Today, I stumbled on John Chow’s post in which he announces that he made a whopping $40,125.99 in the month of June, 2008. Guess what?At the beginning of the month of August, 2008, he will produce another report announcing the amount of money that he will make this month. Clearly, these amounts are too huge to be made by simply writing articles on the Internet. I do not even know anyone as yet whose monthly salary reaches these levels.
Although the success of a blog is oftentimes attributed to one individual, the truth is that the power behind every blog lies in the quantity and quality of its readership. Without a huge and high quality readership base, a blog will not succeed no matter how creative the author can be. Therefore, it is in this line of thinking, that I would like to call upon mega bloggers like John and the rest to consider rewarding their readers by paying them a certain percentage (10% or 20%) of their monthly blog earnings.This will not leave these mega bloggers in red simply because they will just be sharing a percentage of what they have earned in a particular month. They will have to devise a way of rewarding their readers based on their level of activity(number of visits, comments and their value etc.) in a particular month. If that is not possible, then the cash will have to be shared equally amongst all the registered readers.
Rewarding readers in this way will have a two-fold effect. Firstly, readers will be motivated to be visiting their blogs again and again. This will also cause new readers who were previously hesitant, to start flocking to their blogs resulting in more traffic and obviously more money.Secondly, any mega blogger who will follow my advice will be making even more money because of the great biblical principle which says…Blessed is the one that giveth than the one that receiveth.
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5 users commented in " Megabloggers must be sharing their financial rewards with their readers "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackoh, i wish everyone was that generous unfortunately clement,they are not for now just get your site to be popular and monetize effectively,
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I very much doubt that this is a valid development, especially because it involves a lot of work and it’s hard to measure your readers contribution.
However the idea is nice, there are already many forums that share adsense revenue, why not blogs too ?
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@Enache V: It is not hard to measure reader`s contribution these days.There are a lot of geeks out there who can easily put up some code which can keep track of each user’s contribution.
Although it takes a lot of effort to put up nice blog posts, you will agree with me on the fact that I have raised in my post. No matter how creative you can be, if you do not have a good readership, you will never excel in the blogosphere.The percentage of the earnings that I have suggested is not big at all.It leaves the blogger with 80% to 90% of the monthly income.
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40k a month? wowzers…. thats a lot of money. i would kill to make $40k a year off my blog!
-Jessica
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Wow I don’t even plug advertisements on my blogs I just do mine for fun right now even though I could use the extra income , I just like to provide information People could use , the idea of making 40,000 a month from that is kind of sickening to be honest.. maybe I am just weird.
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