Email marketing has had a bad rap in recent years, owing to the ‘spray and pray’ tactics of some online marketing cowboys.

There are at least five million blogs for every subject. Or so it sometimes feels. So how do you make your blog stand out?

While no one would argue about your need to monetize your blog, there’s a fine line between establishing revenue streams and driving your readership B.A.N.A.N.A.S.

When we toured my home office in the last Diary entry, I mentioned that my “main organizer” contains all of my most important reference books.

In today’s blogging market, even relatively new sites with limited traffic can earn their owners some big bucks should they decide to cash in the opportunity to sell.

Although I’ve had a couple of real day jobs over the past dozen years, I’ve always maintained an office at home. And since I’ve settled into freelancing fulltime, my writing sanctuary has really blossomed.

Like any other group of entrepreneurs, professional bloggers have bills to pay and need to find ways to monetize their online efforts.

There are many ways you can make money from blogging, with new streams popping up all the time—some worth their weight in gold and others … well … not so hot.

For newbie bloggers, it’s good to have benchmarks to aim towards. The tricky part is figuring out what those targets should be.

Until fairly recently, if you no longer had the time or interest in blogging, your only option was to stop posting and let it die a natural death.