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Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free J.D. Frazer

Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free By J.D. Frazer

Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free by J.D. Frazer


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Teaches readers with blogs, on line photo albums, personal Web sites, podcasts, and community forums how to easily make money with their content. The author covers tried methods for making money through personal content on the Web, including Google Adsense, syndication, affiliate programs, branding, merchandising, subscriptions, and more.

Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free Summary

Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free: A Guide to Making Money on the Web by J.D. Frazer

Realizing that it is surprisingly simple to have personal content published on the Web, author JD Frazer is out to teach the growing millions of readers with blogs, on line photo albums, personal Web sites, podcasts, and community forums how to easily make money with their content. Frazer covers the tried and true, methods for making money through personal content on the Web, including Google Adsense, syndication, affiliate programs, branding, merchandising, subscriptions, and more. This book includes examples of amateur efforts that grew into worldwide successes on the Web. It provides a cautious warning for the many obstacles that readers will face, and highlights the positive end results of being someone who earns a living through creative pursuits.

About J.D. Frazer

JD Frazer (BC, Canada) is a cartoonist and writer who enjoys a readership in excess of 1.5 million fans internationally. His site, Userfriendly.org, is the first stop on the Web in the morning for a vast number of Information Technology professionals. He has spoken at more than 50 events as both keynote speaker and panelist, on topics related to the business of online content, intellectual property, and online communities. He has consulted for companies on online consumer trends, online community development, and content development. His popular books with O'Reilly and Associates have sold more than 100,000 copies.

Table of Contents

Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction.Chapter 1: The Business of Creating Content.The Good, the Bad, and the Fake.What to Look Forward to.What Not to Look Forward to.When Was the First Content Provider Born?The Ancients Were Sure Into It.The Middle Ages and Renaissance Aren't to Be Outdone.Ideas to Industry.Syndicates: Businesses in Villains' Clothing.Enter the Web.Chapter 2: The Advertising Game.The Players.The Client.The Advertising Agency.The Ad Network and the Sales Force.The Media Channel.Demographics.Conducting a Survey.What a Survey Is Not.Questions, Answers, and Legerdemain.I Have the Data... Now What?The Media Kit.Print Advertising Versus Web Advertising.Creating Web (Banner) Ads.Web Advertising Formats.Static Web Advertising.Rich Media Web Advertising.Pop-Anything Advertising.Interstitial Advertising.Text Ads.E-mail Advertising.Podcast (Audio) Ads.Serving Ads for Fun and Profit.Ad Serving: Yours or Theirs?Ad Serving Jargon:What the Heck Did They Just Ask Me?Be Prepared to Say No.Keeping the Client Happy.Show Me the Money.When the Ad Agency Becomes the Enemy.Chapter 3: The Membership Game.What Are They Really Buying?Holding Out a Hat Marked Donations.What Should You Give Them?Intangibles.Tangibles.The Sponsorship Drive.The Question of Price Point.Accepting Payment (or Keeping Your Hands Open).Checks and Money Orders.PayPal.Credit Cards.Maintaining Value.Chapter 4: To Gate or Not to Gate.Life in a Gated Community.Gating Off Your Site.Cash Poor and Intelligence Rich.Chapter 5: Branding and Merchandising.You Are Your Brand.Leveraging Your Brand with Endorsements.Your Art Promoting Your Art.Jurassic Park Had it Right.Traditional Merchandisers.On-Demand Merchandisers.Chapter 6: Online Communities and Online Consumers.Consumer Culture Versus Community.Communities: Realspace, Online, Distributed.The Ivory Tower: A Nice Place to Visit, but Living There?Shared Thoughts, Shared Experiences, Shared Reviews.So That's What Mayors (Are Supposed to) Do.Conduct Unbecoming, or Everyone Behave!Loyal Communities = Happy Customers.Chapter 7: The Ethics of Creation and Consumption.Consumption Junction.Discontent over Content.Chapter 8: Protecting Your Creation.The Siblings: Copyright and Trademark.Copyright, Right?Trademark, the Less (?) Popular Sibling.Creative Commons-Ethical Protection.The Four Online Content Consumers.Thief.Naive.Policeman.Citizen.Chapter 9: Fame and Your Audience.What Is Fame Anyway?The Upside of Fame.The Downside of Fame.Pride, Praise, and Sycophancy.How to Handle Criticism.Chapter 10: Ready, Fire, Aim!The Content Provider's Business Checklist.Establish Content.Write a Privacy Policy.Write a Forum Policy for Acceptable Use.Write Copyright Terms.Sign Up with an Ad Network.Crank Up the Marketing.Collect Demographic Information.Build a Media Kit.Contact a Third-Party Ad Sales Force or More Ad Networks.Part-Time Fun to Full-Time Living.Final Words.Appendix A: References and Resources.Index.

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GOR002314316
9780471747536
047174753X
Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free: A Guide to Making Money on the Web by J.D. Frazer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2005-11-01
240
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