Blog Me Cash

Blog Me Cash caught up with Pat B. Doyle, a prolific and successful blogger. Pat talks to us about her blogging experiences in this brief interview.

Hello Pat, and welcome to BlogMeCash.com. Pat, could you tell us a bit about yourself?

First, I would like to thank Satish for doing this interview. I welcome the opportunity to introduce myself to your readers.

I started out my career as a teacher, then I became a computer programmer, and now I am a computer consultant. I started my internet business in 2005 with my first blog. I now have enough income from my blogging to be able to cut back to 4 days per week on my consulting job. It is my goal to build my internet business to the point where I can focus on it full time.

I am just starting to get into creating my own products to sell online. I am working on my first video course, which will be a beginning blogging course. I am really enjoying that. It goes back to my teaching roots. I actually love teaching. I left the teaching field because I didn’t like dealing with all the discipline problems with unruly students. With creating my own courses, I don’t have to worry about that!

I am also really enjoying my new blog. It is great to have a blog that is read by other bloggers. I love posting about my experiences and seeing that it is helpful to others.

What made you take up blogging?

When I first heard about blogging, I thought it would be fun, so I tried a personal blog, with photos of my hometown. I was just fooling around.

Then I came across a link to ProBlogger, where Darren Rowse first disclosed that he was making 6 figures by blogging. I thought to myself, “I can do this!”

So I abandoned my personal blog and started a blog about dogs. It was a lot of fun, and after a while, I started to make money on it. So I started more blogs in different areas and was pretty successful.

You have been blogging on ‘online money making’ for some time now. What has been your experience?

I just started my new blog, a few weeks ago. I want to get my name known better, because I want to sell some of my own products. I am in the process of producing some video courses on blogging. The first one will be a beginning blogging course, and after that, I will tackle some more advanced topics. I felt that if my name was better known in the “make money online” field, I would be better able to sell my video courses.

I previously had a blog called “affiliate-moneymaking.com”, which discussed moneymaking topics. But I didn’t update it very regularly. I was too busy with my other blogs. It is my personal experience that it is hard to make money online with a “make money online” blog, unless you are selling your own products. (Of course I’m sure John Chow would disagree with me.)

Some words of advise for people looking at making money online?

First, I would say, don’t quit your day job until you are doing really well with your internet business. Sometimes it can take a while to get started.

Also, don’t jump around from one project to another. Stick to one thing and keep going. Be patient. If you have a blog, be sure to update it regularly, and also spend time on marketing it, making it known. You need to get decent traffic to make good money.

If you can, create your own products to sell. If you don’t want to do that, then the next best thing is to create a popular blog, and make money through Adsense, other advertising, and selling affiliate products.

Think about what kind of blog you would like to visit and keep coming back to. Then make your blog like that. Create good, interesting content that you yourself would like. Make the blog nice looking and not too cluttered.

Anything else you would like to say to our readers?

If you want to make money online, do something you enjoy. It will be a lot easier to stick with it if you enjoy it.

If any of your readers would like to ask me questions about blogging or making money online, they can contact me using the contact form on my blog. I can’t promise that I will answer all questions right away, but I will answer many of the questions in future blog posts.

I wish you and all your readers great success in your money-making endeavors. Thanks for taking the time to read this interview, and I hope some of you will visit my blog in the future.

Thanks Pat for sharing your views with the BlogMeCash.com members.