What You Should Know About Running Multiple Blogs

At some point in your blogging career, there will come a time when you will have to choose between running multiple blogs and a single blog. This decision is however, not an easy one to take. There are advantages and disadvantages for both sides. Let's discuss it first from the point of view of advantages.

Advantages of Running Multiple Blogs:

1. Leverage Your Income

If you're like me, you rely mainly on blogs for your primary source of income! As such, the more blogs you are able to create, the fatter would be your paycheck! Let's put an example: if one blog earns you $200 per month, running 10 blogs will earn you over $2000 per month! Can you imagine how much you could earn if you had 100 blogs?

2. Better Influence

A blog represents your online presence. For some people it is not the monetary gains which motivate them to write blogs; rather, it is the kind of exposure, the influence they would have is what makes them interested.

Take the case of one of my friends; he doesn't care if his blog earns him any revenue or not, he just enjoys writing about ozone issues. If you are like him, you might find that the more blogs you have, the bigger would be your influence!

3. Multiple Source of Income

There is an old adage that goes like: "never put all your eggs in one basket". This rings true for blogs as well. By having multiple blogs you will feel safe and won't gave to worry if anything bad happens with one of your blogs, since you have other sources of income!

Now that we have discussed 3 popular advantages of running multiple blogs, let's discuss the disadvantages as well.

Disadvantages of Running Multiple Blogs:

1. Limited Time

If you are working 8 hours a day just like me, you might find it difficult to write posts for 100 blogs regularly. The maintenance issue should become your primary consideration here. Yes, there are softwares which can help you by automating this part, but to some degree you will still hold the main responsibility for the content of your blogs.

2. Getting Burnt Out

Unless you are a very talented writer, writing for multiple subjects can make you run out of fresh ideas very quickly. In this case you might want to write only on one or two topics that you know very well, rather than writing on 100 different subjects you know nothing about!

3. Quality Issue

Running multiple blogs means dividing your attention among multiple projects. This can result in the decrease in quality of your blog's content. You might want to focus on writing 1 or 2 articles rather than scribbling 100 posts. After all it is the quality of your blog's content which matters at the end of the day!

Why Video Blogging Cannot Defeat The Text Blog

In recent times, the development of World Wide Web has been so fast that it seems as if we have entered the new era of the so called web 2.0 in the blink of an eye. Promoted widely as the new breed, web 2.0 has quickly gained popularity with several inventions such as video blogging and podcast, just to mention two of those inventions.

In spite of its seemingly growing popularity, the question remains whether a video blog is more popular than a text blog, I find this issue quite intriguing; in fact, not just I, even several popular newsgroups and forums have been discussing it for several months.

Personally, I don't think video blogging will ever defeat text-based blog. In this article I will give you 3 reasons why I think so. Reading this article would open your eyes to some new and exciting business opportunities you may not be aware of!

Reason No 1 - We Have Only So Much Time

With video blogs you need to spend at least 5 to 15 minutes on each view. Well, I don't know about you but for me who works 8 hours a day, I can't afford to spend 15 minutes to watch videos about which I know nothing! The story might be different if your job is to review such videos on net but for me, the lack of ability to skim through the main content of the video blog is the primary issue that should be taken care of first.

Reason No 2 - It Is A Matter of Personal Preference

Depending on the subject, video blogging may have a great advantage. For example, videos are great for music or tutorial type blogs. Some people have a better ability to learn by watching than reading, and to tell you the truth, I am the type who can absorb things more quickly while watching.

For music blogs of course podcast becomes the primary medium for delivering content. It is a lot more interesting to hear the music rather than reading the lyrics; however for most of the subjects other than music or tutorials, video blog is simply a waste of your valuable time.

Reason No 3 - The Cost of Producing High Quality Video is Still High

I remembered watching a self-made video about a DJ a week ago! It was done by some teenagers from Los Angeles, and to put it bluntly, this video is simply the worst I have ever seen! Creating high quality videos with good sound control effects and lighting, not to mention presenting popular shows, is still considered to be under the budget of most of people.

I remember reading advertising on one forum offering custom video creation services at the cost of $60 per video.

Without all of those issues being handled properly, it is unlikely that video blogs will ever dominate text-based blogs.

Simple Ways To Generate Ideas for Your Content Blog

Whatever be the topic of your blog, the fact remains that it is the continuous content which keeps your blog alive and interesting. I remember reading this blog which had a lot of great ideas about business! But when I visited that blog after two weeks, I was surprised to find out that there was no new post! No wonder that the blog soon lost its readers!

Just as in business, it is your continuous promotions which keep generating profits for your business, in the same way, you need to post content on a regular basis in order to promote your blog. Read on, because in this article I will share few methods you can use to generate useful content ideas for your blog.

1. Online Forum - Your Secret Weapon

You probably have no idea of how many new ideas I get every day from reading a simple post at an online forum - sometimes you will get funny ideas from a professor of a local college, and on another day you will get serious ideas about politics from high school students.

The point is that online forums can be the source of new ideas, which in turn can be used to generate daily content for your blog! You can search for forums related to your topic of interest through Google. Just put your keywords followed with forum. For example: "trance music forum".

2. Get Ideas From Other Blogs

No wait, I don't advise you to steal content word by word without permission from its author. What I mean is that you can look for general ideas and inspirations in these blogs and then write your post in your own words. You can find a lot of blogs on similar topics by going to Technorati.com; just in case you don't know, it is considered to be the biggest search engine for blog!

3. Ezine Directory - Hundreds of New Ideas Every Day

Ezine, commonly called electronic magazine, provides a great way to find several ideas for blog content. As a matter of fact, with thousands of ezines being published every day there is simply no excuse for not getting busy writing for your blog. Once again, you can find out these ezines by going to Google.com and typing in "ezine directory"!

4. Web 2.0 - A New Breed from The Old Technology

The development of World Wide Web technology has been extremely rapid! These days, there is what is popularly called Web 2.0, or to put it simply, user generated content, where ordinary people like you and me can publish their ideas, content, video, music and even more with a single click.

There are some great sites like Digg.com where you will get a floodgate of fresh ideas on various topics almost every minute!

5. Conclusion

Now that you know about four cool methods of getting unlimited ideas for your blog content, start writing your first post right away!