Blogging is My Business
Posted by miller1977 on August 5, 2008
I am a blogger. I’ve been one since early 2007, when I had a grand idea to make a fortune by just blogging – as my sole form of business. Strange idea? Not really – guys like Steve Pavlina, Darren Rowse, and Shoemoney all earn very comfy incomes doing just blogging. It’s an attainable goal but not easy.
So I started a blog, intending to 1) write about things I was interested in (i.e. entreprenuership and business – specifically home-based business) and 2) make tons of money from online ads. Did it work? Ummm…not like it did for the guys I named above. But it worked to some degree, nonetheless!
The long story made short is this: I created a business blog and just started writing. Each and every day I wrote a post – for months. For weeks I didn’t even get one single comment. Then later the comments started trickling in. Then I wrote a post about video game marketing that got me on Digg – and I was ranked #1 in Google for that term (“TurboGrafx-16″ if you’re curious).
From that point on I started getting regular visitors to the site, and since then I have averaged about 100 visitors per day. I’ve slacked off the posting (doing a post a week if I’m lucky) but that is in part because I got involved in other income streams and other sites as well as starting a couple of other blogs! I also started a site-ranking service in order to make some money helping others get new sites ranked in the search engines. But visitors still come to my original blog, looking for easy answers to life’s hard situations by reading posts about cash only jobs and being rich.
But, even though I don’t write posts every day for my first blog, I still think of blogging as my business. I make an O.K. income stream from my sites, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
