For all of you thinking about launching a blog to become rich or famous just stop now, seriously. We all hear about bloggers who make 200, 300 grand a year with their blogs but there is something you don’t know. Chances are they started blogging when the blog and blog marketing was first invented and have never stopped.
Launching a blog and writing 50 posts and wondering why your affiliate ads are not generating enough profit for you to stay home is a ludicrous way of thinking. Time, patience and years and years of writing is what it takes to really make money from a blog through your blog marketing efforts. Not to mention proactive blog marketing efforts, partnerships, trade shows and everything else that comes along with owning a business. You do know that a blog should be run like a business right? if you are going to launch a blog do it because you have a passion for a niche or industry and you want to write about that topic. If you make money from it than that will be a bonus. There was a recent post done about a blog that was averaging a few million unique visitors every few weeks and the amount of income they generated from that much traffic was not even worth writing about. Making money from a blog should always be a secondary interest.
I definitely agree with this statement. I started a blog as a hobby to write about random things in general, with no niche in mind. That might be a bad idea for me, but to me, it’s all fun and games, so no worries.
I’m not looking to make money from it, but if a few bucks come my way, it’s a big plus. I’m using my blog to help myself become a better writer in general. Blogs are like Pringles, once you pop, you can’t stop!
So much virtual ink is used to write about marketing and all manner of new online resources that seem to be without number. With all the choice and options at hand, it leads to a paralysis where people don’t know what to do or where to start. This article is brilliant and contains a simple message. Stick to the fundamentals.
Well Done