What to expect when you are full time blogger
Posted October 5th, 2009 by Stefan
If you are a full-time blogger, then this is a great thing, but it comes with its own responsibilities and challenges and hard expectations.
Expectations of being a full-time blogger
1. You have to be consistent
Consistency can be the first expectation and virtue as a new blogger. When you are a full-time blogger, then at all costs you should deliver regular posts. How habitually you should post is a conflicting topic, but whatever is your monopolize post frequency, you should adhere to that and keep it coming.
Most blogs post 1-3 posts a day, numerous blogs post one post in 2-3 days. Try to avoid excessive posts and keeping to one post a day is a safe choice for many blogs.
2. You have to be persistent
The word persistence must be in your dictionary all the time as a new blogger. You can never be hasty and too forcing. There are people who get excited when they start earning money from their blogs and quit their jobs, and go for full-time blogging. However full-time blogging won’t guarantee that you will be earning same amount of money or more, you have to be prepared for down times as well.
3. You have to be creative everyday
You need to be creative everyday and there is no success without a good heavy creativity. It’s not a comfortable task to preserve blogging everyday, you have to be aesthetic in coming up with new topics that will be interesting to your readers. Blogging about what you love or blogging about what you are expert in will be a good help here. Just like hobbyists, when it’s something that you love doing, you can go for years doing the same thing, that is – writing interesting posts about particular topic.
Some Quick Tips
• Find something that you really like, a hobby for example is perfect.
• You must research on other blogs that talk about the topic: Self-assessment is a key and you should question yourself for a better understanding of it.
• Write regularly, learn about ways to increase the traffic, build a readership and contact other webmasters who write about it. Build a blogger network.
• The Google Ad sense is the best start. This is by far the easiest way to monetize your website which requires no thinking except for the layout of the ads. Explore other ad networks afterwards; this largely depends on the type of blog that you run.
• Don’t be impatient and give it a time. Most bloggers stop writing after some weeks because they do not see an immediate effect. This can take anywhere from a few weeks to months.
• Read all the great sites that deal with problogging, making money online like Dosh Dosh, Problogger, John Chow (beware he IS evil or Shoemoney)
Conclusion:
Every job comes with a responsibility and as a new blogger your foremost responsibility is to take your job seriously. A blend of hardworking and smart working is a must. The expectations of a new blogger may never end but the fruitful financial career through blogging may just be the start you are looking for.
