From Blog for fun to Blog for money
From Blog for fun to Blog for money
My journey to learn more about blogging and the blogoshphere (blog world) have stumbled me to many great blog whose giving so many tips and idea how to make a better blog.
Rather than discussing how to make a good blog, many of those blogs i found are, focussing on topics how to make money online, especially from blogging. Make real money in a great sum.
This “money” theme ring a gong in my head. I mean, how on earth people could make money just by writing article on topics they like (well, not really “just write”, so much effort and idea also poured on the article). How could they do that? Questions rolls in my head, and there i go trying to find more truth.
Make money online, how did i got the idea?
First time i found make money online topics was from Problogger.com It was all a coincidence. I knew Problogger from googling around to find resource on blogging.
Problogger than lead me to JohnChow.Com than lead me to ShoeMoney.com and so on. Those three name are well known in “making money online” community. Especially for their past success on getting ridiculous amount of money google send to them for google’s adsense programs. Not just that paycheck, actually they also dedicated their time to work on their blog so many people could also learn how to make money online.
My learning progress
Since knowing making money blogs, especially those i mentioned earlier, I then look for more and read even more pages, bookmarking and saving more sites like i will ever have time to read and check all of them later on.
Which later realized, that i don’t have much time for it.
I also learnt from hundreds of free ebooks provided in the internet, which are so easy to get these days. You just need to google it… Tons of them prepared for you to download and read.
Finding time to read is the hardest part to do, so i just scan read some of them, read through it, if it worth my time.
Realizing that time is limited and browsing around finding information without doing anything with knowledge i had is just waste of time, i focused on only read through few sites only.
Later on i learnt about feeds, then i subscribed to just ‘money making theme feed that made my learning effort more organized and focused. More over, i sorted and unsubscribe feeds that i feel not good enough. I also pick and print just some ebook that made me interest enough. Ebooks that have decent quality and many people recommend for it.
My notes to you, if you are looking for “making money guru’s” blog and save their page and search and bookmark and so on everytime you find one, just like what i did, you will find that hundreds of blogs gurus out there had almost the same topics idea posted by another “gurus”.
What make them different is, just how they rewrite the topics and when they post it. Reading each of these writing won’t give you any different. Believe me, i found many blogs that got the same idea packed in different flavour.
That’s why I though, wouldn’t it better to subscribe just few feeds whose already got a lot of readers and established?
Focus and The Pareto Law
The Pareto Law (aka the 80/20 law) said that 20% of our effort will lead us to 80% of our result. Pareto law made me subscribe to just 5 of my favorite “gurus” feed. Than omit another 20 or so feed subscribei already subscribed on. Of course you can have your own estimation how many feed you should subscribe, it all depends on
- Do you have the time to read all of them? (what’s the point subscribe to the feeds but don’t have time to read?)
- Do reading more article will make you much more different in any efficient way?
In the future, if i found better blog feed to be subscribed into. I’ll omit the least read feed i had, because that will give me more focus and chance of success.
Oh, about this FOCUS word, i remember Bruce Lee, yeah the KungFu master, once said, “A great fighter is an ordinary man with a LASER FOCUS”, so, learn specific KungFu technique and mastering one, will give better result than MASTERING none. (correct me if i am wrong)
Applied to this feed subscribing, i’d rather to learn from few “gurus” but reap full knowledge from them, rather than learn from a lot of “gurus” and later made my self dizzy with tons of informations.
