A Blog Business Built on Love: Interview with Mara from “Kosher on a Budget”

Can you make a good living from blogging? Last week I shared the inside scoop on How Much Money I Make from Blogging. This week, I’m showing a different perspective.
Please welcome Mara Strom, the blogger behind Kosher on a Budget. Over the past 2.5 years, Mara has built up one of the most popular independent [...]

How Much Money Do I Make From Blogging?

When I started my first blog in early 2009, I had only the vaguest ideas of what a blog was.
I had not clue what I should write about or how to attract visitors.
All I knew that somehow, someway, it was going to make me a LOT of money.
Needless to say, that blog did not earn [...]

The Ultimate List of Jewish Women’s Blogs

Blogs have tremendous power to influence, promote and earn in today’s world – and the Jewish world is no exception.
To help you learn more about the Jewish “blogosphere,” I have created this list, which is a celebration of blogs written by Jewish women or for Jewish women! Use it to find popular blogs and blogs [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Marketing on Other People’s Blogs

Web marketing wisdom has it that running blog is a great way to build exposure and a loyal following for your product or service.
But what if you don’t have a blog? Or what if your blog is inactive and hardly visited by anyone except comment spammers?
Does this mean that the promotional power of blogging is [...]

TODAY! Once-a-Year Offer: Free Blog Set-Up and Dirt-Cheap Hosting

OFFER EXTENDED UNTIL MONDAY NOVEMBER 26!
Today is Friday in Jerusalem, and we are being treated to a wonderful thunderstorm, a respite from rocket attacks and lots of Shabbos preperations.
However, I’m taking a short break from cholent-making to let you know about a very special once-a-year offer.

In America today is Black Friday, which is a time [...]

The Rebbetzin’s Guide to Starting Your Own Blog

The fact that I am a Rebbetzin is irrelevant to this blog.
However, I’m mentioning it here because this is a post about “how to start your own blog”.
There are so many people out there already writing about this topic, and unfortunately they don’t have a great reputation for integrity. Some of them are just clueless, [...]

Times of Israel Bloggers: Are You Getting Paid?

Have you ever been to a conference that cost $2.5 million to stage?
I have… just last week.
The Israeli President’s Conference in Jerusalem, known as the “Tomorrow” conference, was a dazzling no-expense-spared spectacle; a star-studded whos-who of Israel, the Jewish world and beyond. The conference organizers actively courted bloggers such as myself to attend the event, [...]

What Works Better than Advertising?

Are you running a web business on a budget?
Are you struggling to get Exposure? Traffic? Customers? Sales?
It sounds like you are stuck in the old small-business Catch 22 – without advertising you can’t grow but if you don’t grow, you can’t afford advertising.
Yet consider the words of Robert Stephens, founder of GeekSquad:
If I had had [...]

Writing Careers: Can You Make Money?

Lots of people dream of being writers and having their words read by thousands of people.
Some writers even dream of getting paid for the blood, sweat and tears they expend over their writing.
If this is you, then you should consider the words of 5 successful writers living in Israel, who presented on a panel on “Career [...]

Did Anyone Read Your Last Blog Post?

Are you spending hours writing brilliant blog posts, only to be faced with a mere bump in your traffic on Google Analytics the next day? If you never want that to happen again, this post is for you.
Let’s define a beginner blogger as someone who’s posts usually get less than 100 views in the first [...]