Honestly, I miss getting-up early in the morning, polishing my shoes, and driving to office. The hassle-buzzle in the office, which I sometimes resent, now plays like a music in my head as I imagined how I cause panic on my staffs whenever I demand things to be accomplished or delivered on time. Now, that is relegated in the memory lane.Why I chose to become a problogger? (Thanks to Darren of Problogger.net for coining the term and the lessons, I learned from him on problogging basics, and this is my first professional attempt on this viable business model.)
For some, you might think I am too old for this –I am not. I gave only the fifteen years of my life in corporate affairs after college, do the math, and you are right I am not that old to join the bandwagon of online marketers and rosters (exponentially growing) of probloggers out there. Having that let out of my chest, yeah I am not too old to blog for a living. In fact, with my corporate experiences in tow, I can be a better blogger in my niche (pardon the bragging there.)
So going back, why join the growing rosters of probloggers? Here are a eight (8) things that came to mind:
- Problogging basic knowledge and skills are easy to learn. The basic skills and knowledge are easy for those who are really bent on learning the rudiments of problogging.
- There are no short cuts to making money off-line or online, as some people tend to buzz about. And there are no short cuts in learning these stuff. You need persistence and open mindedness.
- You need to be like a sponge. Absorb the ideas and principles you can muster and use. There are no better tutors than the pros before us.
- Learning here, I mean, understanding the concepts and acquiring the skills, and using them. Practice, practice, and more practice. Learn from your mistakes and avoid them.
- Please note, that before I launched this blog with my own domain, I experimented with three blogs in different niches until I decided to settle for this particular niche on business and management. Mind you, modesty aside, I earned more than $1,000 in my first 45 days. That is, experimenting. No domain and no self-hosting plans. How I did it? Well, there are no secrets actually, I simply applied the problogging basics and added pure ‘hard work’ into it –something I learned from my corporate stint.
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Nor Franco is the Managing Director and Virtual CEO of nextManager.net. He's a former corporate executive whose passion is bringing out the full potential of HR in Businesses. This time that passion is pursued through Virtual Management. He writes and blogs about his management views and insights here. Follow him on Twitter.
