[Some Random Loser]

Here's something which would relate more to Mr. Pavlina's "power" and to some extent "love" concepts.

One thing I've found in many "weak blogs" is a very weak web presence in general, or weak social presence.

If you "put yourself out there" via many channels on the web, not by mere promoting, but by interacting, and get together with people off the web as well, you tap into the power of the social order. You also do this by helping people out here and there, one on one. A budding relationship with just 1 person can easily lead to relationships with 12 others, and on, and on.

Back when I got fired from a job I worked at for nearly 4 years, it was the social connections from that job that kept me with work and an income, as well as opportunities for more social connections, which would lead to other income opportunities. I've spoken with a few people who wanted to go into business and were interested in having me work with them. And I got all this just for hanging around and talking!

Starting from scratch is a ♥♥♥♥♥, and requires a greater level of fortitude and determination. Building up social power from what you already have, tends to be more of a day in and day out habitual interaction, carefully filtered to make sure it's in the direction one wants. It's really a no brainer.

If you do not have the power of the social order backing you, your blog is at a severe disadvantage. If you do not have the power of the social order backing you, your ability to get money from people is at a severe disadvantage. It's hard walking the world alone, though some people are talented at such, and enjoy it. But walking the INTERNET alone, is even MORE difficult.

I've even seen people on the net who DID form many social connections, but would periodically "flush" these connections, and form completely new identities online. Some of these people had extremely profound things to share, which were certainly not the usual cookie cutter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that gets spouted verbatim by everyone. The "problem" was that when they started up their new sites, what would inevitably happen, is that the content they shared, which really should have been seen by millions of people, if not billions, instead led to a community of perhaps 8 people, which would eventually fizzle out, due to waning interest from all parties.

I can commiserate with them though. I believe the people who flush social connections and identities completely, tend not to be very charmed by humanity as a whole, and who can blame them?

Basically, most of the "weak" blogs tend to be a phenomenon in which the man or woman, or child, making the blog, doesn't really put themselves into it. You don't really get a feeling for who they are, or what they're like. You don't even have a picture of them. They almost never tell you about what's going on in their life... instead preferring to tell you "how things are." There's something very impersonal and disconnected about them.

Generally speaking, it is much more difficult to earn a passive income from a web site if it doesn't have "mass social appeal." It's even MORE difficult to earn passive income from a web site, if it doesn't have ANY social appeal.