Want To Work From Anywhere As A Location Independent Blogger? Read This First.

This post is the second in the Work From Anywhere/Extra Income Ideas series where I’ll be providing details on how you can move towards a location independent lifestyle and have the freedom to work from anywhere and travel the world – as and when you please. This weeks topic is blogging. (Yes, thats me below at my ever messy desk…if anyone has seen my scissors, let me know…)

If you asked anyone these days if they know someone who blogs, you’d pretty much get a ‘yes’ every time – there’s no doubt about it, blogging has taken off in a big way. And the great thing about it is that anyone can do it – no matter your age or technical ability – and be successful. Success means different things to different people of course, and while many people get into blogging simply to share stories with the world or reach out to friends and family living thousands of miles away, many others start blogging to make a new career for themselves. They want the freedom to be able to work from anywhere in the world and make lots of money while doing it.

I think a lot of people hear about others out there making decent money and assume that if they set up a simple blog and update it once a week that they will miraculously become millionaires within a year. There is one simple fact that they have managed to block out however, and that is that making money from blogging is not easy. You never hear about the number of hours thats gone into growing a successful blog and you certainly don’t hear about the late nights spent at your laptop when everyone else in your house is fast asleep or the sacrifices made. Blogging is not an easy ride, so understandably it’s going to take time to be earning income from it. It’s not all doom and gloom though, the great thing is that if you can get your head around these realities, then it certainly is possible to make money, and not only that – if you have the drive and hunger to succeed then you can make a LOT of money blogging.

I started Woman Seeks World with the hope of it one day allowing me to be able to work from anywhere and support my location independent lifestyle. There are a lot of other (and easier!) ways to achieve this goal (see this post if you want to know what they are!), but for me, I’m passionate about the creativity that goes into blogging and writing to an audience that it was a no brainer that this was the path for me.

If you are thinking you would also like to start a blog to one day achieve location independence, then my advice would be to start as early as you can. Start now! Blogging is about consistency and building an audience, so the sooner you can start to engage people and build your reputation and brand, the better.

If you have an idea for your blog already then that’s great! If not, focus on finding an area that interests you and start brainstorming everything about it – get the creative juices flowing and you’ll be surprised what you come up with! Make sure it’s a topic you are 100% committed to though – you might discover an untapped niche that you think could make a lot of money, but if in six months you are completely bored and have run out of motivation to write any more about it, then it’s never going to make you rich, so you might as well choose something you love because it’s this love and passion that will make you successful, not the idea itself.

There is no way that I can ever cover everything you need to know about blogging in this one post, so it’s something I’ll be writing about regularly from now on. I don’t proclaim to have all the answers, but I have done a lot of research and learnt some things the hard way in the last six months, so if I can help someone just starting out to navigate their way through the blogging maze a little quicker or easier, then great.

Just remember, making money from blogging is not only possible, it’s pretty much guaranteed if you have the drive to make it a successful business. And what’s even better about blogging is that it allows you to work from anywhere in the world and be involved in something that you’ve created from scratch in an area you love. Whats not to love about a career like that?!

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