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The idea of blogging for dollars has become increasingly popular among people who own and operate blogs. What used to be an innocent hobby has become a profitable activity, so much so that some bloggers have began working full-time on their blogs.

Web blogging for dollars is relatively easy, requiring no extraordinary skills and genius aside from a enthusiasm and commitment for a particular topic or subject. You don’t need a college degree to start blogging for dollars. Anyone with an expertise on a specific subject can create their own blog and start blogging for profit.

Know What to Blog About

Before you start blogging, it’s essential to be familiar with what to weblog about. It could be a subject that you are acquainted with very well and in which you have the enthusiasm and commitment to write about it. It would be a bad idea to blog about something that you have no interest or knowledge in just because it is very popular. If you don’t know how to cook a complete meal, it makes no sense to start a blog about Italian cuisine.

Find an interest, hobby or activity that you love to do, then blog about it. It doesn’t matter how popular or how obscure the topic is, as long as you have the passion and interest to write about the subject.

Build a Blog and They Will Come

It’s very easy to create a blog nowadays, thanks to blog publishing platforms like Blogger. There are basically two major types of blogs – the remotely hosted blogs such as those published using Blogger and LiveJournal, and the self-installed blogs using software like Wordpress and MovableType.

Which type of blog should you choose? Each type of blog has its own advantages and disadvantages, so choosing your blog depends on your own preferences. If you want a personal blog and you want blogging to be as easy as possible, then have your blog hosted remotely. But if you want a more professional-looking blog with a lot of features, create your blog using a software like Wordpress, hosted on your own web server. It is quite interesting to learn how to set up a blog.

Monetizing Your Blog

When you see that your blog already has a loyal readership, you can start placing ads, affiliate links and other income streams on your blog. The most popular sources of income for bloggers are:

•           Advertising programs (Google Adsense, Chitika, Adbrite, etc.)
•           Pay-per-post programs (PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Blogitive, etc.)
•           Affiliate programs (Amazon, CommissionJunction, Linkshare, etc.)
•           Donations and tip jars
•           Selling ad space and sponsorships

There are so many ways you can generate cash from web blogging, and scores of websites and businesses offering cash to bloggers, that it would be wise to choose only a few that provide the greatest income generation. Build a blog, add good content, and you will soon be blogging for profit.

Cutting your computing costs

I want to help you save Cash and I am not going to ask you for a dime in return.

Every year I save hundreds of euros by not spending any money on software. I needed a better deal and systems for my business, I was evaluating Sage Software which left me cold and inspired me to write this article. Amazing – I am easily doing most of my work using software tools that cost nothing. Only the Lord knows why this stuff isn’t evryday knowledge for most business folks. I am constantly suprised by the people I talk to who work in small businesses and dont know about what I am imparting here.

Follow this approach to copy me and start saving money.

* Ten minutes every day searching for a specific type of tool.
* Go get yourself a free copy of Evernote (it’s free, just serach Google).
* Put aside roughly ten minutes each day to give what you find a test drive.

In one month from now you should have found a really good list of free tools to help you cut costs and run your business. To get you off to the right start, here is a selection of the software I use everyday.

To help you start saving money immediately my list is divided into two columns, on the right I have listed the software programs you may have purchased or are already using and on the left I have listed the free software.

Here we go:

Just type the name of the free product to the search engines

One system to manage customers and accounting

salesorder.com pricing: free Sage Software – really expensive and only does Accounting

Creating and writing Documents

Google Docs pricing: $0 Microsoft Office pricing – at least $100

Or

OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org)

Sharing ideas online

Bubbl.us pricing: $0 Mindjet pricing – at least $200

Making videos

Jing pricing: $0 Camtasia Studio pricing – at least $300

Teleseminars

DimDim pricing: $0 AdobeConnect pricing – at least $200/month

My thanks to the Sage Software incident for the inspiration!motivation to write this up and help you out.

Come back soon as I will be adding more insights here…