-list” advertiser is even beneath the ethics of a lesser sorceress. This is a big disservice to any of your “not-in-the-know” readers (even if you have made $2.57). I think all visitors that have clicked on this (problematic) vanity publisher’s hot link should get an immediate refund from the very wicked witch. I warned you before you started this (get rich slowly) tactic. Even a wicked witch should show some decorum and perhaps a little respect for her less worldly-wise audience.

Your spiritual adviser,
Brother René

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing ™: Hello, Brother Rene. Let me say a prayer for you! Seriously, I am watching the ads. I have the ability to filter them, though I have to see them on my site, and they come and go! I may, indeed, discontinue the Google AdSense. I just don’t think the money is there. I’m investigating more sponsorships.

by: Terry

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:39:45 +0000

I signed up for AdSense because I thought I might be a shoo-in: I write about a variety of topics, and I rarely do memes and personality quizzes and jokes or endless links to other sites. I actually WRITE stuff. All I got from AdSense was a tiny ad up top (help for Katrina victims) and nothing more.

by: Caroline

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:44:30 +0000

I had never considered Google AdSense or Blogads. I only been blogging for two months and didn’t consider the available opportunities.
Now I am.
I feel quite ignorant - but you have sparked my interest.
Thanks,
Cx

by: Lynne

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:24:23 +0000

For information regarding Kensington Publishing Corp v. Heather Armstrong go here: http://www.trainwrecks.net/doocecomplaint.pdf.

by: Debra Young

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:45:23 +0000

Hello, Lynne, thanks for dropping by! Great post, always find something interesting here. I’m discovering publishers have all kinds of squeeze plays against writers, like basketing/cross-collateral–makes me wonder how I’m going to survive as a writer. Seems to me the writer/publisher relationship should be a happy two-way street. Keep ‘em looking over their shoulders, Lynne. d:)

by: Lynne

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:34:29 +0000

Extra Extra Read All About It!

I just noticed that scores of people are flooding in to read this post after googling "Heather B. Armstrong lawsuit contract." I mention her blog www.Dooce.com in this posting. Looks like she got herself sued over failure to sign a contract. No details, but she mentions the agony she has been through and the near-breakdown she considered having. (Heather, I AM REALLY, REALLY SYMPATHETIC. If you've read my posts re Bela Szigethy v. Lynne W. Scanlon and the trial of the century that took place in December 2005/January 2006, you'll know I know just how you feel.) Rage-Writing as Memoir. Is it a Book, a Blog or just BS? Scroll down to the bottom of the post where I talk about writing a book about my lawsuit. Force-Feed Your Kids Great Books, Poems and Plays, Even Though They Would Rather Watch the Stuffing Being Kicked Out of a Character in a Video Game! In this post I talk about how a plot in a play parallels what happened to me in my lawsuit.