Is Make Money Online With Blogging Right For You?

This is the first chapter of Quick Guide To Make Money Online With Blogging. If you are new to make money online with blogging, you might be asking …

Can you make a decent living with blogging?

Yes, absolutely! We think at the very least, a high five-figure annual income is certainly an attainable goal for an individual working full-time for blogging. Well, don’t listen to us, you can check out all the success story in blogging here.

But if you have a day job, it might take longer to achieve, and certainly it’s is possible to make a decent living with blogging.

Can most people do it?

No, they can’t. But it’s doesn’t mean that you can’t make money online, there are all kind of way to make money online, you need to get the one that’s right for you. Each make money online business require different skills set and not all the people can make money online through blogging. If you like to find out more about how to make money online in general, we wrote a general guide about The Truth About Making Money Online.

How do you know whether or not you can succeed with blogging?

This is tough to answer. But we know that in order to success in anything (including blogging), you must do what you do best and love. Focus on your strength and talent, you stand a better chance to succeed. And we think writing/presentation and web savvy are important skills/talent here to make you to succeed in blogging.

Why Not?

Blogging is a relative low barriers to entry business. In any field that is low barriers to entry, you will find a lot of competition and because it’s so easy to start blogging, people will just go ahead and do it. Base on statistic, there are billion blog out there, can you stand out? Plus, you don’t need any qualification to be blogger. This make blogger kind of like wannabe musicians and actors that never make enough money from their passions to support themselves.

When almost anyone can start blogging. Strength and talent counts for something, and for that matters the most in blogging is intelligent writing/presentation and online web savvy.

If you check out our post about Top 10 Ways For Doing It Right In Blogging, intelligent writing/presentation and online web savvy is the basic of those top 10 ways.

Be Intelligent Writing/Presentation

Well, don’t despair yet. Look at me, I’m not a good writer. But I think I’m intelligent enough to write and know that by writing it more often, more frequent and one day I can become a better writer. But I can see people who are very good at writing can get succeed in this field very fast. In blogging world, content is king and write linkbait articles is the best strategy to succeed in blogging.

Anyway, with blogging world moving so fast, I’m not sure intelligent writing is the right word to present the whole concept. But it’s much easy word to explain what I’m try to say here. That’s why I put intelligent “writing/presentation” here. Right now they have video blogging and photo blogging. So if you are really bad in writing, but intelligent enough to do video and photo blogging, you might succeed in video blogging and photo blogging.

Be Web Savvy

Don’t kid yourself that if you don’t know anything about web and you can make money online with blogging here. It’s possible for you to learn to be web savvy quickly. You don’t need to be a programmer but you need to be web savvy.

What web technology that you need to know will be depend on the nature of your blog and how you monetize them. For a start, at least you need to know how to use a blog software and received email.

In essence, you need web savvy to perform this 3 operations:

1. Operate Your Blog
2. Get Traffic, Get More Traffic
3. Monetize Your Blog

Here are some simple list that we think might be helpful if you know this web technology. This is not a complete reference, and we might miss some of them.

1. Operate Your Blog

• Browse Internet
• Blog Software
• Email
• HTML
• CSS
• RSS
• Feed Aggregators
• Ping/Traceback
• …

2. Get Traffic, Get More Traffic

• Search
• Search Engine Optimization
• Blog Comments
• Blog Community
• Social Bookmark
• Social Network
• Tagging
• Your Blog Traffic Statistic
• …

3. Monetize Your Blog

• Contextual Advertising
• Paid Blogging
• Private Advertise
• …

When you start to monetize your blog, there is more you need to know. Whether you will use affiliate, selling ebook, video marketing and etc, You need to become more web savvy to understand how paypal, podcasting, video casting, payperclick and etc. You don’t need to do it all by yourself. Some of the things you can outsource or ask your friends to help you to do it. But you need to get the basic understanding about the web key technology we mention above.

Okay, Is Make Money Online With Blogging Right For You?

You tell us:)

If you are ready, we can tell you how can you make, at the very least, a high five-figure annual income in the next chapter!

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