Blogging for Cash & Sum

Blogging for cash or fun is work. And it can be a headache if one is not prepared to overcome the many challenges that come with it.

Blogging Challenges:

1. Choose Blogging Platform
Wordpress, TypePad, and Joomla to name a few are some blogging platforms available. Any blogger can start up a free blog at Blogger.Com or LiveJournal. Or start one at the many free hosted mini hubs within related blog or site mega portals across various niche markets from health, self improvement, to business.

For the self reliant and independent bloggers, getting paid hosting and owning their own domain is the way to go.

Wordpress cries of adulation can be heard across internet space for its ability to easily install and use. It has lots of free and paid plugins, How To tutorials and videos available online. With its ability to expand its use with various plugins; Wordpress is a blogger’s best choice for blogging for cash or for fun.

2. Choose Niche
Go into a major market or a specific niche, that is the question? I say – make it simple. I think it is best to start small and blog about what you are most passionate about and learn as you go. Choose any one of your hobbies or work or life related theme and blog about it. You can find a corresponding monetization strategy to go with it if you decide to earn through your blog as well.

3. Update Content
Maintaining the blog with unique content can be hard work. But with passion for your writing and writing a lot to practice and share your voice will make the job easier.

Write what you know and let your voice be heard. Rewrite plr content that complements your blog and model successful blog posts from popular bloggers to get a headstart on creating lots of unique content that offer value.

Start with at least one or two blog posts per week. Don’t go overboard and blog too much. Having a lot to read can be overwhelming even to your readers; don’t scare them away.

4. Keep Up With Blogging Trends
Update your blog template and get in line with the rest of the blogosphere by connecting your RSS feeds, join blog carnivals and blogging forums. Experiment with videos, podcasts and guest blogging to get yourself out there and connect with your subscriber base and with other bloggers.

5. Keep It Simple
Start small, learn your blogging craft and work up. Everything starts somewhere and it is best to work with what you know and learn as you go. This will keep away that nasty overwhelm and burn out bug at bay. Keep it simple as you expand your blogging skills.

6. Take Action
Nothing works if it is not acted upon or followed through from start to finish. Maximize your results with better innovative solutions by modeling what works. Act – Blog – and Blog some more.

Choose your blogging platform, Choose your niche, Updating content, Keep up with blogging trends, Keep it simple, Take Action: these are just some of the many challenges that many bloggers faced at one time or other.

How to ease the pressure of blogging for cash or for fun is a journey like any other. It can start all exciting and dies unexpectedly if you quit. But it can also be very exciting as you go with its flow of challenges that will only make you a better blogger. And lead you to become a more internet savvy communicator that has a place in the blog world of bloggers.

Acknowledge yourself as a blogger and take your rightful place in the sea of bloggers across internet space. Start small and keep on blogging. Who knows, you might just start to make some waves and make some friends and loyal fans.

Blogging for cash or for fun is a choice. It is another life experience that is rewarding and profitable when one succeeds at it.

What are your blogging challenges at this time? Plan for your success and start taking action now.

What are the 3 main obstacles that block my blogging for cash successfully? I had to take a major step back and really honestly ask myself this question. The answers surprised me and has given me a way to find solutions to them. To stop focusing on the wrong actions, to change how I do things.

It is so easy to get trapped in the cycle of daily actions that have no positive results. At least not the kind of results that takes one to the next level – showing results that are measurable, repeatable and deliver rewards.

It is said that to acknowledge the problem/s is the first step to minimizing and overcoming them. So here they are.

1. Perfectionist
I find myself spending hours, even days on a particular task. Be it creating one blogging post or updating the blog theme. Trying to make it just perfect. I lose time and energy on a losing battle since the results seem to be never perfect enough. There is no perfection when it comes to learning, to practicing, to building a successful blog. I must learn to take action quickly, see results and tweak them along the way.

2. Multi Tasking
Multi tasking to speed things up just ends up with too many open projects and lists of to do’s that never gets done. I have to Multi task on simple tasks, never on major projects that need to be focused at one at a time. Blogging for cash successfully is a process, not a speeding contest.

3. Start and Finish
I realize that I have seldom succeeded in this online business venture because I have never started one project and seen it through to the end. Starting and finishing one project will yield results and allow me to move from one level of experience to another, from one level of profit margin and going upwards.

Focusing on the wrong set of actions will yield the same mistakes and get me no where. I will resolve to do better. To not get stuck with being a perfectionist and to tweak and improve with the process. To not multi task all projects and focus on one thing at a time. To not leave things unfinished – to start and finish what I start.

I hope to learn from my mistakes and finally make this year, my year of blogging for cash successfully.

Here is what I’ve learned in this simple exercise: Promote proactive actions by leveraging on mistakes in order to succeed fast.

Don’t just dream or talk about it, BE IT!