Articles About Creating an Income

A huge reason many bloggers join Food Blogger Pro is because they want to learn how to make money with their blog. It’s an honorable goal!

A lot of the time, bloggers will hear about advertising networks and the money they can make with them, so they’ll apply and get accepted and stop there. While ad networks might be the main source of income for bloggers with a lot of traffic, the income from running ads on your site can be less than satisfactory if you’re getting just a few thousand page views per month.

Alternatively, working directly with brands can be a reliable source of income if you are able to start and maintain a sponsorship.

But that’s just the thing… How in the world are you supposed to start a sponsorship?!

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Question:

What’s the best monetization strategy to focus on when you’re trying to create an income from your food blog: ads or products?

Answer:

Both ads and products are the best monetization strategy when you’re trying to create an income from your food blog, you just need to make sure that you don’t use both at the same time.

That last part is really important: make sure that you don’t use both at the same time.

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Have you heard the phrase you don’t know how much you miss it until it’s gone?

That’s how I felt about Amazon’s affiliate program, Amazon Associates.

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Up until June of 2013 we had been using Amazon affiliate links in different places throughout Pinch of Yum and earning a consistent (but never significant) amount of money from it.

Then, on June 18th 2013, we received an email from Amazon that said this:

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account will be closed and your Amazon Services LLC Associates Program Operating Agreement will be terminated effective June 30, 2013. This is a direct result of the unconstitutional Minnesota state tax collection legislation passed by the state legislature and signed by Governor Dayton on May 23, 2013, with an effective date of July 1, 2013. As a result, we will no longer pay any advertising fees for customers referred to an Amazon Site after June 30 nor will we accept new applications for the Associates Program from Minnesota residents.

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