24. A Blog
Yes, you can have a profitable business centered entirely around blogging about a topic that you are interested in. It was different way back in 2007 when Web 2.0 was still new and the Internet was not as big as it is today. It didn’t have nearly as many users, who weren’t logging nearly as much time online. The internet had fewer devices to access it. In those days of the Internet (a decade on the calendar timeline is a century in Internet years). The ProBlogger.com conducted a survey of its readers. This involved people who were trying to make money from their blog and be “professional bloggers.” The sample had part-time or full-time individuals. They managed to get 3,054 responses to the question, “How much did you earn in October 2007 from blogging?”
For the month of October that year, 23% of 3,054 ProBlogger readers made $1,000 or more that month. Far more interestingly, 12% made $5000 or more that month. And extremely interestingly, 9% were pulling in some sweet six-figure annual income, making $15,000 for the month of October 2007. If you hunt around on Google, you’ll find many bloggers that publish their earnings and tell you the tools they use and how much they cost. Blogging is even more lucrative today than it was in 2007. To start a blog, all you really need to spend is about $10 for the domain. Then you will need to post the items that will bring traffic to your website. For instance, you can do affiliate marketing with one of the big companies. Let your blog post some of the products and get paid for doing that.