In this post, I want to tell you about a new way to make a significant income from your blogs and podcasts!
Before I do, let me tell you how I came across this….
I’ve been working for quite some time on monetizing my blog (which was part of the reason for the recent re-design). I’m constantly looking for new ways of doing this, and new opportunities to get involved with. Because of this, I have WAY MORE podcast content on my iPod that I could ever hope to listen to!!!
Last week, I was in Poland on Business and on Friday evening, was flying back home. I’d had a tough week, so on the plane, I wanted to do nothing more than rest, and not be bothered by anyone!
Imagine the scene: I’m sitting there with my iPod on, pretending to be asleep (hey, you’ve done that too, haven’t you??) listening to some recent podcasts. What I normally do is to start at the bottom of the list of podcasts (the earliest) and work my way up the list – but doing that would have made it obvious that I was awake!
So what could I do?
Despite that fact that listening to the podcasts in reverse order can sometimes be a bit irritating, I decided that I needed to do that in order that my “sleep” would be convincing! 
A recent podcast that I’ve discovered is from “Blogger & Podcaster“. They offer 3 different ways to subscribe to their content:
- Paid Magazine Subscription
- Free online magazine reader
- Free podcast
I’d subscribed to the free podcast, as it suited my needs best and I had something like 50+ episodes to listen to!
Back to the flight….
I’m sitting there listening to the most recent few episodes, doing my best to pretend to be asleep, when I stumble across an episode about the “Blogger and Podcaster Media Network“. This talked about their goal to provide regular, everyday bloggers like you and I with a Six Figure Income!!! As I heard this (and the really exciting information that followed) I suddenly sat bolt upright – all pretences of sleep far from my mind! I really needed to hear this!
You like me, have probably come across the likes of “The Podcast Network” for podcasters, and “b5media” for bloggers. These sites act as a kind of media co-operative where loads of bloggers (or podcasters) sign up and receive aggregated ads from the network. Advertisers win by being able to place a single ad on the network, but know that it’s going out to targetted audiences across the world. However, this is the first such network that I’m aware of that’s targetted at bloggers and podcasters!
This isn’t what got me excited though. It’s not what had me sitting bolt upright. On it’s own, it wouldn’t have been enough for me to stop faking sleep…!
Would you like to know what got me really excited???
Anyone who signs up to the Blogger and Podcaster Media Network (BPMN) before 31st December 2008 will get an equity stake in the company! This means that when they decide to IPO, we could have a significant windfall! As they say on their site:
“Keep in mind, all members who register before December 31, 2008 will be given equity in the BPMN as a benefit of membership. In this case if you ‘snooze’, you really will lose.”
We also have a huge opportunity to build our own networks within the BPMN by having people sign up under us. They estimate that doing so will net each of us something in the region of $500-$1000 per year for each person that joins.
This brings me to my competition….
I know that the majority of my readers are blog owners and I’d love to see you benefit from this too. To that end, I’d like to ask you all to sign up with BPMN using my name (John Landells) as the referrer. To make this more interesting, I’m running this as a competition….
The first 10 people to sign up with me (who are also members of Entrecard) will win 50 Entrecard Credits, as soon as I receive confirmation from BPMN.
If you don’t use Entrecard and you’re one of the winners, I’ll give you a free 125×125 ad on this site for a month.
See the video below for details of how to join:
Once you’ve joined, please drop a comment below to let me know (so that I can double check my stats and be sure not to miss any entrants).
To register, please go to http://www.bloggerandpodcaster.net/ and fill out the form. Please remember to enter “John Landells” in the “Referred By” field to be eligible for the competition.
Good luck!
UPDATE:
I’ve just been in touch with the fantastic team behind BPMN and they’ve offered to donate a copy of “Perfecting the Pitch: Creating Publicity Through Media Rapport” by Ben Lewis to one person, to be drawn at random on 1st January 2009 from the list of subscribers referred by John’s Tech Blog!
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