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Do bloggers make good money? Can a person make a living off of that? Where does their paycheck come from?

How do you react if someone tells you they work at home as a blogger? Do you question their benefits and how they support their family?

Someone told me she quit her full-time day job (with benefits) to be a blogger.

[movingforward]

If you get enough followers then you can sell ads to put on your blog.  You can get money that way.  I have a friend who is a writer/blogger.  She has never been able to quit her full-time job and support herself off her blog.  Maybe some people can though

[swasat]

Some of the bloggers actually launched their careers through blogging.

Look at The Pioneer Woman blog. She started with a blog back in 2006. Got a book deal a few years later when her blog became popular. Three books later landed a Food Network Show. That woman is raking in $$$$$$$!!

Same with Mr Money Mustache.

There are many others that I am forgetting now.

[ArchietheDragon]

In order to make good money as a blogger you have to promote yourself big time.   It is a full time job. 

My wife followers a blogger Joy the Baker.  She has been a full time blogger for about 4 years, but she has a podcast, a couple of cookbooks, does promotions around the country, etc, in order to drive traffic to her blog. 

[Ryan]

Dec 12, 2014 9:51:46 GMT -5 @bluester said:

Do bloggers make good money? Can a person make a living off of that? Where does their paycheck come from?

How do you react if someone tells you they work at home as a blogger? Do you question their benefits and how they support their family?

Someone told me she quit her full-time day job (with benefits) to be a blogger.

I've been selling online for almost 10 years now and over the last 5 years there have definitely been a huge explosion of "mommy bloggers".  Most of them are pretty annoying, but to each their own.  Most bloggers make money from several different areas:

1) Paid sponsorship
2) Affiliate commissions (they "recommend" a product and then get paid a commission when you purchase through their link)
3) Display ads (you click on ad, they get paid)
4) Their own products (books, ebooks, etc)

99% of people that blog are not making money, .5% are making less than $2K per month, and a small % are hitting it big.  The ones that hit it big are the ones that are really good writers/photographers, marketers, etc.  The ones that hit it big aren't really even bloggers at that point, but just book authors/speakers.

A good example of someone that probably does fairly well as an "every man" blogger is the owner of WDWprepschool.com (a disney website).  She started it less than 2 years ago, has an active facebook/blog, and has a really great podcast.  She does well primarily because she knows her stuff and is good at delivering the content.  

I would almost say that it's very hard to become a superstar blogger (like momastery.com) unless you're willing to basically become a celebrity.  

[Tiny]

This is just my observation/opinion: I agree with what ryan said, based on my own observations.
The bloggers who, I would imagine, are making money are the one's with many Irons in the Fire. They've got their blog, they seem to have other articles published in other places on line (I see their names on by-lines), they seem to have put out a book or an ebook - usually based on their blog postings.

They seem to be full time 'writers' - versus just spending a few hours a week putting up a post or two.

I would expect this is just like any kind of hobby that turns into an 'income stream': they have been doing the writing for quite awhile (versus just getting started), they have 'marketed' themselves - and developed a following, they market themselves to bigger sponsers (someone who will pay them to promote or use a product), and they eventually spin off their 'writing' to book, ebook, lecture circuit, what ever.

I have witnesses some,what I thought were obscure, contributors to websites I use to hang around on, eventually become more mainstream and put out books or have corporate sponsorship? or become corporate employees? and continue to promote their work.

[Sam_2.0]

SIL is a blogger since she's a SAHM with quads. She makes money from Amazon referral links and selling her essential oil crap to her followers. She's been published in a few KC magazines and guest blogs. Its not huge money but it's a few hundred per month which is better than nothing.