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allen080105 · 02-28-2010, 01:16 AM

lol. This thread took a detour somewhere.

I've been checking out your blogs. Good stuff people! keep going with em! I guess I could share what I know about blogging to help some people out...maybe get some other input.

My original intention was to see if there was anyone who had made enough from their blog(s) to where they could move out of a place they didn't want to be (what I wanted to do) and successfully support themselves with it.

I find that what you do takes on your consciousness. If you're happy, elated and cheerful your writing will reflect that and you spread that. If you're stressed or worried or angry your writing will reflect that too. I knew I could get some really good advice from a person who had been living with parents (or even anyone they felt really disconnected from), started a blog and made enough income to move out and be able to support themselves with it. I figured they probably would know a lot about state of mind/consciousness too.

I find it kind of funny that my most successful blog traffic wise, You Got Dunked On (500 visitors a day when I sold it, now at 1000/day) came about just from me playing around. There was kind of a lightness around it because money was very much secondary. At the time I was spending student loans like crazy so money wasn't that much of a concern. I made about $1000 with that blog so I figured if I can make that kinda money with just some pictures and video I could make way more with a more personal blog with a broader topic so I quit college (didn't have a job at the time) and moved back in with parents to try to build this blog up. Looking back, I think moving in with parents was where I made my mistake.

Everything started out perfect. I was networking, getting backlinks (blog carnivals and commenting were helping a lot) but eventually my environment became too much of a negative influence on me. It's hard to feel that same lightness when people are bugging you about money all the time or you feel you've really got to make money from that blog to survive. I didn't really want to spread that stress with my writing so I stopped writing too. I've kind of settled back in a super old comfort zone I had grown out of and it is frustrating but very eye-opening.

02-28-2010, 01:16 AM	#60 (permalink)
allen080105 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 165	lol. This thread took a detour somewhere. I've been checking out your blogs. Good stuff people! keep going with em! I guess I could share what I know about blogging to help some people out...maybe get some other input. My original intention was to see if there was anyone who had made enough from their blog(s) to where they could move out of a place they didn't want to be (what I wanted to do) and successfully support themselves with it. I find that what you do takes on your consciousness. If you're happy, elated and cheerful your writing will reflect that and you spread that. If you're stressed or worried or angry your writing will reflect that too. I knew I could get some really good advice from a person who had been living with parents (or even anyone they felt really disconnected from), started a blog and made enough income to move out and be able to support themselves with it. I figured they probably would know a lot about state of mind/consciousness too. I find it kind of funny that my most successful blog traffic wise, You Got Dunked On (500 visitors a day when I sold it, now at 1000/day) came about just from me playing around. There was kind of a lightness around it because money was very much secondary. At the time I was spending student loans like crazy so money wasn't that much of a concern. I made about $1000 with that blog so I figured if I can make that kinda money with just some pictures and video I could make way more with a more personal blog with a broader topic so I quit college (didn't have a job at the time) and moved back in with parents to try to build this blog up. Looking back, I think moving in with parents was where I made my mistake. Everything started out perfect. I was networking, getting backlinks (blog carnivals and commenting were helping a lot) but eventually my environment became too much of a negative influence on me. It's hard to feel that same lightness when people are bugging you about money all the time or you feel you've really got to make money from that blog to survive. I didn't really want to spread that stress with my writing so I stopped writing too. I've kind of settled back in a super old comfort zone I had grown out of and it is frustrating but very eye-opening.