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Blogging Professionally |
April 11, 2007 4:40pm |
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Does anybody out there blog professionally? I must have 15 blogs now... and I don't know if there is some strategy to blogging for bucks but if you got information - I got interest and I'm all ears! |
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April 16, 2007 4:33pm |
Des Walsh
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KC is spot on. Darren and Andy, as well as knowing lots about blogging and how to monetize it, are very genuine, honest people. They get excited about blogging, but there is no hype. I haven't done the course but I did do an earlier course of Andy's and he is an excellent and patient teacher. Even if you don't look into doing the course, there is a wealth of information in the archives on their sites. |
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April 13, 2007 6:24am |
KC
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A great place to start is to go to http://www.problogger.net/
This guy has done it, and he tells you how he did it and tells of the pitfalls, like the disasterous time his Google rating inexplicably slipped from the top ten and his sole source of income was mashed. He used that experience to highlight the importance of multiple sources of income - but admitted that while just one source is really flying, you maybe don't give your attention to finding other sources too.
You can sign-up to his e-mail newsletter which is very wide-ranging and always interesting and topical.
THE book to read, because its brief and very much to the point, is Andy Wibbels "Blogwild!" (www.goblogwild.com). The sub-title says it all: "How everyone can go blogging (1) Get online; (2) Create your blog; and (3) Grow your own business"
Also see his blog at http://www.andywibbels.com/ where he also advertises a "write a book in 45 days" product, for those of you contemplating going the e-book or conventional book route to fame and fortune.
This author teamed up with the Problogger.net guy to create a pack that explains it all in detail - read about it at www.sixfigureblogging.com. The price is US$325, but given that it claims to be a complete road-map to a good income, that is a low one-off cost to create a continuous income stream.
One thing that not too many people will tell you is to be prepared for the long haul. (So ask yourself now - "am I the type of person that will keep at this project consistently, without faltering, for, say, a whole year?"). I mention this because so many people become dsipirited that they don't seem to be getting much reward for their efforts in the early days, so many people fall by the wayside.
This is sad because they may have started a most interesting project but couldn't maintain their original enthusiasm through the early days - and so much of the success stories on the Internet is about slow growth in the early days, and then it reaches a tipping point, and then really takes off.
But you have to be aware of this at the start, and somehow maintain your enthusiasm for as long as it takes - even if that is a long time. There are sadly hundreds of blog startups that are now covered with cobwebs because they didn't realise about the slow build.
So now you know this, you are better prepared - so that's good.
This is the first post by "KC" on ekaweeka.com - I find it awkward that the "Back" button has disappeared but I guess I'll get used to it. |
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