Ok, Ok, I’m here already and the flakee “Blogging 101” article is gone forever; I know, not very extreme. I hope to add content to this area of Blogging Extreme at least once a month. These two content areas at the top of the homepage were meant for material that I want displayed for most of the year and need to be read by most all that pass by.

This months post deals with making life easier for yourself when it comes to your blog. When I started out blogging, no one really wrote how to manage a blog efficiently. As blogging becomes more competitive, you will have to make sure that you are managed as efficiently as possible; to save time is nothing else.

Life is hard enough, make it easy on yourself and follow my suggestions or put some thought into your own blog habits and make some hard and fast rules to follow. In the coming months I’ll be writing about, managing your future posts, how to manage breaking news, how to manage your media library so that you don’t lose your mind, how to manage your plug-in library, efficient software upgrade, and database management just to name a few.

It would be nice if all we had to do was write, but a blog is a business even if you do it for a hobby …….. if you want to be read you will manage it like a business anyway. There is a way and a means to an end where you can manage with joy. It can be fun. It can be a nightmare. Having to meet deadlines and hassling with tech issues does not a happy blogger make. So make life easy on yourself and check back here for a dose of blogging sanity.

There are two major types of business models that entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first and most common way to turn a blog into a profit making machine is to sell advertising to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s readers. The second kind of money making blog is one that helps a single brand improve its image by creating positive associations between the blog and the product in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen mind for marketing.

If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising, there are two basic ways that you can go about recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site; you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue. Within the first group, many people make money blogging by selling space through Google’s AdSense program. The advantages of this program are numerous, as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most people discover that they make less money through this method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route. People who have a strong background in sales and are experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit of money by renting blog space to interested companies. The most serious problem with this model is that you often have to build quite a sizable readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of work before you start to make money blogging.

As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative business, a lot of established companies are considering how they can get into the action. One way that companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for their corporation. Often, a company will employ an established blogger to create a weblog designed specifically to appeal to that company’s customers and to create positive associations with the brand in consumers’ minds. More than one writer who never even dreamed that he or she could make money blogging has been approached by a company and offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.