Time To Get Out Of The Closet! Im A Blogger
admin on July 9th, 2009
So I have decided to get serious about blogging. This is basically my coming out of the ‘closet’ in the blogging world. I have been online for many years and saw Johnchow dot com become the great blogger he is today. I watched as many different bloggers went from every day people to the professionals they are today.. which I must say are making a killing on the internet.
I have always dreamed of becoming a great blogger just like them, so why can’t I? I figured out that the only thing holding me back is myself. Its not money or a lack of knowledge because anyone can start blogging for free and anyone can search google for answers to any question. I have spent the last two days looking through successful blogs and the one common instance I keep seeing are these bloggers are young and persistant. They never give up and they blog every day. Consistancy is key.
Below are some small examples of successful bloggers online today and what people are achieving from their own websites and online ventures.
These are some of the stated incomes from some popular bloggers:
- Johnchow.com $400k/year
- Jonathan Volk: $270k/month (affiliate marketing though)
- StevePavlina.com: $1000/day (old stats from 2006)
- Michael Dunlop: Who knows how much this 20 year old kid makes
These people are making their living just from blogging and some are making just enough to pay their bills, pay for a new car, buy a house to traveling the world. Whatever your dream is, you can accomplish it just by starting somewhere. One lesson I have learned over the years is that if you ever want to be successful you have to start.. that’s it. By starting something you are way ahead of the countless other people who just dream of success. Failure is starting something and stopping or never starting in the first place.
Blogging is something anyone can do and I am here to prove it. I currently run a few online stores selling physical products (one store with 8 months above $100k in sales) and built a rather large adsense site that gets roughly 65k visitors every month. That same site has been making on average $7k/year for the past few years and there is nothing more I need to do with that site, it runs itself.
I know I can start this blog especially since I am already self employed. It should be easy for me, right? Wrong! I really don’t like writing and it’s already hard enough to come up with ideas on what to write about. I do not have the best spelling and when it came to writing school papers I dreaded it. Blogging just seemed like a dreaded task. But that is where I had wrong thinking. Blogging should be fun and it is if you blog about what makes you happy, what you like, what gets you going everyday. If you were to blog about boring stuff, you would quit or give up. So this blog is going to be surrounded by self improvement, which I can write about many subjects that interest me, especially entrepreneurship, making money online, investing, health, fitness, spirituality, and the list goes on. I am going to take the next few months and take this slow.. learning as I go.
I have learned that if you blog about what you are passionate about, what keeps you going every day.. then nothing should stop you. I can tell you my goals are to be wealthy from this blog, but really I have no idea what I am getting myself into. This is a hobby that I wanted to take up years ago, to get my thoughts down. Blogging is a great way to basically keep notes for yourself.
So I guess I’m officially out of the closet 
and not in a ‘homo’ way.
