If anyone would really like to profit from the art of blogging, then one would have to consider what it will take to achieve that goal. Too many start out with the “damn the torpedoes” attitude and jump right in without really considering what it is that they are doing. They just know that they have had it with working for some else (or a bank) and they figure that they did pretty well in high school English and off they go. Ya gotta love that entrepreneurial spirit!
However, when starting out with the goal of blogging for an income or maybe just for fun, the biggest mistake that one usually makes, (as numbers will bear out) is the building of their blog on someone else’s system. By that I mean that they use a blogging service like “blogger” or “wordpress.com” to host their blog. Bad Idea !!!
If your serious, your going to have to “cowboy up” and get the job done, by taking your time to learn and apply the steps necessary to design, build and host your own blog. If your worried about the cost of such an undertaking ……… well, just don’t go there. If your going to do it ……… do it right, have some pride. You should treat your blog as a business (even if you do it as a hobby) and businesses have expenses.
Now, you would think that it can’t possibly be a fatal mistake to start out on one of the services and then move your blog to a host of your own when you have the time, experience, and maybe money. But once you establish your blog on some else’s service and you attempt to move it, you can kiss your traffic goodbye and any income that you were producing, if you are even allowed to earn or monetize your blog on someone else’s service. TOS can be strict.
So if your serious, THINK …………. faking it just won’t get it ! And hosting on some else’s service is faking it. That’s a big mistake !
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