What Are Your Intentions with Blogging?
October 23, 2007 | By Monika Mundell |
I know, most probably it is to make money - right? If it is, then have you got a plan? See, when starting out on any blog it is helpful to have a plan in order to help us move along. Admittedly the plan can be changed along the way, but if there is no plan it means no revenue.
I’m using my own blog to become a well known blogger and freelance writer and hopefully one day I will earn enough money to be financially free. That is the plan and currently I’m right on track with the Intention of quitting my twice a week day job for good by July 2008. Ideally would be to help my husband quit his job for good too, but that’s a story in the making I guess and if I don’t at least try, then I’ll never know.
But doing this isn’t the only plan I have. I also have a backup plan. Actually several. One of them is to develop my own products and the other is to use niche marketing (not IM related) to earn residual income.
I know that as a writer I won’t be earning residual income and neither will I as a blogger. Unless of course I’ll get traffic like TechCrunch and earn tons of money from advertising. Then I could employ other writers and make a guest appearance every now and then whilst focusing on building my empire.
With the growth of the Internet it is very much possible for any of us to achieve such a rate of success.
But in order to get there you will need a plan. And then stick to it. At least until your honeymoon period has passed (3-6 month) and you are well on your way to become a regular and consistent blogger.
Any blog that consists of good written content cannot do no worse than attracting at least some decent advertisers in the long run due to its growth and Page Rank. Even if Google ever got rid of PR the blog would still grow to be an authority in its field as most bloggers will give up eventually.
If you have a plan, then why not share it with all of us here in the comments section? I would love to hear yours.
Monika
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Well i dont think blogging initially should start as a money making idea.
The basic is to create unique content that people are interested in while you are having fun.
With todays Web 2.0 era, and social networking you can easily find related blogs, people with similar interests.
I’d say share whatever you’d like to, it doesnt even need to be too targeted in the beginning, the style you are posting in will attract the right people.Of course later on when you already have the content and traffic starts flowing you can target that traffic and eventually make some $ off of it.
Just my 2c
Hello MrLOL,
These are pretty valid comments for people who just want to go with the flow. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what you are intending to do.
I also totally agree with you in the fact that we need to keep the content unique and not some rehashed stuff that has been blogged about a million times. The reality of this is that most topics have already been written about except new products that are constantly been released and news in general.
Other than that we can only inject our own personality into our blog and hope that we gain a continuously growing readership.
However, I personally do not agree with your first sentence. To me blogging is a way out of the misery of the hospitality industry in which I have been involved in for over 20 years. So I do have to think about ways to make money with blogging, since it involves my financial future.
I’m also not saying that I’m right and you are wrong. Far from it actually as the way we see things is directly related to how we see blogging and what kind of experiences drive us to blog.
I hope you understand what I mean and thanks for commenting, it is great to see other views being “spoken”.
Monika
There’s a huge difference between blogging for fun, and for money. If you blog on a topic for fun and it generates a lot of traffic, doesn’t mean you can instantly switch to “make money mode” and it will work.
I think you need to set a direction for your blog, but not too specific as you mentioned. The figure out how you’re going to make money from it. It would be great if your passion and your profit potential as the same, but it may not always be.
When all these things are figured out, then go all out writing content and forget about the money for a while. As long as you have a monetization plan for it, the money will come.
There are a lot of bloggers who fail to monetize their content, simply cos they never thought of the money in the first place.
Hi Everybody,
First all I would like to say thanks Monica for the inspiring post, and good luck with your dreams. As Globala so wisely said “There are a lot of bloggers who fail to monetize their content, simply cos they never thought of the money in the first place.” I think you hit the nail on the head there Globala!
A lot of old school bloggers would not even consider that there is money in blogging. They are just fine with blogging about what they love! And there is nothing wrong with that, after all, that is probably why blogging is so popular today. Because of the passionate and unselfish content that bloggers have put into it over the years. Now, that may be! I personally think that the blogging platform is the most inovative and rewarding CMS (Content Management System) that a business or a business minded person can put in place today, and their is nothing wrong with that either. But I also think that if you are going to want to make money with blogging you have approach it as a “Business” from the start, with the proper direction for what you want to accomplish and a business plan to make it happen. Now that does not mean that you cannot be passionate about the content you write for your blogging business, just choose the blogging business carefully according to your interests and expertise.
Jacques Beaudoin
Admin Web 2.0 Portals
Gobala: I totally agree with what you are saying in regards to blogging and I try to just do what you are suggesting.
Jacques: Thank you for the great wishes. I also think that experience in the industry we choose plays a major factor in our ability to have future success. Experience combined with passion makes for a pretty good combination, don’t you think?
Monika
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