Blogging for money–a boon or a trap?
November 12th, 2009
Due to the economy and the need to generate money quickly, I turned to blogging for money by writing regularly on green business matters in the Portland area. The problem with this sort of sideline is that is pays very little considering the amount of work that goes into preparing each article. There is the research, fact checking, interviewing, writing and posting to be done for each offering–not to mention the time spent trying to find appropriate photos that can be used without copyright violations.
The trap comes with the fact that the more you post the more money I earn, and so the time that I could be spnding on potentially more lucrative projects is not available.
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1. valentina | November 14th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Blogging can be addictive, especially as the meager income grows by pennies and then begins to deliver dollars.
If you look at it as a business where you are the owner, how many businesses do you know where the owner is flush with positive cash flow day one? Year one? Ok…lets try Year Three? Accountants will tell you that a traditional business started from scratch takes 3 to 5 years in the making before depositing a decent ROI. Not only does a traditional business cost you time but lots of money, money that you may be paying interest on.
Blogging costs nothing to peanuts to start. You can build your blog on a part time basis. The investment is time. The more time you invest wisely, the faster the income begins to grow.
Stay with it. If you are already making money blogging you are ahead of 82% of bloggers out there.
best……….valentina
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