Perhaps there are two types of online entrepreneurs that have been making good income. They are bloggers and Internet marketers.
Bloggers shall be considered in making long-term income, or maybe one day you can drive your blog into some semi-passive incomes. Bloggers continuously write great contents for their blogs. Some write a couple of blog posts a day. But it really takes time for a blog to be successful, making lucrative or sufficient income to let a blogger to quit his or her job and become a full-time blogger.
It all depends how much you need that you can survive to be a full-time blogger. If you’re single, and you don’t have a family which you need to sustain and bear all the costs, then it shall be around USD$1.5K to USD$2K a month is enough to stay as a fulltime blogger. And it also depends where you stay. If you stayed at those expensive areas that you need more than that.
One thing you need to know it’s not easy to become a full-time blogger these days. Some blogs may take a few years to start making an okay income but it might not be sufficient to quit your day job or be a full-time blogger. And you need lots of traffic these days to make a good income from blog. I’ve blogged for two years on my tech and gadgets blog, only now I see about USD$2K per month from total ads income (I was only making a mere few hundred dollars from my gadget blog about a year ago) . But I haven’t quit my day time job yet. In fact, I don’t have to, as I’m also one of the bosses of my day-time job. It’s a company that I partner with a few for developing software applications. It’s quite a good business although some times you have to face with great pressure of facing fuzzy people for unreasonable requirements for the software they want.
So in short, bloggers shall be continuously writing good content, hoping to gain more organic traffic, and through out many years that you’ve blogged, you blog shall come to a stage that is able to generate a more or less consistent income for every month. And your continuous effort is to bring your blog to a further stage, hoping to make it to bring more incomes as more contents that you’re adding into it, shall mean more traffic.
How about an Internet marketer? Internet marketers don’t really blog. They use various tools such as email marketing, writing landing pages, driving sales lead, and they also make use of blogs to promote certain products. But they will NOT continuously update or write new contents for their blogs. As after they’ve achieved what they want, lets say having managed to create sales lead using their blogs, they may just leave the blogs aside without further updating anymore.
In short, Internet marketer doesn’t have to depend on huge traffic, maybe just a few hundred of them as long as they managed to create sales lead, such as they blast out emails, using pop-up ads, text link ads etc, which will usually be considered as spammers by bloggers.
But if you wanna be a fulltime blogger in short period of time, you may wanna combine Internet marketing skills into your blogging, i.e. promoting your blogs as you promote products to generate sales lead over the Internet. Use other possible means to drive traffic to your blogs. Or you can even write blog posts about products, become the affiliates of certain online stores, write blog posts for them, and drive traffic to these blog posts, direct the readers to what you want, lets say convert a blog post read by readers into sales. Doing so, you don’t only make money from ads, you also make money from affiliate sales as well as gaining more readers sooner than only writing contents for it. Eventually, you’ll become full-time blogger making 6 figure income a year. Post By SmartBorneo, inspired by Problogger
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