A few years back, no one would have imagined that blogging will become a major way for anyone to make money. In the last 2 years, we have witnessed an incredible increase in the number of bloggers. Especially school and college students are the majority of adopters.
There are many college students (most of them from engineering college) who spend day and night to fulfill their blogging dreams. Unfortunately, most students are missing their classes, and spending their precious time in researching and writing articles. This habit ultimately affects their overall academic performance. Here are a few tips for them to maintain a balance between College and blogging:
Blogging for College students:
If there is one thing which I regret about my blogging career, that would be: I didn’t start blogging in college time. College time is the best time to start a blog of your own, as in this period you will be getting maximum leisure time, and instead of spending time on Facebook, or playing counter-strike, you can work on your blog.
Additionally, it will help you to enhance your personality, and by the time you are out of college, your blog will be making handsome income. Imagine how good that would be if your blog income will help you to pay most of your bills. If you are one of those students, who are in school or college, and have a blog, here are few more tips to help you make most out of your blogging:
1. Attend Your Classes
Blogging indeed gives lots of fame and money, but you should accept the fact that degree is the most precious thing for any student. Companies judge you by your academic performance, not from your blogging experience. So never ignore your studies. Attend all the classes and maintain a good percentage.
2. Make A Proper Schedule
Make a time table and decide the time which suits you for blogging. Don’t be a night owl by doing research and blogging. It will affect your schedule. Try to complete your work and go to bed before midnight. Take at least 6-7 hours of sleep.
3. How much time you should devote
It depends on your college timing. If your college ends up at 5:00 p.m then you have 7 hours for blogging and studies. Try to create a balance between these two work. Both are necessary. Stick with your schedule.
4. Tell everyone about your blog
Try to tell everyone about your work. Don’t become a suspicious guy among your friends. Give your blog address to your friends and ask them to read your blog and leave comments.
In college, many students join call centers and various other part-time job. But blogging is a personal part-time work, and it pays you more than any other part-time job. Try to catch some web publisher and show your writing skills to them. You can quickly get work if you are an efficient writer.
6. Attend Meetings in Your City
Try to catch some famous people from your field. Attend blog camps, and blogger’s meet, and Tweetup organized by various bloggers in your city. Register for these events and catch big fishes of your field and discuss them about blogging. You can also ask for help regarding any subject.
7. Organize Blog classes in your college
If you are an established blogger, then you can organize blog camps for other students of your college. You can take permission for the classes from your head of the department of director of your college. You can educate your fellow students about blogging business, and how they can earn from a blog.
8. Impress your friends
Blogging is an immediate source of fame for any student. You can become famous among your friends by showing your blogging skill. Try to research different articles on your niche and write about them on your blog. Try to solve various technical problems of your friends through your blog.
9. Read blogs related to your branch
If you are a student of Computer science, then you can read blogs related to your study. Lifehacker and Howtogeek are a very well-known blog for computer users. Similarly, you can read Howstuffworks, Techcrunch, and Mashable for knowledge of various startup companies and Social Media.
These are essential Blogging tips for college students. Are you a college student who loves blogging. Do you follow any one of the tips mentioned above? Kindly leave a comment.
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Nice tips. I have already made a schedule. But for me its studies + blogging + web designing/development. Seriously tough to manage all three well enough.
gr8 post and it ll helps in scheduling the studies and blogging times , and your are correct blogging is best way to express yourself and to earn money tooo
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Thanks harsh by sharing this useful information.In college just 3 quality post a week is enough.Study is more important than blogging.Most of engineering students start blogging.if they post 3 high quality article a week than they will post 576 articles in their study life and its enough for getting good traffic.After college you can start writing more articles and keep Going in blogging Success way!
I am also engineering student but I am not able to generate traffic and money , I love blogging but not I am getting depressed because of no helper , If i have some doubts nobody is there to answer my question
Learning a blog app and using it to communicate is an essential 21st Century tool. A free WordPress site can be used to start an eportfolio, which can last long past college graduation. Some people use Evernote to organize their lives, but a free WP site can do much of what Evernote does. If you set your WP (wordpress.com) site up so that you can “post via email” and “post via voice” you have a powerful “mobile” communications tool to use. Any device that you can use to create an email could be used to take class notes (normally a full-sized keyboard is necessary for speed of input), and if your device takes photos, you can capture handwritten notes, or notes on a black/white board and add them to your posts.
Blogging is a productive way to utilize the free time.
This really is a good article and a nice advise shared for students. I being a student started blogging for the past 6 months and my academics went down as I was unable to balance my schedule. Now, after reading this, I now realized it is more important to balance both rather to do only one.
Nice tips, as a student they have lots of time to write an article. Even some university invites student to write an article on university official blog wherein they can share tips, experience at university, engages with professor and other classmates.
The problem is I doubt if the majority of our youths out there are willing to work hard as to doing any of the listed options…
They always look for small work big pay jobs and thereby falling into the hands of scammers or eventually turning into scams. I wish they follow these steps, choose just one nd follow it, it will do them a lot of gud!
Nice suggestion for every student. Every student can apply all steps in his life.