The blogging breadwinner
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- April
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To all you moms (and dads) out there: This post isn’t about feeding—or not feeding— your child, per se. It’s about making money from blogging. My husband, James, who recently learned I’ve been blogging about Zyla’s eating habits (he jokingly calls it pimping her out), left me a fascinating article that ran in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about “blogger-breadwinner” Heather Armstrong, a mom from Utah whose parenting blog, dooce.com has been so successful that her husband quit his job so that he could manage the advertising for it. Though the couple wouldn’t talk money, an official with blog search engine, Technorati, estimates the site is bringing in $40,000 a month in ad revenue. Dooce, according to the article, gets four million page views per month, and advertisers like BMW and Verizon. Now that’s some serious blogging.
I took a gander this morning at dooce, where Ms. Armstrong mostly talks about her husband and 4-year-old daughter, and I think what sets hers apart is that she’s candid and hilarious. She started blogging in 2001 and lost her job because of it. But don’t let me spoil the fun…go ahead and check it out. But be warned, her raw material isn’t exactly for everyone.
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