CanWest Global – Leveraging Your Content

Yeah right. No effort. I think all job needs effort,and making and writing good content is also and effort.

I currently have been interested in Blogging It seems to be a web page you have more control over and able to be your own writer at little or no cost.I find it interesting there are many ways to get heard,the real issue is who will ever read or see your site.You really have to come up with a unusal was to get the word out.For instance there is a male person here in Tulsa Ok that is wearing speedos in the public ,in the middle of winter revealing alot of his personnal attire.He was all over the news last night ,because people were afendded,he got a sudden lot of exposure,the question at hand ,is it indesant exposure,or is the person sexual prediture,or maybe he is just making a statment about how people dress in public today,he is a banker with a family.My point is how do we get noticed with little or no cost,advertising is as we all no not cheap. So if you can post a blog add like you would in the paper that would cost you seval hundred to thousand dollars,for one day or week,I say give it a shot.A hundred dollars a month is better than no dollars a month

The article was also printed in the Edmonton Journal; another CanWest Global newspaper. The heading there was "Blogger Collects Cash Everytime Ad Gets Click". Wonder is his clickthroughs went up today, lol.

Congratulations, John! I read your blog almost everyday and am happy to see that you're getting recognition for it.

Great picture JC,

You look like a buck yourself with these two monitors :)

* Internet bucks; no effort *

What? :)

Ridiculous...

Congratulations to the big news coverage John! Have it bringed you many visitors?

Btw, congratulations for reaching 2k readers in the RSS feed :)

I'd like to know how you only spend 2 hours a day to manage such a great blog John!

Keep up the great work and congratulations on the news coverage. You are quickly diverging away from the rest of us lowly bloggers. :)

-James

Congratulations on crossing 2k feed reads yesterday, and now if anyone could please tell me how the hell I get that button!

Mubina@gmail.com please

Congrats, John. That kind of coverage will reach many more people that are non-techies. This might open the door to a different type of audience.

Christoph

Ottawa is the one that got it right. Vancouver Sun's headline is too fruity, and National Post's is just retarded.

The thing that makes this blog special is how John has taken just about every possible way to make money with a content-based website, and has implemented them on this blog with various degrees of success.

The paper makes it sound like a 'get rich quick' scheme, and that's just wrong. Sure, the income level has skyrocketed. This blog definitely benefited from a HUGE amount of traffic from Digg and Slashdot (coming in REGULARLY, which is rare). Doing the same thing he has done, he'd surely be at this level of monthly income. But instead of getting there in 3 months it may have been 12-18 months.

So with a little bit of luck, and a LOT of know-how (and plenty of effort), it can be done. But it's not an effortless 'get rich quick' "scheme" like the Post seems to think.

Very nice.

Great work John, keep the site goin, you cover some great topics and its always a fun read.

I like this one best:

"Blogger’s ad scheme starts to click"

It's far more evil sounding. Though there's evil in the "no effort" as well. Makes people think that you can make tons of money doing nothing.

Everyone will now try to start their own blog, but eventually only the dedicated will keep on writing. But not everyone can monetize their blog with success like John.

What an oustanding blog this is! its even in newspapers! wow ! I wish i could do as well with mine!

In the article it Says your 41 Years old, Is that True?

The National Post was delivered to my Business admin. class this morning at the University of Ottawa, and I happened to notice the article about the blog. Decided to visit, and, here I am.

Very cool. We all know, however, that newspapers have to sell to make money so they have to use catchy titles, even if they're stretching the truth.

I like the original title best, though.

No effort? Jeez, the noobs are flooding the gates! Battin' down thy hatches before it's too late, Chow!

I would think that the newspaper traffic would be even more valuable then any other traffic source. They will all be arriving direct looking for your secret to success. They certainly are not going to have advertisement blockers like digg users, or chance upon your site with a Google search. Expect this new traffic to "stick".

With this development I have no idea what to expect you Feb. earnings to be. I think the difference is going to be huge despite the few lost days.

Congratulations, Keep it up!

The first one is best. The others make you sound like a domainer or MFA type.

Hi John -- Congrats on your success! As a new blogger, I'm certainly motivated by the potential that is out there. - Brian

No effort? Are they kidding? Wow. I am very dissapointed to hear they decided on such a sensational headline. There is no question, that you put in a great deal of effort into this blog. "Internet bucks - no effort" implies this is just piece of cake and any joe off the street could start a blog and make it successful with little effort.

Regardless, congratulations for the coverage, John. The old world media is clearly behind the times though.