As previously mentioned, blogging can be very enjoyable, and yet, very profitable at the same time. Only if have passion in the topics that you blog about, that is. Before you begin your blogging journey, there are a few things you should know so you don''t set false expectations.

Blogging takes time and patience to grow

The most important thing about the quality of a blog is its readership. You can offer knowledge that no one yet knows about. You can hire tens and hundreds of excellent writers to write for you. But all that is in vain if there''s no one reading your blog, right? Blogging is about creating authority in the topics you write about, and authority is built upon the trust between you and your writers, and that, obviously, does not come instantly.

In fact, the growth of a normal blog is a exponential growth. What I mean by a normal blog is that there''s no one behind it who already has a popular blog to give a kick start to the new blog. An excellent example would be ProBlogger.net and Twitip.com. Darren, the person behind those 2 blogs, started Twitip after he successfully established authority in his first blog, ProBlogger. His readership on Twitip grew significantly fast, a lot of them came from his first blog.

So, for a new blogger starting a brand new blogging career, one should know that getting a few unique visitors a day is what every professional blogger had experienced. The low number of unique visitors should not to be taken as a discouragement.

Monetizing needs timing

This is pretty much the same as building authority on your blog. Even if you have something great to offer, excellent in value, and good on cost, if your potential prospects (your visitors) don''t have trust in you, all your hard work vanishes into the thin air. Promoting affiliate products, placing advertisements such as Google Adsense...etc, at the beginning of your blogging career is highly not recommended.

Think about it. If you go to a new website and the first thing you find is the author trying you something, what do you first have in mind? Right, the "close" button in your web browser, most likely. Same thing with placing advertisements on your blog. In fact, advertisements are more effective being used for branding purposes. I mean, the people on the Internet are more educated than before, and most of them have developed the ability to by-pass (ignore) the ads. At least I''m trained. How about you?

Blogging requires continuous learning

The Internet is always evolving. Technology is always evolving. Being an Internet entrepreneur requires continuous exposure to new web technologies and the ability to learn and be on top of all different kinds of web technologies. For a starter, you will find that you need as much HTML / CMS / PHP knowledge as you can, the more the better. Unless of course, if you can outsource someone to handle the technical aspects of your blog.