You’ve been blogging now for a few years and despite the ego rush of seeing your hits soar, you’re left wondering whats the point or rather how do you finally make some cash off all that hard work.

In the beginning it can be tough when you’re not earning from your blog, but there are lots of options when it comes to monetization.

6 Ways to Make Money From Your Blog

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From time to time there are those whose sufferings can be taken no longer. For these people they resort to a new form of digital revolution, the “Social Network Call to Arms”. The past few months I’ve witnessed countless instances of people using their network connections to accomplish many tasks. Take this story by New York Times Technology Blogger, David Poque.

He could no longer suffer the injustice of having to wait for the mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions messages that play before each persons voicemail. Poque claims that the customers are paying for it.

These little 15-second waits add up–bigtime. If Verizon’s 70 million customers leave or check messages twice a weekday, Verizon rakes in about $620 million a year. That’s your money. And your time: three hours of your time a year, just sitting there listening to the same message over and over again every year.
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I find that writing like anything else takes practice. The more you do it the better you will get. Looking back at things I’ve written years ago makes me embarrassed, but on the positive side, I have evidence of improvement.

I make a point to write everyday, the majority of the time its unrelated to my blog or work in general. Writing should be something entertaining and just as much a part of your daily routine as “The Daily Show” is. I find that its easier for me to do this by keeping a number of different projects in rotation.

Here are 4 things that you should work into your daily routine to become a better writer:

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Blogging may be hazardous to your health. Blogging can affect your posture and more importantly if you are a male, your crown jewels. Do you part and join the grassroots effort to put an end to “local warming” and protect the future of your children.

Yossi Vardi recently gave a lecture at the TED conference to educate the public about the dangers of “local warming”.

Click here to watch the video

Its been coming for a long time, the slow painful death of IE6. As the web continues to grow and change it becomes necessary to retire those old dinosaurs who have become more of a pain to use than a benefit. As a developer its a tiring process to make sure your pages run on every browser, but if everyone just dropped support for it we could get rid of this pesky browser for good.

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Here is a brief interview with Alice Marwick, PHD candidate at NYU. She’s studying the concept of being “Internet famous” – that is, widely known among an elite Web 2.0 crowd, but mostly unknown outside of that world. To me this is the central idea behind being a “Zero to Hero” but what does kind of applications does this have for the real world.

There are several different ways to earn an income from the comfort of your home using the internet and not all of them involve using a blog. However there are at least 7 ways a blog can generate income for you.

“It can pay for your bills. It works for everyone. There’s no secret and you’ll just really need to know how to get started and which blogging method you want to follow.”

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Every expert in blogging or internet marketing says that its important you don’t just focus all of your time and energy on one blog, or one niche. By having multiple pages going at the same time is gives you an opportunity to cast a wider net and reach more different people. It’s possible that one kind of site will be much more successful than the previous one. I’ve also heard from a number of people that blogging about a number of different topics can help to keep things fun and interesting for you. When one topic becomes boring to you, just hop on over to your other site.
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If you’ve ever tried using twitter to build traffic for you blog or website, then you know that there are tons of people out there who have the policy “If you follow me I’ll follow you back”, but what good does this really do for you. It has some people asking the question “even with 1000 followers on Twitter why are there probably less than 10 that are reading my tweets and fewer than that clicking on my links. Perhaps its time for a new Policy.

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What Do We Do Here?

For a long time I’ve wondered if it was possible for a person with no experience to make money online.  Many of the people online promote that they got rich but won’t tell you how they did it until you purchase their program.  While it may be true that they are getting rich, I’m not there yet and don’t have money to waste on their opinions.

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