I'm back from summer conferences. The house needs a major clean-up, which I started this morning. I'm working on clearing out the paper, and dealing with old correspondence that I'd set aside until after the trips.
Other than that, I'm working on making my blogs pay. Yes, I'm mercenary. Big-time.
This was prompted by the receipt of several checks for ads and residuals. After I did my happy dance, I started researching ways to make money with your blogs.
- Sell ads, either directly or via various services. I use Linkworth (if you have an interest in this for your own blog, please click on the link. I get credit for referrals).
- Build traffic by commenting on other blogs - surprisingly, I got a bump one day, when I commented on a popular blog.
- Sign up for Sponsored Reviews. These are companies that pay to get a mention on your blog - NOT big-time money, but, hey, every bit helps. The reviews are openly identified as such. On my other blog, it's on the sidebar, Affiliate Program - Sponsored Reviews.
- Writing posts with an eye to collecting them in a book. I'm often asked how I do things in the classroom, so I decided to start posting this fall, and mark the posts with a tag "Ebook". Those are the ones that will eventually be pulled out for publication. It may be self-published as an e-book.