4 Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmore is the founder of Mashable, one of the most trafficked blogs in the world. Mashable provides news on social networking and social software and successfully received millions of visitors monthly.
His advice to new blogger trying to make money from their blog;
Since mashable heavily focus on advertising as revenue source, traffic is priority. A good number of visitors will convince advertisers to buy ads space. The more traffic your blog obtain the more advertisers attract to purchase the advertising spots.
Not only mashable connects with audience online but also offline thus offers sponsorship opportunities as well.
Mashable also connects with its audience offline too and this also offers sponsorship opportunities.
5 Brian Clark
Brian Clark is founder and CEO of Copyblogger Media, host of Unemployable, and evangelist for the Rainmaker Platform.
His advice to new blogger trying to make money from their blog;
Never limit yourself to find a source to learn from. Whether you hate or agree, learn from all of them. Be open minded to anything then you will come out with more savvy toolbox of strategies for online marketing.