Finding inspiration, and sometimes motivation, to continue blogging can be a challenge even for the most committed blogger. So it’s important to find inspiration, and yes motivation, any where you can. Like take ProBlogger in the Wall Street Journal for instance. Recently Darren Rowse was featured the business section of WSJ online. He was even quoted.

Now don’t get me wrong, the success of his blog is not defined by whether or not he gets quoted in a major publication. To be sure he is quoted everyday on his own blog that reaches thousands, if not millions, of people around the world. But, being featured in WSJ online is a great sign that blogging, and bloggers in general, are being slowly absorbed into the media conversation as someone to pay attention to.

This is fantastic for bloggers and Internet Marketing in general because as blogs and celebrity bloggers draw more attention to making money online, then more and more people will come online looking to get even a little slice of that golden pie.

The annual salary that Darren claims, along with the other annual numbers quoted by other bloggers, is getting people’s attention for sure. In fact, I would argue that people still under estimate the true earning potential online.

Just as we like to under estimate the amount of change a technology will bring and over estimate the amount of time it will take for that change to occur, so are we limited in seeing from here how much upside there still is in making money online.

Blogging is one such method that continues to prove itself out. But, just like any business there are many who will not successfully establish themselves as players in the market. There are no guarantees. But if we just hold on and ride the back of the bear, then even if we don’t find ourselves listed in the halls of the Wall Street Journal, then at least we might get linked to from enough people to keep the affiliate checks flowing.

Inspiration Seeking,

Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com

P.S. Blogging is just one such method of making money online. Be sure to keep an eye for the series I am writing on how to build niche websites that make money while you sleep….okay, I know how cheezy that sounds, but I am doing it with several niche sites and if I can do it you can too (okay, cheezy again, but true).

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So, do you think it’s difficult to make money online? If you answered yes, then let me show you how you can make money online using nothing but a text editor, a web browser, your brain and a paid blogging network. I’ll also explain how you can take a few basic wealth building concepts and combine them with paid blogging to help reach your financial goals.

Now, I know your probably thinking, “What about all those million dollar ideas out there?” Well, most of them require an investment of your money and there isn’t any real guarantee that they will produce a dime. This method of making money won’t take much of your time or require you to spend your money.

I’m talking about paid blogging and if you can write a letter to dear old mom you can get paid to write on your blog. If you didn’t know, there are a number of websites out there that will pay you to blog about everything from lemon laws to office supplies. You may have heard about a few of them, or maybe not. So let’s narrow the discussion just a bit by taking a look at my personal favorite paid blogging website, PayPerPost.com.

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Do you ever wonder why some bloggers seem to enjoy greater success while exerting what seems like less effort than other bloggers who work twice as hard and only seem to get half as much done? Well, in this post I’m going to show you how the successful bloggers cheat the daily clock to get more benefit out of their efforts.

No matter what you might think, blogging is hard work. Blogging it’s just about writing a few paragraphs and going outside to play. There are search engine rankings to optimize, articles to tag, comments to respond to, rss feeds to promote, mailing lists to promote and manage, and ads to manage. So with all that to do, anything you can to reduce your labor is a good thing.

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Are you interested in tweaking your blog to get more readers and generate more money. If so, here are four tips that will immediately help you build communication channels to bring more blog readers to your website.

Once you have read about these simple tips, be sure and implement them into your blog. Remember action is more important than collecting information. You have DO something to GET something. This is a big problem for most new and even existing online entrepreneurs. We get caught up in the ease and the instantness of the online world and we forget that we still have to put what we read into action. So there you have it (soap box securely put away).

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