I’ve blogged before about pro-blogging and some tips I have picked up here and there about blogging for monetary gain. I started looking into this with a serious eye about 2 or 3 years ago, but it fell to the wayside due to real life and other issues going on. Well, when I got laid off about 6 weeks ago, I decided to pickup and brush off this idea again. I’ve been researching several sites and reading advice and information from several professional bloggers and I want to share them all here. I’ll also add more to this subject later on with further posts about the subject of making money online, and about new ideas that I might launch in the future.
First and foremost, I should mention John Chow. I started reading John’s blog a couple of years ago, and while I don’t catch it every day, I do subscribe to it on my RSS reader and I read most of his posts about blogging and how to make money online. If you have any interest in blogging or making money online, you should subscribe to and read this blog.
John Chow makes $500,000 by blogging. I downloaded this free ebook he wrote, but I haven’t read it yet. However, I am about to read it and a couple of other ebooks I purchased, which I will talk about below.
John Chow’s recommended affiliates and money makers. I have signed up for most of these. Most of them go through an approval process, and I am still waiting on a couple to come through. One costs money, but it is only $47 so a small investment. Pepperjam Networks approved me almost immediately for one of their cigar store clients, which I have implemented on my Cigar Blog.
Through Pepperjam Networks I found Darren Rowse’s blog at Problogger.net. I also purchased his ebook titled 31 Days To Build a Better Blog. You can read several testimonials at this link and see the blogs of the people in the testimonials.
I’ll be writing reviews of these ebooks once I have read them, and I will be making more blog posts for other information I find online about being a Professional Blogger. I had a job interview a couple of weeks back with a company for a Desktop Support position, and one of their questions was, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” Well, I didn’t give a very honest answer to that question because where I really see myself is sitting on the beach in Galveston, at a summer home that I own, and enjoying the benefits of running blogs that generate me enough income to live on, and live well on. I don’t think employers want to hear that, but it is the truth. This is the new direction I am taking. Most people say it takes 2-3 years to get a blog to the point of being profitable, so this isn’t a “get rich quick” idea. This is an idea I am going to work hard at and hopefully have great reward from in the coming couple of years.
