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I just read a question on Quora.
The person wanted to know how much money they make from 1 Like on YouTube.
Common new entrepreneur error; being stuck in employee mindset. You are I were conditioned to think this way: “Work a set number of hours. Get a set salary. Or complete a set number of duties. Receive a set salary.”
You and I believed if you did some specific work you always get money for the specific work completed. Think of it as a 1 for 1, do something and get money for doing that something, type pay scenario.
Blogging is completely different from this pay structure. Nobody pays you for a Like. if 1000 people visit your blog today, nobody pays you a set salary for each visitor. Nobody tabulates. No rewards for each visitor. Certainly no monetary rewards for each visitor.
Bloggers believe in pay for work because most humans grew up around employees. My dad received a salary by working a 9-5 job for almost 40 years. My mom received hourly pay for her nursing duties.
I had to re-work how I pondered work, pay and making money blogging the moment I chose to be a pro blogger. Pro bloggers put in generous work with not much attachment to outcomes. You work to:
- gain trust
- increase exposure
- serve your niche
- make a name in your niche
- help people generously
- have fun
and the money flows in after you generously, patiently and persistently helped people for free. Help people for free. Over time, slowly but surely, you earn the right to help people for pay based on your clarity around money and based on the quality and frequency of your content and blogging connections.
What Do Stats Mean?
Ultimately, stats mean nothing because being passionate about blogging, having fun serving people and befriending top bloggers in your niche builds the basis of a successful blogging career. My success did not flow to me through or by numbers. Numbers never bought one of my eBooks or endorsed me. Never have. Never will. Human beings formed the basis of my blogging success because helping people and making friends steadily grew my blogging business.
Picture break; by the hammock today in Thailand.
Of course; I helped people for free for a long time before I helped people for pay. Nobody paid me based on a Like or blog comment or based on a high number of people visiting my blog daily. My blogging audio course netted 8,000 page views before I sold a single copy. I love the course. Customers love the course. Everything happens in its own time. Did I panic? Nope. I continued to help people for free because I knew all bloggers earn the right to make money blogging based on paying their dues and putting in the time and generous service, to become full time, professional bloggers.
Help People for Free
You will not earn a salary blogging.
Something sweeter occurs.
Help people for free persistently and patiently. Eventually, money flows to you around the clock as you set your own schedule. Follow Moss Clement and his generous, helpful lead. He routinely promotes me and asks for nothing. Can you see why I freely promote him, expanding his freedom? Give freely, receive easily.
Freedom is the end game of most pro bloggers. I write these words from Chiang Mai, Thailand. I feel sleepy so after I publish this post I will take a morning nap at 10:30 AM. Can you put a price tag on taking a morning nap when sleepy? Of course not. Would I be able to take a morning nap working a 9-5, salaried job? Of course not.
No salary ceiling exists for me. Helping people freely helps me make more money through my blog. Plus I circle the globe as I prosper. Freedom. Help people for free and if you are patient, people will help free you, through your increased blogging income and increased exposure in your niche.
Nobody pays me for each guest post I publish on Blogging Tips but the exposure and freedom I gained through my 700 guest posts here has been worth not getting paid directly for each blog post.
As a rule, bound, confined, unhappy people try to get money or a salary through all they do professionally, leading to a boring, non-free, unhappy life. Entrepreneurs generously help folks sans expectation for years and live a life of fun and freedom.
What life sounds better to you?
The entrepreneur life of freedom or the salaried life of bondage?
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