Blogging require hard work, geeks spends day and night to grow their blog,the ultimate goal of any blogger to earn respect, to spend some decent time on internet and to earn decent money. But any blog require lots of investment. This investment could be in a form of time, hard work or money or your current job.
Job
Sounds weird, but yes, there are many geeks who quit their job in favour of blogging. They are crazy persons , who like to spend all their life in front of a 14 inch laptop screen. They don’t care of anything in life, they are nerds. So a decent job which gives at least 400$ to 1000$ per month is invested in blogging. After quitting job they would be much happier if they get little amount of money (almost half they earn from their job) from Google Adsense in initial phase of blogging. Sounds crazy but its true.
Note: It is not necessary to quit job for blogging. There are many bloggers who are travelling in two boats successfully. Anyone can earn decent amount of money from blogging but it requires lots of kick ass hard work and it should be time taken.
Time
Time is really a big investment for blogging. You need to burn your ass to write a killer articles for readers and subscribers. This precious time could be invested in some professional course or preparation of Management exams which can give a really good result in future. Blogging require minimum 5 to 10 hours of hard work for a full time bloggers.
Hard work
Without hard work blogging is possible but without hard work successful blogging is impossible. You need to burn your eyes in front of screen for several hours to become a successful blogger. There are many bloggers who spend more than 2 hours in front of computer screen. They are heavily doped in the internet related activities.
Money
The most underestimated investment for blog. People think that blogging is free of cost as they either use Blogger or WordPress.com. These two are free blog platforms in which you needn’t purchase hosting to host your domain. But for own domain name anyone can use WordPress,.org as a blog platform which is also an open source project. Most of the useful plugins are free of cost. Only hosting and domain name investment is required. Hosting can vary from 1 to 100$ per month depends on the traffic of the website, an average running website costs about 100$/ year for hosting Domain name cost about 7$.
Other Investments
: Though blogging requires a proper office setup, but if anyone wants to work without office setup then also few things are necessary:
Laptop
A 14 inch laptop is necessary for blogging. Laptop is advisable because blogging require different meet ups like Wordcamp, Blogger meet, Twitter meets, so for live blogging a laptop would be better option than a desktop. If anyone already have a desktop computer instead of laptop then no need to worry as you can do as much effective blogging from your desktop as you can do with a laptop.
Software
Although most of the blogging softwares like Windows Live writer, WordPress.org, Picasa, Tweetdeck, Filezilla etc are free of cost but OS is not free. If anyone starting from the scratch then Windows Vista or upcoming Windows 7 is must for any computer.
Office or flat rent
It is optional that anyone chooses to work in a office or work from home. If anyone setup his own office in home then it would be better optimization process. One has to pay only rent of a flat which is playing a role of office too.
Office set up requirement
Office setup is very necessary for a nice working environment. One need to purchase table, chair having wheels on its base, desktop, an internet connection, shelf, air condition for proper office setup in a home.
Travel cost
Its either meet up with Matt Mullenweg in Wordcamp, meeting with Nokia designer Axel Meyer or meeting other geeks in Proto, one need to travel from one place to another and travelling requires money. Travelling include Air fares, train fare, local conveniences.
The overall investment in blogging can not be predicted as it varies from 100$ to 1000$/month depends on the time, money and hard work we invest in our blog.
What is your investment in your blog? feel free to share you views in a comment section.
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Well I don’t think its really necessary to have an office space or a laptop when just starting out. I started out with a dial up connection and a desktop PC and the moment I started seeing the potential and positives, that’s the only time I started investing more.. When starting out I believe $50-100 is the only initial cost. Then work your way up..
Himanshu, this is my first visit to your blog and I really liked the content you are posting here.
You have composed this post thinking of all aspects and it is really worth praise. People often ignore the investments a blogger puts in his blog, they just think of the benefits they get !
Really nice calculation. It is very difficult to measure the total cost of blog as we put lots of effort and hard work.
Hey nice article Him !
I like to blog outdoor !
@Pradeep Hey Thanks. Welcome at Blogtechnika.
I don’t think the kind of geeks you are referring to, would just do with a 14″ laptop screen – but maybe rather purchase an external monitor, after all, even in Europe a 24″ screen is less than US$ 400. And even cheaper if you go down to 20″ or so.
I hate blogging on my laptop because of the limited screen space, so I actually bought an external monitor.
You are absolutely right Klaus, there is no need of heavy investment in the starting phase of blogging career, when we learn all th aspects of blogging then only we need to go for offic kind of things, thanks for adding value through your comment. Welcome to Blogtechnika.
Regards.
Is there any way to use Google Adsense in Wordpress.com blog?
Unfortunately you can’t use Google Asense in your Wordpress.com blog. You need to move to Wordpress.org for making your blog profitable.
You got it all right. It is not wise for someone to quit their job just to be a full time blogger. That’s crazy man!
Great pool of information at a single place.Thanx blogtechnika
IMO when you start a blog, even if you starting with free blogs the real cost is Time. Initial days of blogging need lots of time in form on writing, commenting and promoting your stuff….
Nice, article i think better to work seriously in making money blogging. Right now i am learning. Already burned my eyes and every thing. Not going to give up.
@Rahul Yeah, appreciate your determination.
Hey Great post,it is realy good calculation ,keep it up
@himanshu
It is real that blogger needs to invest time and hard work which will be shown in results of course.
Himanshu the content on your blog is good, but you need to work harder with your grammar and spellings.
Thanks Namita for pointing out my mistakes, I will take it as a positive criticism and work hard on these fields.
well, there are some more investments required like buying a good premium or custom theme, promotions etc. however most other things are nicely covered.
so is blog technika hosted on a server or shared hosting?
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Blogtechnika is proudly hosted on Hostgator Server
what’s the cost of the server, and if you can post a link to it, so that i can check out if its in my budget, godaddy shared hosting is creating problems lately…
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The cost is very low 4.95$/month , they also offer discount of 20% by applying coupon code.
You can check the website also
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