Hey there,

Is your blogging business really a business? Or is it something that your doing for fun? Whatever your case is, sometimes you need a little inspiration and/or motivation to continue posting and pumping out fresh content for you blog. Well, I just found a great post written by fellow blogger Darren Rowse of Copyblogger.com. It is a true eye opener for those looking to make a full time income via blogging cash.

Darren is one of those people who I absolutely look up to when it comes to modeling a successful blog. He consistently provides valuable resources to help those struggling in the blogoshpere..

How to make money online without money? What kind of question is that?

A great one! Let’s have some fun with it! Here’s how most people tell you to do it:

• Get a free Blogger blog
• Put some content on it
• ad some Adsense ads
• promote
• promote
• promote

Now, let me tell what doing the above did for me. It made me about $37 in adsense earnings. I bet you can’t guess how long it took me to earn that $37.

Do you have big dreams of blogging for profit? Well, I’m here to let you know that this can be accomplished.  All it takes is the desire, a bit of elbow grease and the ability to follow some instructions.

Contrary to popular belief, very few people reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who set about to earn money with a blog do not succeed for two reasons.

Reason #1 Having unreasonable expectations of how fast your readership will grow and how much money you will make. When these expectations are not met, the letdown oppresses the desire to continue following your dream of having a profitable blog and you give up to quickly.

How do you blog? – is a question that tends to keep rising when I’m engaging in conversation. A simple question, yet there are so many different ways to interpret it. Hence there are many different answers. So, I thought it would be appropriate to take a stab at trying to clear the confusion here.

When someone asks this question, I always respond, “Do you mean how do you start a blog?” Seven times out of ten the answer to is a simple “yes”. However, some people are asking something totally different. Here’s some examples of how this question can be interpreted:

Here’s two steps that will lead you to blogging for profit. First let me state that developing a blog for the intense purpose of making money online can be fun or frustrating. I am sure you’ve heard the term niche. Well a niche blog is something that can be fruitful and simple, or challenging and arduous depending on how you address the day to day duties of staying abreast, maintaining, networking and keeping your blog up to date with relevant content.