Is Blogging Right For You

You may be asking if starting a blog is right for you.  A lot of people will tell you that YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BLOG Today!  Well, that’s not always the case.  Let’s explain blogging a bit and how you can make money blogging.

First off, a blog takes a decent amount of time – you need to find a way to post regularly – daily to begin with and then several times a week.  Plus you’ll spend time marketing you blog – much like you would your business.  And if your blog isn’t working gor you – in a business sense, then it may wind up that blogging is just a huge time sucker for you – time that could be better spent making phone calls, going on sales calls, investing in direct advertising.
So why then, do people love blogs?  Well for one, setting up a blog is free or nearly so (as an experienced blogger, I recommend spending a few bucks and investing in your own domain name and hosting).  Blog platforms like Wordpress (my favorite) and Blogger are designed so that when you make an update they get picked up rapidly by the search engines – blogs are designed for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

What is blogging – blogging is when you use a blogging platform (like Wordpress and Blogger) as the content management system on your blog – this just means that a blog is how you add new content and images to your blog  – in the form of pages, posts, and images.

Now that we have taken the time to explain blogging, in our next post we’ll talk about the questions you should ask yourself about blogging before you start – like can you make money blogging – the answer is absolutely yes – but you still need to evaluate your goals for it.