Blog for a living

This is a core post of the series. It explains the major steps you must take to become a professional blogger yourself. So start reading and see what you’re about to do with your blog to turn your blogging career into an overnight success.

How to reach the pros

In the introduction I’ve mentioned some differences between the average blogger and the pros. 
I’ve also told you that the difference lies in the little details. Well, some of you may point out that they’re so far ahead because they’ve been blogging for several years now, and there’s no way you can reach their level in a short period of time.

But I have to disagree. Time is a factor of course, but not as important as you think. Are you familiar with Steve Pavlina? If not, you better check his blog, because he’s one of the biggest geniuses of our time. Besides that, he’s a very successful blogger who earned 1000$ a day. And that was two years ago. I can’t even imagine the current numbers. He reached all this by simply putting up content in quality that’s beyond any imagination.
Now, let’s suppose for the sake of this example that he didn’t start his blog a few years ago, but he wrote these same posts secretly behind the scenes, and now he decides to put it on the web, all at the same time.
What do you think, how much time it’ll take to become just as popular as he was? A month? Maybe two?

On the other hand, there are many bloggers who do this for 5-10 years now, without any particular success.

Time is an important factor we must take into consideration in several cases. But making excuses and blaming it because of your unsuccessful blogging career won’t do any good.
I hope now we all agree that everyone should focus on the other pieces of the puzzle in order to create a successful blog. So let’s move on and see how we can make those changes… 

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This is a little introduction to the Blog For A Living Project, it’s the very first part, in fact the number zero in the series, it’ll give you a nice overview of what’s coming in the following months…

The purpose of any blog

What if I told you that you need to meet only one single criteria in order to be a famous and successful blogger? It may sound strange, but it’s the truth. It’s a very common, thousand year-old-principle, but you can easily apply it to succeed in your blogging carreer.

You must provide value. That’s all. It’s quite simple, isn’t it? Well, actually we all know it isn’t. The amount of traffic, subscribers, and the money you make is equivalent to the the value we provide to our readers.
But if you have only 30 subscribers, you simply cannot provide as much value as an other blogger can with 10000 subscribers. It’s a quite strange paradox.

But what about the “big boys” or “professional bloggers”? It seems they have an unfair advantage when it comes to providing value.For example, Problogger Darren Rowse has 50 000 subscribers. If you have only 50, does it mean he writes 1000x as good articles as you? Of course not. But still, he can reach much more people, thus giving more to his readers.
If he can’t write 1000x as good posts as you, then how is such a big difference possible? How did some bloggers get so high, and is there any way for you to reach that level?

What’s the difference between you and the pros

Consider the following examples:

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