What I mean is that I’m not all about getting stinking rich from Internet income – I’m all about being free due to Internet income. As my friends reading this know, I work from home, and make about 13,000 per month in the good months, and about 7,000 in the slow months. Of course this is enough to pay the bills, and not work at the Ford Motor Company, or work at Starbucks, but not enough to be rolling in cash. Great! I appreciate this lifestyle everyday I wake up, and try not to take it for granted, but the hell hounds are still on my trail gang. Here is why.

The reason I don’t rest on my laurels, is that the competition is getting fierce. Millions of people every year are entering our world of Internet income, work at home freedom, and general financial freedom. Many of these newcomers are savvy Internet folk that are using blogs to capitalize on traffic, even for basic products sites like hair loss markets, skin cream markets, YOU name it!

I was talking to a couple of my music buddies yesterday (yeah….I spent allot of time trying to be a rock star……and NOT for Supernova) who are also enjoying some Internet income. I was telling them my new mind-set with the future of Internet profits – I believe it’s coming down to this.

We need to be working REALLY hard on one particular blog or site for extended amounts of time. I’m talking about around 3 months per site or blog. After that we can distract ourselves off to other sites. We need to build up a serious amount of content and quality information for our visitors, before we move on to other things. I even think now that sticking with one blog may be a worthy method too. Using feeds, content automation, and of course manual posting, we should be able to keep three good blogs rolling by ourselves. I’d say that might be stretching it as well. Maybe two good blogs.

What I mean by automation is using a feed like Teli’s script for importing excel spread sheets to your WordPress blog. I use this script on a few of my blogs and it works very well. For example, I have a blog that automatically posts 10 posts a day evenly spread over a 24 hour period. Posted in 5 different categories, and it’s all fresh original content.

I said to both my music (and now blogging) buddies is; instead of looking at just your competition’s site to see how they are enjoying massive traffic, look even higher. Look at Yahoo! for instance. Take a good long look at Yahoo! and see how many fresh, original pieces of content they add a day. Then think of way to add that much quality content to your blog every day. Imagine if you could? If you could add just half of what Yahoo! adds in a day, you would be wiping out your competition in due time.

For some of those visitors that used to hang out at my past forums, this may be contradictory, as I used to pipe on about multiple sites. Good old Kenny {;-)} over at Money Traffic is all about mulitple blogs still, and there is merit in that – but we need to make each one of those blogs fantastic, not just so-so.

So take one blog at a time, and work your butt off for 3 solid months. When you are done, move on to the next. Once you have them all kicking along, you can them manage them all at the same time. I try to make one decent post per week on a blog that is in that mode. This blog has a good base of readers and content now, so I just try to make one good post a week if I can, while I’m grinding hard on a new blog. No question about it – Zulit will always be here and I will always make a post like this one periodically, but I won’t be posting for the sake of posting.

So how many blogs can you handle? How much money do you need to earn per month? Just like Big Wad’s article mentions – wants and needs are two different things. Do I WANT to go to Palm Springs next month, or do I NEED to go to Palm Springs next month – that is the question. I say we work hard for our financial freedom first, and then we work hard for the extras in life. Work hard on ONE BLOG AT A TIME.

Oh….and don’t make every blog about making Internet income, because the Internet savvy don’t click Adsense ads very often Learn to create massive blogs on basic products as well, cause people looking for skin cream probably don’t even know a Google ad or YPN ad from one of your navigational links…….or a hole in the ground.

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Resolution
The first thing I’ll need is resolution. I will set my earnings goal of $200-$300 per day in 18 months and that is final. No prickly breeze blowing through my life is going to stop me from carrying out my goal. If I’m still healthy enough to type on a computer keyboard I will not stop doing what I have to do in order to create that income. I understand that the ability stick with something is trait that few people have, and that is why I will succeed. There are many that will tell you that in order to make a full time living with just one blog, you need to be a computer geek, software or application writer, wiz kid, coding nerd, etc. Not true. Thanks to blogging formats like WordPress, almost anyone can create a successful blog if they stick to it. I think the only people that fail to make a full time living from blogging, simply quit. You see this with all facets of life. It’s so cliche, but the it simply comes down to consistent effort.

Choose A Theme For Your Blog
Ok. So I have decided to commit yourself to your goal, and nothing is going to stop you from the end state of being making a full time living from your blog. Great. Now decide what your blog is going to be all about. I say all about, because in order for you to succeed, you will need to look at all aspects of your theme or topic. Make sure your range of topic is not too narrow. For instance, this blog (Zulit) has a theme and that theme is freedom. The most important thing in my life, mind, heart, and soul – is freedom. Freedom to wake up every morning of your life without anyone, or anything, on my back. No worries of where your money is coming from, and no reason to be listening to a boss or company telling me what to do with my day. I would risk anything to have that kind of freedom. So of course one of the main topics of this blog will be the creation of multiple streams of income via the Internet, as I believe the best way to achieve financial freedom is with online income. Of course I will be discussing all forms of freedom, including freedom from oppression, anxiety, fear, stress, etc. etc. I would not go as far as to say this blog will be a self help blog, but the there could be some parallels.

Schedule Of Writing
Your writing schedule is important, just it is for all writers. We need to setup a schedule and stick to it. I have my schedule on my laptop desktop, so I’m reminded of the daily tasks and goals I need to complete. As far as how much to write in length of posts, and the frequency of the posts, I like to make sure there is at least on post a day. The length of each post can be random, and so it should be. Of course it’s important that your posts are original and not just rehashed from somewhere else, but there is nothing wrong with covering subjects that have been covered before. There is a lot of technical theory surrounding blogs, and I will get into that next post, but I think the most important trait you need to have is simply consistent posting of quality content. I understand that to be a daunting task in itself for many people, but if you choose your blog topic properly, you can find endless fodder for posting.

Make sure the topic of discussion is something you have a personal passion for, or you will soon dry up and the blog will blow away. You may think there is nothing you feel passionate about, and if so, I disagree with you. Don’t disregard all your life experience as mere happenstance – NOTHING is a coincidence in your life, and you should have a wealth of knowledge. Look at your life, and you will likely see a pattern in everything you have done right up to this day. Don’t dismiss the obvious; that very fact that you are reading this means you are alive and breathing, and capable of assimilating information online. Don’t be swayed into thinking that you don’t have the technical ability to succeed in your goal to make a full time living from one blog.

Next post I will be talking about some of the Technical aspects of actually creating your blog(s), the choices in platforms, hosting, and domains. You will notice that I am not selling anything in most all my posts, and yet I’m telling you have the goal is $200-$300 dollars a day in 18 months or less. That is because my goal is not to flog products – my goal s create traffic and readership. First comes traffic and readership, then comes monetization. Yes, there are Google Adsense contexual ads, and a few eBooks on Zulit.com, but I’ll guarantee you this blog won’t produce any real income for at least 6 months. I’ll also guarantee you that this blog will only be making around $15-$30 dollars a day in 6-7 months. It’s after that we start spooling up.

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