Number of Self-Employed Bloggers More Than Doubled in 2010

The annual state of the blogosphere survey results are being published at Technorati… For me, one of the most interesting stats has every year been how many bloggers “blog for fun” and how many blog for living, or at least make some money blogging.

Majority of the bloggers are hobbyists, but the number is going down, and there’s a lot more self-employed bloggers than there were in 2009. (I covered the state of the blogosphere 2009 at my blog back then).

In 2009, there were 71% hobbyists (now 65%) and 9% self-employed (now whopping 21%). So we’re looking at 233% increase in self-employed bloggers!

I’m thinking part of this increase comes from how the question was set in the survey, and now the small business owners who blog are included in the self-employed. As they say in the study: “I blog full time or occasionally for their own company or organization”. Thus, I think the self-employed does not mean that the blog itself would be the main source of income.

But anyway, I think we can still conclude that blogging is growing and more and more people are making money either directly or indirectly through blogging, and some are turning blogging into full-time careers, which is just awesome.

That’s what I had mind as the first impressions of the SotB2010 – What do you think of the state of the blogosphere 2010 results?

p.s. check all the stats at: State of the Blogosphere 2010

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Hobbyists – Hobbyists remain the backbone of the blogosphere, representing 64% of respondents. Hobbyists say they blog for fun, and do not report any income from their blog. It’s not surprising, therefore, that 51% say they blog to express their personal musings, and 74% say they measure the success of their blog according to their level of personal satisfaction.

 

 

Self-Employeds – After Hobbyists, Self-Employeds make up the largest cohort, representing 21% of bloggers. Such bloggers say they “blog full time or occasionally for their own company or organization.” 57% say they own a company and have a blog related to their business, while 19% report that their blog is their company. 65% say they manage their blog by themselves. Reflecting their professional nature, Self-Employeds are the most likely to blog about business, with 62% saying they have much greater visibility in their industry because of their blog. Read more at technorati.com

 

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Beyond Blogging Book and Review

The Beyond Blogging -book was published as an eBook at the end of 2009. The book features 15 top bloggers, their stories and their strategies on how they took their blogging to another level and on to build their up to 6 or 7-figure businesses.

The interviews and stories of bloggers like Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, Chris Garrett, Chris Brogan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Steve Pavlina and nine others is a good read to get inspired by the success of others, and the book goes on and turns the methods and tactics into actionable advice.

The book was first published as an eBook and later in print as well. Both versions are still on sale, and the electronic version comes with a workbook in addition to the core book.

After creating and publishing the book, Mike CJ and Nathan Hangen, went and launched Beyond Blogging Project, a premium blog training program for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Earlier this year, I made a Squidoo lens featuring the 15 bloggers, who they are and what they’re doing. Using Squidoo made it easy to feature their publications at the same time. You can check out the Squidoo lens here: Beyond Blogging – Meet the Top Bloggers

For more in-depth look on the book itself and my thoughts on it, check out my Beyond Blogging review.

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“Find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Tony Robbins

This page features 15 successful bloggers and entrepreneurs who have built profitable businesses, turned their life’s passion into way to earn money, and started much of that success through blogging.

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What if you only had 10 minutes a day to blog?

If you only had 10 minutes a day to blog, what would you do? Would you browse through your settings, and list of widgets to find if there's more crap to add to your sidebar, or would you use that 10 minutes to create content?

This is my experiment, I will run for the rest of the year. As some of you might know, I've been on kind of a hiatus from my blog at zemalf.com. Hiatus meaning that I haven't done any new content to it.

I forced myself to the break because I was using too much time on the blog. And with too much time I mean I was using too much time on stuff that didn't matter.

And I used way too much time on tweaking the content. I used up to 6 hours to create one post. Yes, some of the posts are absolutely amazing, mind me saying it myself, but it's true, after all – I spent 6 hours on it

But now, that's about to change. I have new rule. I must not spend more than 10 minutes to a post on one day. I might use 30 minutes in total to a post, but only 10 minutes a day.

But the target is to use 10 minutes to write, edit (not!) and publish a post. With limited time like that I'm trying to fight my urge for (unnecessary) perfection and go for shorter blog posts.

I'm not promising I'll post every day, I don't even promise I'll post every week. I might, or I might not. But I'm not gonna waste time on my blog. I will make the time I use count for more. By limiting myself to 10 minutes a day, I'm forcing myself to use time wisely.

I'm writing this on email and posting it via Posterous, and I'm doing this to test how much text I can output in about 8 minutes. 2 minutes I leave to publishing. Although on Posterous it's matter of seconds to send the mail, but anyway.

But now, I'm out of time, and it's your turn. What do you think about this concept of "10 minute blogging"?

p.s. The urge to polish, edit and write more is here again, but I'm forcing myself to stop after this "p.s." and hit send