B-con: Blogs & making money

Doc Searls is leading this session.

2 topic areas:
- making money WITH blogs.
- making money BECAUSE of blogs.

2nd topic first:
- how blogging increases your market value & credibility - exercising and enlarging your authority.

Many of the people in the room are now in the businesses that they're in because of blogs. Some of them claim to be making money. Many others have gotten more business through blogs.

One person's advice for making money with your blog: "be as small and niche-like as possible."

Partisan blogs make money much more easily than blogs that strive for balance and a range of views.

Dave Winer: "We're all selling ideas. We're not asking for money for ideas."

Blogs are the new way for people to do business networking and establish reputations. Which leads to value, which can potentially lead to profits.

One of the things that blogs are "selling" is connection.

Doc: "Blogging is an incredible vehicle for making tipping points happen really fast."
"What we're doing is not branding. It's about who we are as people."

One person points out: The value of paid content is going down. What you're selling is the connections and more intangible things.

Jay Rosen: If I were a businessman I would invest the knowledge bloggers gained by buidling their blog. Because bloggers know how to build trust and reputation. That has to be worth something.

Doc: "blogging is the most humanizing thing that's ever happened to Microsoft."

Comments

[brucetct]

i think blogging can also consider as a social networking but it is just in smaller scale if compare to friendster, flickr or orkut.

[Tom]

I find Rosen's statement to be a refreshing "counter" to what Doc Searls has been saying about branding. I know where he is going with it, and have heard the story about cattle now a few times. But Rosen's point is 100% valid. Bloggers build a "brand" - that being themselves, their name, their reputation. Just as Sony was thought to be "the product" by many people when it came to consumer electronics, bloggers can, and do, the same thing. Bloggers aren't sitting at home in our pajamas trying to make a brand for ourselves - we are doing out thing and sharing knowledge and thought processes that we have in kind of an open source world. At the same time, our words, when taken seriously or not, are "attached" to us and lead to people coming to us for information or confrontation in the future. As thought leaders or conveyors, bloggers have a personal "brand." There are so many ways to define having one, and this is a simple way of doing so.

[Billy]

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[tom]

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[Tom]

try this
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[Andrea Jasperson]

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