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Congratulations on Paul generating real cash flow! I'd love to see a essay written by Paul on how he started his blog and what he think made it popular. So many blogs, even good ones, fail to break critical mass. I do blog and day dream of being a professional blogger but realize it really is hard work.

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Would you consider yourself a professional blogger if you were blogging to support your revenue-generating startup activities?

I get a metric truckload of business value out of having my blog -- links, business opportunities, rankings for key terms, etc. This is grossly disproportionate to the pennies I would get if I showed ads on it.

This also lets me scratch the "I like writing, dagnabit" itch.

I'm glad that Paul is making some cash from his blog, but $1600 a month is peanuts for a 3 year old site. A blog 1/10 as popular in a lucrative niche with some decent search traffic would make 10x as much.

Yeah I agree. I never tried to whore my site out with ads either though, so I can't really say I tried to make much money off of it. Now that I might be more reliant on it, that might change.

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