It is funny that you said you might not have been so successful so quickly if you had a different domain. I wondered the same thing about your blog in my post here http://courtneyturtle.com/a-bunch-of-words-on-starting-this-blog-part-1-4.html I am trying to see if lightening can strike twice with my parody blog on another popular blogger!

Tough to make a buck in the blog world. Sometimes you just get lucky

Well, constant writing, socializing, finding backlinks continuously, writing, writing, emailing, optimizing, promoting, and so on and so forth will eventually pay off. For some, in 2-3 months, for others in 7-8 months.

It’s both luck and hard work.

That’s all good advice.

I’ve been working on a similar “experiment” to yours, except rather than having a silly domain and a funky wordpress theme, I started with a bog standard wordpress installation and a newly registered domain.

I think it’s going to be tough to do anything like as well as you guys… but the challenge is half the fun, right?

I was very naive in the beginning and thought it was going to be soooo easy Boy was I wrong! If it hadn’t been for a good super awesome blogger ( Cman ), then I probably would have have given up. My first 3 months were spent learning. I’m glad I didn’t give up though because I have made some really good money and friends.

spoken like a true blogger.

Good post Cow! Very true.

Lot’s of good advice there Cow.

well said Cow…and your ‘random outbursts’ can be great…just watched shoemoneys daughter wearing yout t-shirt, great move but hope you have added a bit of personalisation so she doesn’t grow up feeling like the chows daughter…

Great article, I thought it would be much easier then it really is.

That’s the thing with blogging it takes alot of work and takes ages to see a reward. I love reading them I just prefer a more immediate monetary fix

hey i like the http://knowmoo.com/ it reminds me of my idea for 4newbiesforum.com

yaah nice tips

Very true, it takes a while and a lot of people don’t have the drive to stick with it.

I had pretty realistic expectations going into blogging in knowing that I wouldn’t make anything the first month or even in the first year for that matter. I would like to generate some income eventually but I’m just trying to focus on building traffic right now. I’ve not even tried to monetize it yet. I’m not real sure where to start to be honest with monetization. I’d like to make a little extra, but I don’t want to alienate readers either by having ads on the site.

Great post Cow, very inspirational..I think too many people fall into the trap of reading blogs like this or Chow or Problogger and thinking, “yeah if they did it I can start doing it immediately!”. It does take a bit of time to see some results but can be well worth the time and effortwe.

I am not get any money now..

But I now it will come..

Great post as always

don’t tell me your readers don’t know or never heard of this advice before? Or am am i in a wrong blog?!

It always takes work to make money. Blogging is no different than a “real” business, but for some reason people think it’s going to be easier. If anything blogging is harder because you don’t have anything aside from virtual screen space and an opinion to offer prospective viewers and advertisers. At least in my real world business I can physically manifest my work for my customers.

It’s easy, but the best is not to do it for the money. Better be building sites for the money and have a blog for random posts.

In my opinion, it takes at least 6 months for the big money to start rolling in….Offcourse, to get as big as John Chow and Darren Rowse it can take upto 2 years…

You are really speaking from experience about making money with a blogger… At the initial stage of mine, I didn’t really make any money. I simply just blog and play with my own domain name. An idea came along to do video reviews… And I got to review you cows and slowly, it simply expands out. Though I am not using any innovative idea to take an unfair step, I am working closely to build my reputation and blog up in the Internet world. In fact, I found myself having to review other people’s websites and books in the form of sponsored posts. I think it’s all worth it to work just one step at a time to get yourself up and running to become a full time blogger in the end…

I believe that once you are able to work full time, starting another blog is just a breeze since you know what to do to bring in the buck…

Thank you cows for giving me the chance to review you… I love cows who have milk for me! hehe

Does this means that we can start spamming your mailbox asking for a link?

I can’t predict when my blog will start making money but I am always waiting for the day to come.

Haha… I’m glad I haven’t spam anybody yet…
I hope I wouldn’t do that at all…

good one man.. sitting and writing and waiting will not buy you a coffee.

Well written blog…Hey you should check out LinkWorth(www.linkworth.com) if you get a chance. We have a product called LinkPost that works well for bloggers like yourself.

This one of ur post is highly motivating.Right application of mind and perseverance

is required.Isn’t it?

Some more good advice from the cow!

We just started a blog and totally understand that it is going to take time and good content before we start making the cash. That is OK with us as we are in it for the long haul and have a lot of good material to post!

Hey, why don’t you check us out at http://www.lizardwisdom.com and see for yourself!

I made my first $1.000 after blogging for 2 years.

That’s true just keep pushing foward till the end there are so many website that drop like flies so if you keep it going you will be reconized for your efforts aleast and that myfriend is all you need to have a Money making site Your turly Thegeekboys.com

Even though you should work hard on your blog, dont let that be your only money maker, there are way to many less time consuming means to make money online.

@ King Jacob

This is true. I always keep my eyes open for any opportunities that will comeout from the web.

Apart from that, we should always learning new things as well. I am currently doing my studies on internet marketing.

@Wayne Liew: Doing studies on internet marketing? Is that a school?

Thanks for this inspiring post Cow guy.

I started blogging in April and thought I would be able to make money quickly, obviously I quickly learned I was wrong but I did discover that I quite enjoyed blogging and the idea of living an online life to pay the bills is still very much my goal!

However I still have not made much money (about $20) but things are finally, slowly, shaping up and I can see income increasing slightly from now on.

Especially with the wise words I receive from this and many other blogs.

Don’t forget folks, hard work and perseverance pay off after a while.. I barely made anything for about 6 months when I first started in 2005, than BOOM.. revenue started increasing exponentially..

@wayne: Are you doing actual studies as in university? Im doing “studies” as well but in pre-med/physics and I dont think ive seen a degree in specifically internet marketing yet.

Thanks for the insight

@ KingJacob

Nah, I meant self-study there.

Thanks very much for the motivation.

I’m a member of the club which sit around hoping people find me.

Thanks for waking me up,

Dave

I have to agree you have a great domain. Thanks for the motivating post… if you are free, ‘knock’ on my blog

I love this kind of post.

I reckon its more stupid when people make blogs like Mr Chow and Mr Shoemoney and expect to get paid like them without the same traffic.

Somewhat motivating…I hope to prove you true in a few months or so.

This was a really good post. I first started out as one of those people who thinks making money from blogging is easy. Boy was I wrong. The first thing you need to do is spend a lot of time building traffic. In terms of blogging, this can take a few months to a year. My blog is a little over a month old and I have gotten an alexa rank of around 1.1million. I know that with more work and patience I can easily bring this even lower. Keep up the great posts man.

Nice post. Should help a lot of people