Blogging

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An idea came to me during my morning commute of a blog that I might be interested in starting and I have 2 simple questions:

1. What is the best platform to use/what are the pros and cons of each?
2. Can one make money from blogging any more and if so, how? This isn't my primary motivator but of interest if there's a few pints to be made out of this. It would also influence the effort I put into it.

Any success stories or advice much appreciated.

[akirk]

unless you want to maintain / host your own then:
https://wordpress.com/

or facebook

yes, you can make money - basically, size of audience = opportunity to make money... perhaps not as easy ass previously, but depends on niche

[xjay1337]

Problem with blogging is you have to either have a really, really unique (and likeable) personality or be discussing something very interesting that is not really being spoken about elsewhere.

If you just want to write it down, use a diary TBH (I do this )

[Hoofy]

akirk said:

unless you want to maintain / host your own then:
https://wordpress.com/

or facebook

yes, you can make money - basically, size of audience = opportunity to make money... perhaps not as easy ass previously, but depends on niche

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

[Penelope Stopit]

Hoofy said:

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

What are they using for the family blog?

[Hoofy]

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

What are they using for the family blog?

They actually use YouTube and their own website (presumably with WordPress).

The format you use doesn't matter so much as the quality of content and your ability to market.

[Penelope Stopit]

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

What are they using for the family blog?

They actually use YouTube and their own website (presumably with WordPress).

The format you use doesn't matter so much as the quality of content and your ability to market.

Thank you for the info, I often wonder how people go about setting things up
I have something that's possibly a seller yet all the work involved to find out frightens me

[Dave.]

I was thinking something similar a few days ago.

Not a full on blog, just a little bit of space somewhere to record car related st (servicing/MoT advisories/etc).

Bit like the garage section on here, but a bit more easily accessible.

[Hoofy]

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

What are they using for the family blog?

They actually use YouTube and their own website (presumably with WordPress).

The format you use doesn't matter so much as the quality of content and your ability to market.

Thank you for the info, I often wonder how people go about setting things up
I have something that's possibly a seller yet all the work involved to find out frightens me

I suspect they never went with the objective to make money but to just talk about themselves, sharing their story.

[Penelope Stopit]

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

wot 'e sed.

If you can get a regular and large audience then it's possible to make money. Adsense will give you pennies but sponsorship and merchandise opportunities will bring in more.

I know someone who runs a family blog and was paid £20k to review a new toy.

What are they using for the family blog?

They actually use YouTube and their own website (presumably with WordPress).

The format you use doesn't matter so much as the quality of content and your ability to market.

Thank you for the info, I often wonder how people go about setting things up
I have something that's possibly a seller yet all the work involved to find out frightens me

I suspect they never went with the objective to make money but to just talk about themselves, sharing their story.

You may be onto something big here

I wonder how many attempts at making money on-line have failed due to the thoughts about money to be earned affecting the topics and information

Good thinking on your part, you've got me thinking

[Hoofy]

Penelope Stopit said:

You may be onto something big here

I wonder how many attempts at making money on-line have failed due to the thoughts about money to be earned affecting the topics and information

Good thinking on your part, you've got me thinking

I suspect the percentage of people who fail to become a successful blogger/YouTuber is about the same as the number of successful millionaire entrepreneurs. Most end up peddling their ste on Facebook trying to get more people to buy random anti-aging weight loss powder and sell it to their network of networks while spamming the crap out of their friends' newsfeeds while trying to get banned from every Facebook group possible.

My blog supports my business so when a potential customer visits my site, I have an expert feel. Plus people like to have something free of charge before throwing money at me.

[Penelope Stopit]

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

You may be onto something big here

I wonder how many attempts at making money on-line have failed due to the thoughts about money to be earned affecting the topics and information

Good thinking on your part, you've got me thinking

I suspect the percentage of people who fail to become a successful blogger/YouTuber is about the same as the number of successful millionaire entrepreneurs. Most end up peddling their ste on Facebook trying to get more people to buy random anti-aging weight loss powder and sell it to their network of networks while spamming the crap out of their friends' newsfeeds while trying to get banned from every Facebook group possible.

My blog supports my business so when a potential customer visits my site, I have an expert feel. Plus people like to have something free of charge before throwing money at me.

Thank you Hoofy, I find your thought process very interesting

Can I interest you with some free weight loss tablets

Edited to add, I've visited your profile and clicked on over to your website, It's huge and I don't have the time right now to study it, to view it properly I will need to do something about having none of the logins as shown below




Ah, I do have email

Is any email ok?

Edited by Penelope Stopit on Thursday 29th August 18:11

[miniman]

Penelope Stopit said:

Thank you for the info, I often wonder how people go about setting things up
I have something that's possibly a seller yet all the work involved to find out frightens me

I'll build you a blog for 40% of your business. Just think of me as the Deborah Meaden of blogging. Only less wrinkly.

[Hoofy]

Penelope Stopit said:

Hoofy said:

Penelope Stopit said:

You may be onto something big here

I wonder how many attempts at making money on-line have failed due to the thoughts about money to be earned affecting the topics and information

Good thinking on your part, you've got me thinking

I suspect the percentage of people who fail to become a successful blogger/YouTuber is about the same as the number of successful millionaire entrepreneurs. Most end up peddling their ste on Facebook trying to get more people to buy random anti-aging weight loss powder and sell it to their network of networks while spamming the crap out of their friends' newsfeeds while trying to get banned from every Facebook group possible.

My blog supports my business so when a potential customer visits my site, I have an expert feel. Plus people like to have something free of charge before throwing money at me.

Thank you Hoofy, I find your thought process very interesting

Can I interest you with some free weight loss tablets

Edited to add, I've visited your profile and clicked on over to your website, It's huge and I don't have the time right now to study it, to view it properly I will need to do something about having none of the logins as shown below




Ah, I do have email

Is any email ok?

Edited by Penelope Stopit on Thursday 29th August 18:11

Oh, I wouldn't bother. I don't know why I'm linking to my Pinterest account!