Is Blogging Worth It? 12 Compelling Reasons to Start a Blog for Profit in 2023

When it comes to making money online, it is easy to get overwhelmed with all the options that are available out there.

Should you open a store on Shopify? Fill out online surveys? Write an e-book? Make an app? Start a YouTube channel? Start a podcast?  Become a social media influencer?

It is not that easy to distinguish between what works and what is a complete waste of time.

Why you should start a blog

Blogging has been proven time and time again as a great way of making money online. There is a lot of evidence (in form of income reports and income surveys) that will show you how much you can earn from blogging.

Also, check out the following statistics (source: Blogging Statistics)

• In 2020, there were 31.7 million bloggers in the United States (an increase from 27.4m in 2014). This means that roughly 10% of Americans are bloggers.
• The content marketing industry was estimated to be worth US$300.7 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to US$723.6 Billion by 2026.
• Nearly half (47%) of Global shoppers say they use Google before buying something new.

What these statistics show is that blogging is still very popular and that there is still a lot of opportunity for growth.

In this article, I want to dive deep into the reasons why you should consider starting a blogging business if you want to make a full-time or healthy side income online.

If you are interested in how you can quickly set up your blog, check out my article on how to start a blog the right way.

Top Reasons to Start a Blog for Profit

Here are the main reasons why you should consider starting a blog to make money online.

1. You Can Make a Full-Time Income Online

When you look at results from blogger surveys, roughly 15% of bloggers make a full-time income online (over $30,000 a year) while 31% make a decent side income ($500 a month).

But what is even more exciting is that your income has no ceiling. Top bloggers (as revealed see income reports), regularly make over a million dollars a year. Here are a few examples.

• Melyssa Griffin (Melyssa Griffin): $280k+ pm.
• Heather Delaney Reese (It’s a lovely life): $220k+  per month.
• Michelle Schroeder-Gardner (Making Sense of Cents): 140k+  per month.
• Kristin Larsen (Believe in a Budget): $100k+ per month.
• Adam Enfroy (Adam Enfroy) $100k + per month.

These top bloggers make in a month what a top surgeon would make in a year. Not too bad.

You probably won’t be making this kind of income right away but these examples show what is possible with the right knowledge, hard work, and persistence.

Factors that make blogging great at scaling income

Why are these bloggers able to make these crazy amounts of money? It is because they leverage certain advantages of blogging that make it easy to scale income. These include:

#1. Ability to leverage the internet

With the internet, you can market to a global audience 24/7. Your blog makes money for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week even when you are not actively working. Compared to a business with employees, your blog never sleeps. Neither does it go on holiday, get tired or get sick.

With blogging, you don’t have to restrict yourself to your little corner of the world. You can reach anyone anywhere in the world anytime you want.

#2. The compounding effect of time

A blog compounds your income with time, much like compound interest. A blog post that you write today can keep earning you money for the next 10 years.

With a job or freelance work, you are paid only once for your effort. With blogging, you get paid again and again for the same amount of effort. And your income compounds as you write more blog posts.

#3. The rapid growth of the digital marketing and e-commerce

More and more people are now doing their shopping online. In 2021, 2.14 billion people shopped online. This represents 27.6% of the global population (Blogging Statistics).

When people shop online, you have to market to them online. This explains why digital marketing has been exploding.

In 2019, total spending on digital ads (mainly through content marketing) surpassed that of traditional advertising (TV, Radio, Print) and is now the predominant form of marketing. It is expected to account for 67.8% of all media ad spend by 2024 (Blogging Statistics).

This means that if you want to get some of these marketing dollars, you need to be involved in content marketing. Blogging is one of the best ways to start with content marketing and new opportunities are opening up every day.

For more on this, check out my article Is blogging dead?

2. It Is Cheap and Easy To Start a Blogging Business

Entrepreneurship is scary for most people because of the huge starting costs for most businesses. And the more money you put in, the bigger the risk for you.

With a blogging business, however, the cost of starting and running your business is so low that anyone can start it. You don’t need bank loans, employees, permits, specialized equipment, certifications, or building leases.

This means that you can start a blog from your savings or by borrowing from your family and friends. The other advantage is that you can get very high profit margins.

To start a basic WordPress blog, you need less than $60 a year. This is mainly for:

• Webhosting. This will take the biggest chunk of your budget (Roughly $50 a year or $4 a month). Webhosting companies like ChemiCloud offer reliable services and give great discounts from time to time (check for a discount).
• Domain name. This is the name of your blog (such as indiebounty.com). This will cost you roughly $10 a year.

Check out my step-by-step guide on starting a blog to see how you can start a blog for $60 or less.

Why blogging is easy to start and run

There are many reasons why blogging is so cheap to start and run including:

#1. You can get very cheap outsourcing services

With blogging, you have access to cheap outsourcing services which eliminates the need to have employees and deal with payroll or taxes.

You can outsource most of your blogging tasks on a platform like Fiverr for as low as $5. Some of the tasks you can outsource include: writing blog posts, creating logos, creating blog images, web design, website troubleshooting, and blog post editing among many others. (check out Fiverr for more)

#2. Many free and freemium tools

For almost every task you want to do on your blog, there is probably a free tool you can use. Some of the tools are full-featured while some operate on a freemium model where they offer a free version that is a scaled-down version of the paid version.

Here are just a few examples of how blogging tools can drastically cut down on your costs.

• A WordPress theme like Kadence (available as free or paid) replaces the need to hire an expensive web designer.
• A grammar editing tool like Grammarly (available as free or paid) replaces the need to hire an editor for your blog posts.
• A graphic design tool like Visme (available as free or paid) replaces the need to hire a graphic designer to make your logos, infographics, or images for your blog.

#3. Cheap or free learning resources

There are numerous learning resources for blogging, many of which are freely or cheaply available online. You can do most of your learning for free on YouTube or you can subscribe to an affordable course platform like Skillshare.

Skillshare has thousands of courses that you can access at a reasonable monthly fee. It is like the Netflix of courses (check it out here).

3. The Cost of Failure is Low

Most entrepreneurial ventures have a high failure rate. According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, 45% of businesses fail within the first five years, and 65% fail within the first 10 years. ^[1]

When you have no experience starting or running a business, it is unlikely that you will succeed on your first try because you lack the skills and tools necessary to run a successful business.

The downside of failure is that you can easily find yourself deep in debt. This can ruin your reputation and may even lead to the collapse of your family. Also, it can take you years before you get your life back on track.

With blogging, you can dip your toes into entrepreneurship without incurring a lot of the costs and risks.

Why the cost of failure is low with blogging

The low cost of starting and running a blog means that you can fail without getting into debt. But there are also other advantages that greatly reduce the impact of failure in blogging.

#1. You can sell your blog and recover some of the costs

There is a big market for buying and selling blogs on sites like Motion Invest, Flippa, or Empire flippers. You can sell your blog for 25 to 40 times the monthly income. For example, if your blog makes $1,000 a month, you can sell it for between $25,000 and $40,000.

So, if your blog is failing, don’t delete it. Investigate how much you can get for it by selling it in these marketplaces.

#2. You gain numerous skills

Blogging can take a lot of your time and if your blog fails, you can feel like you wasted your time. However, if you do blogging the right way, you can gain many transferable skills.

Transferable skills are skills that can be used to apply for jobs across many different industries or even to start other businesses.

Some of the lucrative transferable skills you gain from blogging include: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Copywriting, Web design, Graphic Design, Affiliate Marketing, and Server Management among many others.

So, take advantage of the time you spend in blogging to learn valuable skills that will help you later on.

#3. You can pivot

Even if your first blog fails (which it is likely to do), you learn so much about blogging that your second and third blogs have a much higher chance of success. Given that it doesn’t cost much to start a blog, you can keep starting blogs until you hit on the magic formula. You only have to be right once.

If you have time and patience, you can use the knowledge you get from past failures to position yourself for success.

Check out my article on how to deal with failure in blogging for more tips and ideas to help you protect yourself against failure in your blogging business.

4. You Can Blog Anonymously and Still Make Money

If you are the kind of person who wants to make money without a lot of fuss or attention, then blogging is for you. You can make a decent income while remaining fairly anonymous.

For example, JP Livingstone (a pseudonym) is an anonymous personal finance blogger who makes over 5k a month (see her profile on income reports). Others such as J Money have made millions blogging anonymously.

However, it is much easier to make money blogging if you don’t hide yourself. When you put yourself out there and market yourself, you gain trust and authority and this can be quite lucrative. But there are several good reasons why you may want to remain anonymous.

Why would you want to remain anonymous while blogging?

Here’s why you may choose to blog anonymously.

• Avoiding conflict of interest. For example, you may not your side-hustle to clash with your day job.
• Privacy concerns, especially if you don’t enjoy public attention. Even if you are a very successful blogger, you can still walk anywhere and not get recognized.
• Cancel culture. These days, you can have your entire life turned upside down because of a careless word you wrote online. This is especially true if you write about controversial and sensitive topics.
• Avoiding scammers and crooks. If your business makes good money, it can attract a lot of shady characters that are after your money. Anonymity removes the headache of dealing with these kinds of people.

Strategies you can use to blog anonymously

There are many strategies that you can use to blog anonymously but here are the most common.

#1. Secure your blog against hacking

If someone doesn’t like what you blog about, they can resort to hacking your blog to discover your identity. Or they can deface your blog with embarrassing information or images. You can secure your blog by:

• Using a strong password. You can use a password manager like 1password to generate strong passwords.
• Regularly updating your themes and plugins
• Using a security plugin such as All In One Wp Security (free) or Astra security(paid).

#2. Secure your private information

You need to be careful about what personal information you reveal online especially if you have a controversial blog.

• Use a pseudonym instead of your real name.
• Don’t use your home address online. You can use a P.O.Box address or a virtual address from services like Anytime Mailbox.
• Enable Who.is protection when buying your domain name. This prevents your personal contact information from being displayed on Who.is records.

#3. Adopt personal online hygiene

If you are careless with your personal information online, you can unwittingly expose a lot of your personal information.

• Use a VPN, especially when using public wifi. A VPN will mask your IP address and encrypts your internet traffic. A good VPN you can try is Nord VPN.
• Before you enter your information on any website, ensure that it is secured with the ‘HTTPS’ protocol. You can tell if a website is secure if it has the prefix ‘HTTPS’ before the domain name e.g. https://indiebounty.com
• Avoid clicking on suspicious links. A lot of phishing attacks try to trick you into clicking malicious links.

5. You Can Have Control of Your Income

Having control of your income is crucial when making money online.

If your entire business model runs on someone else’s platform, you run a huge risk of waking up one day and finding that your entire business has disappeared.

For example, if you rely on YouTube or Facebook for your entire income, you are vulnerable because if you get banned by these platforms, your entire income goes away. You also lose all your subscribers, comments, likes and all your content.

All your years of hard work will have been wasted.

How to take control of your blogging income

With a blog, you can protect yourself against such events. Here is what you can do.

#1. Choose the right platform when starting a blog

Create your blog on WordPress (WordPress.org). This is a free and open-source platform that will not put restrictions on you. If you start your blog on other commercial and free platforms, you hand over control.

• They can shut you down anytime.
• They can restrict which kinds of adverts or affiliate links you put on your site.
• They can encrypt your data in a way that makes it difficult to move to another platform.

Starting a blog using WordPress is simple. Check out my guide on starting a blog on WordPress the right way.

#2. Build an email list

Google, YouTube, and other social media platforms are great sources of traffic; however, you have no control over how they operate.

An email list is the only thing you can control. If all your traffic from Google and social media suddenly disappears but you have an email list, you can still make an income from that list. The great thing about an email list is that no one can take that list from you.

If you are a beginner, you can use an email service like Systeme.io to start creating your email list (they have a free option).

#3. Create your own groups

Groups are a step up from an email list. Groups will enable your audience to interact with each other. You can form a group where you charge members a monthly fee to be part of your group or you can keep your group free.

You can use a service like Memberpress to set up a subscription group.

6. You Can Generate Income from Multiple Sources

Wealthy people protect themselves from unforeseeable events by having multiple sources of income. If one source disappears, they have several others to fall back on. In fact, the average millionaire has seven sources of income.

In addition to protecting yourself against unforeseen events, having multiple sources of income can also help you to generate wealth much quicker.

Blogging, if done well, can help you to diversify your income in a variety of ways.

Potential blogging income sources

Here are some of the potential income sources you can target with your blog.

• Selling crafts (such as patterns, sculptures, artwork) on your blog.
• Making money from display ads using Google AdSense or a premium ad network like Ezoic (great for beginners).
• Selling subscriptions or membership products using a service like Memberpress.
• Selling digital products (ebooks, software, photos, posters, beats, etc). You can use a service like Payhip for this.
• Selling online courses through a service like Thinkific.
• Selling physical products by drop shipping or setting up a Shopify store.

How can you diversify your income from blogging?

As you diversify your income sources, you need to ensure that you are truly diversified. You can do this by.

#1. Diversifying monetization platforms

Don’t lock yourself on only one monetization platform. For example, if you create an Amazon affiliate site, you are vulnerable to commission rate cuts from Amazon. Amazon could also decide to cancel their affiliate program.

You can avoid this by diversifying the platforms that you make money from by:

• Building your own platform, for example, by using your WordPress blog to sell your own products using WooCommerce.
• Applying to different affiliate networks.
• Leveraging different ad networks.

#2. Diversifying niches

You can diversify by creating blogs in different niches. When one of your blogs is not doing well, the income from your other blogs can help you to weather the storm.

However, it is important not to start several sites at a go because it can be overwhelming and lead to failure. Put effort into one site until it succeeds then move into another one.

#3. Diversifying how you deliver your content

People like consuming content in a variety of ways and you can use your blog as a foundation for creating content in different formats. For example, you can re-purpose your content as YouTube videos, social media content, podcasts or email newsletters.

By doing this, your blog becomes a hub for everything you do online.

7. Blogging Is Great for Entrepreneurs that Hate Selling

Learning how to sell is an important skill to learn, especially if you plan to become an entrepreneur. The benefits of learning how to sell are numerous. For example, you can:

• Market other people’s products and services through affiliate marketing.
• Create your own products and services and sell them online.
• Create your own brick-and-mortar business and use blogging as a marketing tool.

However, for many people, selling can be difficult or intimidating. If you dislike the idea of traditional sales, selling online through blogging can be an easier alternative for you.

Why blogging is great for people that hate selling

Fortunately, selling online through blogging is not as difficult as traditional sales. There are several reasons for this.

#1. You attract customers rather than chasing after them

With blogging, you attract customers by providing valuable content that addresses their needs. You act as a bridge between people’s problems and products and services that can solve those problems.

If you can become good at writing valuable content, then you can say goodbye to knocking on doors or making awkward phone calls.

#2. You don’t need high-pressure sales tactics

You don’t have to be pushy with your marketing. Your main task is to clearly communicate the benefits of a product or service and then let people make their own decisions.

If you have done a good job of demonstrating (through your content) that you understand your reader’s problems, then they will buy what you recommend as a solution.

#3. The sting of rejection is much less

Facing sales rejection in the anonymity of the internet may be easier for people compared to face-to-face rejection.

If you fear the embarrassment of having your pitches rejected, selling online can be a gentle introduction to facing sales rejection.

#4. You can leverage the strengths of online selling

Selling online is great for learning how to sell because you can leverage two main strengths of online selling.

• The easy availability of data and analytics to make better decisions.
• The ease of testing ideas without spending too much money.

The ability to test and validate is crucial in sales and marketing because it takes the guesswork out of the process. It helps you to weed out unworkable suggestions and ideas.

8. You Can Do Blogging Part-Time

If you went to your boss and asked for a $6,000 raise, he or she would think you have gone crazy. After all, the average annual raise in the US is around 3%. For a 35k job, that would be $1,000 a year.

Give yourself a raise

But you can give yourself a raise anytime you want by creating a side income. The challenge is getting a side-hustle that can make you a decent side income without taking too much of your time.

Data from blogger surveys show that 31% of bloggers make an extra $500 a month ($6,000 a year). The data also shows that a majority of bloggers spend less than 20 hours a week on their blog with established bloggers spending less than 5 hours a week.

Why you should consider blogging part-time

Here’s why you may want to start blogging part-time.

• You want to test the waters without risking quitting your job.
• You love your job but you want a little extra money on the side.
• You want to explore your interests and passions.
• You want to acquire new skills.

Strategies for successful part-time blogging

Making part-time blogging work for you can be a challenge but you can use the following tips to get you started.

#1. Create time for blogging

You need 1 to 2 hours a day to start working on your blog. You can make extra time to blog by:

• Waking up earlier or sleeping later than you usually do.
• Tracking how you use your time and reducing activities that waste your time (like watching TV).
• Multi-tasking non-crucial tasks, for example, you can listen to a podcast or an audiobook while doing house chores or commuting to and from work (Check out audiobooks on Audible for free).
• Using your lunch break for learning using a platform like Skillshare.

#2. Work productively

If you have only a few hours to do your blogging, then you have to be very efficient in how you use those hours. You can work productively by:

• Prioritizing the most important tasks first (following the 80/20 rule).
• Avoiding distractions such as wasting time on the internet or social media.
• Blocking your time to enable deep work.

#3. Get  jobs that are compatible with blogging

If you find it difficult to find time for blogging, you can look for a job that is more compatible with blogging. Examples of jobs that work well with blogging are:

• High downtime jobs such as working as a night receptionist.
• Freelance jobs. You can freelance on platforms like Fiverr or Upwork.
• Seasonal work such as working at a summer camp.
• Shift work such as bar-tending where you can work nights and blog during the day.
• Jobs with long holidays such as teaching.

9. You Can Create a Location Independent Business

With a regular job or small business, you are tied down to working from a particular area, town, state, or country. In a digital economy, you no longer need to restrict yourself to a particular place.

A 2019 survey by MBO Partners found that more than 7.4 million Americans described themselves as digital nomads. Furthermore, 83 percent of full-time independent workers reported working remotely at least some of the time and 37 percent work remotely full-time. ^[2]

This shows that the trend towards remote work is growing and blogging can help to tap into this trend of location independence.

Benefits of creating a location independent business

There are several reasons why you might want to invest in a business that does not tie you down to one place

#1. You want to accelerate wealth creation.

If you want to build wealth relatively quickly, you should consider leveraging the power of geographical arbitrage. It is a strategy used a lot in the F.I.R.E (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement. You can save a lot of money by de-linking your location from your income generation. You can do this by:

• Targeting income opportunities in high-paying countries (such as the US) while living in a country or state where the cost of living is low.
• Moving to a country or state where the taxes are low.
• Moving to a place where you get value for your money. For example, you can move somewhere warm where you can get an apartment that is twice as large for less.

#2. You could get an injury or an illness that restricts you (or a loved one)

If you or someone you love has an illness or a disability that makes it difficult to function in a traditional job, life can become unbearably challenging.

Since you can do blogging from home, it can help you take care of a loved one while still contributing to society and earning money.

If you are the one with an illness or disability, blogging can give you the flexibility to work when you feel the most refreshed. Blogger John Morrow, the founder of Smart Blogger, is paralyzed from the neck down yet he has managed to make millions from blogging.

#3. You may want to spend time quality time with your children.

The high cost of modern life forces parents to spend long hours away from their children. Many children are left to their own devices.

With blogging, you can plan your time so that you can make money while still taking care of your children. There are many examples of stay-at-home moms who earn a decent income while taking care of their kids.

10. You Can Use Your Blog as an Investment Asset

A blog is an asset you can trade, much like any other hard asset such as land, stocks, or real estate.

While many asset classes can be expensive to acquire, blogs are cheap and easy to start. They also have other advantages such as:

• Blogs are fairly liquid assets. If you have an emergency and you need cash in a hurry, you can sell your blog in marketplaces like Motion Invest, Flippa, or Empire Flippers.
• You can get good returns on your investments. Typically, you can sell your blog for anywhere between 25 to 40 times the value of your monthly income. The quicker you grow your monthly income, the higher the value of your blog.
• The selling process is easy. The process of selling your blog is easy especially if you created your blog on the right platform. It is best if you create your blog using WordPress (see how to do it here).

How to leverage your blog as an investment asset

There are several strategies you can employ if you want to exploit your blogs as assets.

#1.  Build and hold

With a build and hold strategy, your goal is to build up your blog (or several blogs) from scratch. As you continue to add content, the value of your blogs will continue to grow.

With several blog assets at your disposal, you can now sell when the market conditions are right or when you need a quick injection of cash.

#2. Buy and Flip

With this strategy, you buy a blog from one of the marketplaces and then you improve it with the aim of selling it later. The equivalent of this in real estate is buying a fixer-upper.

Some of the improvements you can make include increasing content, diversifying income, and sorting out technical issues.

#3. Scale and cash in

This is where you scale your blog into a big brand with the intention of selling it for big bucks. You approach blogging much in the way you would build a start-up.

11. You Can Scale Your Blogging Business into a Multi-Million Dollar Enterprise

How far you decide to take your blogging business is up to you. You can keep it as a side hustle and earn a couple of thousand dollars a month or scale it into a multi-million dollar media business.

There are many examples of people who have scaled small blogs into multi-million dollar businesses. Notable examples are:

• TechCrunch. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005 and sold to AOL in 2010 for $40 million.^[3]
• Huffington Post. It was founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and three other partners and was acquired by AOL for US$315 million in 2011.^[4]

Why scale a blog?

Scaling a blog can be difficult and risky but there are some good reasons why you might want to do it, for example;

• You want to sell it and cash in. Scaling a blog can bring in serious money and if you want to retire early, this is the way to do it.
• You want to have the experience of running a huge business. Running your blog like a multi-million dollar media company will give you skills that you cannot get from running a solo blog.
• You want to have a bigger influence on society. If you have aspirations to change the world, having a big blog is like having a huge megaphone. You can use it to push your ideas into the world.

How to scale a blogging business

Once you have a blogging formula that works, it is time to add fuel to the fire and scale. There are several ways you can scale your blogging business including:

#1. Scaling content

Scaling content will help you increase the number of visitors that come to your blog. You can scale content by:

• Increasing the amount of content you produce. You can do this by hiring more writers (as employees or freelancers) or by leveraging A.I writers like Jasper.
• Targeting different languages and regions. You can do this by having your blog translated into other languages or by using A.I. translator plugins like Weglot.

#2. Scaling by creating multiple blogs

Once your main blog has matured, you can scale your blogging business by creating several other blogs. The advantage of scaling this way is.

• You can diversify your risk by not putting all your eggs in one basket.
• It can be much more interesting especially if you easily get bored with doing one thing.
• You can exploit several underserved niches even if they are completely unrelated to each other.

You however need to be careful not to get into many projects at the same time as this will split your focus and lead to failure.

#3. Scaling through advertising

If you have money coming into your blogging business, you can re-invest it to scale your traffic and income through advertising. There are many forms of advertising you can target such as:

• Google Pay-per-click (PPC) ads.
• Facebook ads.
• Paid influencers.

Advertising can work well but it requires some skill to pull off. To advertise profitably, you need to regularly assess your ROI (return on investment) otherwise you could end up losing a lot of money.

12. You Can Use Your Blog to Diversify Into Other Businesses

You can use your blog as a platform to launch other businesses either online or offline. Many bloggers such as Rand Fishkin (founder of Moz), Nathan Barry (founder of Convertkit), and Syed Balkhi (founder of Monster Insights) have leveraged the success of their blogs to establish successful online and offline businesses.

Rand Fishkin, for example, started his blog (SEOMoz) in 2004 to provide information on various aspects of SEO. Fishkin was able to leverage his brand and expertise into a $40 million a year SEO software business (Moz). ^[5]

How you can leverage a blog to start or grow your business

Starting a business can be an expensive and intimidating affair. However, a blog can make the process much easier and less risky in the following ways.

#1. Use a blog to generate starting capital

If you do your blogging the right way, you can generate a lot of money. You can use this money to start and maintain your offline business without resorting to expensive loans.

#2. Building contacts in the industry

Blogging is great for making contacts within your industry. When you start out in any business, getting people to trust you can be difficult. However, if you have been providing value over the years through your blog, you will build a network of collaborators who can help you in launching your business.

#3. Testing the market

You can use your blog to test and validate business ideas before spending too much money on them. For example, you can make a stripped-down version of your product or service to see if people will be interested in it.

The advantage of this is that you will have a ready market by the time you are ready to launch the full-featured product.

#4. Building skills you can use in your business

You gain transferable skills that you can apply to your offline business. The blog business will act as the training wheels for your offline business. Some of the skills you learn include:

• How to market products and services through content marketing.
• Selling products and services online through creating online stores.
• How to bring in visitors through SEO.

Final Thoughts

Finding a legit way to make a decent income online can be challenging. Blogging, however, has proved itself as a reliable way to make money online.

You can get started with blogging on a part-time basis to see if you have sufficient interest to sustain it. Aim to build it to a level where it can earn you a decent side income and eventually a full-time income.

If you wish to start a blog but feel overwhelmed or don’t know where to start, check out my step-by-step guide that will take you through the entire process of starting a blog.

Further reading

• How to change your life through blogging
• Common blogging mistakes that cause new blogs to fail