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At the moment I make most of my non-day-job income from my two blogs [1][2], and Any New Books? [3]. All together they make me over $5000 on a good month. The t

At the moment I make most of my non-day-job income from my two blogs [1][2], and Any New Books? [3]. All together they make me over $5000 on a good month. The two blogs didn't make money initially because I wasn't interested in monetizing them when I started years ago. ANB made its first dollar on day one. [1] http://programmingzen.com http://programmingzen.com [2] http://math-blog.com http://math-blog.com [3] http://anynewbooks.com http://anynewbooks.com

middus 16y ago
How are the blogs creating passive income? I guess you're spending quite some time creating/editing content, don't you?
- acangiano 16y ago
  The majority of my blog income is from existing content. If I stop posting for a month or so, as I have in the past, about 90% of the revenue will still be there. I'm currently posting about one post per week for each blog, and this relaxed pace is enough to increase the revenue of my blogs. If I stopped blogging altogether, it would probably take years before my revenue figures would be hugely impacted. That's passive enough for me.
  - seunosewa 16y ago
    10% is a huge impact if you depend on the money. And you're likely to lose 10% every month if you stopped blogging, not just the first month.
    - acangiano 16y ago
      10% is a lot but given that we are talking about extra money, it wouldn't impact me. If I stopped blogging, the blogs would progressively earn less and less for sure, but the majority of the income comes from posts that are from several months to several years old. So no, they wouldn't lose 10% revenue per month. The gist of what I'm saying is that the majority of the revenue (which we may define as the baseline) is, for all intents and purposes, passive income akin to having self-published an ebook or an app in the past. Besides, even if we disagree on the definition, the original question was about "small/passive" income. The OP clearly wanted to know about extra income on the side, more than limiting the field to 100%, strictly passive income sources.
gohat 16y ago
if you don't mind my asking, how did you go about promoting anynewbooks? looks very interesting.
- acangiano 16y ago
  It was mostly word of mouth and inbound marketing. I also reached out to plenty of book bloggers in the early days of the site.

middus 16y ago

How are the blogs creating passive income? I guess you're spending quite some time creating/editing content, don't you?

acangiano 16y ago
The majority of my blog income is from existing content. If I stop posting for a month or so, as I have in the past, about 90% of the revenue will still be there. I'm currently posting about one post per week for each blog, and this relaxed pace is enough to increase the revenue of my blogs. If I stopped blogging altogether, it would probably take years before my revenue figures would be hugely impacted. That's passive enough for me.
- seunosewa 16y ago
  10% is a huge impact if you depend on the money. And you're likely to lose 10% every month if you stopped blogging, not just the first month.
  - acangiano 16y ago
    10% is a lot but given that we are talking about extra money, it wouldn't impact me. If I stopped blogging, the blogs would progressively earn less and less for sure, but the majority of the income comes from posts that are from several months to several years old. So no, they wouldn't lose 10% revenue per month. The gist of what I'm saying is that the majority of the revenue (which we may define as the baseline) is, for all intents and purposes, passive income akin to having self-published an ebook or an app in the past. Besides, even if we disagree on the definition, the original question was about "small/passive" income. The OP clearly wanted to know about extra income on the side, more than limiting the field to 100%, strictly passive income sources.

gohat 16y ago

if you don't mind my asking, how did you go about promoting anynewbooks? looks very interesting.

acangiano 16y ago
It was mostly word of mouth and inbound marketing. I also reached out to plenty of book bloggers in the early days of the site.