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This is The question which I receive from a fellow Blogger
Hi Harsh
I want to be a full-time blogger like you.
Can you guide me how to become a full time blogger?
I think you started as technical blogger for Shoutmeloud.com
I have also started a technical blog
Can you guide me how to do this and in how many months you became full time blogger?
The answer to this question is little difficult because its based on your current job scenario. When I started blogging, I was working part time as a software engineer and I also had another job in my hand with accenture. In March 2009 I left my current job and became another professional blogger from India.
That time I was making almost 400-500$ from blogging while working for 3-4 hours a day and I was sure that if I will work around 12-16 hours a day, I can increase my online income to 3-4X.
Though the time when I left my job for blogging, my income sources were Direct ads, Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing and services. Out of which I will consider Google adsense as a recurring income and rest as variable income.
If you want peace of mind while becoming a professional blogger, I would suggest that first start making a fixed recurring income, and once you are sure that you can survive with your blog income then its the right time time to kick your 9-7 Job and become another professional blogger.
Though before taking this huge step, make sure you have created a clear road map and done your mind-mapping for your future plans and online earning. This will ensure you having a better life as a professional blogger.
You should also read these two posts which will help you a lot in taking your decision :
For me it took almost 6 months to decide and become a professional blogger.
Off topic but I always suggest college people to start with a blog of their own. College time is the best phase when you are very creative and can imagine 10 articles a month and by the end of year you will have 120 articles and by the end of your college you will have an old established blog with almost 360+ articles. This will ensure you that you will have a side income source which will cover your few bills.
Do let me know if you think I missed any point which one should consider before becoming a professional blogger?
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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Professional blogging needs lot of dedication and efforts from you. So for professional blogging, first secure yourself from financial aspects then quit your job. Obviously you need a lot of support from your famil and friends especially. Without help of friends no one can be a scuccessful blogger. Build your community and then watch & see.
Thanks for useful insight Imran and I agree with you. Before jumping into deep sea of professional blogging, one should have financial security or some kind of back up. Professional blogging is a vital decision of any one life and one should look at all the aspect before taking final decision.
Blogging needs a lot of passion, creativity & confidence. On the contrary to what people think, initially it’s more difficult to earn online than your regular job. One cannot turn a Pro & expect to become a Amit or Harsh in a year
Perhaps it needs a lot of patience than anything else. My technology blog is approx. 3 months old with a PageRank of 2 and a daily unique visit of 90. Still, I can’t see any noteworthy mention from monetization.
Basant talking about monetization, it comes eventually with traffic and trust. Blogging is a social networking event IMO, the more you give to public, more traffic and trust you will build with time.
nice points Harsh and thanks for putting my question here.
I’ll definitely look upon ur points and try to act upon them
Hope me too get success
Thanks a lot’
Atul
You welcome Atul. I’m sure the same question will be in the mind of other bloggers as well. Wish you luck with your future venture.
Regards
Harsh
You are right that the best time to start a blog is in college. In that time, people have their own time to manage, and have many resources to write.
Any blogger who wish to be successful, FIRST thing he needs is to be PASSIONATE about the thing which he/she wants to blog. If you want to be a professional blogger, that means you should be very very much PASSIONATE. It is only than your blog would be having quality content with regular updates.
First identify which are the things you are passionate about and find out how other blogs in that niche is doing. Do not turn PRO till you are assured of a higher income than what you are/would be other-wise earning. I agree with Harsh when he says following:
“If you want peace of your mind while becoming a professional blogger, I will suggest first start making a fixed recurring income”.
For me, I loved to guide younger ones in their careers/career exam.
That was how I started blogging two year back. But although I am earning good, with 250000+ monthly visits, I have still not turned PRO. The reason? I would wait for that day when I am assured of $2K earning RECURRENTLY per month from my blog. May be that would require another 2 years of PASSIONATE blogging!
taking full time blogging profession is difficult in india….
Tushar “taking full time blogging profession is difficult in india….”
Its not difficult at all in INDIA in fact on the contrary it’s very easy and much more rewarding in India. Consider that you are earning $500 per month through blogging. Now weather you stay in US or India, there won’t be much difference in your revenue generation through your blog. But if you stay in US you can barely pay your rent with $500, but if you are in India than $500 is equivalent to 25000 INR. You can have a decent living (+ some savings may be) in India with that much money. So in that way its really good to earn some extra money through blogging if you are in India. But one more thing blogging and earning money is not everybody’s cup of tea. It requires hardwork, patience and dedication like any other thing in which you want to succeed.
I too trying for fulltime blogger..
As im newbie for blogging im working morethan 12hours a day making backlink and submitting to social website but i cant reach the minimum traffic of 10k views per month..
im soooo tired..
Any one knows any SmaRt WoRk to achieve that target
If so…Please…. share here
It will b very helpful for me
Yes, College time is the best phase to start. I agree on that.
You get a lot of time.
And even if someone doesn’t get a job after finishing college, then can always count on this
nice post harsh
Keep it up
I’m in college too. Let’s hope that I became one of the pro’s before my college is over.
I would suggest while in college, develop two to three mini sites which keep giving you revenue. They can work as money pump for remaining life.
I agree with your Vivek and this will help them to cover some of their bills in future.
Well that is true if the mini sites are making you good money regularly. Which in fact is not what the real picture is like. It may stop producing money at one point of the time..
Hi harsh,
I am a college student. Its about to end in june I have a job offer in Oracle India but still I am passionate about blogging. I started a blog for comics (http://rajcomicscollection.blogspot.com )in last june it has 1500+ pageviews but not a significant revenue. Its less then a dollar per day. What you think is this gonna work better.
I have started another blog two months back I am working on it. Its about blogging and web related tech.
Hi Abhishek. I suggest you to get one of your own domain name, preferably a .com or .org one, nevertheless keeping the subject of your blog in mind you can also go for .in domain name. And I also suggest you to transfer your blog to Wordpress platform instead of blogspot because WP looks more professional, easily manageable, lots of useful plugins available and its SEO friendly….
Every blogger have to atleast work hard for 1 year then he can enjoy the fruit of blogging..
Really Funny and Interesting to do it regularly..
nice points Harsh and thanks for putting my question here.
I’ll definitely look upon ur points and try to act upon them
Hope me too get success