The Reality of Risk and Blogging Finances
I just had a seriously sobering thought. The Internet is all about real estate and risk. Just like Monopoly only with real money. Babylune, really, is not the content I write but a URL I don’t own. The address could be sold at any moment and, while I own the content, no one would know where to find it should it have to be moved. That’s a pretty insecure place to live, especially since, in order for me to recover the money I’ve invested in this blog over the past six weeks, I need to convince you (and the other people who read this blog) to read almost a quarter of a million extra pages…that might take some time.
I don’t regret anything I’ve recently done on this blog. I didn’t do it to build traffic or to earn money, but recent conversations have me worried that I have created a false impression about how much bloggers, even moderately successful bloggers, can afford to invest in promotion and traffic-building.
I think I’m a good writer and often a good blogger. I think I am often a smart person, even with money. But, I haven’t managed the financial risk of investing on this blog properly. If you’re one of the many, many mothers who hopes blogging will help her earn enough money to stay home with her children (I am not a WAHM), please do not follow my example.
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4 opinions for The Reality of Risk and Blogging Finances
Jennifer
Jan 18, 2008 at 2:06 am
So, are you going to leave us hanging - which recent conversations made you think this way? I like your blog. What are you considering changing?
Kate
Jan 18, 2008 at 4:25 am
Nothing in day-to-day terms, but I am moving from a “it’s better to give than to receive” philosophy to an “ask and you shall receive” ideal. Or, at least, I am experimenting with it.
Katherine Stone
Jan 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Girl I am with you! I make nothing off of Postpartum Progress and slave on it day after day. But it IS better to give and that’s why I do it. Although don’t get me wrong. I would REALLY, REALLY like a sponsor or to make enough to at least cover my expenses.
Ian
Jan 25, 2008 at 8:30 am
Kate are you all right? You seem to have disappeared - did you transgress some B5 rule with your pleas for clicks to get you home? Or did someone gift you the whole fare and you’ve flown away?
Hope everything’s ok.
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