through their blogs about small scale living these four have become friends. today, they have gathered to exchange advice on mon atizing their blogs. ewords. they say the easiest way to start is with google supplied ads. each time a blog visitor clicks google pays a small fee. you don t have to have a large website to have them. you can have one visitor a day and you can sign up google ads. $25, $30 a month. and but once you hit a certain amount of traffic, it comes. he now makes around $100 a month from google ads so it cannot be the only source of advertising revenue. they are a piece of the pie. schaeffer and wiseman say selling products like books and plans is the more important part of their revenue strategy. ads don t play a large role for us. for us it s our products.
while retaining idealism they each found ways for their blogs to generate income. we haven t sold a single house this year. yet we sold more plans than ever. after last year s housing bust, schaeffer and his partner steve don t build houses any more, instead they are building their website. we made this huge shift in our whole philosophy how we were going to survive as a business. and we changed from selling houses to selling plans and workshops and books to the do it yourself market. and they are not alone. i started the blog and more as a hobby than anything. kent also of sonoma started blogging for profit when he was laid off from his mortgage banking job. i took that opportunity to spend more time learning more about blogging. lots of ways to make money with a blog. and often they re not tied directly to the blog itself.
it was a detailed explanation of what conservatives want to see happen from the federal e governmentrn now, and i thoughtt was actually very specific and it hit all the majorit points. kimberly: okay. yesterday, give me a little bit about this back and forth. people wereit really curious to watchor how it went down between stephen bannon and reince priebus. i m sure you spoke to them beforehand and after they were on stage together. were you worried at all about how it was going to come off? i was a little bitng worried, clearly there s all this talk about how maybe reince and steve don t get along and we all decide the best thing would be to put it out on stage and have a conversation. beforehand, they got busy jobs, they got a lot on their minds. but we actually got behind in scheduling to talk and relax and laugh and talk about funny political moments. they were really loose by the time they got on stage. i think people got a very candid assessment of their relationship
there was a detailed explication of what conservatives would want to see happen from the federal government now. i thought it was very specific and it hit really all the major points. kimberly: yesterday, give me a little bit about this back and forth, people were curious to watch how it went down between steve bannon and speak reince priebus, how did it feel to and were you worried about how what was going to come off? i was a little bit worried, clearly there s all this talk about how maybe reince and steve don t get along and we all decide the best thing would be to put it out on stage and have a conversation. they ve got busy jobs, they got a lot on my mind. actually got behind in the schedule, had time to talk and relax and laugh and talk about funny political moments. they were really loose by the time they got on stage.