A More Realistic Look at Blogging for a Living

So, earlier in the evening I highlighted a fluff piece at BlogHerald about a piece by FastCompany about the benefits of blogging.  The thing I took exception to was how great it made blogging sound, without doing justice to how hard it is to do it professionally (and full time).

Well, for a more realistic (fair and balanced?) look at ProBlogging — in addition to the always-awesome Problogger.net — hit up this article in the Pasadena Star News which profiles a number of bloggers, including Steve Pavlina, the folks over at BoingBoing.net, and Kyle James of RatherBeShopping.net

A few interesting stats to sober your blogging dreams up as well:

  • According to the chief marketing officer for Buzzmetrics less than 1% of all blogs make any money at all
  • Rafi of PaidContent.org reckons there are only about 500 bloggers who are able to live off their blogging work (out of a reputed 57 million blogs)
This entry was written by Tony Hung, posted on October 30, 2006 at 2:42 am, filed under Blogging, General. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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