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By: Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2007-06-29

Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2007-06-29 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:29:18 +0000

[...] Is blogging the perfect low-cost home business? This article by Andy Merrett discusses the realities of blogging for a living. On The Blog Herald. (tags: blogging business resources) [...]

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:56:14 +0000

You got it right, Andy. Blogging for income is not exactly the rosy picture that some would paint. It can be hard work. But it can be very rewarding, too. Thing is, not everyone gets to achieve the same level of success in blogging money-wise.

To me what’s important is to encourage people to try it out. Maybe they’re fit for this kind of work/business. Maybe they’re not. But just like any career or business, we have to work hard and work smart to achieve our goals.

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Tue, 22 May 2007 05:36:36 +0000

[...] Is blogging the perfect low-cost home business?Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) I ve been on the Internet for long enough to become a little skeptical (perhaps cynical) when I read anything to do with Internet Home Business , despite the fact that I believed for a long time … [...]

By: Tanner Godarzi

Tanner Godarzi — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:41:45 +0000

As with any business there will be a small amount of individuals who accumulate a great reputation and make massive amounts of money while there will be many who will have a difficult time working their way up the ladder due to over crowding in that field of work. This is true for Blogging, paid or not. One thing we have to learn is Blogging shouldn’t be your only job. You should rather use it a building block to gain access to higher paying jobs as a journalist, author etc. Also I cannot begin to describe the many responses my friends give me when I tell them I get paid to Blog.

They perceive it as “If I can write I can get paid and guess what, I can write!” This may not be that easy as you need to identify what you like to write about and whether or not if you’re passionate or not about it. If you’re just in it for the money then no doubt you will fail, it takes to build yourself up and even then it may not be what you want it to be.

I don’t intend for Blogging to buy me everything I want or pay any bills when I eventually get them, I want to use Blogging as a learning experience and to build myself up so I can reach higher levels of writing.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:45:50 +0000

No question, great topic.

Success in blogging requires so many “core” competencies its actually mind boggling. And the hard reality is that when you’re starting out it can be an intensely lonely activity without any returns.

For the precious few who make a real go out of it, I tip my hats of to them. For many others, you’ll find that you have to love what it is you — whether it be the love of writing, or the joy of community or what have you, or else it can be be a disillusioning activity.

tony.

By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:36:07 +0000

I’ve had people ask me how to get published and when I ask them what they have written, they say, nothing, but I was thinking about it.
So I won’t consider myself a bonafide blogger until I have that first year under my belt.
In the meantime, I’m busy stuffing envelopes at home!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:39:46 +0000

You are so smack on right about this. I’m so sick of the “get rich quick” schemes that plague everything not just the net. Blogging, just like any hobby you want to turn into a business, takes work. Hard work. It takes a plan, setting goals, networking, learning how it all works and what doesn’t work, failure, and even crashing and burning while you figure out how this blogging thing is supposed to work.

It’s no different from turning your photography, writing, carving, pottery, sewing, or any hobby into a business. You have to treat it like a business before it will become a business.

Thank you for being one of the business cheerleaders!