Make Money Blogging. Your Hobbies + Blogging = $$$

How Much Do You Actually Need To Earn Online To Survive?

There are so many people online that figure if you are going to blog for profit you need to be a really dedicated professional and blogging about one’s hobbies doesn’t play a role in earning money online.

That is fine for those willing to put in the amount of time and effort required to be a pro blogger. For me, well I am online to earn what I need to enjoy my lifestyle.

It might cost me a few thousand dollars a month to survive but when you take into consideration that my wife works a full time job we don’t need that much.

Now realistically speaking I only need to earn about $1000 a month to have all we need and still have a bit of fun money left over.

Heck I know people in other countries that would consider $1000 a month in expenses really high. Earning money like that for them would be like hitting the lottery.

My way of marketing is far less stressful and I don’t need to be nearly as professional as I was in the brick and mortar world, before 2001 when I started my online business.

So, how much do you really need to earn monthly to make a living?

Answer that question and set your goals to focus on that amount.

Is it necessary to have multiple blogs?

Yes and No. This one will take some research on your part so that you know what the market is like for your niche.

Currently my blogs don’t make a lot of money individually. For that reason I didn’t just stop with one site per hobby.

I like fishing and started with one fishing blog. When I saw that I was making some money I created another fishing blog focusing on a slightly different aspect of fishing.

Once the second fishing blog was earning from affiliate sales… Yes I started another one.

I did the same thing with a garden blog when we decided to start gardening. That started earning a little but the domain name had nothing to do with the niche so I started a second gardening blog that was keyworded.

The second garden site blew my first garden site out of the water in half the time it took for that first blog to start earning.

Then I decided to start a specific gardening blog. I focused this one on vegetable gardening tips. It’s new so I don’t have anything to brag about with this one yet, but you get my drift.

What goes great with a garden? Recipes to make the best of what we grow in our garden so I started a blog about great garden recipes.

Now I like to be truthful so I am letting you know that not all of my bright ideas for blogging worked out. That’s alright, it would be nice to be on all the time but GoDaddy Domains are cheap and I pay one low price for all my hosting with HostGator Hosting.

One of my flops was my digital photography blog. I gave it a try, twice I might add. I should have found guest bloggers for that site, it might have done better.

The key to your success is to keep working. Don’t give up and stay focused on hobbies that people actually spend money on.

I would like to add something about a recession.

We are having some hard times in the Maritimes and have had the need to cut back in a few places to save money, but you know I have not cut back on the spending I do for my hobbies and neither has any of my fishing buddies or gardening friends. Hobbies keep us young and we can’t give them up.

That is why you can always make a littel extra money talking about your hobbies.

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