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Can blogging make you enough money? We all know the answer to this, yes blogging can make you substantial amount of money and we know this from blogs like TechCrunch, John Chow and ProBlogger. They are all making $10k+ per month just from blogging. But in reality those blogs are a minority most of us will not see the $10k+ per month just from blogging.
So will blogging make you enough money? When I say enough money I mean so you can eventually quit your job. My answer to this is no, blogging alone will not make you enough money to quit your job… unless some how you get lucky for example John Chow and Pro Blogger both decide to review your blog for free and you get tons of traffic for your blog. Or you pay out a lot of money on promoting your blog with reviews, paid links and banners.
However you can get a decent amount of money through your blog which WILL increase over time. In my opinion it pays to have several other projects at the same time as your blog. Say you need $2,000/month, your blog makes $200/month, you still need $1,800 to be able to quit your job. If you have 5 other sites making $360 each per month you’ve done it you’ve hit your target and you can quit your job….
If only if it was that easy… but you get my point, if you have several small pieces of pie sooner or later you will have one big pie accumulated.
But I don’t know to make sites I only know how to write… well learn how to make sites, experiment! There are plenty of tutorial sites out there that can help you. Or take that money you make from your blog and gradually put it into a new project with a site designer which can be very pricey. But eventually you will get that investment back by having 2 income streams rather than your one blog.
You may asking yourself well why not just make another blog, well yes that’s an option you could do but personally I find it difficult enough as it is to make regular posts on one blog never mind 2! Sites can have static content which you hardly have to update and therefore equal less work.
Summary
We all want to make money online yet some of us only have our hands in one cookie jar rather than several. To make enough money you need to have a few projects not just your blog, not unless you’re Problogger. However don’t give up on blogging you can still make a lot of money from blogging it just takes time to build up your blog.
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August 28th, 2007 at 1:00 am
You know in seeing these types of questions pop up folks need to remember that ‘enough’ really depends on where you live. In NYC $2000 is clearly not enough to quit your day job whereas $2000 in the rural south is close to being just fine.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Hi Robert thanks for your comment, I live in the UK so i’m not sure about living costs too much in the US and said $2,000 relly as an example.
September 1st, 2007 at 9:10 am
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September 1st, 2007 at 11:19 am
I live in a large city in Ontario, and $2000 was the target I set for myself before I could quit my full time job. $2000 a month is basically $30,000 a year, based on the exorbitant tax we pay in Canada. In the city in which I live, I’d say that was pretty close to an average salary.
When I first started out freelancing, my father told me that I shouldn’t try and replace my income, I should try and replace my lifestyle. He said that certain expenses (work clothes, transportation, eating lunch out) would shoot down and other expenses (tech related stuff, business expenses) would go up. I found that a nice way to think about it so it didn’t seem like a failure if I didn’t replace my salary to the penny within the first 12 months.
September 1st, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I think its true what you are saying about saving when working at home not paying out for lunches transport and work clothes. Thanks for your comment Naomi.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I completely agree. It took me 3 months to realize that blogging is not the way to make money on the internet, unless you have something really valuable to say(improbable if you’re 18). Thankfully I learnt my lesson(s) soon enough, started making real websites, and make decent income for a college student
September 16th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
So I’m half way through the last month in a three month experiment to see if I could generate $2000 through online efforts. First month was around $650, second month was around $850′ish and in the first two weeks of the third month I’ve shot pass $1,000.
In my eyes it’s quite possible to make these goals happen. I’m living proof. When I started I had pretty zero idea of how to accomplish the goal. The $2,000 was an amount I pulled out of my ass.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
yes is this income through your blog only though ?
September 16th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
@Marc,
Yup and I’m only counting one of my sources of income at the blog.
You can see from visiting http://www.payperpost.com the amount I’ve made so far this month. There are other souces I’m just too damn lazy to add them up right now.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
yes
September 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
nice work MacEwan, difficulty with using PPP is that if you don’t have a high page rank then its difficult to get the work.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:34 am
It sure helps if you have a PR6 homepage Robert :p
September 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
OK, I hit my goal Thursday night with $2,000 only from PayPerPost.com. I did a goofy ass video right after hitting $2000.
http://www.dailymotion.com/macewan/video/x32v5s_pay-per-post-rocks_ads