Blogging for Bucks
I should charge you to read this blog. That was the premise of Content Expo 2024, a two-day conference I attended in Cleveland this past Monday and Tuesday. Blogger or content entrepreneur ? I learned that I am not a mere blogger but a content entrepreneur . Vertes’Verities needs to be run like a business. After attending sessions with titles like “Quitting A $200k Corporate Job to Become a Solo Content Entrepreneur,” “How I Built a Six-Figure Income from My Podcast Working 3 Days a Week,” and “Blogging in 2024: Everything You Need to Find Success (and Generate Income),” I felt like a chump. The big players in content creation encouraged me to sell memberships, seek sponsorships, and diversify my content into online classes, newsletters, podcasts, self-published books, and YouTube videos. I should start thinking of Vertes’Verities as a full-fledged media company. Before you say, “You’re not getting one red cent out of me, Vertes,” let me continue. One vendor asked me if I had consider