Are You Blogging Because You Love It – Or Because it Pays?
As an old school blogger I enjoy hearing about others’ passion for their topics when they blog. Knowing they feel as I do justifies all the long hours. Lately though I’ve been hearing a different take; folks blogging not because they love it but because it’s a “work at home” job. The passion isn’t there, instead they’re motivated by paychecks and thoughts of working at home. I get it. Who wants to go back to an office job?
We’re seeing a new breed of bloggers now. It’s not only about sharing love for a topic or building up a community, it’s about a paycheck.
So my question to you, dear readers, is: Does it make a difference? Does it make a difference to you if you’re reading a blog written by someone with passion or someone covering the bases to earn money? Can you tell the difference…and if so, how?
Discuss…
I’m blogging because I enjoy it (and I’m not making any money right now because I’m still learning the best ways to monetize it because the blog is part of my business). It doesn’t matter to me if I’m reading a blog of someone who writes for personal or business. I can tell though when it’s for business and the blogs I don’t care for are the ones that only post those Get Paid to blog posts. I can tell every time because they always seem to talk about weight loss pills, travel or the like. I just laugh when I see it because I know. BUT I’m not knocking it. I guess if I could make money like that and make the post more personal I might. I don’t know though.
Just thinking out loud!
It’s a hard question to answer, because I like blogging topics I choose, and I like blogging for money. I tend to only take jobs on topics I know for sure I can blog well on. In the past I took jobs on topics that don’t fall into my niche, but I still did try to be at least knowledgeable, if not passionate. I guess overall I can tell when someone is not totally into their topic, but it’s easy to be wrong about that. Having worked for networks that cut pay, it could just be that the blogger needs money, and is spending more time elsewhere.