Problogging Success

Let’s be honest here. How many failures do you hide from the public?

You say you run an online business. Do you openly tell people that you are not getting enough traction?

Do you tell your family and your relatives that you are only making pennies and not a consistent “real” income?

I know it is hard to tell the others - especially when the others are thinking you are an “entrepreneur” and when they see you sitting in front of your computer for extended hours doing serious work.

You do work hard. You work late at night. You wake up early to catch up with those great ideas that buzz in your mind while you are half asleep.

But when you … [Read more...]

You start blogging with all your dreams. You want to proclaim yourself as an entrepreneur. Or you may want to build that dream business you've always been wanting to build.

Or you want send your message out. Or may be you want to financially support your family by doing your part of "something".

Everyone has different reasons for starting a blog.

However I am quite familiar of coming across abandoned blogs. Blog that are trashed. Blogs that are just dumped as if they are of no use … [Read more...]

So, you get all excited about making money online, right? I was SO excited when I first found out that I could make money online. That was back in 2007 when I first found out about blogging.

Actually I was away from home, at the Lancaster University, UK for my Ph. D. That was the first time EVER I was away from home, since I was born. Can you imagine?

I felt really lonely. I missed my mom, dad and everything else back home. Just to replace my loneliness with something else, I started hanging out online.

I usually visited sites that allowed me to download movies, forums, and … well, you guessed it right, BLOGS!

Blogging is a hobby for some people while a business for others. There are several kinds of blogs - personal blogs, company blogs, and informational/educational blogs and so on. And there are various niches too.

People blog about travel, dieting, relationships, productivity, and well, blogging – and this list is not complete! These are only a very few of the thousands of niches people are blogging about.

No matter in what niche you blog and no matter what your blogging purpose is, blogging can become unpleasant sometimes. Not “blogging” in general, but the tasks that are associated with blogging could become unpleasant over the time.

Even if you are very passionate … [Read more...]

Everyone has fear(s) for something in their life. Let me start with myself. I used to fear the dark. I had fear of flying and I still fear heights!

Darkness is something I used to fear a lot. I would never walk on roads that aren't well lit. I won’t go into a room in my house without hitting the light switch first. And I usually won’t prefer to stay alone at home - if the family goes away, I join them too :)

But then it happened that I had to be away from home (for the first time EVER in my life) for my Ph. D. I had to live in a separate room in one of the student hostels at the campus in Lancaster University, UK. When I came to know about it I started … [Read more...]