Monitizing content

I would be interested in more independent rod reviews. The problem is that rod companies won't send them to you, unless you sugar coat the review. It would be nearly impossible to earn enough from rod reviews to be buying $500+ rods every week/month.
 
jaredoconnor said:
I would be interested in more independent rod reviews. The problem is that rod companies won't send them to you, unless you sugar coat the review. It would be nearly impossible to earn enough from rod reviews to be buying $500+ rods every week/month.
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Any company worth it's salt would be happy to have such independent reviews. Or do they lack confidence in their products?

I do see getting rods to review as a challenge. That said. I'd hope people would view it as a database. I would not be opposed to reviewing discontinued rods.
 
so....I have some experience in this

Back in the yeeee old yesteryear when blogs were as cool as Miles Davis, the Millsfly Blog had upwards of 6-10k hits a month and ad revenue in the tens of dollars. At one point I had more referrals to national orgs (Tu and American Rivers) than the likes of Huff Post and the like.

I ran it hard, 2-4 posts a week for 12 years. Couple thousand-ish posts....and the real lesson

Good luck.

We have to constantly remind ourselves that while FF is everything to us, it's but a sliver in the tree of the fishing industry. You're not going to make money to make a real difference, you have to do it out of the joy of writing, the networking, the fun you get from producing content that gets noticed. if you do it for the $$. no fucking way....
 
Millsfly said:
upwards of 6-10k hits a month and ad revenue in the tens of dollars.
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Well there ya go...
I have heard that story before, lots of work and not lots of money.

E commerce...sell something besides your opinion.
 
PhilR said:
You could start an OnlyFans!
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However, just to give you an idea, there are 25 million porn sites worldwide and they make up 12% of all websites and over 30% of all web traffic.

A porn blog has advantages that can not be argued against...30% of all web traffic...easy money.
 
Mossback said:
However, just to give you an idea, there are 25 million porn sites worldwide and they make up 12% of all websites and over 30% of all web traffic.

A porn blog has advantages that can not be argued against...30% of all web traffic...easy money.
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So fish porn will be successful?
 

I've been preparing myself to do some wine video blogging; Orson Welles is an inspiration. Background scenery, a great 4K video camera, and a premium microphone set-up the ambience for a great watchable clip. Editing the script is key. It must be informative and yet entertaining in 5 minutes or less.
 
RCF said:
So fish porn will be successful?
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Doubt it...
I mean, it hasn't been so far.

Two things I just don't see paying for, as there is more for free than I would ever have time for.
Anything opinion based, regardless of how high you hold in esteem your opinion, are just opinions.
Everybody has one....
 
Mossback said:
Doubt it...
I mean, it hasn't been so far.

Two things I just don't see paying for, as there is more for free than I would ever have time for.
Anything opinion based, regardless of how high you hold in esteem your opinion, are just opinions.
Everybody has one....
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Someone a while back posted a xxx Carp Calendar that seems pretty popular in Europe, at least for the huffpost types to complain about.
 
I know the guy who used to do the 'Women in Waders' calender...eventually demand for the calender dropped to where it wasnt a money maker.
So they stopped...
 
Millsfly said:
so....I have some experience in this

Back in the yeeee old yesteryear when blogs were as cool as Miles Davis, the Millsfly Blog had upwards of 6-10k hits a month and ad revenue in the tens of dollars. At one point I had more referrals to national orgs (Tu and American Rivers) than the likes of Huff Post and the like.

I ran it hard, 2-4 posts a week for 12 years. Couple thousand-ish posts....and the real lesson

Good luck.

We have to constantly remind ourselves that while FF is everything to us, it's but a sliver in the tree of the fishing industry. You're not going to make money to make a real difference, you have to do it out of the joy of writing, the networking, the fun you get from producing content that gets noticed. if you do it for the $$. no fucking way....
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This. All of this.

I started my FF blog in 2007 and garnered hundreds of thousands of hits over the the next 5 yrs. At the time, the monetization options were A) selling out and gushing about certain ff companies in exchange for peanuts; B) selling adspace on yer blog; or C) harvesting and selling visitor info. As it was never about the cashflow for me (and I'm not a shitheel), I turned down every monetization offer that fell in these 3 categories (mostly the latter 2). When I moved on to the "Big Leagues" at Buster Wants To Fish (that was tongue in cheek, btw), there was enought traffic to monetize (100k+/month in the heyday), but once again, you had to have a product to sell, and the only product some dudes yappin' about flyfishing have to sell is adspace, user information, or integrity.

You too can make tens of dollars a year writing about flyfishing.
 
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