It’s a fact, at some point in your blogging career you will loose interest or grow tired of your blog and the niche it’s in. The usual advice is to take a break, go and post some comments, read other blogs for ideas or write a lame list post. I’ve used this advice a couple of times and it hasn’t worked. In fact, I’ve often ended up wanting to ditch my blog even more. About a month ago I started thinking of ways to combat the blogging blues, to get straight to the point, the best way I found was to create another make money blogging blog.
Now this might sound strange. Why would I want to create another blog in a niche that I’m temporarily not enjoying? Well, I discovered that it wasn’t the niche that was getting me down, it was my post research and writing style that I sometimes got tired off. Funk13 is more of a facts and ideas kind of blog, I give advice and tips but rarely share my thoughts and opinions on issues in the make money blogging world. My new blog however enabled my to create a more relaxed kind of blog, a blog that’s more orientated towards my personality. I found that expressing my opinions on one blog and giving advice on another has really helped take a way the repetitive nature of make money blogging. If I can’t find anything to post about on Funk13, I go ahead and post on Funk13’s evil twin. After writing my evil post, I usually find that I can write a more practical post on here.
Running two blogs isn’t as hard as you might think. It’s even easier because they are both in the same niche. If I write a post on here I can easily go ahead and write a more light hearted version on my other blog. Try it, you’ll see what I mean. Having two different style blogs in the same niche also introduces you to the different types of blogger, bloggers who come here would probably hate my ”evil” blog and vice versa. A great things is, I now have a make money blog that can I try and monetize to death. It’s a place where I can try out different make money plans on. I haven’t started to monetize this place properly yet. But when that time comes, because I’ve tried things over at Mr.Evil, I’ll have a better understanding of what might just work.
I’m not saying that this is going to be the end of all of your blogging troubles, you might think it’s a terrible idea. The most important thing is though, it’s helped me almost completely eliminate the blogging blues which can only benefit my main make money online blog, Funk13.com
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May 29th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I know what you mean, I have just done the same thing as you.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
It is all about keeping some kind of plan or schedule and not let one suffer.
I find it good when you have a few on the go, if one is not really doing it for you on that given day, work on the other one.
Nice post.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Perhaps I should make a site called “not-so-grandmasterb.com”?
It could be GMB’s evil side where he points out sucky website designs and trashes them in the process!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Ha! Good idea. Its like find a partner for your blog;-)
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:39 am
Hey Funk…did you just republish this to your new blog? I like the new theme! Simple but elegant.
I am not sure what your other blog is, but it definitely does help to have two. That is the main reason I created BuzzPirates.com. My primary blog is pretty serious, and I make an effort to write well thought out and articulate posts. I needed an outlet were I could joke around, be funny, or even stupid. BuzzPirates.com just make makes fun of the latest news and gossip. It was the perfect answer for me.
Good luck with your new blog.