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Originally Posted by Tristan  They would be very very rich with little effort. It would be like predicting that Google would become huge before it did. |
Not necessarily. It's more like "Hmm...is there an opportunity in [whatever] niche? How much money is there to be made in...". Running a business of any kind certainly involves
some sort of effort. Just like some people made significant money in real estate businesses during the real estate boom; in most cases it required effort.
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Originally Posted by Tristan People gravitate towards content or resources that help them and when you get visitors, you can monetize that traffic fairly easily from that point, but it requires having them in the first place. |
Precisely. And without initial capital to create those resources, one is stuck in a circular trap.
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Originally Posted by Tristan Blogging is great and there is potential to earn money from it, but it's not a turn-key business model. |
What does "turn-key business model" mean?
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Originally Posted by Tristan It takes years of dedicated work to build a reader base to the point where you have sufficent traffic levels to monetize. |
Then what will absorb the initial years' costs? Again, therein lies the circular trap.
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Originally Posted by XeutonMojukai One of the things I've kept in mind is that blogging is something that I'm doing as a way to provide for others first, and a way to provide for myself second.
For example, right now I'm writing a long treatise on spiritual powers (i.e. magic, etc.) in multiple parts, and could have done it in a book and tried to make money off of it. The thing is, I probably would waste my time, because no one would buy it, or no one would print it.
So instead, I'm writing it at my own pace, in my own style, and for free, so anyone can read it. |
If it is available free, what makes it self-sustaining then?
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Originally Posted by XeutonMojukai Just write everything with the intention to bring about positive change, and you'll find more types of positive change that just the social kind. Just look at my couple of cents every day, which has been going up, btw.
~ David |
I actually once had a weblog of that nature, purely a cost center not meant to be commercial, and meant purely to make changes. (It was a total failure, incidentally.) Just out of curiosity (not to denigrate your weblog, as I haven't even seen it), do you believe that the couple cents per day make the resource expenditure worthwhile?