Comments on: Rethinking Blogging as a Career

By: RichardInTheMoment

RichardInTheMoment — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:36:22 +0000

…that will enhance you’ll supplemental income…professional, concise, and thorough (and the graphs, people with lots of money to pay consulting fees love graphs with circles that relate to each other

I also like your blog theme. Simple setup and easy reading.

Cheers. Thanks again for the article,
Richard

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:38:07 +0000

Thanks, Will. Good luck in your efforts

By: WillT

WillT — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:20:21 +0000

Interesting post and site. You have a lot of content here I will have to read. I came to blogging from a completely different perspective than most. I love to write and have written for many other sites and people. Often I never even kept track of where the things I wrote ended up. Sometimes I did not even keep copies of the stuff long term. Now that I started my own blog, I’ll have to be more professional about it.

Your balloon diagrams opened my eyes to a couple of ways to maybe get a little income for things I have, for years, done for free.

Thanks!

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:16:45 +0000

There’s lots of analogies that come to mind and in some situations they all apply. I’m planting different seeds for different businesses, growing out new channels, networking with new clients and partners, and sometimes I’m doing research and development or just throwing darts to see what sticks.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:19:28 +0000

Great advice, Brett. Yeah, I left out some revenue streams, either on purpose for some and memory loss on the others I was hoping someone would point them out. Thanks!!

Good point on thee exit strategy. I’ve never done that until very recently, in the limited edition sites I’m working on.

Sounds like you are doing exactly what I’m suggesting: mixing blogging with other services and products.

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:27:22 +0000

I started as a consultant and moved into blogging for several reasons.

It gave me hands on experience improving my web development skills.
It increased my presence and knowledge of and on the web.
Later it started to provide supplemental income in between consulting jobs.
Then I was able to start applying my business background and problem solving skills as a consultant to issues popping up in the blogosphere and on the net.

From my perspective, I see your diagram as a very natural thing. I'm not soley in this to blog. I enjoy writing a great deal. But I also love problem solving, design, consulting, and much much more. I look at the entire thing as several different lines of business that can work together and like any good line of business, can work separately from time to time. There are a couple items missing form the above diagram, (No diagram can ever be entirely complete). However, podcasting and audiobooks can be quite lucrative for people that do them well and have good voices. The other one (and its much much more common) is the development of web real estate. There are a lot of people out there that are taking in a decent income from flipping websites and developing raw domains even. Raj, you have more experience in this last area than I do or probably ever will, but I would suggest that some of that hard work put into a blog only pays off when someone finally flips the blog/domain/website. Every good business needs a solid exist strategy. It should be part of the equation when you set the business up. You may start the blog or site with every intention of blogging forever, or at least leaving the website up long after you are deceased. However, from a business perspective you should make contingency plans for exiting your blog business or lines of business, just in case.