I’d wish to take a second to make a ProBlogger Public Service Announcement.
Its really one thing that I’ve been contemplating doing for some time now as a result of I’ve had two worrying incidents occur previously week which have left me considerably involved.
The most recent of those incidents occurred two days in the past after I acquired an excited electronic mail from a brand new ProBlogger reader (I’ve his permission to share this with you with out utilizing his title) who was writing to inform me that he’d simply ‘turned Skilled’ as a blogger and give up his job to go full time with running a blog.
His electronic mail was written in an excited tone and was filled with grand visions of blogs that might make a lot of cash. Not solely was he excited however his associate was additionally as they’d been studying quite a few tales of bloggers making their riches from the medium over the previous week. They’ve two little youngsters and he was excited to have the ability to keep dwelling together with his household to put in writing every day and be capable of present an revenue for his household.
The e-mail left me with a sinking feeling in my guts as I thought-about the choice that this man had made to give up his safe job to turn into a Skilled Blogger. You see he’d solely began his first weblog per week in the past – the day he handed in his resignation.
ProBlogger Public Service Announcement
It takes time to construct a worthwhile weblog. You don’t simply turn into a Skilled Blogger anymore than you simply turn into a Skilled Golfer. It’s not a choice you make, it’s one thing you’re employed in the direction of over time.
After we’ve polled the ProBlogger viewers on how a lot cash Bloggers are at the moment making from their blogs, over a 3rd who’ve responded make lower than $30 every Month – lower than $1 per day. Round half of those that responded earn lower than $100 monthly – lower than $3 per day. These are numbers to contemplate earlier than you launch into ProBlogging with out a again up plan.
Monkey Bar Running a blog
A smart man as soon as gave me some good recommendation on enterprise. He jogged my memory of when as a baby I’d play on the Monkey Bar Play Fitness center tools. If you wish to get throughout the monkey bars, from one finish to the opposite, the most secure technique to do it’s to seize maintain of the primary bar and swing to the subsequent with out letting go of the primary till you’ve got a agency grip of the second. As you let go of the primary you propel your self to the third with out letting go of the second till you’ve got a powerful grip of the subsequent one.
The quickest technique to fall off the monkey bar and break a bone (I broke my collar bone doing this) is to try to skip a bar, or to let go of the primary one earlier than you grip the subsequent one.
Enterprise (and Skilled Running a blog) is identical. There are occasions when that you must take dangers in enterprise – however there are additionally instances when it’s important to be wise and have some kind of a backup plan. Don’t try to skip steps with out being positive you possibly can survive on the place you’re at.
My Running a blog Journey
Once I first began running a blog I used to be working two jobs half time. I had no concept that running a blog would turn into an revenue stream for me – it was purely a passion.
Six or so months later after I began to earn an revenue from it I used to be tempted to give up my jobs and go full time however I made a decision to watch out – and I’m glad I did.
There got here a time after I let go of a type of half time jobs – when it turned reasonable that I’d be capable of earn sufficient from my running a blog to make up for the lack of that revenue – however I did hold maintain of one of many jobs. In a while I used to be in a position to relinquish the second half time job and go full time with my running a blog.
I used to be running a blog for two.5 years earlier than I might afford to ‘go Professional’. I labored 6-10 hours 7 days per week (generally extra) updating 18+ blogs every day. It was exhausting work. I beloved it and wouldn’t have accomplished the rest – however take into account the price earlier than you launch in.
Sure you CAN make some huge cash from Running a blog – learn the tales which are going round on blogs of individuals making respectable cash from running a blog – but additionally learn concerning the exhausting work and time that it’s taken them and keep in mind that for each success story you learn there are many others round who’ve tried and did not make quite a lot of {dollars} from their blogs.
I’m not eager to dampen the joy and goals of ProBloggers – in truth the entire level of this weblog is that can assist you attain these goals – however I feel its the duty of these of us who’re ‘speaking up’ running a blog to additionally hold giving actuality checks. In any other case we’re going to finish up with a variety of Bloggers that look just a little like this man on the Monkey Bars – hanging on for expensive life!
