Hard Facts on Pro-Blogging

Posted by scoop on June 23rd, 2009 in Professional Blogging |

So can you really make money through blogging? The answer is an easy YES. The more important question though is just how much money can you make? Will the money you make be enough to support you and your family? Will it be enough for you to quit your day job?
Here’s a very interesting (and I find to be true and practical) post from Penelope Trunk. The title of the post, Reality check: You’re not going to make money from your blog, makes her opinion clear enough but what I find to be interesting about the post is not that she thinks you can’t make enough money but the follow things. Note that everything that follows, except those in parenthesis are quoted from Penelope’s post.

Big bloggers come from big media – Most big bloggers today have a strong background writing for print.

Blogging to support yourself is a complete full-time job (If you think that quitting your day job to blog means easy money then you’re in for a surprise. It’s very time consuming!)

You can make more money flipping burgers (Errr. That depends on where you flip burgers?)

Blog for better reasons than money – There are a lot of reasons to blog, but for the most part, money is not one of them… Bloggers defined success as things that mattered in their life: influence, connections, friendships, the ability to lead a conversation that matters to people. Some talked about a blog leading to other business opportunities.

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