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Did you ever think that anyone writing a food blog could get published and end up on the Today Show? Clotilde Dusoulier, the woman behind the blog Chocolate and Zucchini, the best food blog in the world (in my opinion) recently published her first book and is now on a book tour in the US [...]

So how did Microcast take Muniwireless to the next stage, from a blog to a vertically integrated media company (as I mentioned in part 6)? What is Microcast’s business model? Sam Whitmore, who runs Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey interviews Joe Panettieri of Microcast. Sam writes:
Take a look at MuniWireless.com. It’s fronted by blogger Esme Vos, [...]

In part 2 of this series, I mentioned that it took me a year to make money (via advertising) from my blog, Muniwireless.com. You won’t attract advertisers in the first month of blogging because you probably won’t have a lot of readers.
How many visitors do you need to attract advertisers? How do you get and [...]

Recently, I posted a series of articles on turning a blog into a media company — well, a small niche media company.
But if you want to hit the big time, i.e. building an online media business that rakes in $50 million+ in revenues, you’ll have to read two posts written by Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed [...]

I posted two articles on Rosecantine.com about the newspaper business which has seen its product — the news — become commoditized. There’s a debate going on in the industry about whether they should put content behind a pay wall or make it all free. The lesson is that if you have something special your competitors [...]

Techcrunch posted this article about Hot or Not, a dating site set up in 2000 by James Hong and Jim Young out of their house. They never took outside funding. Over the years, the founders made $20 million. The site was taking in $600,000 per month in revenue (advertising and paid subscriptions). But last month, [...]

I came across this story in the Asheville Citizen-Times about a community program in Hayward County, North Carolina that helps people start businesses. The Certified Entrepreneurial Community program is part of the regional economic development agency’s plan to stop relying on attracting large companies to improve the business climate:
We’re talking about a different model of [...]