Retire@21 just published a Top30 of Web Young Entrepreneurs according to the Annual Turnover.
At the top we find Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook with $700 millions, Andrew Gower from Runescape with $650 millions, Blake Ross and David Hyatt from Mozilla with $120 millions and Chad Hurley from Youtube with 85 millions.
It is interesting to see the presence of Mario Lavandeira’s Weblog (Perez Hilton) with $3 millions and Ryan Block from Engadget with $20 millions.
Problogger just posted the results of his Survey on “How Much Money Do Bloggers Earn Blogging?” (for month of October)
On 3054 responses, 855 (28%) don’t earn money, nothing, nada.
2199 bloggers (72%) are making money from their blog.
Among these 72% :
572 (26%) earn under $10 per month
264 (12%) earn between $10 and $29
286 (13%) earn between $30 and $99
418 (19%) earn between $100 and $499
176 (8%) earn between $500 and $999
88 (4%) earn between $1000 and $1499
66 (3%) earn between $1500 and $2499
88 (4%) earn between $2500 and $4999
44 (2%) earn between $5000 and $9999
22 (1%) earn between $10 000 and $14 999
198 (9%) earn more than $15 000 per month
Here the pie chart for bloggers making money (72%):
Conclusion:
On total answers (3054), 65% are making nothing or under $100 per month. (28% nothing, 37% under $100)
35% are making more than 100$ per month, on these 9% are making more than $15 000 per month (huge)
So is a blog a good way for making money ?
- YES if you are a High-Traffic weblog or a Top Blogger.
- NO if you spend a lot of time blogging and you make less than 100$ per month.
You can earn more money by setting up a classic website and not spending as many hours as you would on a blog…
This Marketing/SEO/Entrepreneurship weblog has great numbers for October 2007 (especially impressive ratio dollars/visitors)
Unique Visitors: 6,500 (figure is growing monthly)
Pageviews: 10,600 (1.3 per visitor)
RSS Daily Readers: 900+
and good revenues :
Text Link Ads - $234.63
ReviewMe - $125
Affiliate Revenue - $105
Private Text Links - $65
Private Post Level Links - $29.20
Private Image Ad - $70
Total: 628.83 $ for october.
Adnan is leaving the Blogosphere after his “experiment to see whether the internet was an avenue forward in terms of making money online, and forming new friendships, gathering a loyal crowd of readers and using technology for progress”.
“Whilst this is not the time for a full explanation (which will come in the next few days), it is with great regret and sorrow that I announce that I’m leaving the blogosphere, and have decided to put Blogtrepreneur.com - my flagship blog - up for sale.”
Phototrade is a new web service that allows you to make money by sharing your images and photos online.
The website is currently in beta and on invitations only (one invit to give, email me to vincentabry@gmail.com or register on phototrade to be notified)
First when you are invited on Phototrade here is your Dashboard when you are registered:
Then you upload your pics via the online tool:
And here what a typical hosted page looks like:
And you start making money with your photos by CPM and Adsense sharing revenue.
You can also sell your photos: (you set the price)
See video of Phototrade at Blogworld Expo, by Shoemoney:
Now it’s probably a good way to get paid for your photos when I see the number of visits I get from Google on my pics.
We’ll see in the future how Phototrade perform.
The negative aspect is that we are getting dependant from this kind of service as a free webhosting. What will happen if they close ??
