Missing Blogging

It's a rainy Tuesday afternoon.  I am taking a quick break from doing one of my regular household chores - folding the laundry. I have missed this...

It has been quite some time since I last wrote an entry here. It was one excuse after another. It started with me getting annoyed that there was a virus or pop-up every time I would open my site. Up to now I am still trying to figure out how to fix this and at the same time do a new lay-out. If anyone can help me out or give me advice, I would be very appreciative.

I also got caught up with being a mother, a housewife and many more that I did not know how to split my body to accommodate all my different roles. But most of all, I missed writing and sharing my experiences and thoughts among other things. I have resolved to embrace being a write/blogger as one of my roles from now on.

I have missed the friendships that I have made when I started this blog. I have missed visiting other blogs. I have missed reading articles on a regular basis. I have missed learning and discovering new things. I have missed this. But I am happy to be here again...

Earning in Blogging

Since early last year, I have decided to become a WAHM (Work At Home Mom) by choice. Somewhere along the way, I had a change in priorities. I decided to focus my time and energy more on taking care of my unica hija, Roberta, instead of trying to earn extra income outside the home. I said to myself that an opportunity would show itself. I will be able to find money even while I was at home. And it did.

Being at home, gave me more time than I had when I was out of the house the whole day. With so much time in my hands, I wanted to go back to one of the things I enjoyed most - writing. I thought of having my own blog as my writing channel. Little did I know that I could actually get paid to blog.

How to earn extra money by blogging was better explained to me by Tita Marie. We were just casually having a conversation during my high school volleyball reunion. When she found out that I was at home working, that is when she shared her own blogging experience. I was surprised to know that she had been doing this for quite some time and was at a profit. I was inspired and motivated to follow suit.

I researched and learned that the world wide web was a bigger market for advertisers than what traditional media - such as print, radio and television - could offer. With this concept, the marketing idea of blog advertising was born.

Advertisers would join a blog advertising company such as Paying Post to find potential blogs suited to post their ads. The followers of that blog would then be the target market and possible consumers of the said product. The more ads in a blog that gave positive results to an advertiser, the more income that blog would make. This was how income was made from blogging.

With this knowledge at hand, it would just be a bonus for me if I could earn something extra from doing what I like and that is writing.