Professional Blogging and Homelessness: Why few succeed and many continue to fail
Everyone makes mistakes when they first begin blogging. There's the 'teeth cutting' period. I see hundreds of sites weekly that are given up by people with unique material out of discouragement.
It's the mindset that self professed professional bloggers have created that new bloggers buy in to. Dreams of leaving day jobs, of being able to work at home...when the reality of having to self educate hits hard most can't stay the course.
One web directory giving promises of high returns of visitors (sometimes with disclaimers in small print at the bottom), promises of being Paid Per Post by advertising middle men taking their cut...the simple truth is that when a person starts thinking of blogging as a business...they need to professionally evaluate if they can self manage themselves.
Everyone can be a blogger. Everyone can create online accounts.
The difference between everyone and the professionals is tenacity.
It's the same thing with people experiencing homelessness. They fall into three categories.
1.) Those that break the cycle on their own volition.
2.) Those that do by being inspired by others that have.
3.) Those that never do.