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How Much Money Do You Spend On Your Blog?

July 18, 2007 by Ben Yoskovitz

Most people ask, “How much money do you make from your blog, and how do you do it?”

But Jonathan at SmartWealthyRich.com is asking a different question: What are your blogging expenses?

Good question.

He’s hoping to generate a lot of feedback and discussion, and I hope he does.

I spend approximately $20/month in hosting and that’s it. I’ve thought about having a professional do my blog design but haven’t bit yet. I strongly advocate having a top-notch blog design though, so if you’re going to spend any money, spend it on that.

I’ve also heard positive feedback on paying for clickthroughs from StumbleUpon.

If we associated a cost to the time we blog, our blogging expenses would be astronomical. Unless you value your time at $0.5/hour…But beyond that, what else do you spend money on? Do you buy advertising? Text link ads elsewhere? Every use any professional help to solve a problem or add special code?

Go check out the feedback Jonathan’s receiving and leave a comment for him with your blogging expenses.

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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