How to Build a Blog Business

Can you make blogging your business and primary source of income? Absolutely!

However, anyone who tells you it is an easy path to lots of money is lying.

It takes work.  And patience. LOTS of patience.

Here is some sound advice from an experienced blogger who makes a living from her writing.

And here are the key takeaways:

1) Get a blog! Get a blog and start writing.  Write about YOUR passion.  Not what you think people want to read or what you think search engines want.  What YOU love.  This is the BEST way to generate quality content that gets read, talked about, AND shared.  Sharing is key!

2) Experiment, explore, and enjoy.  Have fun.  Blogging should be fun, even though it is also work!

3) Monetize.  Use Google AdSense or some other means of advertising and start generating income.

4) WAIT.

5) Wait.

6) Wait some more.

7) It may take a while (IT WILL) for you to start making money.  But any small business takes time to grow into a profit-making enterprise.  Be patient.  Work hard.  And wait.  If you are generating solid, quality content that readers find valuable, you'll get MORE readers.  And you'll eventually MAKE money. 

How to make money with news

Can you make money blogging about the news?

Yes, you can!

Hyper-local blogging is a great way to write about what's going on in your community AND earn money.

Most newspapers are going away and have significantly LESS staff.

That's where you (and your hyper-local blog) come in.

You write about a portion of your community, your neighborhood, what's going on around the block.  You send that news out and about to friends, neighbors, those in the community.

People love credible news that's covered in a credible way.

Don't make stuff up, do write the news.  And discover your writing voice.  And get it out there.

Here's just one example of a quality, hyper-local site.