Blog­ging is not some­thing to take lightly. It takes ded­i­ca­tion and per­sis­tence. So if you are not will­ing to spend at least 20 min­utes a day to write and pub­lish your blog post, then maybe it is not for your.

Ques­tion:  Where do I start?

Answer:

1. First decide what you want to blog about. There are so many things to blog about but it should be some­thing that you are passionate about.
2. Sec­ond you need to research about blog­ging and read a lot in order to under­stand what blog­ging is about, how to blog, how write great con­tent, how to mon­e­tize your blog.
3. Decide if you want to use a free blog­ging sys­tem like Word­press, or if you want a ded­i­cated blog hosted on your own server. Many hosts like GoDaddy have pre-installed Word­press when you host with them, sav­ing you time learn­ing how to install the software.

Ques­tion: What should I read?

Answer: Below are 3 of the top blog­gers on the inter­net. Copy­blog­ger will teach you about con­tent for your blog, Problog­ger will teach you about blog­ging in gen­eral, and Chris Gar­rett will teach you about the busi­ness end of blogging.

Copy Blog­ger -About Brian Clark

Copy­blog­ger was founded in Jan­u­ary of 2006 by Brian Clark. Brian is a writer/producer, entre­pre­neur, and recov­er­ing attorney.

Brian built three suc­cess­ful offline busi­nesses using online mar­ket­ing tech­niques before switch­ing to a pro­ducer model that involves build­ing, mon­e­tiz­ing, and occa­sion­ally sell­ing online media prop­er­ties. He shares one of his favorite strate­gies in the Teach­ing Sells train­ing pro­gram.

Copy­blog­ger has over 100,000 sub­scribers and more than 240,000 unique monthly site vis­i­tors. And we’ve been for­tu­nate that peo­ple say a lot of nice things about us:

Problog­ger —  This Problog­ger is ded­i­cated to help­ing other blog­gers learn the skills of blog­ging, share their own expe­ri­ences and pro­mote the blog­ging medium.

My name is Dar­ren Rowse and I’m a full time Blog­ger mak­ing a liv­ing from this new and dynamic medium from blogs like Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy School and TwiTip.

Chris Gar­rett —

Chrisg.com is where Chris posts daily (or there­abouts) thoughts and advice on the busi­ness of new media, blog­ging and online mar­ket­ing. The aim is to teach you ways you can cre­ate com­pelling resources, pro­vide your audi­ence more value, build trust and loy­alty, and gen­er­ate more rewards for yourself.

About Chris Garrett

Chris Gar­rett is a pro­fes­sional blog­ger, inter­net mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant, new media indus­try com­men­ta­tor, writer, coach, speaker, trainer and web geek. He has been involved in sev­eral star­tups and has writ­ten for some of the webs best-loved blogs.

In 1994 Chris first became addicted to the Inter­net. Since then he has helped thou­sands of indi­vid­u­als, non-profits, small busi­nesses and blue chips make the most of the web. In 2005 Chris founded a com­pany to help busi­nesses achieve more with Online Media.

Chris con­sults, trains and speaks about inter­net mar­ket­ing, blog­ging and new media at events such as Blog­world and New Media Expo, the Suc­cess­ful Out­stand­ing Blog­gers con­fer­ence in Chicago, Affil­i­ate Expo, Word­Camp, the Nether­lands Social Media Con­gres and the Insti­tute of Fundraising.

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