Side Hustle 2: Blogging

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 Passive Income via blogging

Obviously, the biggest question that one has to ask is how much can one make via blogging? 

According to various statistics, the high majority (about 80%) of bloggers never make above $100. The rest of the numbers are as follows:

  • 9% can sustain their lifestyle on blogging 4-6 hours per day
  • 8% earn enough to support their family doing blogging full-time
  • 2% makes $150K or higher writing about 1-2 hours each day
  • The top 1% ...well, the sky is the limit and these are the ones who we see often on the Internet, telling us how successful they are.

Of course, the most important thing is to start - I suppose many bloggers probably did not anticipate their successes in the beginning. But as they continue to chug away at their blogs, they start getting more followers and move on from there. 

So, how does one start blogging? 

The steps to a new blog are as follows:

  1. Pick a name for the blog - this can be a personal blog or hobbies
  2. Register for the blog - Google blogger is an option but for better (and nicer templates) you can try Wordpress or Wix
  3. Customize the blog - as mentioned, Blogger is quite limited in the aspect. You can choose Wordpress or Wix for more options. 
  4. Start writing publishing the first post
  5. Promoting the blog via various marketing strategies - the more followers, the better
  6. Monetizing the blog 

Well, yours truly is at step #5 going on to #6. I have already spent quite some effort on building the blog and thus should be sufficient to apply for Google Adsense. However, this has not been successful yet - they comment from the Google team after about 5 attempts is "insufficient content ". Stay tuned...

Note #1: the entire purpose of my blog (this one) is to leave a legacy, that the reader learns something new and becomes a better person after that. So I guess we shall be continuing on that for a while. 

Note #2: based on research, it says that in order to get the blog off the ground and start monetizing,  one should have about 1-2 blogs per week for 3-6 months before expecting any returns.  So that means, there need to be minimally 25 pages and up to 50 pages of content before seeing any returns. 

To be continued...