Comments on: How to Treat your Blog like a Business

By: work at home

work at home — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:18:03 +0000

I completely treat my blog as my home business, I am a full time blogger and this is my only one home business. I am working hard for grow my business.

By: jeux virtuel

jeux virtuel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:53:48 +0000

Blogging is here to stay, no doubt about it. I love the analogy – your blog is your home, the social network sites, twitter and other blogs are the cafes and bars. I think it’s important to put yourself out there and have a presence in the “cafes and bars”, so social media sites are a very useful place to convince people that you’re worth going home with.

By: festplatte

festplatte — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:08:08 +0000

You don’t have to go it alone. You surely have interesting and relevant colleagues that you could ask to post as guest bloggers. One hand washes the other…

Also, consider having your blog be the official website for a group you host. Our blog is the website for the LinkedIn Inside Sales Experts group and members ask each other questions and share information. Not going it alone makes it so much easier! Hope this helps.

By: work at home

work at home — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:54:17 +0000

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Taxi claims — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:55:19 +0000

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By: shravan Mishra

shravan Mishra — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:23:37 +0000

This information would really help in churning out more money from blogs, thnx for the great info.

By: Avis Williams

Avis Williams — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:53:45 +0000

Thanks for this article:-) I have just started a blog…and your advice has help…all am worried about now is monetizing and getting traffic to my blog..

Avis

By: Steve Rubin

Steve Rubin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:39:04 +0000

Great post. I’ve been feeling frustrated lately- it’s been almost 5 months since I started Sprezz Central and the numbers are not where I’d like them to be- not where it’s feasible to earn any sort of income.

I’ve done my best to identify my target readers and cater to them but how do I reach MORE of them?

As for the money aspect, I definitely write as a passion but I’d LOVE to be able to earn a living out of it rather than my corporate job. The audience I do have is loyal and enjoys the posts, I get good feedback and try to keep the material entertaining but I’m VERY naive about internet marketing and the technical ways to promote my website.

Few things that are always on my mind.

1. Is it necessary to pay a fee for a designer to create a more professional site? Will that give me more credibility?

2. Key words, search engine optimization, I’m sure there’s a whole arsenal out there that I’m completely unfamiliar with and that’s frustrating…

3. Right now I rely almost entirely on facebook promoting. How do I REALLY spread the word? Everyone says to comment on related blogs but I don’t know of any blogs that are similar to mine.

If you have any ideas please feel free to e-mail me (rubin215@gmail.com) , NONE of my friends are knowledgeable about the internet and it’d be great to have some people to run stuff by…

http://www.sprezzcentral.com

By: Cris

Cris — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:17:43 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with the post.

The hardest part for me is building up credibility.
I just started my blog this month and I noticed this when contacting folks to be on the blog: they don’t take it seriously.

I defenitely need to change a few things..

Thanks for the insight!

By: Emily Geizer

Emily Geizer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:10 +0000

Thanks for another insightful and timely article. I'm finding myself at a crossroads with this very issue and wonder where to go from here. Probably a Business Coach. I continue to get very positive feedback to my blog focused on parenting issues and advice. Parents have suggested I write a book, write more articles, or offer parenting consultations. But, at this point I put in very limited time, only producing about 1 post/week. The next step is either hiring care for my kids to be able to produce more content and be more active in the blogosphere or throw in the towel (leaving me with unfinished business). Any thoughts?

By: Mae

Mae — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:07:42 +0000

Thanks for the excellent information. I can put it to good use. There’s lot of room for improvement that I can see for myself in my blogging. Thanks for this great blog.

By: Arvind Devalia

Arvind Devalia — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:05 +0000

Excellent and very timely post to help me rescue my blog from being just another one in the “vast wasteland of un-updated waste that plagues the web”. So eloquently described!

To start with I have got a designer to give my blog a very quick makeover whilst we work on a design, look and functionality in the background.

I found myself being stopped from writing as I found the current design “boring” and old.

Time to make it happen!

By: Radiance

Radiance — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:53:12 +0000

My story is very similar to Sudeshna a couple of comments down, the difference being I blog about interesting discoveries in various branches of science and technology as well as “green” technologies. I started blogging last September for fun. However, almost 1 year down the lane, I have built some base of regular readers and traffic. However, I don’t expect my blog to ever have 1000s of visitors a day as the niche I have chosen is not something a lot of people are interested in. However, recently I have started giving a thought to getting some revenue from my blog. I know its not going to be something I can live off of but nonetheless, would be nice to make few extra bucks from something I love doing. Thanks, Darren, for this article and also the others that I can see links below to and will be reading soon.

By: Sharon Roode

Sharon Roode — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:46:23 +0000

Thanks for all the valuable information you provide on this site. I have now bought your book and found it extremely helpful in the way it gives the good, the bad and the reality of Blogging. It saves wading through all the hype and glorified promises and brings you back to the good old fashioned “time and effort” it takes to start up any kind of new venture, whether for your own personal satisfaction or for business purposes.

By: 2Lincolns.com

2Lincolns.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:13:29 +0000

I treat my blog like a business in terms of planning, organization, branding, and advertising, but it’s a hobby more than anything. If I became too serious about my blog, the humor and lightheartedness of my content could suffer.

That being said, I wouldn’t mind my ad revenue being enough to retire on… ;-)

Jeff
2Lincolns.com

By: teratips

teratips — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:40:48 +0000

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By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:20:31 +0000

Thanks ,Darren, for another great post.
“When you are just blogging for fun (which there is nothing wrong with by the way…just a different goal), you have a completely different mindset than when you are blogging as a business that creates income.” I think this is the crucial transition for us all, to begin to change our mindset.

By: prasanna

prasanna — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:55:14 +0000

The great blog post as always.If a layman can follow to Darren,he will be a successful blogger in very short time.
I am thankful to Darren for his honest efforts.

By: David Stillwagon

David Stillwagon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:30:52 +0000

Planning seems to be the corner stone of any good business
great article!

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:51:47 +0000

It intrigues me that at first blogging to me was just a hobby. It soon became something I wanted to turn into a business. Granted my blog is still very young, but it’s something I am serious about. Having these tips available to look at blogging in this manner helps keep my goals in check. I prepared a list of goals as recommended in this post and made sure I marked which ones are vital to my success. Hopefully I hope I can make my blogging business a source of income where I can support a family. It’s something I strive to achieve and this post gave me the will and determination to continue to do what I am doing!