How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Workshop

On November 4, 2021, we ran a Workshop on How to Build Communities of Entrepreneurs EVERYWHERE: 1Mby1M Ambassador Program for Building Entrepreneurship Communities

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Community Strategy

Community Strategy: How should you engage with your community? Once you have a community, you have to make decisions on how you wish to engage with them.

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Monetization Strategy

Monetization Strategy: How would you make money? The consensus, today, is that affiliate marketing is a good monetization model for blogs in general. Advertising rates are just too low to move the needle. Specifically, for your entrepreneurship blog, a viable model would be to build upon the Udemy-1Mby1M affiliate program.

Designs of the Week: Blog Ad Space

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a business brand experience consultancy. How do you design web advertising into a blog, without it becoming an eyesore and a bad experience for readers? Naturally, these decisions will be a trade-off. You can’t just get rid of all ads and ignore your revenue stream. But

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Designs of the Week: Blogs

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Thanks so much for your feedback last week on ways to improve the user interface design for SramanaMitra.com. Based on your comments, it looks as though the recurring themes are: 1) Readability/Distraction Points: Use of flash, ads, font

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Redesign SramanaMitra.com

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. As regular blog readers, how would you like to see the user interface and experience of SramanaMitra.com redesigned? How would you want to interact with it? What would you add? What would you take away? We’ll be

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Oh My Blog: What’s the big deal about “new media” influence?

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Buzz Bissinger is an investigative journalist and well-regarded sportswriter and author of the acclaimed football story, “Friday Night Lights.” Will Leitch was until this week editor of Deadspin, typically considered the country’s most influential and widely read sports blog. Several weeks ago Bob Costas invited them to appear on his

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Ads on Blogs

Steve Hodson says, “Advertising for bloggers has to change.” There are a number of Ad Networks that are trying to address the issues he raises. I am anxious to see how this plays out. I am now on Forbes, IDG, Washington Post and TheDeal (all powered by Adify, all business blog networks).