Comments on: Overnight Blogging Success

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:44 +0000

Excellent point to make, i am a true believer that success does take time in most cases, and is not something that you can quickly achieve.

By: zowoco

zowoco — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:22:39 +0000

just goes to show you can get rich slow!

By: Brainshrub

Brainshrub — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:16:16 +0000

My dad said he was an overnight success.

Overnight, overnight, overnight, overnight, overnight for 20 years.

By: http://your-credit-score-n-you.blogspot.com/

http://your-credit-score-n-you.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:44:47 +0000

How To Be An Overnight Success?

“It takes time. As a result essential qualities of successful entrepreneurial bloggers are patience and persistence. If you have these you just might find yourself becoming an overnight success – eventually.”

nuff said.

Johncy Edward
http://your-credit-score-n-you.blogspot.com/

By: john cunningham

john cunningham — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:55:44 +0000

Any suggestions for my site pokerjoke to generate some income?

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:41:05 +0000

Hey,
Cool, I think thats the first Google Adsense for RSS I have actually seen.
Molly
PS. Google, where’s mine? ;-)

By: lyndon

lyndon — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:53:23 +0000

Reminds me of the saying,
“How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.”

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:51:18 +0000

I’ve had my blog and switched over from standard web design to blog design for only a few months (since May) and have seen reasonably steady increases in traffic the whole time. In this case, much of the traffic comes from people who are not my clientele, but other blog consultants and designers. I know that eventually business will increase as well. For now, I’m glad to have a day job.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:10:31 +0000

I believe it is the responsibility of the visibly successful to explain that their success is the result of hard work (if that is the case, of course), day after day, year after year. Too many kids these days, including myself at one time, are part of the “hit the lottery” mentality where they think success can be had without hard work. Every so often though, someone visibly successful needs to go out there and remind everyone that people reach success through diligence and persistence.

By: the english guy

the english guy — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:51:16 +0000

Yes I agree, persistence and time. They start to show after a couple of months – you just have to keep going.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:47:59 +0000

As Roy Castle used to say, “Dedication’s what you need” (for any of you who used to watch “Record Breakers” (sp?)

My main site has been going for three years, its only in the last 4 months I’ve looked at adding a revenue stream to it, and the last month I’ve started to seriously look at optimising the site.

I’m expecting it to take another 18months of work to get it right, and well known enough to support itself and its bandwidth costs.

I’ve spent some time over the last few days reading old copied of create online, looking at some of the showcase sites they’d got in there, and then checking to see if they were still going – I’d say 50% have died, and the domains no longer exist.

My point – even with a mention in a popular publication, and a huge amount of visitors, it doens;t enusre any kind of long lasting success – to do this you need that steady stream of visitors to keep coming back – that tkaes time and patience to build. Overnights successes are just that – an overnight success that will fizzle out if care isn’t taken.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:49:59 +0000

Congrats on that.

By: Gilad

Gilad — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:02:39 +0000

Don’t forget that while dedicating “day after day, year after year” you may not see the results you hope for.

That’s why, for the most part, most people, even while having great concepts, do not make it. It seems very glorious from the outside, but then while in the inside, and while going through these “day after day, year after year” it is very easy to loose track and quit…

BTW: I’ve been lurking for a while, this is my first comment, wanted to thank you Darren for your dedication to helping others and for the inspiration I get from reading your blog (okay enough kiss a** ;).

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:28:49 +0000

I once had a business providing computer support to home and small business. I spoke to many, many business owners and learned two things:

1) You need more than one income stream.

2) It takes five years to build a business to a point where you’d consider it successful.

My business ultimately wound up for those two reasons. I didn’t discover another income stream for the business, and my wife wasn’t in a position to take a job (due to having four children under 6 and the newborn spending her first 7 weeks in hospital); so consequently we couldn’t wait the five years necessary, despite knowing it would succeed if we could. After two years the business was solid, reliable, self supporting but only contributing 80 dollars per weeek to our household income, with no rapid increase in sight.

So yes, it does take time. And even after it’s making good money, it may not yet be successful. It’s not successful until you can get hospitalized and for a month and come back to find it hasn’t disappeared off the planet. Not easy for a blog.