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I would like to know how to start a successful blog and then sell it for a lot of money - how much work and investment that would involve, how to choose a good niche, how to get lots of traffic etc.

One of the best posts, Mr. Chow :wink:

How about a post detailing different ideas for how to make $100 per day. A lot of people wonder how to work from home or make money from an online website or blog, but what they don't realize is that it doesn't take much money at all to leave one's job and work from home on various online ventures and projects. $100/day is a good goal, and any information that you have or that you can think of would be a great post for people in that area.

Do a couple of quick random blog reviews and give your opinion on which are most likely to succeed. Don't make it so random you don't make my review first :D

Bobmeister,
Any thoughts on the growing trend of FICTION BLOGS? You reckon the Chow cash-gathering principles still apply?

I'm having a go with The Curly Situation - a crazy online crime novel based on an Aussie cricketer. But traffic is so minimal I'm starting to despair.

JD

Since you just started your own blog, JottingJones.com, why not give us weekly updates into your traffic numbers, revenue, and what you're doing to promote the site. It would be an interesting case study from the very very start.

Bob I've always wanted to know how do you make online invoices for your private advertisers. Do you need to follow some lineups. Which are legal, which aren't?
Thanx

Greatest post EVER, John! Wow!

Er, oops... ;-)

Great to see here buddy. Now I need to check your personal blog closely. By the way if you need a design for your blog, you might want to consider the pimp my blog show on my blog because I make a custom design every month for one of my lucky readers. Read the detail on that page.

32k a month is a pretty damn good earning. i'd take a 10th of that but have just started blogging this year. Roll on the good times.

I am beginning to feel if Chow is really a Cow in disguise..

I enjoyed your comments. I am new to blogging and discovered John's blog through Chris G's blog. I have two suggestions for your articles:

1. A How To with WordPress for beginners: Their provided information can be confusing.
2. How to utilize a blog for charity organizations. We just sponsored a free community picnic in a "Get To Know Your Neighbor" campaign. Now, I am putting together a pirate treasure hunt and would like to blog the map clues and provide an avenue for participants to track the hunt. ( Plus, it can't hurt growing our blog.) You can look at it at our site:
http://www.chaapsinternational.com/ and I have put together the tracking through ning.

I hope you'll give our site a free plug and thanks.

Anyway, you have done a good job in your blogging life! :razz:

--blog for dream--

Hey, it's my favorite slacker lol.

It's funny Bob, I actually posted a complement over on the cow about how good your new direction was and how it was nice to see you actually posting some good content again...only to learn it WASN'T YOU lol. Sad that it took a new owner to make it good again :(.

Anyway, since you have had a refresher, hopefully you will be able to bring some of the goodness that you started out with back when you really had some good post and content. Back before I started bitching ;). If you can bring that early humor and insight and actually post some meat then it should be a great new start. And if not, well, your later empty post and nonsense should fit in well with the food post and paid reviews here ;).

I vote for your early humor and quality! Bring back the cow that we used to enjoy reading ;)

Write how to shut down a parody/copycat blog. :grin:

Some excellent suggestions kids, looks like you've given me enough stuff to babble about for a while :mrgreen:

How cows and Chows relate to golf and you've got a natural way to link to my website with this post idea :)

Topic: How to bring a blog back bigger and better than ever from a long (or even short) hiatus.
Nice post by the way, John Bob! :shock:
Sorry couldn't help myself.

This idea is gold:

By easiest, you could analyze the ease of use of the site, how easy it is to scale using the same template, how easily the site gets indexed (for example, i bet hubpages gets indexed more quickly than blinkweb sites), etc.

Start off by writing about how much different this place is from your last moo pasture.

I'd say how to make your first $1,000/m blogging.

I like affiliate marketing and I like women. How about "Hot Girl in Search" of the month. Or "My account manager is hotter than yours"?

Now that you're in Australia and Ed Dale lives there, why not partake in the Thirty Day Challenge and blog about it?
http://tinyurl.com/5lzysb . (Not an affliate link - more of a prizes link)

You should write about how to keep blogging and not give up even when you have little comments, no reader, and no revenue.

Woops! I mean, you should write about the ICANN's decision to allow ANY domain names.

I recommend you write a topic about the ICANN's decision to allow ANY domain names.

I'd actually see the process of selling a blog as well. I have a blog that I'm wanting to sell for any price, I just want to maximize its profit. I know it won't sell for any big bucks, but I just want to get rid of it. :)

I'd love to see more posts about starting out blogging. And also posts to do with those who have recently started out blogging. I feel some of the posts on here, although they are great, are aimed slightly above those who are 'beginners'.

Just my 2p worth and hopefully I'll see some more basic stuff on here in the future.

Good luck with your posts on John Chow - I did enjoy reading this one :-)

Your opinions of incorporating automated RSS feeds into a blog. Does it help in any way or is it best to stick with your own original content.
Thanks

Tom Sawyer i totally agree with you, almost 70% of blogs i visit have the title Make Money online so its just to common nowadays :mrgreen:

If i have an idea of someting to Blog about I'd use it at my blog rather than talking about it here!

“Great post John!”

Ok, Just kidding. :twisted:
My post suggestion is: How to use humour to make more money online?

How about a post about the different genres of blogs. I know there are a lot of blogs about the author's everyday activities, but it seems like there are a ton of blogs dedicated to making money online.

Hey Bob , I thought Johncow.com was still yours , what made me think that I don`t know. Haven`t ran across the posts about selling it maybe. I was in the COWpetition contest and now in the IPhone 3G .. What price was it sold for? And who actually bought it? We are all curios .. :mrgreen:

How about you write a post about how it was before, during and after you had the JC parody site. Do you regret that you sold it or giving it away the best decision you've made?

Looking forward to reading your new blog. :)

How about series of posts on
"Global Warming"
"Unequal distribution of financial resources"
"Power of multinational corporations over governments"
"Imminent danger of worldwide catastrophe"
"Racism, sexism, hatred of homosexuals, anti-Semitism"
Or just share with us how you doing in Australia
or Just teach me " What smart bloggers do when Dumb things happens."

Hai
be confident to be a blogger

How about a day in the life of you. Now that you're starting afresh, how do you intend to organise your time day by day etc. How many hours per day do you expect to do to get back in full swing etc?

I personally think the more interesting post would be "The 10 Mooost Interesting Things I Did While I Was Away". I'm sure most of us are curious to find out anyway!

How about a post on publicity and how to get your name or blog mentioned on the national airwaves. I see many of the mommy bloggers and political bloggers getting face time on the Today Show, Fox News and others but I'm not seeing many money making bloggers, personal bloggers or daddy bloggers getting mentions. One or two mentions in the National Media could propel any small time blooger into the big time.

Great post John.

Would love to hear about the differences between male and female bloggers, if you've noticed any generalizations you could share. And, the differences between male and female blog readers. :razz:

Doing it all over again? What is your new blog going to be about? Another MMO?
Why don't you write about how it is to sell a nice profiting blog and do it all over again with expecting to climb back up? I'm sure that's gotta be tough for you, even if you've done it once already.