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Yeah, but if everybody did that you'd no longer get that free stuff... There are certain things you can't simply charge for successfully. Not many people would

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• patio11 18y ago
  There are a variety of free-to-many-of-you revenue models which do not involve advertising, at least not in the sense of you-pay-me-to-rent-eyeballs-that-I-collect advertising. Example: Nobody has paid a dime to read my blog. I have not and will not ever sell an ad on it. But I have made a few hundred dollars (hmm, might be 4 figures by now, will have to check) from mentions of my own software. And I did get a publishing opportunity from it (I wrote a chapter in a book about how to do business blogging -- see http://www.blogblazers.com http://www.blogblazers.com if you're interested). And the increased visibility in my topical community has translated into links and an SEO advantage for my business. And all of these things figure into my worth to my company. But nobody has ever paid to read my blog.