One of the blogs I read is Getting Rich Slowly, a personal finance site. Today the author describes how his much more popular blog than mine makes peanuts–$13,752 and change last year, as much as he says “[t]his is not peanuts.” Blogging is tough, go to law school or become an i-banker if you want more than peanuts. He is truly getting rich slowly. I am getting rich quickly at my day job. Then I plan to get poor even faster.
He says:
I made $13,752.12 (before taxes) during the first twelve months of Get Rich Slowly. I expect to make about $30,000 in the coming year. This is not peanuts. However, it’s not great pay either. I spend several hours every day reading books, searching web sites, and exchanging e-mail. And I write. I spend more time each week working on this site than I do at my day job.
I believe Get Rich Slowly is an atypical example. More normal, I think, are the results at my other blogs. My six-year-old personal site gets about 1100 visitors each day. It earns me an average of $120/month. I also run several minor blogs. They earn me about $20/month combined.
