Roadmap to a successful blogger account ( literally its never to late )

Do you ever wanted to start a blog but never had any idea on how to do it or maybe you feel like you're tech-illiterate and you have no idea where to actually begin. well in this journey I'm gonna tell you how to start a blog and launch it in the right way where you make money with zero experience.
Welcome to the blog my name is Isacc and we talk about passive income, investing all the good things when it comes to creating ultimate freedom for ourselves with that being said let's go straight into it so you came into this blog because maybe you see some of the people out there interesting ways how they've made passive income with their blog and therefore maybe you want to start a blog, you want to start your own website, you want to start documenting the things that you're passionate about and you want to start making money doing the things that you love doing but you just have no idea where to actually get started well guys this is the step by step guide that I wish i had when i first launched my blog you know my blog has been making me a full-time living for the past couple of years it has allowed me to travel around the world and to really make enough as well as save enough so that i could just focus all on my future financial freedom journey and as amazing as having a blog is it's just always overwhelming.
when first getting started especially with the technical side of things and you have to figure out how to make money and all of it is just confusing especially for me because I'm extremely tech-literate so what I'm gonna do for you is I'm gonna teach you how to set it up with less than 15 minutes as well as launching it so you're not just having a blog that just collects dust for no reason, so.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is what are you gonna actually blog about you know there's so many ways to make money but the problem is most people chase the money instead of chasing what it is that they want to blog about one thing that i did for me was i asked myself well what am I passionate about well i'm passionate about fitness i'm passionate about documenting my financial journey i'm fascinated about marketing and sales and online businesses and whatnot i'm also very well excited when it comes to you know finding ways to travel hack or credit card hack and all these things in the moment i did that i made a long list of all the things that i was passionate about and i saw which one of these would actually make money and what I mean by that asking which one of these would make money i'd ask myself is there a need for my passions because sometimes you're passionate about something but sometimes you know there's no need in the world like as passionate as i am about painting you know the need for my specific painting wouldn't necessarily be feeling a demand in the world it might be some nice thing someone could buy from etsy but it's not actually filling an actual problem and one way to do that is to figure out if you can monetize what it is that you are passionate about so what i have right here is a list of some of the top 10 affiliate programs to start off with when you are blogging and and i did all the research for you so you don't have to right and many people start their blog and then figure out a way to make money when it's actually the other way around you need to first figure out how you're going to make money and then start your blog so for example especially with what you're passionate about you could see right here if you're passionate in the cameras you could just start with affiliate program on amazon where you could refer anything to amazon and you could get paid for that right so you could see cameras or if you are a mom and you are very passionate about your baby you could start selling like a bunch of strollers which is a good price point and as you can see before you can figure out what you're passionate and what you want to create content on you need to figure out if you could actually make money by certain products. 

Referral marketing is one of those for example if you send anybody through this link that you could get from amazon's affiliate program which just goes to affiliate slash programs.amazon.com that is a good hint that you could actually make money from that.
Another one is if you just like recommending things so if you want to be like in the online jobs portal and you want to recommend people with jobs you will earn up to 15 for every paid subscription that you send them.
In addition on skillshare, a lot of people come and learn skills online so depending on what skill you like if it's cooking if it's eating if it's traveling if it's editing there's a skill out there that you know you could essentially sell right so you can see why when it comes to starting a blog we need to figure out how we're actually going to make money from it, okay so many people go on their blog and like you know what I want to blog and I want to just paint things and I want to make money but they don't actually know how they're actually going to make money right skillshare is one where you earn seven dollars for every new customer you refer to skillshare so that's pretty exciting.
Furthermore, Freshbooks especially if you're serving like the online business and online marketing space we all need to figure out our accounting right and the thing is instead of traditional accounting we now can use cloud accounting which is amazing but the thing is most people don't know about it so if you create a bunch of articles and you're very passionate about finances and building your own online business this is something that you could easily recommend as well where you could actually make money.
Another one is adobe if you are an editor if you're a photographer if you like doing presets on Instagram or whatever you could actually recommend adobe things like photoshop in lightroom and whatnot you get 85 of the first month for commissions and you can see it's 72 72, all in all, a lot of online creators use this why not actually get paid for it.
lead pages for people that are starting a blog need to figure out how to capture the email so lead pages will actually give you 50 commissions every single month right. so when you see the passive income and the residual income it's because they're recommending products that pay them every month so if you want to start your blog and make money and launch it on day one this is a good thing to start seeing okay well which one of these affiliate programs do I actually want to recommend so that once I actually launch my blog I know exactly how I'm gonna make money. 
Shopify you know I did a lot of Shopify back in the day and I did really good money but what I also did really good money on was recommending this software as well so many people want to start their own physical products businesses maybe they want to sell you know red bandanas or sunglasses or blue buddhas back there but they don't know exactly how to create their own e-commerce site instead of you trying to start your own e-commerce site what if you were the one that sold shovels in the gold rush and you just recommended people how to actually teach them how to use Shopify so this is another good one I made a lot of good money just recommending Shopify it was a lot easier than actually starting an e-commerce site.
According to me another one is a weber you know this serves like the online entrepreneur community a lot of people need to send emails and this like lead pages pays you every single month right so that's one of the big things when you start a blog you need to figure out not just how you can make money right now but how can you get paid every single month i recommend you know email autoresponders just like this because everybody needs email marketing when it comes to an online business so why not i get a percentage of everybody's subscriptions every single time they use this imagine every single time you recommended Netflix to somebody and they bought it because your recommendation right imagine getting a percentage of that Netflix subscription this is a powerful thing when it comes to figuring out a way to make money with your blog and launching it on day one just finding the right ones that work with you and the best thing for me is i recommend the things that i already use because it just comes natural.
 If you think that you could serve the people that are selling courses think ific is a really good one you could see that you could earn up to eleven hundred dollars per referral per year how amazing is that guys you can see where all of this starts adding up especially now when you look at your blog in terms of just a marketing end of things okay at the end of the day right all you need to do to make money is you need to have a product and you need to find a way to sell that product which is your blog and then you need to find a way to market your project which is either pinterest or youtube or google and of course another one as well is teachable right and it gives 30 commissions with a 90-day cookie meaning if anybody clicks on your link within 90 days they will give you money if they have bought so now that you have chosen your niche or the things that you're passionate about you've seen which ones you could basically sell from you could see from all of these you can basically make money from anything you know we have. you know the people that are cooks the people that want to sell to business owners we have the people that want to recommend jobs and make 15 per commission we have the people that maybe want to sell strollers you could see from all of these that there's so many ways to make money now you just gotta find a way to host it on a place where you could actually do the selling right now the thing about the blog is it needs to have real estate online right so if you think about you know starbucks they have to go and rent like this entire building and then they could sell coffee or if you invest in a mcdonald's you would need to get the real estate on the right corner for you to be seen to the people that are actually going to buy mcdonald's the thing about a blog is you need to have your own virtual online real estate that you need to also invest in right so you could see that uh this is exactly what i did when i first got started and it literally takes like five minutes to get this up and running and get your online real estate like i said renting a piece of internet for your blog to call home think about this you know how much is it to rent an office if you are a doctor how much is it to pay for electricity for water for plumbing you know when it comes to a physical location when you get the real estate for a brick-and-mortar business or a shop that you want to sell close down there is like tens of thousands of dollars of expenses.
you have to deal with now the thing about the online real estate with your blog is it's only like three to five dollars a month right and like I said it takes fifteen minutes to get started so what I would actually recommend is just go for the cheaper option all of these are all right but you know if you're a beginner you don't have to get started. with the pro even though this has been recommended I would just get started with like 3.95 one and now you could actually get a free domain so the problem with me is I didn't want to pigeonhole.
myself to a specific product right so if I wanted to sell strollers in the beginning and say I'm a single mother uh wanting to make money recommending expensive strollers, uh I wouldn't want to just name it. stroller mommy.com because what if I don't want to sell strollers for the rest of my life what if I want to start you know recommending things on skillshare or e-commerce things or email marketing platforms or course things because these are the products that i'm buying what if i don't want to narrow myself into a specific niche or product and that's exactly what i did you know that's why i just named my blog because if you look at my blog ever since that i've been doing it since literally 2014 i talk about everything you know from interviewing multi-millionaires to you know talking about emotional intelligence to talking about my interset and knowledge and research and making money online and saving money and starting businesses and creating passive there's just like so many of my interests that came to starting a blog that i didn't want to pigeonhole myself to a specific thing so for you guys what i would just recommend is just your name it's not that hard everyone can start remembering it and as you start writing your brand and online presence starts growing but if you don't want to use your name that's fine i would just use more of a blo a broad term so for example if you're a mother i would just be like blog mommy forever.com and i'll just search for it as you can see this domain is 2.95 so then all i needed to do is just fill in my information as well as choosing the right plan so the longer you get it the cheaper it is and just remember to think about it like a business right how many times are you spending five dollars a month on things you know a netflix account maybe people spend five dollars a day on starbucks and they complain that they have no money imagine this as your only online investment to start
your own in business like where can you go to actually have a business where your only overhead cost is three dollars a month right so if you want to treat it like a business which I recommend you do
I would go for the longer options so that way you know that there's no quitting after this and you are committing to making this happen for me I got the 36-month plan when I got started because I knew that this was when this wasn't going to be one of those things where I was going to put my toe in and dabble
I knew that this was going to be the reason that I was going to create freedom for myself so I chose the 36-month plan and other than that you're already good to go you don't need any of the extra packages so you could just save yourself money there and then you just put in your payment information and go so the moment you've done that then that leaves to the fun part which is the marketing aspect of things so this is where the money comes into play because you already have the product you have the product sitting on the real estate right so you have your Starbucks coffee and you have the Starbucks location on a very highly trafficked area now you just need to find the right roads and the right intersections to put your Starbucks location at if you kind of catch my grift with the metaphor and a lot of the places are for example Pinterest as well as youtube but let's talk about Pinterest for now because it's like a lot easier especially if you're camera shy uh how I think of creating content to be put in front of these people is I would just type in here and type in all pins and I would just type in for example best and then insert products right so best uh let's say if we wanted to sell strollers best strollers list best strollers 2021 and you could see exactly what type of content that you need to create to actually make money from this from day one you just put it up on Pinterest it's very easy to create you just go on canvas which is absolutely free to make these images as you can see some of the examples of how I was able to make pinnable images for my Pinterest but we just see what people are already looking for so, for example, this person 20 best baby shoulders of 2021. we pull this up and this is exactly how this person is making money right look at these 338 shares most of it from Pinterest and all of them recommending baby strollers that are most likely getting sent straight to amazon so that's exactly how marketing happens you research exactly what people would search if the product that you want to sell is the thing that you want to make money so for example editing software right for adobe or photoshop look at this best editing software for photography for youtube for photography these are all the keywords that would give you ideas to create content another thing that I like doing is checking other social media platforms and just seeing where they're getting their content to so I can just type in best editing software and all of these are blog articles or videos that you could actually create to send them to your affiliate links, okay so that is one of the biggest secrets when it comes to marketing you don't have to invent what you're actually going to create content for to attract the audience to come and buy from you you just literally need to type in and let the magic of Pinterest search or youtube search to find what contents that you should actually talk about and like I said this works for everything and anything possible if you just type in the word best and then some type of keyword of people searching for that thing it's going to tell you all the things that you could create content for and then all you got to do is just look in Pinterest and usually, it's like a number right so 5 best something 5 best baby strollers the best stroller travel system for expecting parents you can virtually see as long as you have a plan of what product you want to sell it makes it so much easier you don't be like the blogger that comes in and be like oh I'm gonna start blogging i'm gonna start a blog and then i'm gonna figure out a way to make money it's better to have a plan like with your finances to make money before actually starting the blog it's like how you should have a plan to invest your money before you actually make money so that you don't just have money sitting there and not knowing what to do with it so like so many people like for example for me when i just had a good amount of money in my savings and i didn't know what to do with it i just spent it like an idiot because i didn't have a plan for it it's exact same thing with the blog if you don't have a plan to make money from day one then it's gonna be very very hard but if you follow these steps and you do what i just did and start with the end in mind which programs am i going to make money from which content do i need to create it's a lot easier guys so hopefully this helps guys plan it first to get started your blog in the next five minutes or less hopefully this helps and guys comment below which you like best i'll see you guys later peace out.

Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs of India in 2014

Women Entrepreneurs

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be”, and really, there is a long list of women who have met their dreams by working really hard, leaving all men behind. Women’s day has just passed upon us and the day was motivating enough to appreciate some of the courageous women for their entrepreneur skills. Women are nowhere behind men whether it be in the field of business or technology and India itself is a good example where women are giving good competition to all the capable men around with their business skills.
Here are 10 women entrepreneurs of India in 2014, have a look!

Ten Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold

The sale and purchase of domain names have been a lucrative trade ever since the dot com bubble. Ordinarily, you can get a .com domain from GoDaddy for just $10. But there are people who rake in bucks by buying and then selling big, valuable domain names. Here are a list of the top 10 most expensive domain names ever sold. Only those domain names are listed which were sold purely as domain names i.e. only the domain name was part of the deal, and not the website itself.

It is worth noticing that all of these domains are .com domains, which goes on to say that they're the most valuable. These domain names are single-worded and are heavily searched by internet users, and get tonnes of direct traffic. So there you are, you just got yourself a tip: Always try to buy a single-worded domain, if you ever so chose to go into the domain trading business :)

1. insure.com - $16 Million

Insure.com was purchased by QuinStreet, an online marketing services and technology company. It is the single largest domain name ever sold. It was originally acquired by Insure.com for $1.6 million in December 2001. The website now provides life, car, and health insurance quotes among others.

2. fund.com - $14.9

fund.com is owned by “Gentile, Philip “. Gentile, Philip bought this domain for £9.9 million in March 2008, which amounted to about $14.9 Million. However, this domain is not yet live.

3. fb.com - $8.5 Million

This domain was purchased by Facebook, Inc. in September 2010 for $8.5 million. Currently, this domain redirects to Facebook.com. Facebook purchased this domain from American Farm Bureau Federation.

4. business.com - $7.5 Million

It is a business search engine and web directory founded in 1999 by Jake Winebaum, former chairman of the Walt Disney Internet Group. In July 2007 business.com, the company was sold to Yellow Pages publisher RH Donnelly for $345 million.

5. diamond.com - $7.5 Million

Although priced the same as business.com, this domain was purchased more than 7 years later in 2006, hence making it a slightly lower-value purchase (due to the depreciation of the dollar over time). It was bought by online jewelry retailer ice.com and is quite simply an online diamond jewelry store.

6. beer.com - $7 Million

Beer.com was purchased by Thought Convergence, LLC in Jan 2004 for” $7 million”. This domain is also currently not in use for any purpose.

7. Israel.com - $5.88 Million

Billed as "your first and best source for information about Israel". It was bought in 1994 by Joel Noel Friedman, a 46-year-old Jewish American. Rather than seek profit, he originally bought the site in fear that it would be misused by somebody else.

8. casino.com - $5.5 Million

casino.com was purchased by Mansion Limited of Gibraltar in November 2003 for $5.5 million. As the name suggests, this website hosts several online gambling games.

9. slots.com - $5.5 Million

slots.com was purchased by ”Bodog Media” in June 2010 for “$5.5 million”. This website also hosts several online gambling and slot games.

10. toys.com - $5.1 Million

Purchased in March 2009 for $5.1 Million by ToysRUs, a leading toy and video game company. Surely, this domain’s price is nothing as compared to the revenue that is being generated from it.

Step by step instructions to make your YouTube Channel a Money-Spinner

YouTube, the world's most prominent online zone for feature diversion, staring at TV shows, motion pictures Furthermore other diversion and educative features, has now turned into a fundamental characteristic for versatile Telephones as well. We watch transfers & offer features on Youtube. At the same time, the greater part of us doesn't understand that the YouTube channel can fill in as a cash spinner for us. The site you utilized only for amusement can now be transformed into a genuine business in the event that you know how to make that function.

Tips to Make Money from YouTube channel 

Set up a YouTube channel

When you watch features on YouTube, it doesn't request a sign-in and gives you a chance to watch the features. At the same time to make a channel with an income making adage, you must have a YouTube record you could call your own (you can sign in with your Google account on the off chance that you as of now have one or you can make one by topping off a basic structure).

Transfer features & have a high number of endorsers

Verify that you transfer top-notch features with a great substance which draws in the crowd. It will help you get a high number of viewers and endorsers. You may pick your informal communication locales like Facebook, Twitter, and so forth. to get individuals to watch your features.

Instructions to Show YouTube Activity Feed On Your Blogger

1.     Log in to blogger  Design > Page Element.

2. Click Add Gadget and select 'HTML/Javascript

3. Now Paste the Below code.

34.                        After pasting the above code

* Replace YouTube Username with your youtube username.

4. Now save your HTML/Javascript.

    You are done...

Create an example for transferring features

In the event that you are anticipating profiting then it’s of no utilization in the event that you transfer features simply once in a month. You need to create an example for transferring features frequently furthermore to catch up with the features you've effectively transferred. You can do it by answering remarks, likes, abhorrence’s, et cetera. Hold your supporters utilizing innovative courses and by including more associations. You can likewise remark on others' features and get them to visit your channel. Thusly, you won't just expand the number of viewers and endorsers additionally you will have the capacity to manufacture an association with your supporters, which is fundamental to build your wage from YouTube.

Don't imagine it any other way about copyrights

Don't play with the copyrighted substance unless you truly have a communicated authorization to transfer or utilization them. Infringement of such genuine laws put you out of the diversion as well as wind up with a lawful suit.

Google Ad-sense

Make a record with Google Ad-sense which implies you will be paid a certain measure of cash focused around pay-every click for the promotion you have on your feature and sometimes for the perspectives, as well. Since it will oblige a connection either to your PayPal or ledger, your certified postage information & other data are important so that your pay can be credited to you without any trouble.

YouTube organization

On the off chance that you as of now have a Google Ad-sense account, 24 hrs. is the typical measure of time needed to set up your organization. The following are the fundamental criteria for association.

Making Money with your New Blog - Monetizing Basics

Most bloggers will start off their venture in the hopes of earning big from their blogs. And not without reason either. Multitudes of people are earning a decent sum online. You can too. Earning money from your blog while sitting at home is like a dream for most, and yet, is a reality for many as well. It isn't difficult, it just needs some dedication, and the right guidance. In this post, well talk about monetizing your blog to make money online.

Before you move on, do take a look at some of the basics of blogging that we've covered so far.

Part 1: How to create your first blog - what platform to choose?

Part 2: Replace your blogspot domain with a Dot com domain From Godaddy

Part 3: Choosing best web-hosting for Blogger blogs

Part 4: 5 most practiced Ways of building Active blog Readership

Part 5: Basic SEO Tips for a Newly Launched Blog - Beginners Guide

Part 6: Making Money with your New Blog - Monetizing Basics

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is perhaps the most widely known advertising network, so much so that a lot of people, especially new bloggers don't know of any others except Google AdSense. So quite naturally, it'll be the first thing they apply to. Agreeably, Google AdSense is a good starter for beginners, and every blogger should try it at one point or another. However, for earning real hard cash, you'll need to look into some other networks.

Google AdSense is mostly a CPC network. CPC stands for Cost Per Click, and means that you get a certain amount for every click you get on your ads. You can also employ CPM (Cost Per Impression) as an AdSense publisher. CPM gives you a certain amount on the completion of a set Impressions target (for example $0.1 for every 1000 Impressions or views on your ads).

Here are some articles that will help you get the most out of your Google AdSense ads.

• 6 Advanced AdSense Optimization tips for increased ad revenue
• Complete list of Google AdSense fatures
• Top tips for optimizing Google AdSense ads
• Protecting against bad click activity

BuySellAds

Google AdSense is good in as far as 'getting-the-wheel-turning' is concerned. But these days, almost every other website is getting approved by Google AdSense, which has driven the ad-space and  competition up, and the cost down. That's why you get so little revenue per click.

This is where BuySellAds comes in. BSA does not operate like Google AdSense. Instead, they are Direct Ads. There's a marketplace where you get listed once you pass the BSA criterion of having over 60,000 unique pageviews per month. Advertisers can then pick you from the list, and choose you for hosting their ads based on your niche. This is one of the reasons why you should have a clearly defined niche, because it'll then be easier for sponsors for your niche to find your blog and advertise with it. Once you get picked, you get paid for putting up an ad for a certain period of time. Simple, yet effective. BSA is one of the biggest source of income for many intermediate to professional bloggers out there.

Read these articles to get a better idea about BuySellAds

• How to find sponsors for your blog?
• How to update public stats in BuySellAds
• The Pros and Cons of Direct Ads
• Style BSA empty Ad spots with CSS

Affiliate Ads

Affiliate Ads are yet another form of advertising, and they are based on compensations/commissions. The idea is, you promote a product or a service, get people to actually buy it, and then you get a certain sum as a reward for 'referring' that buyer.

This concept is pretty widely used now. Companies need to grow, and for that, they need customers. They'll do anything to get customers, which is why most online products and services, and even some offline companies too offer rewards for referrals. If you do it right, affiliate marketing can become your single largest source of income.

We here at MBT often share discount coupons from HostGator with our readers. HostGator in this case is acting as the host company, and will reward anyone who can bring in customers for it. If you visit their homepage, you will see how you can even earn $2000+ in one month just from referrals!

Here are some posts that ought to help you out with Affiliate Marketing

• Why is Affiliate marketing better than Google AdSense?
• 7 Important Affiliate marketing tips
• Are affiliate ads better than direct ads?

Got questions? Please feel free to ask in the comments section below. And please, try to keep it relevant. Thank you :)

Can You Really Make Money Blogging in 2014?

So, another year has passed, and we've entered a whole new, more promising one. We find ourselves yet again asking the question that we ask each year - can you still make money blogging in this year? A question that, no doubt, will prickle the interest of many a bloggers, especially new ones or those aspiring to become one. So, can you really make money blogging in 2014?

It seems like only yesterday that I last wrote on a topic like this, even though it's been almost an year now. So much has changed, yet so much has stayed the same. Even though the backbones of SEO remain the same, a lot of frontal details have changed. So is this year going to be any different for blogging? Let's take a look.

What's changed so far?

OK, before we mention anything else, let's talk about Hummingbird - the latest Google's search algorithm.

Hummingbird

While the Penguin and Panda updates in the last couple years were merely updates, this here is a big overhaul - a whole new algorithm. It's so big, that the major Caffeine update in 2010 doesn't come close. In fact, the last update of this scale was way back in 2001! So you can expect this one to be a major player, if not a game changer, yet.

The major emphasis now is on "conversational" search terms - queries which more closely resemble questions asked in real life. While this should not much effect bloggers who are currently publishing, it could, however, mean that beginners need to get more work done. Google is now trying to 'understand' queries, rather than just matching keywords. That increases the complexity of content that can be created - not a big problem for established bloggers, but definitely a mountain to climb for starters.

Keywords data

Google made the move to make all organic searches secure starting September 23rd last year. This means we've lost the ability to get keyword data for users arriving to our websites from Google search. This impacts publishers in many ways, including losing a valuable tool for understanding what the intent of customers that come to their site, for conversion optimization, and much more. This means that keyword data for tactical SEO is now harder to come by, and although there are work-arounds, they make it all very complicated.

This puts beginner bloggers at another disadvantage - the learning curve for them has been stepped up by quite a bit.

PageRank

PageRank might finally be going away. Google has stopped updating it regularly (last updated in December, almost 7 months late. They also won't update toolbar anytime soon. This might suggest that PageRank could be going away, since Google itself no longer puts much emphasis on it. So how does that effect blogging, you ask? It doesn't really. But it does mean that since PageRank is now updated after a long time, new blogs will have to wait a long time before they get a PageRank, and get out of the "zero" zone, which is a huge disadvantage. A major reason is given below.

Malpractices

Speaking of disadvantages, starters now run a greater risk of being targeted by plagiarism, spam, malicious activity, and other illegal activities. No one is born a pro. But times have become difficult now. There are too many people doing these activities at the expanse of others. For example, a lot of people copy and paste content from this blog (MyBloggerTricks) to their own. Now of course, MB has a reputable standing (thanks to our beloved readers like you), so this plagiarism does not really effect us.

But what about a blog that started a week ago? Even if they are creating their own, original content, they run the risk of getting penalized for plagiarism. Although Google's algorithms are smart, and they can detect plagiarism, they do sometimes miss their mark. In that case, it's the newbie's word against a pro. Take a guess who'll benefit.

Malicious activity is another problem. You have to be very protective of your security and privacy these days. You never know when someone might be stalking you, observing, waiting for a wrong move - not uncommon for a starter.

Tonnes of competition

Well, that's not surprising. We're already past the era of digitalization, and almost everybody has had their share of online experience to decide what they want to do henceforth. So everyone who wanted to create a blog, has gone ahead and done it. Of course saying "everyone" is a massive generalization, but not a very in-accurate one.

The competition is high - too high, and the payout is low - too low. It was difficult getting a fresh start in the world of blogging in 2013. It is even harder now. I'm not saying this to discourage beginners, but that's the reality of the world! If you are going to take a step forward, you should know what you're dealing with. And if you feel confident that you can work hard and overcome the odds, then we welcome you wholeheartedly! We need more brave people like you!

Is it worth it?

Speaking of competition, the advertisement rates today are much lower than they used to be. This means that starters have to look for other, possibly unconventional ways. Blogging, as we knew it a few years ago, has changed. 

You can no longer survive on hard work and luck alone. You need to lay down the entire groundwork. The concept, the idea, the design, the implementation, the maintenance. All of these things matter now. If you want to survive you need to have the full toolbox, and without a single component, you're a dead. To rise to equal footing with the others from the start, you need to offer something unique. Time is what it takes, and time is what you don't have.

So it it worth it, you ask? My immediate answer would be, no. However, you can turn it into a yes if you've got what it takes. Understand that you've got a long, tough uphill battle ahead of you. The rewards can be worth it if you set your goal to reach the top, and focus only on your goal. If you start thinking about the rewards, you'll get distracted, often frustrated, and you'll never get to the top.

So, what do you think? Are you considering picking this up as a career? We wish you the very best of luck, and we'll try to help you along your journey. Peace, and all the best :