You're not getting rich overnight...

[Shawn Gossman]

Do you think some bloggers think too much on getting rich really quick?

Were you a victim of that mindset ever?

 

[JennyorAlice]

I know better than to expect to get rich overnight. It's rare that someone's blog will blow up like that and become a money juggernaut.

I do think some people are inpatient and I can see where an inpatient person would expect things to happen that quickly.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

You got to work for it.

It took me 4 years until I started making money and it wasn't very much.

About year 6 is when it started being fairly significant!

It takes as long as you have to put the work in.

 

[Nomad]

Before I started self blogging, I was writing on a lot of platforms and was using adsense on third party sites. When I started blogging with self hosted site, I clearly know I was not going to make money.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Before I started self blogging, I was writing on a lot of platforms and was using adsense on third party sites. When I started blogging with self hosted site, I clearly know I was not going to make money.

I make a few hundred a week using my self-hosted blog. Like I said, you have to work for it. The benefit is your blog isn't going anywhere unless you close it. You can lose your access to those third-party platforms at any time!

 

[Nomad]

I make a few hundred a week using my self-hosted blog. Like I said, you have to work for it. The benefit is your blog isn't going anywhere unless you close it. You can lose your access to those third-party platforms at any time!

That's very true. I was once writing for a site called Helium. I spend more than two years on the site and produced over 200 articles and then one day the site closed and I lost income source. Self hosted blogging gives you total control. You have to work very hard on building traffic though.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

It's going to get harder and harder, too, with the advancement of AI.