I’ve been thinking a lot about blogging about blogging for a long time now. I also have given a lot of thought to the idea of blogging mainly with the target audience being retirees like myself who want to know something about this online phenomena called blogging and the hype they hear about people making money at it.
So, in answer to my own questions on the subject, why not? I really ought to set up a separate blog for this subject … we’ll discuss that choice at length in a future post, but for the moment I’m going to let expediency and simplicity overcome “best practices” and start blogging about supplementing your retirement income right here on www.retiredpay.com.
A lot of smart people are covering this subject, in many cases much better than I can, but many of them aren’t attuned to the needs of those of us on the happy side of 60. Some, otherwise smart writers have made comments in the recent past such as “Do old people use computers”? Ummm, yes they do, “squirt” and “old people” have business sense, street savvy and time to work at productive things. They also typically have resources to invest is smart projects. We, the retirees of the world, can do a lot better than writing off whole age groups based on discriminatory attitudes as well.
One thing you will not get from me here is any sort of “get rich schemes” or “buy this book and make a fortune” sales pages. There are books and tools aplenty you can buy but I feel there is so much great free information out there that trying to figure out what the best value to purchase for a decent rate of return is a waste of time. I’m not saying I will never recommend buying something of proven value in the future, but there is month’s worth of study and learning material available today, free, off the shelf without obligation.
So, study assignment. Go read www.problogger,net for a few hours. It’s written by a fellow in Melbourne, Australia name of Darren Rowse (pronounced as “Rose”). Darren is a straight-shooter, standup sort of guy who, like me, believes in the abundance theory rather than the scarcity model. Look at the large blocks of text at the top of every page … What a blog is, How to make money from a blog, etc. If you could magically transform Darren’s site into a printed text book it would be thousands of pages thick, be priced at a thousand bucks or so, and be worth it. But it’s free for the reading. By the way, Darren works at blogging full-time and brings in an income well into the six-figures (US dollars) per year, so this isn’t chicken feed)
If you finish everything that interests you on Problogger, or if prefer something a little more technical and directly money oriented, visit my “Evil” friend John Chow. John did compile most of his “how to blog for dollars” information into a simple, easy to read ebook format and he gives it away, free, no obligations,email sign-ups, etc. here. Read it and learn.
If you already know a lot of these basics and want to get into the way I make money on line … using Google AdSense and other pay per click offerings, you can not do better that my long-time blog friend Eric Giguere. Eric is a software engineer by day, by night he helps people learn to milk the cash cow in sensible fashion. He’s down to earth, the author of several books on the subject, (both ebook and “real” book format), and he’s even giving away a free tool, called SuperSuggester: Free Keyword Tool For MEMWGA Readers (Only!) . The only obligation to get that one is to subscribe to Eric’s blog and I recommend that … it’s one of my favorite reads.
OK, that’ll keep you busy for a night or so, subscribe to this blog with the big orange button in the top right corner or at the direct link here: http://www.retiredpay.com/feed and tune in often. There will be a quiz (open book) on Friday.
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