A lesson in blogging today

I received an email from a pair who are in the business of making money through blogs, so with an invitation to listen to this pair explain how to blog to make bundles of money, I listened to the webinair this noon.   It was much like old time letters of how to make money through mail order. The two are not very different in fact.  Probably, the end result is the same as well.  You pay out but get little in return except a headache and a disgust with the way the American system allows all these attempts to take money from dumb clucks who fall for all these schemes.

However, i did write down all the information that they are  willing to give away free (amounts to very little) in return for the chance that you might be foolish enough to dole out $197 to learn how to blog by a purchase of their book that gives you all the secrets of how to pitch your "niche" interest.

Google even likes to make money on blogs by selling ads but already we have long known that little fact.  I even encouraged a photo blogger to try selling ads on his great blog site.

I am not into photography blogs, information blogs, or any other kind of pay me now for all I have told you blogs unless I do finally win the lottery and think that a blog might help others to win it too if they pay me up front for all my years of work and effort to figure the dang thing out.

I said thank you for the lesson and goodbye after taking all the information that they were willing to share into my peabrain and digesting it.  Once I learned how much they want to make a killing on the internet, to get into those six figures, I said goodbye.  Too much money for me to ever pay when I can go get blogs for dummies free at the library.

The publishing game is one of the worst rackets that there is, but people do like to read, to dream, and to fantasize so it is a lucrative business.  Even non fiction books are big business for people who want information on all kinds of things regarding health, finance, romance, fitness, travel, hobbies, pets, and on and on forever.  So if one does want to blog about it, it can be done.  But when you ask for a dollar back for your information, you are a business person, not a friend.  That is the big differences between friends and business people: money!

So kiss me for a buck, I am in business; but kiss me free, I am either a sucker or a friend...and sometimes it is hard to know if there is a difference.

Think about it!