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More and more people these days think they can make money blogging. This is a common misconception. Blogging is not something you can make money from (comparing it to other things). To make money blogging you must have visitors and readers. To get visitors and readers you must have promotion. To have promotion you must have money to pay for it. So this is where it all ends up. Blogging, just like any other business need money to start up. You can’t make money without spending money. If you invest $0 in a business you will get $0. With blogging this is a bit, but just a bit different - if you invest $0 you will probably get $100 after a year. You can’t live a whole year with $100.
This perception about bloggers that make loads of money is not completely true. Look at people like John Chow and Shoemoney. Because of people like them most people think that you can make a living from blogging. But the truth is JC and Shoe had some other sites before they started blogging. And most of their income is not from their blogging, it’s from the other sites. So if you see John Chow making $20,000 per month by blogging, you think that you can do it too. But the question is do you have $1,500 to pay for 3-4 paid reviews that will get your name out there? Do ya? And if you do, are yo willing to spend them on that? Do you have $80 to pay each month for private hosting (presuming that your blog will be famous and will have a large number of visitors)? People make money blogging by becoming a billboard, an interactive one. You create an image for yourself and for your blog, you make a statement, you become popular and only then advertisers will pile up to have their ads shown on your site and to promote their products. But becoming popular requires 2 things: 1) Lots of money or 2) A great idea - something that the world has never seen - and little money. However you try to do this you will still need money.
From my personal point of view. Blogging is the last thing to do if you wanna make money online. I own a real life shop, some affiliate marketing sites and this blog. Affiliate marketing earned me in 5 days what this blog earned me in a month (although the affilaite marketing sites needed advertising, while on the blog I didn’t spend anything).
So knowing this, If you had $5,000 would you invest it in a blog or in a real life business?
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You can make it but it’s not about the money - it’s about the other thing you said - uniqueness. I have more money from my educational site than any blog i ever started.
And Chow and Shoemoney just talk, while having other sites, like you said… they also got exposed at wickedfire.
Cool article. Keep it up!
Yea well, if you have money you can buy anything, even uniqueness.
Blog or “real-life business”? I’d invest in an online business, but not blogging. A blog that’s worth reading can be promoted for next to nothing, and a bad blog…well, the money would be wasted.