Great post. My experience as a growing blogger has been much like yours. I began blogging with a curious stumble, and before long found myself in a full sprint. Some people would call a day in my life “hard work” or label me as “diligent” – I however, just jump on opportunities with curious excitement. If it’s right, the open doors will present themselves.

That explains why this post has attracted fewer responses, even though question is really good.

Great question itravin!

One other way of going beyond blogging is to get your blog posts published as a column in a newspaper or magazine. When I started my blog in Icelandic, I started writing a column in the national business paper at the same time. That is an excellent combination in establishing myself as an authority and expert in my field.

Now I’m building up readership for my blog in English and the number of RSS subscriptions is growing fast now. The next step is testing some ideas there which I plan to turn into a book in the upcoming months.

After you’ve got a good readership going for your blog, you can start thinking about other avenues. These avenues could involve another website, it could provide a very in-demand service for bloggers and everyday web surfers.

You could think about releasing a series of online electronic downloads, videos, podcasts, ebooks etc…This could be a representation of your ‘guru’ or ‘authority’ status.

These are a huge amount of potential businesses just waiting to be explored, the only problem is finding the time, the proper team and the skilled programmers to work with you – without charging an arm and a leg.

Anyway, that myth is sort of shattered.. :)

It’s just that a lot of bloggers in my opinion are not open to the possibility of growing beyond their blogs. Everyone talks about blogging as a means of financial and career freedom (on a gradual note) but very few do it with an entrepreneurial outlook.. like you said about being open to possibilities.. I might be wrong but that’s how I feel..

One of the ways to avoid this perhaps is to have a preset approach that over a period of time I do want to do a lil’ more than writing on a blog.. simply because a blogger has the potential to grow beyond that and this is the reason I ended up asking this question to you… and thanks for taking the time out to respond.. :)

Thank you for all your good information Darren.