LOL sorry but that's the biggest bunch of baloney I've ever heard. A blog with adsense is hardly a real business let alone a long term thing Ebooks can make you BIG money if you build a list and set up an affiliate system and organise JV's. A blog your relying on SEO and adsense...not a good idea if you ask me.
I disagree. Blog has great potential as a long term business. The problem with it is only that it's not passive income. You have to work on the blog, post and update, to keep the revenue coming. I'm not saying it's easier than writing an eBook, but I think blogs have the potential to make money.
I'm not saying you cant make money with a blog and not saying you shouldnt make one...but if you have to choose from a blog or email marketing + ebooks well there really is no comparison.
An e-book won't stop selling unless you stop marketing, it becomes obsolete (which can happen to blogs in too small of a niche too), or if you've sold so many copies that you've completely saturated your target market (not likely for most). With an e-book, you write it once, and then just spend time marketing it to keep the sales coming in. With a blog, you have to continually update it, and it has to be with quality content if you want the income and readership to steadily grow. You still have to market it. So it all comes down to whether you want a long-term project or something that might generate more passive income. In either case though, you'll need to put time into building your reputation. An authority on a subject will nearly always make more than someone who isn't respected as an authority when it comes to informational products.
Very true. This is why the two work so well together. You build your reputation through the blog, and sell the eBook.
True. There's no reason not to do both. Personally, I love the consistency of blogging. I also occasionally want to change things up in my work day, so I'll work on a project like an e-book that I can write once and be done with. They're great for promoting each other. Something else to consider with e-books is this: If your e-book does suddenly become too saturated or stops selling, you can always tweak it to fit a new target market. For examples, I have a short e-book on press release writing. If sales slow down too much in my current market, I can always tweak the e-book to different audiences that I'm involved with and market it to new people (ex. press releases for authors, press releases for musicians, for offline small business owners on how to distribute them online, etc.). So they're not necessarily dead in the water just because the original stops selling.
Create a blog to support the ebook. The ebook contains the core articles that you're going to sell - the blog can support or run from the core articles as a way to entice people to buy the ebook.
Imo the blog would be easier for money in the longer term, but the book is only good for a hype. Good combo though
erm..my friend do both of way, he have a good contents of blog and got so many visitor. So, at the same time he sell some good ebook, that unrevealed in blog. So it sound great when he can make a fast money from selling an ebook compare to waiting a cheque from google.
blogging! its the best way to stay and capture your readers - and if you capture your readers you can sell them an ebook - simple
I would go with a blog. Creating and marketing an ebook is quiet difficult. Even if you where to advertise it on clickbank you would do well to sell a couple of copies a month.
There's no reason not to do both. Just establish your blog and promote your e-Book along with other content relevant products and you've optimized your efforts.
Whatever you do, just be interesting. Don't produce a blog full of rehashed info or an eBook, be original and know what you are talking about. People can smell bs from a mile away. Even more so, for splogs and people pushing an affiliate product with every single post.