Have a blog? Trying to make a little cash or increase readership? Not so easy, huh… but just like the Gold Rush, we know there’s gold in them there hills! Become a modern-day forty-niner with VibeFire.
So you’ve got a blog. Great. You have readers. Even better. And you’ve slapped the obligatory contextual ads in strategic spots around your blog, looking to turn your little gems of postings into, well, real gems… aka money. Just like the California Gold Rush of the 1850’s, where many regular folk turned to gold prospecting in hopes of becoming rich; today, many regular folk became passionate bloggers, looking to mine the internet for gold. Whether your gold is a loyal reader base or a steady flow of income, or both, everyone wants to strike it rich, but not everyone becomes rich. Let me explain how VibeFire can turn your luck around and grow your little hamlet of a blog into a boomtown, by monetizing your content, engaging your readers, and expanding your reach.
First off, what is VibeFire? Simple. VibeFire is a downloadable service that allows users to stay connected to your content by receiving desktop updates every time you make a post. The user can click on the update to be brought to your blog. (Pssst… go to www.vibefire.com and give it a shot).It’s not easy to turn your blog into a mountain of gold. Squeezing money out of display ads is tough; it’s conventional and perhaps a little stale. In fact, with the downturn economy, display advertising is expected to take a nose dive to the tune of 30%-80% estimated drops in revenue over the next three months. VibeFire does something unique by leveraging a different way to monetize. It turns your blog into “downloadable content”. By including your blog’s feed with VibeFire, we leverage our InstallIQ platform that displays bundled software recommendations prior to the install of VibeFire. You get paid every time one of your users downloads VibeFire with your feed pre-installed. It’s as simple as that.But wait; don’t get rid of those display ads just yet. VibeFire aids in your rush to riches by increasing reader engagement. As I said before, every VibeFire update a reader receives links back to your site. Instead of visiting a few times a week, get your readers visiting multiple times per day. With click through rates averaging 5%, and as high as 10%, you’re sure to get more traffic back to your blog. Not only is VibeFire helping to increase reader loyalty, but you’ve now increased your ad impression, which, in turn, increases ad revenues. Lastly, every good prospector knows that panning for gold in streams will heed meager results; you need to get industrious and go large-scale to cure gold fever. You’ve got the same problem: how do you get your content in front of the most people to increase the chances of attracting new readers? VibeFire has the solution. VibeFire extends your reach by allowing access to your content across the entire VibeFire user base. So even if you didn’t source the user, they have access to your content via our Feed List. In our beta phase alone, thousands of feeds have already been added by users.Eureka! You’ve found it: VibeFire. I know what challenges you face as a blogger; I know that in unconventional times, you need to leverage new and exciting ways to reach and monetize your user base. VibeFire can help to turn your blog into a cascade of shimmering yellow rocks, whether it be money, readers, or both.
Eric Montag, Product Manager, W3i Holdings, LLC
Eric uses his experience in graphic design, mobile, and internet marketing to lead the charge in product research, planning, and execution, from both a consumer and business standpoint.
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