Why Blog

I’ve started telling a few friends and family about this blog. Most seem to like it, and some who know me well immediatly asked me “why blog?”. Everything that I have done online to date has been not for personal satisfaction or salvation but for money! So what is the point to this blog, there seems to be no way of it generating revenue.

Why people blog

Since I have started to more actively use this site I have done a lot of reading of other blogs (many crap!). It is clear everyone has different personal reasons for blogging. Some blog about their lives and experiences, some blog to market a business or product, some blog about one topic because they love it or to build incomce from adverts on their site.

I saw one blog today - Reader Poll: Why Blog? - I took it and apparently the main reason is to publish/share ideas…. fairly obvious I guess!

My Reasons

These are evolving. Originally it was to make money, pure and simple. When I registered this domain and set the site up I was excited by the name. I thought it would be a great way of me generating an interest in some of my projects. Since starting it however there have been delays in a lot of what I’ve been working on and it has not been as straight forward to build traffic as I initially and naively thought.

Right now I blog because I hope I have something interesting to say. I want to keep people informed about what I am doing within my business. Ultimately I want to build the number of people who read this blog. Hopefully a large number will be fellow wannabe entrepreneurs who might benefit from my experiences, my advice and indeed some of my own sites. This is not ever going to be a tool to sell anything. But naturally I will discuss what is making me money, and what might help others do the same.

Making Money?

Many bloggers also directly make money from putting ads on their blog, this is not something I would consider until I have the traffic. But by becoming a better blogger and gaining good targeted traffic then it is something that has potential further down the line. Especially if the ads were relevent.

I’ve already made good money from certain affiliate programs, I intend to talk about these so others will have the opportunity to try it themselves. I will also soon have affiliate programs of my own. Discussing strategies on here, what worked, what didn’t etc could help gain interest in those programs, what others earn from them and earn me a little extra referal commission.
This really is a business blog. The business is not only my limited company, but me. The target is always going to be £1 million and I hope this blog will help me get there, how directly the blog affects it we shall have to wait and see!