On Blogging for Money

Blogging for money… To be honest, the reason why I started this blog was to brand myself, share ideas, offer Internet marketing services and fool myself that millions of people are secretly reading and admiring what I say. The thought of making money from this blog never fueled it, but has always been there.

Like most people, I’m curious about how those who say they make money blogging do it. Today I came across this post from Jeremy Schoemaker – a famous internet personality who allegedly  makes a six figure income from blogging, ads, etc – talking about how to get more readers to your blog.

For Schoemaker, the trick has been honesty and consistency. As he delicately puts it, you need to “stick your pecker out.” The other day at Net Tuesday,  John Chow, another millionaire blogger,  said the same thing. Miss 604, perhaps the most popular local blogger in Vancouver, told me she averages 4 posts a day… 4 posts a day? Damn.

Schoemaker says that he spends 30 minutes every day to write a post, and has been doing so for the last 6 years (yeah, right). As much as I try to figure out what to write every day in the hypothetical case I proposed myself to it, I can’t. Part of me, the logical side says, “that’s okay, you don’t need to write every day and not everyone has the same writing style. Plus you’re not blogging for money.” But really, who would say no to making $5,000 a month by writing 30 minutes a day?

My other money-hungry side says, “you fool! Start writing every day!” And this starts my internal debate between content quality vs. compromising to write every day. Because really, I think no one can write quality stuff every day for a month, let alone a year. And don’t get me started with the meaning of “quality,” you know what I mean.

Well there. This post I wrote under 30 minutes. But it’s just my opinion. Is this what you want to read? Who knows, perhaps I’m underestimating the power of my opinions. Let me know.

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