Would you like to make a full time income from your blog? Download the free 30 day blogging course and start making money in just 30 days.Sometimes it’s difficult for me to keep my tongue between my teeth. Although I’ve successfully persuaded many of my friends and colleagues to start blogs there are still plenty who steadfastly refuse to join the party. The ones who have started blogging are happily promoting their careers, making money directly and indirectly, developing their online skills and generally profiting in many ways from their blogs.
Unsurprisingly, those who haven’t started blogs haven’t made any money online.
So what’s stopping them, and, if you’re not making money online, what’s stopping you?
The two most common reasons given by those who refuse to believe that blogging is potentially the path to the end of the rainbow are lack of time and, oddly, lack of money.
I’ll squash those two straight away. You can happily run a blog with only one hour a day at your disposal and the only cost involved is hosting. The hosting I recommend, and use myself, costs only $6.95 per month and, if you use the coupon code UPSTARTBLOGGER, the first three months are free. That includes a free domain name for life and more extras than anyone will ever need.
Maybe they are not sure what to write about. The answer is simple. Write about anything as long as it is of interest to both the reader and the writer.
Still stuck for a topic? Write about yourself and make it interesting.
The crazy thing is that these people, the friends and colleagues who won’t jump on board, are watching me make thousands of extra dollars per month whilst still maintaining my original career.
I don’t wish to sound critical of these people but it’s just so frustrating. With the world economy going down the drain I don’t think there is anyone who would, or could, frankly, turn down the opportunity to earn extra money but I know there are people reading this blog right now, who still think that blogging isn’t for them.
That’s where I’m left scratching my head. Why aren’t these people, who are intelligent, articulate and interesting individuals, grabbing the bull by the horns?
And if you’re not blogging, or are maybe considering taking the plunge but holding back, what’s stopping you?
People are afraid man. That’s it. People are afraid, and conditioned to think and live that way. It applies in the cubicle-grid envinronment, and it applies online.
Ashley, I am currently living in South Africa for a year, working with the poor living in townships. I am teaching at a computer school and developing a second-level course to teach the locals web design. But in the back of my mind I also want to open them to the world of blogging as a source of income, if possible. Do you have any ideas? Of course, if I do introduce them to blogging, that would be the perfect topic for a new blog by me, don’t you think? Blogging in the third world or something along those lines?