Comments on: Becoming a Professional Blogger was never harder than today

By: You Might Be A Professional Blogger If… at Henricus

You Might Be A Professional Blogger If… at Henricus — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:02:13 +0000

[...] these professional blogging reality-checks I’m seeing lately are groovy. Recurring themes are patience, passion, self-evaluation [...]

By: Fast Links Collection - Num 49 | MondoBlog

Fast Links Collection - Num 49 | MondoBlog — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:59:08 +0000

[...] Diventare blogger professionisti sarà più facile in futuro [...]

By: infonote

infonote — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:40:33 +0000

There can be only a number 1. To be the number 1 you need to be a pro.

Note: blogging is only a hobby for me. After coming from a day’s work, it is hard in those 2 hours you might have available to read forums, rss feeds, email and post at least an article.

Those who start early (opportunity seekers) are the ones who gain. They took a gamble and they won.

There are exceptions. Look at Google. Search engines existed before. Google just introduced a new way of thinking (Page Rank) and it become number 1.

By: Tavi Nemet

Tavi Nemet — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:04:50 +0000

If I’m not mistaken there are 100.000 new blogs made everyday. Keep this in mind and remember that a blogger reads a lot more blogs than a person who uses the net just to buy something from amazon.com and find info on wikipedia.

The more blogs the more (and most importantly the more returning) visitors probloggers will have.

Its something that we should keep in mind.

By: Hard To Become A Professional Blogger

Hard To Become A Professional Blogger — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:39:12 +0000

[...] job just where to go and how to get there? Well you may find reading Duncan’s post at 901 on becoming a professional blogger was never harder than today quite sobering. But how many really professional bloggers are there? those that are actually making [...]

By: dan

dan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:28:19 +0000

I’m not an expert, but I have a feeling that again and again, the new amazing blogs will appear. We can see more niches, more color tones and shades, etc.

Blogging, actually, is in a very beginning stage yet.

I think somewhere at the end of 2007 we can see totally different interface, unobtrusive and easily integrated with online games, browsing experience, office work, online shopping…

Voice generation and recognition systems undistinguishable from human voices could merge with the existing wave of podcasting.

Even if nothing revolutionary happened, blogging will find new talents all the time. New short online stories, new diaries, new stories.

It does not matter that some library has 100 mln. books, and another 1mln. What is important is the part of books in the constant demand on the regular basis.

New books come all the time, the same with blogs, no matter how much of them already exist

By: PML

PML — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:06:32 +0000

Oh pardon me, I think I should have used the phrase “developing nation” instead of “third world” :)

By: PML

PML — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:58:26 +0000

Terry makes an interesting point about cost of living, lifestyle, etc… In a third world country such as the Philippines (where I am), for instance, $1,000 – $1,500 a month would be enough for a person who is single and living alone to pay rent, buy food, pay utility bills, get insurance and have a vacation (as Jim mentioned). So if one had a blog that made atleast that much money and lived in the Philippines, that would already be considered full-time income. So it isn’t really just the amount of money that one earns from blogging but it’s also about whether or not the money earned is enough to become a blogger’s main source of income. And that varies greatly depending on where you live and how you live.

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:44:38 +0000

Duncan,

Although I think I understand the gist of what you are driving at, I must ask for some clarification about your definition of a “professional blogger”. By defining your terms, it may make your argument stand better scrutiny. As it currently stands, it doesn’t really hold water. David’s statement is true if you are considering a professional blogger as someone that blogs for pay. In your case, you seem to intimate that we are talking about blogging for a living. I consider them mutually exclusive. Anyone with a blog and a keyboard can make a couple of bucks and they have lost their amateur status. Just take PPP for example. Now consider paying the mortgage, benefits, eating regular and trying to have a vacation. Now we are talking of a completely different scenario. In your case, what is a professional blogger?

By: Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:27:04 +0000

Timing is always a huge factor with so many different successes. For example look at plentyoffish.com. No one would look twice at this page today in this web 2.0 era but at the time it was pure gold (and rakes in $300K per month) There are over 1.5 million blog postings daily so you’d better have some pretty interesting content for anyone to see it.