Applications on your phone can talk to each other, but the way that apps interact is still far from the way that web pages interact. Mike Wakerly is the CTO of Button, a service that connects mobile apps to each other. By embedding a component from Button into your app, you can easily request the functionality of an app while you are in a different app.

Erin Chase is a busy mother of 4, a former teacher, and today runs 5DollarDinners.com and the 5dollarmealplan. Back in 2008, after some number crunching, Erin was excited at saving 50% on her grocery bills. She shared how she did this on her family blog, but with a low amount of interest she decided to start her own blog to help others make savings on their own grocery bills. You may have heard the saying, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” – well there is such a thing as free meal plans. Erin carried on publishing free meal plans and tips how to feed your family on a budget and her viewership kept growing. Note: Click here to download Erin’s top blog monetization tips from this episode. In this episode, you will hear how Erin capitalized on the momentum of viral social media posts to set up paywalls and start generating more income. You’ll learn how she transitioned from ad networks and affiliate income to selling directly to her audience, and how she set up membership programs for recurring revenue. Today, her online empire brings in a healthy 5-figure monthly income.

James Schramko and Matthew Paulson are closing the Business Case Study series with some final tips for monetizing your website. They share strategies that are bringing in significant income for them and provide actionable steps to help you apply them to your own business.

In closing up his series on Podcast Monetization, Paul Colligan examines the integrated model of Podcast Monetization and how it provides options for a long term perspective on your Podcast.

Before Paul Colligan gives his full thoughts on Patreon as a monetization option for Podcasters, he thought he’d run a test first. In Episode #45 of The Podcast Report, Paul shares his “Grand Patreon Monetization Experiment” and how you can be part of it if you want to. Regardless of the outcome, we should all learn something exciting.