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What I know of Mommy blogging, or blogging in general as a money-making enterprise, reminds me of late-night infomercials on making money in real estate. There's no money in real estate as it's described, but there's sure a hell of a lot of money in speaker fees, materials, and conferences. Shovels and picks, as it were.

Specific to the topic in this article, gawd, does it reek of every sham work-from-home scheme I've ever heard, only "on the internet".

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See also the information product startup ecosystem. There are online classes, conferences, bootcamps, and products whose sole purpose is to make money by teaching people how to make money by doing the same.

Thanks for passing along the common term. I dropped that into a search box, clicked a few of the first links and...OMG, I think I need a shower now.

Also known as the scamworld, The Verge wrote a great article about this four years ago:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/10/2984893/scamworld-get-rich...

Sadly,the writer of that article has since left tech journalism and Salty Droid, one of their main sources for the article and a blogger who writes to expose the scam that that industry is, is now considered to be "an extremist" for his work by The Verge.

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