Comments on: Why Personal Blogs Can Never Really Survive Monetization

By: martyi

martyi — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:53:14 +0000

When blogging becomes a business is like an advertising space, if you blog for other blogger or brands you are trying to get a job, IT is tour choice, but remember that a blogger should blog for people, not numbers, money, Like, share. In fact, as I’m not a blogger, I really find bloggers and their blogs too much similar each other, seriously do you think you are gonna make successo?

By: Delores

Delores — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:56:53 +0000

great post blogging is hard work I just started several months ago. As far as new outfits you can switch up the items and do a recap on how to wear same skirt several ways. I resale many of my items on Ebay to make room and $$$ for new items. Another thing I do is take all my pics for blog on one day, outfits I am going to wear for the week I try to post at least 3 times a week because like you say people want more. Not only that when you are new you got to stay relevant. I use a tripod so I do not have to constantly bug people to take pics. So far its going okay hopefully I do not burnout
Dee
urbansoigne.blogspot.com

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:55:05 +0000

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but my personal blog is a replacement for the diary you’d keep on your bedside table (except I don’t write mean things about people 😛 ). I don’t really see it as a tool to gain money or popularity. Maybe somewhere along the line it’ll wiggle into a niche market.

When I want to share an opinion on Facebook, I have to think carefully about the audience reading it. There may be topics that some friends aren’t interested in seeing. My blog is the place to go when I want to write about anything I please. I don’t consider myself a fantastic writer, but this gives me a chance to practice, and like I said, maybe find its way into a niche.

By: Eve

Eve — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:48:40 +0000

Hi, I have actually recently decided to comment on a YouTube site that I liked, it’s about people blogging daily, going to theme parks. And I wrote a comment saying i love you guys. You may think I am paranoid but I think the bloggers read my comment and took it the wrong way. There blog changed and the female in the blog was wearing the same makeup and hair style that I had in my profile photo, and I found that they were commenting off hand to the camera in order to try to control the viewers, like, saying that something is dark, or we’re really tired when they are meaning they are tired of blogging, but they are changing from the attention then behaving as if reaching out to them in any way is a violation, I have realised these people are incredibly conceited and live inside this tiny false bubble, I apologise if this is of no interest but I am confused about the sincerity of people on a greater level. By watching them, you are letting them into your home, and I didn’t realise that they are in complete control, and not actually living humanly and honestly. Is this what a great deal of peoples blogs are underneath?

By: Lesia

Lesia — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:51:54 +0000

In all honesty, I don’t see any of the above as negative things or obstacles. A lot of wonderful people create content from their own home, with that bowl of guacamole, and they’re making it awesome and really interesting. I think we should focus not on the limitations but on the opportunities we have! Even if you don’t have a huge closet, you can try new things with what you have. And depending on how you do it, it might be entertaining and as cool as anything!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:20:44 +0000

I LOVE this, especially “If your life is busy enough to be “Interesting” chances are, it’s also too busy to maintain a blog.” I used to follow so many other fashion blogs for inspiration, but recently found myself sorta hating on them. It’s nothing personal, but c’mon! They portray a jet set life, living on only fruit bowls, ice cream cones and guacamole toast, and wearing $10k outfits. I’m not a jealous person at all, but seriously.

I have a total grassroots blog. I LOVE sharing my ideas and photography. People love my outfits and want me to post more, but I can only post a couple outfits a month. The reality is, I have a full time job, and anything more and I’d be breaking my own bank shopping for new clothes all the time.

Oh, and I do eat guacamole toast, but homemade in my own kitchen, right now, in my sweatpants.

-Rachel
www.thewearwithal.com

By: Mowo

Mowo — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:47:34 +0000

woww great post, just what i needed, i think i agree with the dslr, i should really get one
can anyone be nice and tell me how you promote your blog, please message me on this place, i would die to know how people manage to get readers and so on. I’m tired of those people who wants to follow me if I follow them, in my humble opinion that’s just not the way to go to get successful.
I would love an honest opinion about my blog by successful bloggers, who has been successful and has loads of readers to give me an honest opinion and why I might not have a lot of readers 🙂
I would appreciate it a lotttttt
http://www.mowo.bloggersdelight.dk/

By: Sephie Rojas

Sephie Rojas — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:26:08 +0000

This has got to be the best post IFB has published to date. So many truths in this that finally have been surfaced to the public. Especially about the top bloggers these days. Most of them used to be so authentic and real about their feelings towards products before they got to the top. So much so that their authenticity and realness towards these things are what attracted you to their blog in the first place. But as soon as they got to experience sponsors their authenticity started to dissolve. It’s annoying to read about a certain brand (who coincidentally sponsors them because of their massive following) just for them to “genuinely” say they love said brand so much. C’mon, no brand is THAT perfect that you won’t dislike at least one thing in their current collection. Even Chanel had some downs.

By: symone

symone — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:44:36 +0000

awesome post, and very helpful for a newbie to the blogger world.

By: Bec

Bec — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 01:36:20 +0000

I think this is why it’s important to have goals, a mission statement and a basic publishing schedule. I find with these in place it’s much easier to set guidelines around privacy etc. I’m a personal/parenting blogger and don’t share photos of my family at all. I also have strict personal rules on how much I share of both my life and my kids’ lives. It’s working so far.