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Since that is his point, I daresay you missed it.

"Blogs don't make money. But people with blogs can."

He probably would have made as much money even if he didn't blog about himself.

The point I got from this post was that you shouldn't expect to make money from a blog itself. Blogging can be a form of marketing for your real business, but if your business is "pure-play" blogging you are probably in trouble.

The more appropriate parallel would be "I made $2 million with a book".