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Re:How I made over $2 million with this blog by yan on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @02:19PM (#477443)
I made $2 million from a typewriter! All I had to do was use it to write a best selling novel and pitch it to the right publisher!

While he might be correct by saying he made it "with this blog," that entirely misses the point.

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Re:How I made over $2 million with this blog by jerf on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @06:10PM (#477713)
Since that is his point, I daresay you missed it.

"Blogs don't make money. But people with blogs can."

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Re:How I made over $2 million with this blog by jrockway on Thursday February 12, 2009 @07:06AM (#478327)
He probably would have made as much money even if he didn't blog about himself.
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Re:How I made over $2 million with this blog by wmf on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @03:07PM (#477490)
The point I got from this post was that you shouldn't expect to make money from a blog itself. Blogging can be a form of marketing for your real business, but if your business is "pure-play" blogging you are probably in trouble.
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Re:How I made over $2 million with this blog by jwesley on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @03:05PM (#477485)
The more appropriate parallel would be "I made $2 million with a book".
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