Make Money Blogging?

I was catching up on some of the blogs I read when I came across this post on jobmonkey, estimating that 1% of Americans are making money via blogs! 1% of Americans= 20 million people and that is a lot of blogging.

It's no secret that print media is a dieing industry and that there has been a strong shift toward blogging in the past few years. The Los Angeles Times for example cut its "Los Angeles" section recently because it can't afford to support it anymore. Nonetheless, 20 million people making money on there blogs is staggeringly large figure considering that revenue streams are not always easy to come by with websites that don't sell a tangible product.

There are doubters who think that figure won't grow despite a dieing print industry. Professional blogger Penelope Trunk for example wrote this post titled "Reality Check: you are not going to make money from your blog."


I also recommend checking out this interview with Professional Blogger James Walker on his career path. James has been blogging since 1999.

Enjoy!