If you’ve got a WordPress blog or you’re thinking about starting a blog, this session was designed just for you.
In April 2015, Jennifer Bourn launched her own personal blog Inspired Imperfection, and while she knew everything she needed to know about building the blog, developing content, and optimizing every thing possible for search engines, the blog monetization piece was a different story and she had A LOT of questions like:
- What’s the best, most profitable monetization strategy? Ads? Affiliate promotions? Brand partnerships? Information product creation?
- What’s the best monetization strategy for new blogs with low traffic?
- How do you build up traffic to your blog or a community excited about your blog that will share your content?
- What’s the best approach for ads on a blog? Google Ads? A third party ad network? Native or direct ads?
- What are the best practices for disclosing brand partnerships? Affiliate promotions? Sponsored content?
- What type of affiliate promotions work the best? Are there certain affiliate platforms that are better than others?
While organizing WordCamp Sacramento, Jennifer had an idea — what if she gathered several successful bloggers from the Sacramento region together for a moderated panel discussion where she could ask them questions AND the entire Sacramento WordPress community could benefit too?
The Blogging Success And Monetization Panel Discussion experts include:
- Margaret Andrews: co-founder of the Sacramento Bloggers Network, author of the humor blog, Nanny Goats in Panties and the blogging tutorial site Sticky Readers
- Kayla Butler: photographer from Ivorymix, where she provides stock photography, resources, and support to creative bloggers and digital makers of all kinds
- Dorothy Kern: blogger at Crazy for Crust, a popular dessert and baking blog
- Terri Webster Schrandt: blogger at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives all about living a leisure lifestyle