The first time you set up your own blog, your only intention was to start a new hobby – something that would keep you busy during long, insomnia-filled nights or slow, lazy days at the office. You didn’t care about blog traffic and how many readers your posts got. You wrote and posted only for your own fulfilment.

You soon came to realize, however, that a handful of people have come to discover your blog, and what they saw and read, they liked. You discover that your blog is getting a constant increase in hits as well as a steady set of visitors every week. This, in your opinion, was a very interesting development that had potential.

The potential was in advertising. While surfing for other blogs you notice that a lot of them have ads put up in their sites. You do a little research to find that you too can put up ads on your sites, so that you can earn a little extra cash with your blog.

With the success of your blog came a brilliant, albeit extreme, idea – why not quit your job to become a professional blogger?… Continue reading