Picking up from the last post, the Making Money session is going fast and furious. Session leader Doc Searls asks if the session is supposed to be about making money with blogs or making money because of blogs.I can’t always tell who is saying what but here are a few comments worth repeating:
–“One sure way to make money — provide infrastructure to people like me.”
–From session leader Doc Searls: “Does your phone have a business model?”
–to make money from Google, “try to be as small and niche-like as possible.”
–from Ed Cone:”Get a half-million subscribers and hit them up for money.”
–“If you’re trying to make money should the people making contributing to your site through comments get a cut?
–Dave Winer wants to know why we’re talking about nickels and dimes instead of the real money that can be made by creating business because of your blog, with people you meet through the blog, with ideas that bubble up through the blog? He says he flips hundreds of thousands of dollars through his blog.
–Chris Nolan says she’s not selling anything on her site other than my ideas and words. She wants to mkae money from her blog …
–“It’s a mushroon for us. We can fertilize it and things pop up from there.”
–“I can’t find a more cost-efficient way of positioning anything other than a blog.”
–An author says he can make twice as much referring his book through Amazon then from the royalty.
–Chris Nolan also talked about losing money through PayPal this year and switching to Amazon.
–Robert Scoble: “Your blog is a brand. … You all are brands.”
–Doc Searls: How many of you think your parents gave you a name instead of a brand? … The term brand was borrowed from the cattle industry. … bringing the notion of branding to what we’re doing here is to spread shit all over it.”
–“If you want to make money from blogging maybe it’s not your personal blog that’s going to do it.”
–“All blogs are different. Blogging is a tool …”
–Re file-sharing teens — “what do you think they’re going to pay for?”
–Sounds like at least one idea may come out of the room — a VC fund fueled by an Amazon affinity id shared across the blogosphere.
–“There need to be more niche-marketing blogging tools.”
And that’s only some of it. Whew …
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