When I say a blog is not a business, I mean that a blog is merely a self-publishing tool. By itself a blog generates no income. A business is a for-profit venture.
If you want to use a blog as part of a business, it's one useful component, but you still need to do income-generating activities that are not part of blogging itself. For example, putting income-generating ads on your site and optimizing the layout can take a lot of testing and experimenting. Finding good joint-venture partners/products or affiliate programs that work well for your site takes considerable effort as well. Then there are the strategic decisions of what to write about in the first place, whether to support comments, and other decisions that are important for business goals but otherwise non-critical if you just want to self-publish some content.
Then you have accounting, taxes, business structure decisions, legal considerations, and so on.
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