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Its a nice story but not everyone is going to be a self-sufficient blogger. He's an outlier.
by cmars 15y ago
Its a nice story but not everyone is going to be a self-sufficient blogger. He's an outlier.
- prostoalex 15y agoIt comes in waves. Few years ago everybody was doing search engine optimization and affiliate marketing. Wave 2 was people publishing e-books on SEO and affiliate marketing. Wave 3 was masses moving in and driving the margins down. Sounds like professional blogging is on wave 2.
- jacques_chester 15y agoI run a small blog network. There's basically no serious money to be made unless you're in the top percentile. From an advertiser's point of view, ad space inventory is growing faster than their products, so why shouldn't they keep on cutting rates?
- xnerdr 15y agoAgreed. I did a quick back of the envelope financial analysis last month - http://nerdr.com/should-i-quit-my-job-and-start-a-blog/ http://nerdr.com/should-i-quit-my-job-and-start-a-blog/ It's a bad idea for the vast majority of people, unless of course you're selling a method to make money with a blog, in which case it becomes scammy MLM.
- crocowhile 15y agoI don't understand all this skepticism. Every other success story on HN is about "outliers", whether is about webapp or iphone apps. Just because this guy writes blogs instead of coding everyone is calling bullshit on him?!! I am not a programmer nor a blogger and I don't see much difference between this guy and most of the stories I read on HN.