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Episode 23: 8 Steps For Taking Your Blog From Hobby To Business


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Want to make the switch from being a hobby blogger to a professional but don’t know how? Or have started this journey but keep getting stuck or disheartened?

Today, I talk about the steps required to become a professional blogger. This is what you should do now to make the switch from having a blog that’s something you do in your spare time to something that gives you freedom and flexibility to live a better life.

Making this transition is the biggest problem I hear over and over again from members of the DNW community. They’ve been blogging for awhile and they don’t know how to start making money, how to start accelerating page views and, basically, how to have the success they see people like me having with blogging.

The good news is that it really doesn’t have to be stressful and overwhelming to become a professional blogger. It’s about being smart, taking it step by step and being really clear on what you want to achieve and how.

This episode is for you if you want to transition to being a professional blogger or you’re already trying but getting stuck.

Learn the 8 steps I recommend you take to take your blog from a hobby to a business.

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Here’s an overview of what we talked about today:

  • Why it doesn’t have to be stressful and overwhelming to become a professional blogger
  • Step 1 – Be clear on your goals and what you want to achieve
  • Step 2 – Invest in yourself
  • Step 3 – Make your blog about your audience
  • Step 4 – Have a clear strategy
  • Step 5 – Track and learn from everything
  • Step 6 – Surround yourself by the right bloggers
  • Step 7 – Jump in 100%
  • Step 8 – Give it time

This episode is sponsored by my brand new course, SEO Fast Track, your complete step-by-step system for how to kick butt with SEO across your blog for the low, low cost of $97.

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8 Steps For Taking Your Blog From Hobby To Business

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Next episode, I talk to one of the bloggers I’ve previously coached and helped publicly on this site. You can learn how travel blogger, Keith, has progressed in making this switch from a hobby to a business blogger, what he has learned and other big tips to help you grow your bloggging business. You can listen to it here now.

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About the Author

Sharon is passionate about working online and helping others to follow in her footsteps. She started blogging in 2005, but became serious about it when she left Australia with her young family at the end of 2014 determined to grow an online business. She succeeded by becoming a SEO and affiliate marketing expert and now supports her family of 5 to live their dream lifestyle. She has a degree in web development, a graduate diploma of education (secondary teaching) and consumes everything SEO. She loves putting her teaching diploma to good use by teaching other bloggers how to have the same success that she has had.

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