From Newbie to Problogger in 24 months
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The start of something new, for me anyway, is about to happen. I’m going to start the path of blogging for serious monetary gain and self promotion. Currently I’ve been ‘playing’ at blogging and looking for an in-road into creating something for others to read and subscribe to. I’ve been blogging for over a month at www.road2graduation.com and have now decided I want to ‘take the plunge’ and see if I can monetize a blog on making money, as well as become a semi-problogger/problogger in just 24 months.
I believe this will be possible and chose the domain road2blogging.com as I felt people would be able to relate to my journey into the blogosphere and what happened to me along the way. My challenge is pretty hard for me as I have limited experience of blogging, I’m not a tech guy and not that clever with html either. I’m just a regular guy that wants to make a footprint in the blogosphere and pass on some of the information I’ve learnt so far and pass this on, together with my thoughts of happenings around the blogosphere and making money.
The Challenge info
24 months to go from newbie to problogger in 24 months – starting 15th December 2007 (finishing 15th December 2009)
Getting into the top ten of 45n5.com’s 100 money making blogs
Start from no investment (well under $100 anyway) and earn a constant $10,000 a month in the second year of the blog
Become recognised as a referred to blogger and start another two blogs – mooneyblogger.com and allaboutnow.net
Blog full time from the start of January 2009
Why is this challenge different?
I look at many make money online blogs and wonder how they ever got started, some are tech buffs like johnchow.com, whilst others knew nothing when they came to the internet and blogging world such as Darren at problogger.net.
The challenge will test my skills at planning and persuasion, and will hopefully give others the courage, information and ‘get going’ that I got from so many bloggers out there. I’ll be sharing details from money earnings per month, to stats and great tools you can use on your blog or website – others have blogged about this before, but it’s going to be in my words, my way – people often refer to me as marmite (you either love me, or you hate me prefer not to read my stuff).
Looking into RSS, social media marketing, SEO, how to blog and how to make money online will all be areas I will be looking into, reviewing and evaluating these incites, other blogs and my personal opinions own research will form the content of the blog.
If you are looking for more information about me and my background you’re probably best to read the about page.
Every road goes somewhere – lets hope this one goes where it’s suppose to. The challenge is set and I’m ready for the off!
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Bruce said:
Well let me be the first to congratulate you on your goals. I’m sure you will obtain it and even if you don’t make all your goals you should be able to earn some decent income. Blogging is all about consistency. Of course that is easy to say but some times difficult to actually do.
good luck
BruceNovember 28th, 2007 at 2:41 am -
Earn money from the Internet said:
Good luck on your online money making endeavours
November 28th, 2007 at 7:21 am -
Nick said:
Bruce,
Thanks for the comments and advice. I know the targets set are difficult and achieving them will be one of the hardest things I will ever do, but I’ll always have a go at something once - and try it again and again and again, until I reach it
November 29th, 2007 at 12:32 am -
Tyler Gresham said:
I applaud your goal setting! *applauds* Thank you for giving me an idea for a post on my own goals…
November 29th, 2007 at 9:19 pm -
MoneyMoose said:
Best of luck in your journey. You seem devoted and I believe you’ll be able to meet most of your goals - even if you don’t, you’ll still have gained a lot.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm -
Nick said:
Thanks for the encouragement
November 30th, 2007 at 2:08 am -
Nick said:
@ Tyler - thanks for the applause, it’s good to hear some positive comments. I’ll make sure I stop by your blog over the next week if you’re publishing a post about your goals - always intrigued to hear others thoughts and vision on their own future
@ Money Moose - thanks for the encouragement, always good to hear a few words that it should work out well in the end.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:17 am -
Teejay said:
I haven’t had the courage to that yet although I have plans. Maybe in 2 years we could be blogging full-time
November 30th, 2007 at 5:25 am -
bloggernoob said:
good luck with this challenge. i think it can be reached with hard work, strategic planning and a lot of luck. I see a lot of small personal challenges bloggers do but this takes the cake. Show your progress and i’ll make sure to followup on your blog. cheers
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 am -
Nick said:
Thanks for the comments guys.
@ Teejay - you’ve just got to go for it and take your best shot, that’s going to be my plan
@bloggernoob - thanks for the encouragement - wanted to make the challenge realistic yet with some hard goals to overcome. I think I can do it and I’ve put some planning into it. I keep progress updates to one per month so people know how I’m doing.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 am -
Biker Blog said:
Good luck with your challenge, interesting to see the goals you’ve set yourself. Something i really need to start doing!
Found your site through Entrecard BTW
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:57 pm -
Emmanuel said:
Hi,
I am glad to know that there is someone out there who is just starting out in monetising his blog. I am taking on this challenge also but starting on 01 January 2008.December 30th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
http://www.onlinedreamscometru e.com/
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