TweetThis post is by Ashe Mischief   One late night on Twitter, I was complaining about Commission Junction, an affiliate program who hosts 1/3 of my affiliate programs.  My account was sitting at $32 in earnings, and the minimum payout was $50. I had recently discovered that each month my account was losing $10– a [...]

Tweet This post is by Ms. Treacle One of the first questions any blogger asks when starting out is “How can I get people to visit my site?” Of course, that makes perfect sense because readers are a humongous part of the blogging experience. Traffic is a little bit like a drug; once you get [...]

TweetThis post is by Ashe Mischief One of the first things I hear out of new bloggers’ mouths is– “how do I grow my traffic? I want to make money off my site.”  I think it’s Darren at Problogger who says quite honestly, if you’re getting in to blogging to make money, you’re in it [...]

Tweet (Wendy Brandes and Kickstarter Stacy Lomman) Are you blogging for love, or for money? I swing both ways. Yeah, bitches, I’m kinky like that. I started my Wendy Brandes Jewelry blog in 2007 to promote my fine jewelry line. But, before I was a jeweler, I spent 10 years as a journalist at the [...]