I am very interested in the success of AmieStreet and what this might mean for the blogging world. I know that most people do not get into the blogosphere to make money, but I propose the following model that I think might work towards everyone’s benefit. I’ll called it the Blog-AmieStreet Model:
AmieStreet is unique in the sense that it charges people for music based on the popularity of that music. Lets say, in the same vein, someone creates a blog and invites 25 authors to be part of the blog. Each other is paid on the amount of views their individual posts get based of off something like wordpress site states or statcounter stats.
Let’s say for instance, one of the authors writes five posts, each of them getting 100 views over the period of a week. Let’s also assume that the blog administrator pays something like five cents per view. For 100 views that would come out to be five dollars multiplied by five posts or $25. The blog administrator would then try to cover his costs through advertising.
This would give both the administrator and the blogger both what they are looking for. The administrator is looking for help to increase ad revenues and sales and the blogger is looking for payment for the blog pieces and increased internet presence.
The bloggers could also lead people back to the original blog by commenting on other blogs which talk about similar subjects.
The model could also be modified for a blog such as book review blog where bloggers are paid based on the amount of sales they make on something like the amazon associates site. Whatever the case, the bloggers would be paid based on the traffic they guide back to the original “mother” site.
Just some food for thought.
Danny is a part time substitute teacher and a part time In-N-Out employee looking for some kind of teaching job in California. Hopefully someday the state of California will be back in action and ready to rock and roll and hire teachers back. He enjoys long walks on the beach and Star Wars.