I found this list on John Chow’s blog, who used it to brag that he is No. 2 on the list. Too bad is the list is 27 blogs short of the 100. That leaves room for others to move into the clique.
John found out about the list through e-mail from 45n5, the original publisher. I’ll recount the Top 10 on the list for you now:
- Problogger
- John Chow
- Shoemoney
- Dosh Dosh
- Entrepreneurs Journey
- Andy Beard - Niche Marketing
- eMoms at Home
- Nate Whitehill
- Carl Ocab
- NetBusinessBlog
What’s So Interesting About This List?
I find this list interesting for a couple of reasons. First, I’m always intrigued that on such lists there is always some work-at-home mom group involved. It’s not surprising in the sense that “OMG, I didn’t think moms working at home could be that successful.” Rather, it’s intriguing because there are a lot of work-at-home moms who earn a supplementary income to their husband who is the primary breadwinner and those moms have become a powerful force in the U.S. economy. Then there is the work-at-home mom who has risen above the pack and made a success of herself such that her income has surpassed her husband’s. Such moms are the essence of what is beautiful about the U.S. economy and why we like living here.
The second reason this list is interesting is because each of the top 10 blogs on the list (and I’d presume the full 73) are as different as night and day. They all have their own individual personalities, seem to fill their own particular niches, and most of them have a clearly defined purpose and target a specific audience. These are all things I’d say are necessary for a successful social blog. And these blogs do fall into the category of what I’d call social - social in the sense that they attract a large group of readers primarily through word of mouth, social bookmarking, and other similar online marketing techniques. For instance:
Expanding On The Differences
ProBlogger, the most popular make money at home blog on the Internet, is a blog primarily targeted at other bloggers. In fact, the About Us page of ProBlogger says this about itself, “a Blog that helps bloggers to add income streams to their blogs.” That’s a pretty specific niche.
John Chow bills his blog as a personal blog, but he likes talking about making money online. He recently wrote a blog post that discusses why he doesn’t write about making money more often even though some of his readers have asked him to. Interesting read.
eMoms at Home is, obviously, targeted at moms who work at home, and written by a work-at-home mom, Wendy Piersall, who has met with some level of success working at home. I must admit, this was a great idea and Wendy talks about how she started her blog on her About Us page. It wasn’t meant to be her primary enterprise, but I’ll let you read it yourself ….
Carl Ocab is 14 years old. Can he teach you something? Probably, but find out for yourself.
I could go through the entire list and give an overview of why these blogs are all different, but I think you get the idea. I did see one more interesting thing at the bottom of the list of 73. One of my favorite bloggers, Michael Martine, was listed as being in the Sandbox. That’s just one more reason the list is intriguing.
The Most Important Question of All - Why?
So why am I discussing this topic on this blog? The reason is simple and a little self serving. Each of these bloggers targets a segment of BCPs own target market. Of course, anyone with a blog to write is a part of the market we’d like to target, but make money-at-home bloggers are a group that can benefit tremendously from the services that we provide. We can leverage their time so that they can make more money. If you know any make-money-at-home bloggers who need someone to help them buy back some time, send them our way. We’d like to talk to them.
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September 10th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Thanks for this post, Allen. I found you via trackback on Michael’s blog. I often link to him from my other 451Press blog, BlogNewsWatch.com, and now that I’m at Blogging Pointers, feel sure I’ll be doing the same there, too. He’s one of the few that “get it” I think.
As for the “moms that blog” phenomenon, if I can even call it that, I agree that they (we? I guess I’m part of it - I’m a mom, and I blog, and I work from home, although I consider those things to be independent of one another) are an economic force to be reckoned with. Some of us, like myself and Kelly Erb, are blogging not to supplement a husband’s income but our own (we’re both lawyers). Others have created empires of their own, and I think all bloggers can learn a lot from the holistic way many of them go about creating those businesses.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Thanks Sheryl,
I hadn’t considered that professional working women would be members of the work-at-home moms group. But since I’m not a member of the group I guess I don’t have a right to define it.
And I didn’t know there were lawyers who worked out of their homes - so that’s two things you’ve taught me in a few minutes. I think that’s a record.
I agree that any blogger can learn a lot from the work-at-home moms and professional women bloggers who are creating their own success. Perhaps you can share with us your own insights on how to be a successful blogger.
Oh, and thanks for stopping by.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Nice read!. Your topic about Top 100 Make Money Blogs needs more comments. I\’d like to spend me Sunday nights reading about make money online from home
September 17th, 2007 at 2:00 am
We’ll post more about this in the future because you requested it!
October 10th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Good to see someone out there enterprising enough to realize that content is the real traffic driver in the medium.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Thank you steve! Content is still king! Always was, always will be.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
For little laugh
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