This is part one of a series of articles on professional blogging as a business model. We begin with a discussion of what is wrong with the strategies most bloggers implement when they first decide to become a professional blogger.
The Professional Blogosphere Today
There’s a good chance that if you are reading this you make money online or want to. There’s also a very good chance you are a blogger and you currently make money from blogging. Unfortunately most of you who blog and make money from it, do not make much money.
The sad truth is most bloggers, even those who incessantly work on monetization strategies, end up sitting around the few dollars a day mark and find it difficult to rise above this level.
Looking at the on the surface cause for this predicament, the natural conclusion is lack of traffic. More traffic leads to more income – that’s a fact in nearly all cases.
You don’t need super amounts of traffic to generate reasonable income and small amounts of quality traffic can bring in the bucks, but let’s face the facts – those true professional bloggers who make a full time income from blogging, do so with a readership in the multiple thousands.
