Interview on BloggingPro
A few days ago, David Peralty asked me if I would be willing to give him an interview about pro-blogging. At first, I thought he was kidding, but when he set a date for it I started to realize that he was serious about it. And so, that day came, and today the interview was posted on BloggingPro.
The first part of the interview is mostly about myself (boring, right?), but right at the end there is something that you might be able to find helpful, or at least elucidative:
David: If you had to give a tip to all the bloggers out there looking to make a few bucks from blogging. What would that tip or those tips be?
Marco: If you are only in the blogging business in order to make money, you should realize that there are more profitable professions out there. Back when my father managed my island’s most popular newspaper, he didn’t earn a good enough payment for the amount of hours he worked for. Right now, blogging is the same.
Most professional bloggers work arduously, sometimes up to 12 hours a day, in order to make enough revenue just to make a living. There are only a select few that make a lot of money.
Some people are more business-oriented than others, others are just more popular, or better writers, or simply more fortunate. I guess that what I’m trying to say is, if you don’t have a love for this profession, a taste for writing and the yearn to discover new things every day, then this might not be the most appropriate profession for you, but if you do, I hope that you have enough perseverance, and luck, to make it.
Hey Griffin I never new that you wrote for Forever Geek. I think I might’ve read something about Paul writing for it somewhere on the Internet.
Creative writing is a fascinating subject to talk about. I was actually doing some research on this an apparently a lot it has to do with personality. It is again, a facinating subject.
If you want to look up more info about that subject you’d be better off buying books about journalism rather than searching for the “blogging equivalent” of it.
Despite allowing user feedback, in most cases, blogging, in the case of most sites, takes the same lessons that journalism uses.