How to Make Money from Your Blog

I was amused and inspired by a recent blog entry I read, “5 Ways Your Blog Can Make Money”. Ian Lurie does a great job of summarizing his experiences with some serious, and some not-so-serious, techniques for making money from blogs. His first four approaches are mostly amusing. But when he gets to his fifth and final suggestion, Lurie gets real and states, “A 100% guaranteed route to success, if you’re willing to put in the effort, is to use your blog to build your business.” He then estimates how much new business has resulted from his blog. That’s when I got inspired.