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Tips for Blogging as a Career

One of my gigs in the past year has been writing a monthly column about blogging at 5 Minutes for Mom. If you don’t know Janice and Susan, the twins behind 5 Minutes for Mom, you are missing out. They are dynamos!

One of the things they did this summer at BlogHer08 was to interview established and up-and-coming bloggers to share tips and advice for others. I was lucky enough to be one of the bloggers they interviewed. In the video interview below I share how I started blogging and how it has become my career. I also share a few tips on how you can make blogging your career. Let me know what you think!

(Cross-posted at Blogging Basics 101.)


Juggling Multiple Blogs to Build Your Blogging Career from 5 Minutes for Mom on Vimeo.

11 thoughts on “Tips for Blogging as a Career”

  1. Hi Chilihead,
    Great meeting you at BWE–only wish we would have had more time to chat. I love your site and would love for you to come review mine and provide your expert feedback! Your video interview is a great addition and a clever idea! I am encouraged that you talk about needing more than one blog and I’m about to launch #2 but feel very intimidated by all the work required. I need a second blog to support a book I’ve written, QUITTING IS EVERYTHING! about corporate workers who have left six figure jobs to follow a more passionate path! Cross your fingers for me. Please stay in touch and let me know if I can ever help you!
    Angie
    http://www.sixfiguremomsclub.com

  2. Hi there!

    What a great video… such helpful information. I come to this blog regularly. I wish I had the time to implement and really use all the info you so generously share. I am a mom of three and have to nab nuggets of time as I can. I would love to grow (read: have blogging be my career), but am learning this is a slow process.

    Thanks for taking the time to put up such helpful info – you have helped me understand and learn so much. I still have so much room to grow!

  3. This was very interesting. And I think it’s great that you provide a reality check about how lucrative a business blog *really* is – at least in the beginning. I also love that you mentioned writing well. The part about having goals was also very insightful and motivating. Great balance of both the reality and potential for a career in blogging. Thanks for sharing this.

  4. Thank you for this! First, it was really nice to have a face to put with this site 🙂 And second, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make some extra money with blogging. I certainly love it, and will continue even if I don’t make money…but it’s nice to know that it’s possible (even if it’s not a ton of money – every little bit helps).

    Thanks again!

  5. Ok just browsed more through your site, thanks for all the information here…I could sit all day and read your blog…can I get paid to do that 🙂

  6. Great interview. I started blogging last Fall, almost a year. It has been a fun out let for me, but earning a little extra cash would be so awesome. How do you get the vendors to approach you?

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