Hari ni aku terjumpa dengan few sites yang menegaskan bahawa membuat duit dengan blogging selalunya JARANG BERLAKU, banyak fakta serta cerita disebalik yang berlaku pada mereka yang membuatkan kita terfikir adakah benar blogging ni betul-betul buat duit? Bukan untuk down kan sesiapa dalam perkara ni, sebab aku sendiri pernah melakukan benda yang sama suatu ketika dahulu. Dan realiti aku terima juga adalah seperti mereka. Ya, aku akui yang aku sepatutnya tak patut mengalah, tapi bila aku bekerja dalam dunia web developing ni aku semakin ketahui bahawa hakikat sebenar bagaimana cara sebernanya kita nak buat duit dari dunia online. Yang pastinya bukan dari blogging, kena study betul-betul tu kalau nak tahu.
So inilah few sites aku come across, aku just highlight ayat penting from each blog berkenaan. Untuk bacaan selanjutnya boleh terus pergi ke site mereka. Memang pahit untuk ditelan, tapi itulah hakikatnya. Jikalau korang still insist nak go on further, make sure korang kena work hard untuk ubah every kontra yang blogger ini mention. Good luck!
1. Reality check: You’re not going to make money from your blog [Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist]
Let’s look at some people who have big blogs who didn’t come from big media. Heather Armstrong at Dooce. She’s a good one. Here’s what she has that you don’t: She’s a talented writer and a talented designer. She’s married to a developer who does all her tech stuff for free. And she has an amazing story to tell. She has the ability to translate her genius across many media—photography, memoir, twitter, and so on. She is a marvel. And you are not. None of us is. That’s why she is making so much money from her blog.
2. Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale [Newsweek]
Advertisers shy away from blogs because they’re too unpredictable and because few blogs attract anything approaching a mass audience—and even those that do face so much competition that ad rates remain pitifully low. “A lot of expectations are coming down in terms of monetizing social media,” says Paul Verna, an analyst with eMarketer. ” People have not figured out a clear way to monetize some of these vehicles.” The bad economy compounds the problem, Verna says, but the real issue is “the lack of a clear business model that can generate substantial revenues.”
3. Can Anyone Make Money From Blogging? [Performancing.com]
Anyone could make money from blogging but only a percentage of people actually go all the way and succeed. Critical to success is having staying power, not being defeated by minor setbacks, being willing to put yourself out there and put in the hard work.
4. Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging [Copyblogger]
So if Fake Steve Jobs can’t monetize a blog, the rest of us are doomed, right? He worked hard, he created quality content, he had a terrific angle that went nicely viral. He was at the pinnacle, and he’s broke. So we will be too.
5. You Can’t Make Money With Your Blogs Anymore [Money Money Come]
Google was nice, we earned before because they gave us PR but they are now no longer a nice guy. They think that other companies are overtaking them(from my observation and various views I found in the blogsphere), they want to monopoly this link selling market. Therefore they penalize us who works with other companies because we sell links for them instead of selling them for Google. The problem is that, so many people are banned by Google in their money making program, how is it possible for those got banned to earn? Luckily there are other companies come to the rescue! Now, Google are further penalising those who got banned like us.
Photo Source: Rev Dan Catt [Flickr]
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