$300 Million For A Blog: Can You Become A Millionaire Blogger?

by Monica Davis

Everybody wants to get rich–and do the least amount of work in the process. One of the fastest trends in the US is blogging.  But it takes more than slinging a few words together to make money being a blogger. 

You have to have a thick skin, be a marketing guru, and be able to zap a zillion words at the drop of a hat.  It also helps to know copyright and media law–unless you want somebody to sue the pants offa ya for plagairism, copyright violation and being successful. Oh, did i forget marketing?

Most bloggers out there do it for love, but some folk have made as much as $300 million from their blog.

Here are five bloggers who did just that, and turned blogging into business.

Pete Cashmore, Mashable
Cashmore started his blog with a focus on social media news from his home in Aberdeen in 2005. Now it has millions of monthly page views and hundreds of thousands of followers and fans on Facebook and Twitter. Plus, rumours continue to circulate that Cashmore is in talks with CNN to sell his baby for a reported $200m.

Perez Hilton, perezhilton.com
Hilton, aka Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr, started blogging about celebrities as a hobby but quickly became known as the most hated blogger in Hollywood because of his bitchy gossip. But the blog brought Hilton fame and 300 million hits per month.
 
Timothy Sykes, timothysykes.com
Wunderkind, stock market trader and now a crusader against financial scams, Sykes started his blog in 2007 and, judging from his post “Suck On This John Chow, My Blog Made $45,000 Last Month” (see below) his gamble to blog has paid off – not to mention also winning him a contract for reality TV show – Wall Street Warriors.

John Chow, johnchow.com
According to Chow, he is best known for showing the world you can take a blog from earning zero to over US$40,000 ($38,000) each month in a mere two years and only work two hours a day. More than 200,000 users now visit his blog – the modestly titled john chow dot com – on a daily basis.

Ariana Huffington, The Huffington Post
Journalist Ariana Huffington already had a high profile in America when she launched blog based news site The Huffington Post in 2005 but it has shown that blogging can take on traditional media and win.  In fact, win big; in 2011 AOL bought the Post for a reputed US$315 million ($310 million). READMOREHERE

Of all of the millionaire and wanna be wealthy bloggers, it seems that John Chow is willing to show neophytes how to turn that love-hate relationship with blogging into cash. He even has a free download of his book to show you how you could do it.