Bye bye Job, Welcome Full time blogging

Woot!! This blog post is probably going to change my life as I’m going to make one of the biggest decision of my career. Hello all, this is a boring post where I’m going to bore you about my work career and I’m joining the list of full time Bloggers a.k.a Professional Bloggers.

I started Blogging 6 months back (late 2008) and trust me it’s a story of never ending learning experience. Every day, I learn a new thing and I’m like Damn! I never thought about it. And if you are up for learning new thing, Blogging and Internet marketing is your thing.

My blogging history was same as an average blogger who stared with BlogSpot blog, shifted to WordPress later and learning and practicing new ideas.  Well this sounds really simple when we are into part-time blogging but your way of thinking changes when you think blogging and your online activities as professionally. Before, I will tell you more about my decision about taking blogging as a full-time career, I believe you should know me a little:

Hi, I’m Harsh Agarwal, from New Delhi. An I.T Engineer by education and a blogger by profession.  I was working with Convergys technologies and now I left my job for making a career in the filed of Blogging. I know people will call it madness because I left the job at the time of recession when people are desperately looking for a job.

Honestly it was a tough decision for me to leave my existing career path for starting a complete new career in the field of Blogging. Its been 6 month now that I have blogged seriously but its me who knows how hard it was me to show my Online presence, blogging along with the 12 hr job.

Finally I quit my job because I see lots of opportunities for me in the field of blogging. I will rather say anybody who is into blogging has more opportunities to make endless money online. The only keyword to success is regularity, dedication and positive attitude.

Blogging is not an easy experience as you see it, running a maintaining blog involve lots of work that includes SEO, writing, managing hosting and promotion. When I started ShoutMeLoud, it was a technology blog but later I tuned into Blogging and Webmaster blog. The whole idea is to share my experience and things which I have learned over the time. Gradually, other bloggers started liking what I share and that gave me enough boost and confidence to decide about one of the biggest transition of my life.

It took me almost 2 month to decide, if I should take Blogging as a full time career or keep it a part-time career. All the people I have consulted, they all have their opinion but here is one advice which I got from my friend & I would like to share it with you too:

“People who work in MNC, it’s their dream to kick their job and start something of own, but in your case, you are being gifted with something which you like and something which can be your career.”

Somehow, this words helped me to be sure about what I wanted and finally I decided to become one of India’s professional blogger.

Is Full time blogging for me or not?

I won’t comment on this until I see my progress. My only target is to provide quality articles and quality contents so that I can keep up the trust that I have built in these few months. Specially now, when Blogging is only source for my bread and butter I can’t afford to make any mistakes.

So I will make sure every article I will write, every piece of information I will give you will be based on research.

I’m always open to feedback and suggestion. You are always welcome to drop a mail at admin[at]shoutmeloud.com

Moreover I will keep sharing my experience and the source from where I’m making money so that other people who are thinking of taking blogging seriously can take an example.

So am I going to blog only for money?

I started blogging because of my interest. When I started Blogging, I didn’t even realize you can make money from Blog. Making online money was a myth for me and later I realize the money is in online business. Blogging is just a small part of it, there are many strings which are attached along with Blogging and I’m going to uncover it. Specially, affiliate marketing is something my area of interest.

Talking about, if I’m going to just blog for money, My answer: No. I blog because I love it. Money will be a driving factor as It’s the only source of income for me. Though, I don’t have to try hard as  current traffic and my affiliate strategy is helping me to make enough money to survive and in future I will see, what path Blogging will take me to.

In future, I will be integrating services like Blog set up, SEO and may be Blog consultancy. Or may be, I turned out to be an Internet disaster. Not sure, how this Blogging career is going to change my life but if I don’t try now, I might regret later for not trying something awesome and something independent of my own. Is int it?

But for now, all I need is good wishes and luck from ShoutMeLoud readers and stay tuned to ShoutMeLoud for some amazing updates in coming days.

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Article by Harsh Agrawal

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