As you know, here at the Daily Post, we’re all about helping you blog more and better — from daily writing prompts, blogger profiles, writing and photo challenges, quick tips, and even grammar advice, we want to keep you inspired and keep you blogging. Recently, we came across a great book about blogging that we wanted to share with you: Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho.
If you’re just starting to blog and you think you might want to try to earn a living from blogging, Joy’s book is a great resource that will help you achieve your blogging goals. Joy covers how to develop a consistent voice and style, attract and build an audience, overcome blogger’s block, build a community, and how to attract and manage advertisers, among other topics.
Of the book, we loved the blogger profiles best. Joy interviews 18 bloggers who share what inspired them to start blogging and how their sites grew in popularity. We couldn’t help but notice that of the 18 bloggers profiled, precisely 50% of them use WordPress to power their sites.
A continuing thread among the featured bloggers is that they all started blogs based on something they were passionate about — be it art and illustration, fashion, decor, and design, or satire. For example, Joel Henriques of crafting site Made by Joel, began to blog after becoming a stay-at-home dad:
Joel Henriques was waiting tables and bartending at Portland restaurants to supplement his and his wife’s income. When their twins (a boy and girl) were born, he quit his restaurant duties and found he had less time to pursue his musical and artistic hobbies once he transitioned into full-time dad mode. Yet he became increasingly fascinated with watching his kids play. Despite the fancy wooden teething rings and toys that he and his wife had purchased, the babies were surprisingly drawn to their drool bibs. Their love of the texture and material in these simple objects inspired Joel to start making his own toys for them. These toys, including modern stuffed animals and a wooden elephant puzzle, sparked the interest of his art buyers and family members, so he began a blog, Made by Joel, to keep track of his creations. Made by Joel includes craft projects that parents, educators, and children can make, encouraging creativity and play and inspiring families to spend more quality time together.
If you’re looking for a bit of additional reading on blogging more and better, check out Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho.
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I always appreciate your input. Thank-you and have a merry Christmas!
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Thank you, @TERRY1954, and Merry Christmas to you!
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Thank-you!
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Adding this to my reading list. I can’t wait to finish our move so I can get to it (and get back to my blog). Thanks for the recommendation
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Awesome! 😀 Thanks for this!
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Reblogged this on Annette J Dunlea Irish Author and commented:
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thanks, gonna preview her book on kobo and see if i want to purchase it.
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I DO blog for passion and creating a community – advocacy for causes I believe in is also my goal. I have shared this with fellow-bloggers in my home country, Jamaica. (The third annual Jamaica Blog Awards are coming up next month!)
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Oh wow —- this comes just in time for xmas too!! must add this under our xmas tree! /Louisa
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Thanks for sharing this Krista… I suspect that most of us blog for at least one of the three mentioned; passion, profit, and community. Looks like it could be a handy holiday gift. 🙂
Cheers,
Eliz
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Thank you for sharing this info. It helps!
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Interesting 🙂 Should ask for this book this Christmas!
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I just downloaded the book!
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I will definitely check it out. I think this will be a great resource for me. I love learning new ways to make my blog better. Thanks. 🙂
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inspiring . . . thank you
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Don’t know if I’ll get the book, but I’m glad I read the article!
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This is a great ideas and solutions with inspiration colors and cool trends with terms.
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Haha, I bought that book on Monday. 🙂
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After you’ve read it, write up a post on your thoughts, @mellafe — we’d love to read your take on the book.
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Oh, I will. I’m still waiting for it to arrive (I live in Chile) but I bet I’ll take notes. 😀
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Thanks so much for this article. I’m a blogging newbie still,so this will be a great help to me.
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Hi @chaviv, and welcome! We’ve got plenty of inspiration for you here at the Daily Post. You might be interested in Quick Tips and our Daily Writing prompts to help get you blogging.
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Thank you for this – and to all of you at WordPress for continuing to enlighten, inspire, and encourage us. I finally got around to trying the daily prompt from July on Getting Interactive – we’ll see how it goes! http://theretiringsort.com/2012/12/13/future-challenge-on-golden-pond/
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Great to hear you’re working on Daily Prompts! That’s wonderful news — keep it up, @the retiring sort!
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Good to see more blogging books on the market. Books likes these are very useful in getting people inspired about the different opportunities there are when starting a blog and getting people motivated to achieve some of the same things that the interview/profiled bloggers have achieved.
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I just read Blog, Inc. cover to cover last week. It was very informative and easy read. I would definitely recommend it!!
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