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The How to Focus on your Blog Without Worrying About Finances

July 31, 2010
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Everyone does it – worries about money / finances, but this writer gives some tips about How to Focus on your Blog Without Worrying About Finances:

This is a guest post by Asif who writes at Asiogroup. If you like to write a guest post for Shoutmeloud, Do read: How to become a guest author at Shoutmeloud.
In the last two years, Problogging (professional blogging or blogging for money) has seen a phenomenal growth which, Post recession, it has emerged as the newest profession according to the New York Times. There are many people who are making a full time living from their blogs.

Well there is one thing I would like to tell people who want to quit their jobs and make money blogging. Please consider blogging as a business and not as a hobby as it is going to serve you your bread and butter.

The other thing is, your blog is not going to make money from the very first day it comes live on the web. Many people get too excited about making money from blogs that they quit their jobs even before starting their blog. Please be sure to have enough money so that you can feed yourself for at least six months and pay the regular bills till then.

Read: When you should start with professional Blogging

You can take an option of working on your blog at night or by weekends by still working on your day job so that you don’t have to worry about the bills. By doing this you certainly will have little time to devote to your blog, but you can always outsource your blog design and development work and focus on creating content for it. If you are earning $2 then spend $1 and save $1, this way you get to save little money for upcoming months.

By the time, try monetizing your blog also, it depends on what type of niche you are in. For example, if you write about fitness, you can promote fitness products etc and try to sell them on the blog.

Now even if you manage to sell products and make more money than your day job, don’t get too excited until you have three salaries like that in your pocket. All months are not the same and you might not be able to sell as many products the next month. Paying the yearly hosting, domain and other bill would a great thing with that money so that you don’t have to worry about it again and again.