Chasing the Dream
When I first started blogging about 9 months ago, it was an experiment to see if it was possible to make money from the Internet. I can confirm that it IS possible to make money online, however whether you can make enough money to support your lifestyle is another thing all together.
However, when I started blogging I didn’t have any online contacts and since starting this blog and a few other websites over the past few months I have met a lot of people who have helped me create my online “empire” and who have opened up doors that I wouldn’t have had access if I didn’t start this blog.
I am currently employed in an IT infrastructure support based job which I do enjoy and I think I am capable of making a life long career out of it. But my passion lies in web development/design and that the direction I would like my career to head in the direction of.
Over the past few months I have made some contacts online that can make that dream come true. At the moment I do some part time web development and my workload is increasing week to week – all from having a few online contacts that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t start this blog.
If I can increase my level of web development work over the next year or so and can make enough money to survive (and more hopefully) I might be able to leave the normal everyday 9 – 5 and work on my own terms, run my own websites and develop sites for other people – all while working from home!
The way things are looking it is looking like I am heading in that direction, however it would want to be 100% secure before I up and leave my full time job. Running your own business is difficult, and I think it is even harder to run a web based business as things change very fast and you always have to stay ahead of the game and learn the new tricks.
Fingers crossed….what dream are you chasing?
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First way to go to! Making $ on the internet is tough. Yes, It can be done! I like many others do social media consulting and make a nice living! I do it because I love it and get enjoyment from helping others. I hope you achieve your goal of full time!
Thanks Dave!
Hi Daniel,
Making money on the internet is definitely doable. As for building a list of contacts, you have no way here to do that. Most people don’t subscribe to an rss feed in their inbox. The majority subscribe in a feed reader so you can’t capture their information that way.
You should have some sort of newsletter and allow people to opt in to receive it. It can go out once a month if you don’t have time to do it more often.
Put an opt in box to a newsletter or free report in the sidebar and begin building your list. Once you have people interested in your topic, then you can email them occasionally with other offers as long as you aren’t being a pest.
Check out my blogging homestudy course. I’ll have lots of additional ways (all generic) to make money with blogs and more tips like this.
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
Thanks Roxanne! I agree that making contacts is difficult. I have a made a few that have helped turn a few things around for me and head in the direction that I want to go in – but there is no such thing as too many contacts so I am always looking for ways to capture more of an audience.
I ahve been meaning to setup a newsletter for a while so that might be the task for this week!
I’ll check out your blogging homestudy course!
Thanks
Dan