I divide bloggers who make money blogging into two main groups: career bloggers, and entrepreneur bloggers.
You’re a career blogger if blogging for companies under contract is your chosen profession. You’re an entrepreneurial blogger if you develop your own blogs and monetize them in various ways.
Yesterday I was chatting to someone who said in relation to career blogging: “You mean freelance blogging, don’t you? Working as a freelancer writing blogs?”
My first response was “No! I don’t mean freelance blogging.” I was quite vehement about it, and it made me curious. “Freelance blogger” was an adequate description, wasn’t it?
So I thought about it, and I decided that “freelancer” doesn’t fit a career blogger, because a career blogger looks on blogging for pay as a career – it’s not a part-time occupation, it’s a full-time one.
Career blogging is also performed under contact. A career blogger has a contract with a company to blog for them for a set term: three to six months, or longer. A freelancer might only be employed to write five to ten blog postings, with a very limited contract, if any.
Do you agree? If you’re career blogging, do you describe yourself as a “freelance blogger”? Please post your thoughts in the Comments to this post.
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