Making Money Blogging

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of making money from having an opinion.

There are debates on if business blogging should be monetized, and there are debates on if AdSense is tacky or not. (The answer, AdSense is only tacky if the person reading thinks it is.) Or using services like PayPerPost or readily accessible to someone else. Don’t you think everyone deserves a chance to decide if they want to submit articles for money at Associated Content (see link to the right) or blog for money through PayPerPost?

Or even make money doing surveys. I have a few friends that don’t want to own a business and handle all that goes along with that (the responsibility, the being up until 2am to meet a deadline, etc.) They just want to spend a couple hours a day reading emails and answering surveys for money. Nothing wrong with that, right? It’s great that there’s a place for everyone, not just for those of us that can start a business from our homes.

The internet shows itself to be, yet again, the great leveler of playing fields. (Leveler? What an awful word!) You don’t have to be Einstein, you don’t have to be an entrepreneur. You can be a blogger, or a survey answer-er, or one of a hundred other things…and you can make a living.

A friend of mine asked me to compile some work from home resources for her, and I came up with www.abundanceweb.com – There are affiliate links, survey links, start a business links, and get paid to read email links. She was really pleased, and I’ve gotten positive email responses from other stay at home moms that I’ve sent it to as well. Stay at home moms that don’t want to start a business, but want extra income.

If you know someone that needs some extra money but doesn’t want to start a business, send them to Abundance Web and let them have at it. In this age of abundance I think everyone should have the chance to get what they’re looking for from the internet. I think I’m going to put a blog on that site as well, to give tips and tricks to make visits to those places even more profitable.

Back in the day when I first started online, I might have looked at that site as sleazy. Now I see it as providing a resource that not everyone has access to. People are thanking me for it. Kind of mind blowing, if you ask me. But who am I to say who can and cannot have access to resources? I guess the old adage is still as true as it’s ever been…It’s all in the eye of the beholder!