On my blog, my primary goal is to have a place to express myself through some of my writing and to share information. Second is to generate some sort of supplementary income. I will be pleased if I make just enough to pay for the domain name at the end of the year. Not only that, but I would consider it to be a success if I made just that much.

Nothing in life equals easy money, nothing legal anyway. Blog because you enjoy it, blog because you have information to share, blog to expand your social network. Over time, if you do a good enough job you may get a little extra spending money. But do not quit your day job.

Mike
Dropthemike.com
Internet Industry Talk

Small world this post. Last year I was on Darren’s site reading his articles and came across a similar article he wrote, discussing how much money do bloggers earn blogging…

It was a good reality check, because as you say, I think LOTS of bloggers have a way overly optimistic viewpoint of what it takes to make good money blogging, and how much work is required.

I was inspired by Darren’s article to add a whole segment to the front of a video series I created, entitled “7 Ways To Make Money With Your Blog” (the URL is in my comment name for those of you curious), talking about the realities of earning an income from blogging.

Like you, I’m no blogging millionaire myself, although I do earn a fairly comfortable full-time income from the internet industry, including some blogging efforts, and IMO if you want to make Darren Rowse or John Chow mad money from blogging, you’d better be in it for the LONG haul, and be a good, interesting, entertaining writer – otherwise forget making the big $’s.

Thanks for your comments, and great to see someone else agrees with me on this subject (which tends to get blown out of reality by the hype merchants!).