Becoming an entrepreneur - looking for help monetizing

I've been studying the web trying to figure out the best ways to get blogs and sites noticed (free) as I try to build a business. Yesterday I spent the day finding blog engines to submit to, as well as joined a few forums and groups. I joined Entrepreneur = Recovery off of linkedin, Startup Nation, Digg, as well as a local entrepreneur group. Still, I keep checking and I've made only around $3.00. If any one out there has some ways that they have legitimately monetized their sites and blogs, I'd love to hear from you.

Blogging

I've been learning about how to get paid blogging, as well as figuring out how to link to other sites and get my sites and blogs noticed. As I've been doing my homework, I found the website http://www.blogsvertise.com/ that's a wealth of information and can help as you're starting out trying to figure out how to monetize your blogs. I now have signed up this blog at their site, and will shortly sign up my other blogs as well.

About Our Company

After working several years for a large corporation and suddenly being laid off due to cancellation of funding, some of us decided we'd had enough. We needed to start a company so that we didn't have to worry about how we were going to support our families in the future. In today's present economy, most jobs for major corporations are not secure. The ones making the decisions in many cases do not care about the average worker that has made the corporations what they are. Instead, they care more about how to decrease costs, even if it means outsourcing jobs to other countries. This company focuses on helping contractors work on what they really like to do, while building up the business so that our contractors can survive in the long term without having to rely on others.