Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Travel Niche: Good Blog Topics for Beginner Bloggers

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Understandably, blogging beginners will talk about the topics that are closest to home: personal experiences, what they ate for breakast, rants about traffic, work and home activities and others.

Now, the question is: can a personal blog earn? The answer is yes!

If you modify your blog theme a bit and make it travel-related, you will have a travel blog with a personal touch. Travel is a very hot niche in the online world and hotels and resorts will always be in need of sites to promote in.

If you love to talk about your day to day life, maybe you can describe the places that are worth visiting in your hometown, or the weather nowadays. Is there a storm coming? Is the neighborhood having a fiesta or a community event soon?

What Makes a Travel Niche Hot?

  • The whole travel industry depends on international marketing and visibility over the internet. Online is where they kick ass, and this is the place where they really entice people to visit. Sure, there are magazines and reading materials, but since blogging about the places they are promoting is the trend now, they look at these places to promote in.
  • Travel is not just for the wealthy, it is also be for those who are persistent enough to go abroad and look for work. Think of your ‘personal blog” as your way of helping these people read about local news and occasions.
  • The online dating industry is sizzling! International interaction means there are more people now who are curious about the culture of their online friends. Someone who could be looking to marry a pinay or pinoy will go to your site to find out which traditions are unique to the race.
  • There are more homesick people in the world than we know of. In particular, the massive number of Filipinos who left the country to try their luck in other places will always search the net for information about their hometowns.

Earn Online: Is Blogging Enough?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

If you’ve been online for a while and you know a few other things besides blogging that could get you some serious cash over the internet, will you still do this blogging thing?

What other things, you ask?

1. Ebay – simple, can be done by anyone brave enough to put their products out there for some serious trading. A tip to those Filipinos who do this is to sell really rare books about presidents, particularly coffee table books about the “controversial” presidents (wink).

2. Game character selling – I played a massively multiplayer role playing game for a few years and I know how difficult it is to manually get your character to a certain level. Some of my friends do this and earn a lot from WoW characters.

3. Content Writing – Simply put, writing for others. Using your writing skills to help other people increase their sales, update their sites and etc.

The answer to the top question is YES, you could still blog even if you engage on these other money online activities. Blogging does not take up too much time when you get the hang of it, and more importantly, it’s an almost passive cash source once your blog is established and you are down to your routine weekly updates.

What is Your Icing, What is Your Cake?

Sometimes blogging pays a lot and for the moment it is the cake that feeds you. Sometimes it doesn’t, and it becomes the icing, and the other sources of income becomes your cake. Either way, blogging becomes your hobby. It’s where you put your personality out here in the web. To earn money from a hobby is wonderful right?

think about it and remember to have fun!

Top Ten Reasons Why People Do Not Want to Blog

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

After spreading word that I have a blog about blogging to my friends (via IM and email), some went on to build their prototype blogs and informed me. Some were excited, some were skeptical yet willing to try, and some others were disillusioned (yes, after a few days). For this post, I will address that last bit.

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