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Big Money Blogger Q&A at Izeafest Panel

Moderated by Drew BennettStephanie Agresta, John Chow, Neil Patel, and myself were on the Big Money Blogger panel. There were some great questions posed to us:

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  1. Adtechz

    Good Video

    Great Q&A

  2. izu mou

    aweson video,thanks for the update.

  3. CultureMob.com

    Nice video!

  4. Rekzai

    You and Chow make a great team!

    • JumboCasher.com

      nice… think of a name for this team would be a great start…

  5. Robert MacEwan

    For the record the tattoo guy Shoe mentioned will tattoo for money. It’s about $1,500 per.

  6. Roman Patel

    GREAT Q&A, I was paying close attention until the last 30 seconds when Neil started talking about how his dad stumbled upon his blog, then I just started laughing…I can see my dad doing something like that, if I posted stuff like that haha!!

  7. Colleen

    Jeremy, having never heard your story before, I appreciated knowing you are human after all. Your honesty was refreshing and hearing you speak was one of the highlights of the IzeaFest event for me.

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    drew bennett the wide receiver?

  9. carol stanley

    Fabulous…love it…

  10. Douglas

    Give a man a fish, he’ll eat it. Teach the man how to fish, he’ll steal it.
    So which would you pick? The first option is greedy… the second one is very nice, but you’ll lose your business… hmm..

    • Tushar Dhoot

      I’d do the second one.

      As the saying goes, there are “plenty of fish in the sea”.

  11. Douglas

    You didn’t wear your Shoemoney shirt!

    • Jeremy Schoemaker

      shoemoney brand is pretty well known… now working on fighters.com ;)

  12. jack

    Very interesting , wish I was there ..

  13. shanker bakshi

    You guys rocks I salute you

  14. Mike1115

    I was a newbie when I tried Unique Blog Designs. Didn’t have a good experience and felt like my business wasn’t too important. It’s not a good place for newbies. There’s plenty of templates you can tweek instead.

  15. HSD

    Great Panel, Great Video!

  16. mrkbsm

    Good stuff Shoe – thanks for keeping all of us non-attenders in the loop!

  17. TYCP Entertainment Magazine

    This panel was good. Great advice offered all around.

  18. Tushar Dhoot

    Wow, IzeaFest looks crazy. Loved the panel, you guys should do it again!

  19. meethere

    wow, top celebrities there..
    Great :cool:

  20. Robin Majumdar

    Great participation – what were you looking over at over on the far left (of you) several times ?

    I liked your analysis of Twitter and keeping their proverbial secret sauce in order to become the telco of IM 2.0 …

    Rob

    • Custom T-Shirts

      Twitter is a great example of how a business should be run.

  21. ZK@WebTrafficROI

    Very interesting post and very interactive…

  22. shifka

    very useful question answer for bloggers. thank you shoemoney.

  23. Reid

    Yeah I would love to be in this position, it looks like fun!

    • SEO next

      But the fun has not been a cake walk .. took him almost 4 years to reach this position ..

  24. wesley

    Awesomesauce, thanks!

  25. Nicholas Chase

    Excellent panel Jeremy!,

    For a new Affiliate Marketer and blogger like me, the IZEAFest was a total eye-opener to the possibilities for talented dedicated people like yourself and the other panelists.

    You, Neil Patel, John Chow and all of the others were great! Respectfully, Nicholas

    • Dick

      This is a great support group. -))))))))))

  26. SEO next

    None of you 4 wanted to make any money from your blogs :P
    jeremy how much do you make out of shoemoney.com these days ?

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      he posted some statistics some time ago and if I remember right, he was making over 30k per month in the last year’s months. If I have to guess, I think this blog’s revenue will be over 400k this year.

      • Robin Majumdar

        Sounds about right, but how much of that 400K is EBITDA or actually net ^^ :)

        • Tushar Dhoot

          I doubt he spends even 20% of that. That’s the great thing about the internet. The expenses say fairly low even when income skyrockets.

        • SEO next

          Woops .. thats a pretty decent amount ;-)
          But i am sure this is just a fraction of the total :)

    • SMM Guru

      400K a month.

  27. Cheryl W

    Thanks for the great video!

  28. Sohail

    Another great video…

  29. Anthony Shapley

    That rocked, great info from all of you. I noticed frequent mention of the personal touch, which is perhaps where I’m going wrong. Great advice.

  30. Webmasters World

    Appreciate the video.. hearing others succeed only drives me to work harder.

  31. EfitPedia

    Great video, very inspiring, it just make you want to blog everyday. Can’t wait to watch some more videos

  32. SMM Guru

    Why was John Chow there? I could have been more interesting than him :)

    He just repeated everything he said in the opening and then repeated what shoe said?

    • Blogging Millionaire

      Chow is all about the money.

    • Chris

      I’m shocked he didn’t talk about what he had to eat that day. lol.

    • mrkbsm

      It was interesting to hear him talk about how the blog started though… that the URL was essentially nothing for a long time before he even added any content.
      And as for what he had for lunch – I’m sure he’ll post pics when he gets back home :)

    • SMM Guru

      idk I just think John Chow is played out… Dont get me wrong hes a success story and I give him congrats on making it big but when I think of his site now I think of recycled information, pictures of his dinner, and recaps of what he made in a month.

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  34. The Good Blog Guide

    Fantastic Video

    There is nothing I love more than hearing a success story!

    Inspires me every time.

    Thanks

    • Dick

      I agree, the video is good.

  35. Steven-Sanders

    Panel was great. It kept me laughing. I’m still talking about it today. Very sticky.

  36. Scott Paterson

    Big Money Blogger = one of the biggest oxymorons on the Internet… It’d be easier to start a new free webmail service from scratch…

  37. atlanta wedding photographer

    Remember rule #465 and its similar sister Rule # 662: if its on the internet it will be seen, found, and exposed at the very worst time it can be exposed. Oh and it will be taken out of context!
    What came out of the the the panel was that you are writing for your audience while at the same time staying true to yourself. But this can be a hard balance.

    Even Tom Clancy said that you get paid to write not what you want but what the people want to read and are willing to buy. In this case monetizing blogs is writing to an audience in hopes that they will buy into what you are selling. AKA brand and separating yourself from the pack.

    Although, since there are only about 5-7 personality types and millions of people on the internet, it doesn’t seem that it would be that difficult to find people who like your blogging personality. At this point it becomes a numbers game. Find as many people who like your personality and keep them.

    We have to remember that this is a relationship and with any relationship there is a give and take.

  38. Moneybites

    Definitely a good watch, thanks for posting that.

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    going to watch it now

  40. Tyler Cruz

    I didn’t realize, until seeing the video (as opposed to the stream) that the chat was seen on such big monitors on stage… they told us later in the chat, but I thought it was still seen offstage (not to the audience).

    They should have warned the chat members beforehand, heh, or had some sort of warning somewhere.

    Anyhow, the panel session was actually pretty good. Neil’s a funny guy!

    • Jewellery

      I was suprised they left the chat on, usually its a distraction at events.

    • Blogging Millionaire

      Neil cracked me up too! It’s nice to see that these people aren’t robots.

      • mrkbsm

        I would have to agree – it was nice to see everyone being candid. Not too formal, but still informative!

      • Custom T-Shirts

        Haha, yeah they have a decent sense of humor

  41. mrkbsm

    awesome – watching it now. Thanks Shoe!

  42. BenSpark

    That panel was so much fun. Thanks for being on it Jeremy!

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