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OK, let me clarify. Not everyone should have a blog in the common sense of the word “blog”, what you and I think of when we talk about blogs. The word I should use is website, Everyone should have a website. However, a website seems daunting to many people, while a blog seems more personable, more attainable. And with the growth, flexibility and availability of free blogging software and platforms, a blog can mean anything from a personal diary to a static content site.

When I was growing up, to earn a little extra income, people sold Avon and Amway or helped out a local or family business for a few hours a week. Today, our opportunities to enhance our full time income are immense. Costs of starting your own website have dropped substantially, and ways to monetize content is easier than ever. Political statisticians say that the real unemployment rate should be around 5%, as there is 5% of the population that is just unemployable. As in our case, when I say Everyone, 100% of the world’s population shouldn’t come to mind. But if you are capable of finding us, then you fall under the Everyone umbrella. Let’s say everyone under 50 should have a blog, how about that?

If you want to start out for fun, there are no costs involved at all (and also next to no earnings potential either). I must know 100+ people with their own free blogs, but I never read them, and neither do you. No one really cares what my 1 year old nephew did this morning. And if I don’t care, why should you? This is not what I am talking about when I say Everyone should have a blog. We aren’t talking about blogging for fun, or to keep the family up to date on what is going on, we are talking about blogging for dollars. No use spending your precious time if there isn’t going to be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or at least a pot of $20 bills waiting for you somewhere.

Here is what we are trying to build: Content sites with sustained earnings.

Content can be built slowly over time, updated as needed, and readers don’t expect updates every day from you.

Over the next few days, we will be covering the following subjects, steps if you will:

1. Discovering your Blog’s subject
2. Picking a domain name for your Blog
3. Setting up your blog
4. Setting and tracking goals
5. Making Money from your Blog

I will also be starting a project, following all these steps with you, and tracking my progress over the next month to see how things go.