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In my opinion...worthless to most on here. a blog is like a tgp (or any marketing tool) If you use "tgp software" to "make" your tgp with a script then...you aren't gonna make the kind of money that is out there to be had. Same with a blog. I THINK I know my tgp biz. Anyone that knows me can tell you that. Always done by hand, with lot's of personality thrown in.
I've begun working in blogs for the last couple of years as well. Using the same philosophy. I use wordpress, but I work on it myself...no scripts, no feeds. Of course I'll steal text if it's a good descriptive text. But I also write tons of my own as well as "tweak" lots of them.
My experience has been that if you can entertain your audience they will reward you. But if they sense you are running a "cookie cutter" blog (or tgp) they won't.
That's the conundrum here. You have a lot of very smart people who may not have the instincts to entertain the crowd. A left side of the brain vs. the right side of the brain kind of thing. I'm lucky, I guess. I've been in the entertainment biz my whole life. I walked into this business and just started making money by doing what comes naturally to me. Yet I have seen thousands of "tgp's" spring up over the last few years that don't remotely have a human touch to them at all. Then I read people matter-of-factly state that tgp's can't make money anymore. Yet, me and the small handful of people who were making money 8 years ago...are still making great money. Nothing has changed for us.
And now that I am turning my attention to blogs, I have seen tremendous sales using the same methods.
Don't get me wrong, I admire programmers. I have a very good one who works for me. But if you really want to make some money, put that stuff aside and DO IT BY HAND. Surfers really do see through all the scripts and know when a real person is actively running a site. You'll end up working 12 to 14 hours a day like I do...but the rewards are substantial. And the blog can be a money making machine if done "correctly". At least the two that I have are making sales above and beyond anything I've seen in recent years.
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