Thanks for the reply back — good conversation. And I see that you replied at 1:23 am, good grief man, please don’t tell me you are one of those people sitting for 50 hours a week in front of your computer screen. I kid.

At any rate, I like the way you ended your reply back to me. I too would like to hear more opinions on this topic.

I do not blog for a living but it seems like there are very few people making a decent living at blogging and hundreds-of-thousands trying it with not a lot of success.

I admit I am not experienced in the field of blogging for pay so my previous comment could be way off. And that’s why I would like to hear more opinions in here as well. Have you quit your day job? How long did it take you to earn enough so you could blog for a living?

Keep up the great work Robert — I’m looking forward to seeing the site redesign in a few days.

Joe

Besides, I’m 100% sure that a blogger who is capable of $2000, earns much more (link selling, affiliations, WP themes design). I think that writing paid reviews is just a piece of the entire “cake”.

I’d like to hear other opinions…

First, I agree with you that business blogging can be a great way for a business to extend and enhance their brand. And, for this reason, businesses should consider hiring a full-time staff to develop the blog.

However, you were glorifying $10 an hour like it should be something we all rush out and sign up for. Granted, maybe it’s not bad part-time money if we were to blog in our spare time, but when you made the jump to $2,000 a month for 200 hours worth of blogging, you lost me.

I’m not sure $2,000 a month would cover much in a major city and in order to reach this income level you are proposing 200 hours a month worth of blogging. Come on. That’s 50 hours a week of non-stop blogging.

Besides, if we were freelancing from home 50 hours a week for $2,000 a month of income we would be below the poverty line. Here’s why: you haven’t backed out of that figure personal income taxes, computer expenses (hardware, software, internet access), marketing your freelance abilities, bookkeeping software for your freelance business (which would be far cheaper than a CPA), personal health care insurance and any other misc. business expenses.

Back out of that $2,000 per month these real-world expenses and you would be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to spend 50 hours per week in front of a computer screen for $10 per hour.

IMHO.

Ironically, not all the companies have relaized tha tblogging can be this welcome mat for them. My experience is that you have to convince them to get to the point rather then they asking you to blog for them.