From the category archives:

career blogger


Blogging for Money: Can You Make a Full Time Income?

April 21, 2009

If you want to make a full time income from blogging, you may be wondering whether this is possible. Yes, indeed it is. Many people are already doing just that. Can you do it too? Let’s see. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal stated that half a million Americans listed blogging as their [...]

Read the full article →

Blog: Create a Creative Portfolio Blog to Get Jobs

February 17, 2009

Are you a creative? Writers, designers, photographers, film makers and other creative workers can quickly develop a paying audience for their work, and can get jobs too, using a blog. Your blog is a hub for all your marketing activities. Before you start blogging however, you need to plan to ensure that your audience finds [...]

Read the full article →

Blogger’s freelance blogging success

November 5, 2006

Can you turn blogging into a full-time career? Yes, you can, and fast, too. A NEW blogger sent me this email thank you: “I bought your freelance blogging book because I wanted to find a way to make blogging a career. After two months, I’ve resigned from my job. I’m now a full-time blogger. I’ve [...]

Read the full article →

Performancing Exchange: Get a job blogging

August 23, 2006

Looking for a job as a freelance blogger? Check out Performancing Exchange. Technorati Tags: freelance blogger, blog jobs, get a job blogging Related PostsAnother beautiful WordPress theme from Performancing I love WordPress, and as an aficionado, I’m always on the lookout for new themes. Performanci…Estranged: Latest Performancing WordPress theme Performancing’s released several great WordPress themes. [...]

Read the full article →

Your corporate blogging gig: a template from Yahoo

August 2, 2006

You’ve signed up as a corporate blogger. So, what will you be sharing on the blog? You client’s not sure, and you aren’t either. How can you make a corporate blog fun and readable, while hewing to the company line? Mission impossible, you think. Not so. If you need a template, take a look at [...]

Read the full article →

Freelance blogger: you’re hired, now keep track

July 30, 2006

Hooray! You’ve been hired by a business as a freelance blogger. OK, put down the champagne glass: let’s do some clear thinking about this job you’ve taken on. Because blogging is so new, the chances are that you’ve been hired by a company where only one or two people champion blogging. Very few at the [...]

Read the full article →

You’ve been hired to blog, now what?

July 22, 2006

You’ve been hired to blog, either by company X, or by an agent of company X. Because blogging is trendy, and the chairman of company X has been told that many Fortune 500 companies have blogs, the chances are good that no one at the company (or at the management firm, graphic design agency, PR [...]

Read the full article →

Career blogging: Freelance blogger or career blogger?

July 19, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Blogging for money: a one-click business startup

July 18, 2006

Are you watching in amazement (and disbelief) as others make six-figure incomes by blogging? The major benefit of blogging over other online businesses is that there are no barriers to entry. If you use Blogger.com as your blogging platform when you start, building your own Internet business is free. When you start your blogging business, [...]

Read the full article →

Learn to blog now, it’s a good career move

July 11, 2006

Read Lorelle’s “Evolution of the Corporate Web Into Bloggy Web”, and also the Robert Scoble’s blog post she’s linked to. I’ve had the same experience. Companies are ditching static sites in favour of blogs and CMSs. Robert Scoble believes that companies will catch on to the new paradigm by next year, which means that there’ll [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries