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BurgundyMalaise

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Hey guys & gals-

 

So today I registered a domain name to post my analysis and perspective on sports, movies, music, fine art, etc. so mainly film reviews, sports stuff (Super Bowl XLIX preview and predictions last post) stuff like that.

 

Anyhow, I was wondering if any of you have down this and tried to create an extra stream of revenue from blogging or writing independetly? If so, any advice or counsel would be very much appreciate it.

 

Here is the link to my site if you want to check it out. Film Reviews include American Sniper, Interstellar, The Master, The Dark Knight Rises, The Godfather. Also a personal collection of 25 most underrated films of the century.

 

Hope you enjoy and thanks for reading. 

 

http://freshcutroc.com

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Pretty much impossible.

Yes, in theory there are revenue streams for blogs if you have significant traffic.

Some blogs make money with product endorsements - especially mommy blogs - but that doesn't fit your model. Your only option is ad revenue - but my guess (don't know your analytics) is the traffic you need to attract is outside your reach.

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Be great and possibly it will grow organically through grass roots.  There are ways to boost. There are firms you can pay money to promote your site or give you extra hits.  You need to get yourself somehow high on the list of a search engine like Google.  When searching for sports, movie reviews, etc. you should be on page 1. That's not likely to be the case because you aren't going to get the hits of the big boys like Rotten Tomatoes etc.  As I said, you can buy promotion, but I don't know if what you are paying will be returned in revenue in the short run.

 

The other thing which helps a lot is if you have a famous friend or athlete who will appear on your site or tweet about it a bunch. If that happens then the people who love him or her may decide to pay attention to you.

 

Last advice, if you want this to be a business. Cover something that other people aren't.  Find a niche.  I can find 10,000 fan sites talking about Avengers 2, but probably only a half dozen about local documentaries or 24 hour film contests. Now, small documentary makers are more likely to want money from you than to give it, but they are probably will be happy to talk and share a clip or two.

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I feel like I offer some good insight into various things. Kinda fun and can be informative but still 100% genuine, my opinion my feelings, etc. I'm not trying to appease anybody although I do enjoy appealing to them.

 

My sister sells a line of organic type skin care products that are engineered and concocted all proper and fancy and whatnot. Maybe I could work with her and her company to post their stuff. 

 

Also, I'm not sure what the MD Real Estate Commission would have to say but maybe I can advertise for my real estate brokerage and absorb some of their fees. Have a button to see our listed properties as well? I dunno just a thought.

 

It would be a dream come true to make a living from just bangin away on my keyboard as I am so accustomed to anyway

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There is a twitter site called something like fact of the day or random fact of the day... something like that. Its called UberFacts

 

Dude just sends out a fact a day - something from history, just some interesting fact each day. The guy makes 500K per year selling advertising because he has several million twitter followers. Took him years to build up the following but it paid off.

 

I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with an idea that millions would want to follow me on twitter for.. came up with nothing... damn!  Maybe Redskins Fact of the day....

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To echo others, it's nearly impossible.

You need a LOT of traffic. Hundreds of thousands per week to even begin to attract notice.

Then you have to keep up the levels, because it's all generated in CPM, cost per thousand. 

the rates are very low unless you show ridiculous traffic.

NFL.com can command great CPM rates because they can produce millions of visitors every week.

Soyou need to build audience, then keep them coming back and keep it all expanding.

 

I used to make Bang Cartoons, and in the years I made them heavily i was seeing upwards of ten million visitors per year on bangcartoon.com..  and it didn't make enough to make the work worth it. (BUT, it got me a lot of work, and that made some nice money.)

 

Selling CPM advertising is only going to work after you've built the steady traffic. Inserting google ads or other advertising that pays you a fraction of a cent for each impression..    it's not much and it only pays out when you reach a minimum number. It could be a while to see anything.
Even my old cartoon site wasn't paying out much and it did pretty good traffic.

 

The hard thing is continually fresh content. You need something others don't have, or you need to present it in a way others don't, and unfortunately for this idea, there are millions of sports blogs out there to compete with. And like Chip said,, if you come up with an interesting idea, others will steal it.

 

Good luck.

 

~Bang

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