Do you want to know how to become a full-time blogger? My life has changed a lot since I became a full-time blogger. I make a great living blogging (I’m on track to make over $800,000 this year), I love what I do, I get to help a lot of people better manage their money, I’m my boss, I travel full-time, and more.
I know many other people who blog full-time and do it well. They make a lot of money from it, which has made their lives much better.
Starting your blog can lead to many good things, like the chance to blog full-time.
Trust me, it’s possible.
I learned what a blog was a few years ago. I started a blog because I wanted a hobby, to make money by talking about it in public, and so on. I didn’t start my blog because I wanted to make money.
The funny thing is, I didn’t know anything about blogging when I began.
I didn’t even know that people could make money from blogs. I slowly learned everything by making mistakes, and I loved blogging.
After blogging for about a year, I was already making a few thousand dollars a month, which is an excellent start if you want to make a living.
And I loved what I was doing so much.
Because of my experience, people often ask me what the best way is to become a full-time blogger. Read on for my best tips, and have fun!
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If you want to be a Blogger, Make a plan.
You should first make a plan if you’re going to quit your job and become a full-time blogger.
It would be best if you thought about some things, like:
- How blogging will make you money
- How much money do you need to stop working full-time
- Whenever you intend to quit your work,
- How much do you want to save in case of an emergency
- How do you plan to grow your blog over time
- What goal(s) you’re trying to reach
- And a lot, a lot more.
When you make a plan, you can see everything at once. This way, you’ll know what you’re working towards and what to do.
Select your blog’s topic.
I always tell people who want to become full-time bloggers to start a blog about something they are passionate about, know a lot about, like, or something else along those lines.
If you do this, blogging can stay fun and not become a chore.
You can write about many different things on your blog, or you can write about one thing, like your finances. I like to write about money and related topics, so that’s what I do.
But any topic will work, and you can make money blogging about anything.
You can write a blog post about anything or everything.
Here are a few ideas for writing posts. The list goes on after this. Select one, all, or a few.
- Lifestyle
- Home
- Family
- Finance
- DIY
- Small business
- The outdoors
- Fitness and health
- Food
- Inspiration and advice
- Animals
- Travel
- Games
- Relationships
- School
- Electronics, and more!
Start a blog.
If you want to learn to be a blogger, you must start a blog!
If you don’t start a blog, you’ll never know if you like it or can do it full-time.
Luckily, it doesn’t cost much to start a blog.
No, you don’t have to know a lot about technology or anything like that. I didn’t even know they were a thing when I started my blog. Even if you don’t know much about computers, you can still create a blog that does well. Even though they didn’t know much about blogs, many people have started one and made it work.
So, if you want to become a full-time blogger, the next step is to start one!
Publish high-quality content.
If you want to blog full-time, you must write good content for your blog. It’s essential if you want people to read more of your work.
This means you will need to:
- Write about things you think other people will like. If you don’t like what you’re writing about, chances are other people won’t either.
- Find out what you can. Some ways to do this are to read other articles, look up statistics, read books, and so on.
- Make content that people will want to read. Your writing should make people want to do something or talk to you.
- Write like yourself. To stand out, write in your voice and develop your writing style.
- Edit your content. You shouldn’t just write something and put it out there. You’ll need to reread it and fix it. You should check for things like grammar mistakes, a lack of flow, and so on.
Love what you are doing.
It’s a lot of fun to blog. The best blogs are written by people who love to write and enjoy all the other parts of blogging.
But blogging is a challenge.
It’s easy to spend all day and night working on your blog, so it’s essential to enjoy it. There are always new things to learn and look into and chances to meet new people, write, and do other things. So, everything will be better and easier if you like what you do.
Network with others.
If you want to blog full-time, you need to make many connections.
Many bloggers see other bloggers as competition, which holds them back in a big way. It would help if you were willing to meet other bloggers, go to blog conferences, share content with others, and more.
Networking can help you enjoy blogging more, learn new things about it, meet great people, and do other things.
Find ways to monetize your blog.
If you want to blog full-time, you must learn how to make money from it.
Blogging can be profitable in several ways. These include:
Affiliate Marketing – Affiliate marketing is when you put an affiliate link in a blog post and try to make money when people buy the product through your link. This is also known as affiliate income. This is also known as affiliate income. This can be a great way to make money because all you have to do to make money is write a review of a product you like and hope that other people will be interested in buying it.
Blog Sponsorships – Blog sponsorships are when you put an ad on your blog in exchange for money. This could be a sponsored review, a guest blog post, a sidebar link, an – ad in a newsletter, etc. There are many different kinds of paid ads on websites.
Display advertising: Display advertising is when you place an advertisement on your blog in the sidebar, below a blog post, below your header image, or in another location on your blog. Then, you get paid a certain amount for every number of times the advertisement is seen.
Creating your product – You could make and sell many things on your website, like a book, a course, etc.
Improve your page views.
Working all the time to get more people to look at your pages can help you make more money. Because of this, you’ll want to keep getting these numbers up so you can blog full-time.
There are many ways to get more people to view your blog pages.
Here are some ways to get more people to visit your blog:
- Use Pinterest – It’s one of my top traffic sources and brings me about 200,000 visits a month. Making great images, ensuring the titles and descriptions are engaging, pinning often, and only pinning long images. In case you were wondering, I use Picmonkey to edit all my photos and Tailwind to schedule them. I suggest buying this Pinterest strategy guide because I use it for my strategy, which has greatly helped me.
- Find other social media sites to use – Besides Pinterest, there are other social networking sites you can check out. This includes Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and others.
- Post often – It would help to put something new up at least once a week for most blogs. People may remember you if you post on your blog for weeks or months.
- Write a guest post – If you write a guest post, new readers may check out your blog and sign up for it. This is a great way to reach out to a new group of people.
- Make sure your content is easy to share – I love to share blog posts on social media. But it can be annoying when some blogs make it more complicated than it needs to be. It would help if you always made it easy for people to share what you write. This means that your social media icons should be easy to find, and the information that needs to be shared (such as the title, link, and username) should already be in place, etc.
- Make headlines that get people’s attention – The title of your post can be a big reason why people click on it or not. This is something I work on all the time because headlines are so important!
- Learn SEO – I couldn’t teach you SEO (search engine optimization) in such a small space. But you should look into it and learn more about it and how it can help you.
- Make it easy for readers to look around – If you want more people to read your other blog posts, make it as easy for them to do so. It would help if you made it easy for people to find your blog’s homepage, categories, tags, search bar, and other parts. Also, you should put links in every one of your blog posts so that people can find related topics quickly.
- Start an email list – Constant Contact is an excellent company for email marketing. They have great customer service and offer a free trial for 60 days that don’t need a credit card.
