Entrepreneurs turning tiny ideas into big blogs
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Neither are the millions of people who don't make squat from their blogs.
Don't be fooled - pro-blogging is hard as hell to make any real money on.
We shouldn't teach to expect to make money soon. AdSense probably should not have been mentioned in this article as it's just nickles and dimes for beginning bloggers.
Over the course of a year to three years a blogger should be able to command direct ad sales for significant revenue depending upon their niche.
Plus, blogging is _real work_. You have to constantly come up with new content, engage with your readers, and the rest of your niche's blog network. That crap takes a lot of time and effort, and you can never quit! Take a month off and you've lost everyone. I've seen it happen.
"My job was to write twelve posts a day about 'media gossip,' which meant anything unpleasant or otherwise intriguing about anyone who had power in any Manhattan culture industry. There had to be enough posts so that whoever was sitting at my old desk at the publishing house, and everyone in Manhattan like her, could read something new when boredom struck."
Excerpt from book by Emily Gould, ex-Gawker, infamous blogger
Real work, yes... as I said, it takes years to become an authority and hours of work daily.