Don’t quit your day-job
Even if you know a lot about making money with a blog (which just be
reading this article, you have a tremendous advantage over me when I
started) it is going to take a while. This is not a get-rich-quick
scheme, it is more of a
work-for-free-for-a-long-time-and-then-reap-your-reward type plan. The
beautiful thing is that I can now say that it does work if you are
diligent and open to learning from your mistakes. But either way,
convention wisdom says, build your blog part-time and when you start
making more from it than your day-job consider making it a full-time
deal. My situation is a unique one and I don’t recommend doing what I
did unless it really is God calling you to do so. In my case I am now
thankful that I got laid off – if I hadn’t I would probably still be
doing a job I didn’t like!
Learn everything you can
One of the advantages I have is that I love to learn and don’t stop
when I make a mistake. I work really hard to learn from my mistakes and
figure out what the better course of action would be for the next time.
You are going to do things wrong, but you just have to keep going and
keep learning.
Learning how to use Google search is very important. If you do, you will be able to find an answer to just about every problem you encounter on the web.
Avoid time-wasters
Checking your stats every hour, reading 500 blogs in your RSS, playing on
Facebook,
Twitter,
Stumbleupon,
or Youtube all day will kill your productivity. Focus on what yields
results and stay disciplined to stick with that. Social media is an
important part of building traffic, but you have to keep it in check.
Have fun
While I wrote this article as a guide to help those who want to make
money with a blog, I understand that many people don’t really care about
that. Either way, life is too short not to be enjoying it. So whether
you want to be a full-time blogger or just communicate with friends –
have fun!!
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