Professional blogging

Posted on May 1, 2007
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I have been reading about professional blogging as a possible income stream for my portfolio. It takes time - maybe a year or more - to build up enough traffic to bring in a decent amount of money, provided you can create something that attracts people in the first place.

When I first started this blog, I had in the back of my mind the idea that eventually it could turn into something more than just a blow-by-blow account of a personal journey. A friend of mine recently said the same thing - although he cast slight aspersions on the writing!

He has a point. This blog is, like most personal blogs, very like a diary at the moment. Posts are a combination of “and then I did this” or “I feel this”. There are popular and successful blogs out there that are written in this style, such as the infamous Belle De Jour but I am not sure that this format is for me in the long term.

If this blog is to be useful and valuable to people, I probably need to take a step back and analyse what I am learning and how this can translate to general advice and observations. Be more journalistic, in short. I am also considering starting a new blog on a different subject, keeping this one for personal ramblings. It’s like my learning blog, my training wheels.

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2 Responses to “Professional blogging”

  1. Wolfie Wolfgang on October 31st, 2007 3:31 pm

    I think you should definitly get more publicity for this as you develop it. I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing how you are managing even if they’d never have the courage o emulate you.

    I’m thinking about starting up a website when (if it ever happens) we finally move to our new place. I’m hoping to use it for my pathetic but indelible arty ideas. So I’m doubly interestd in what you ae doing, Sally.

    Cheers,

    W.

  2. sally on November 2nd, 2007 1:24 pm

    Thanks, that gives me encouragement! I think it needs a bit more work to turn it from a personal diary into something that is really valuable to people.

    Good luck with your own web adventures. It’s all so wonderfully easy these days! I love Wordpress; I remember when I first got involved in internet business in the late 1990s. Hand-coding all the way, baby!

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