Comments on: Can you earn a good living blogging?

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:34:20 +0000

Hello Deb could you give me the link to your blogging jobs on about.com………Thanks!

By: Nadia

Nadia — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:22:43 +0000

I’ve been an avid blogger since 2000, 2001, though I had no idea it would take off. Currently I blog for HubPages. They don’t pay a lot per post, but it ads up and I generally enjoy writing about my topic (pet care) because I can use my own voice. It doesn’t take me long to make a post.

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:55:18 +0000

I worked for a month and a half for a blog site that claimed to be huge. In the end, they dropped their promise to pay monthly and switched everyone to shared ad revenue instead. Sure there was a signed contract that they broke, but the court fees would have been difficult.

After a month and a half they had spent thousands buying up other blog sites but claimed there was no revenue to pay their writers. I’m glad I got out of it. While I’ve heard some make good money blogging, I was burned once and found I make far more money writing articles. I guess every experience is different.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:15:45 +0000

@ Tiffany – Tiffany if you’re looking to blog for others, there are plenty of listings for blogging gigs. I post them at About.com – but have been too busy to update lately. Jodee will be posting more blogging gigs here for those who are interested.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:14:44 +0000

@Phil – most of the corporate clients pay a monthly or “per post” rate comparable to that of copy writing. I have one corporate client paying me $500 per month for 200 words a week. I had a short stint blogging for a major NYC corporation that paid $2000 per month for two to five posts a day. Posts that could range in 50 words on up. Sadly, I lost that gig when they decided to bring in a full time staff blogger.

The corporate gigs are more difficult to find, but I predict in the upcoming year, there will be more and more listings for corporate bloggers. Businesses are interested in giving their websites a personality and blogging is the best way to do so.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:07:19 +0000

Question from someone who has yet to see the economic value of blogging (perhaps this is worth another discussion)?

What type of rates do corporate blogs pay?

Thanks

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:08:17 +0000

I would like to know how to get started in blogging. I’m a stay at mom, the extra income would nice. I always have an opinion about everything.

By: Tina Marie Frawley

Tina Marie Frawley — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:28:14 +0000

I too recently started a blog. I was finding myself talking to the dog a lot during the day and realized there needed to be a place for writers to hang out online. I have met a lot of great people with my blog through people writing, emailing, etc. I’m not making much money, but I have stopped talking to the dog as much!

By: kristen

kristen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:18:18 +0000

Great article, Deb. Lots of legit tips and good sound advice–as usual:)

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:12:27 +0000

I have a few personal blogs that I write for my own enjoyment rather than for money. I don’t have any personal blogs that generate any real income, and I don’t blog for any networks, although I’m not opposed to doing so somewhere down the line.

I have a regular gig for two blogs for which I get paid a set rate per week for a certain number of posts. These are both very easy gigs that pay pretty well for the amount of work involved.

I also have two clients who pay me to write articles for their corporate blogs. These pay by the article and are confidential/work-for-hire gigs. The work is more difficult, but it’s work I enjoy.

All four paying gigs combined take about 20 hours of my time per month and earn me a little over $1500 (before taxes) monthly, which to me is not bad.

For me, blogging is thus far a supplement to other writing jobs and not a full-time income-generating proposition, but I can see how for some people it would be.