Blogger or Free Lancer --- Time to Choose

I want to be a Blogger...no, I guess I should go for Free Lancing? Is this question bugging you? Yes, it should because it is extremely important and in fact this is what you need to address before you make a career choice. It could get difficult to decide ones side hobby for yourself; a hobby that can make a difference in your life, in the future.
The purpose of this article is to differentiate between Blogging and Free Lancing Carriers. Both are great. But both are not for everybody. Indeed you have to work hard to get to an appreciable point, whether in blogging or freelancing. It is said:
Being an entrepreneur is about living a few years of your life like most wont, so that you can live the rest like most can’t.
Blogging is when you start a blog, on a topic that you could write the most, whereas, free lancing can be of many types. You could be a free lancer for 3d Modeling, coding or making iPhone applications. So it is totally up to you. But for the sake of simplicity, I would be comparing the writing carriers, as blogging is entirely a writing carrier, where you have to speak up your mind through words.
So let’s see if you want to differentiate between a blogger and an article writer as a free lancer. For the ones who don't know Freelancing, it’s basically working for people online for their set jobs. The most popular freelancing sites are Elance and Freelancer.
You search for the topics that you are interested to write on, and you would get different jobs, posted by other people. A person starts by biding on the job while keeping in mind other bids people have already made. Like say, the job poster mentioned his budget range for which he can hire writers. Say (500-1000$). Now people would bid. Each job on Elance has the highest, Average and lowest bid shown with it.
So starters usually bid low, so that they could get the job easily. Each freelancer has his own portfolio (profile page) from which his expertise can be judged. So this is a general background of freelancing.
Let’s compare blogging and freelancing now.
Blogging can be more challenging then free lancing career. The actual results that you start to get for a particular blog is no less than 6-8 months. And this period is of extreme posting with proper SEO. Otherwise it could take a year to just start getting the feel of blogging.
As building traffic is hard to achieve and requires true level of commitment, you won’t be getting any sum of money before a whole dry year; an extremely boring one. You would almost leave blogging on every day that you rise. It’s just how it goes. But those who stick to it get what most cant.

On the other hand, setting up an Elance account takes less than an hour, with your all portfolio set. You bid for jobs and mostly you get few within 7-15 days period. Depending upon your profile and biding rates.

You would have written hundreds of quality articles on your blog, but you won’t be getting any sum before a proper year of handwork. On the other hand, people on Elance offer 20-40$ for a single quality article that the writer writes. So just say you could make fast money while free lancing, supposing your portfolio is a good one.

On the other hand, most of us got our first Adsense cheques 6-8 months after we started blogging. So blogging is not a fast way to get into money business, but indeed it grows exponentially in later years. This is the power of blogging.

While on Elance, you might make a hell lot more than you would in first year of blogging still that would be it. We in fact can’t judge blogging and freelancing carries right away as it depends upon every individual that what suites best for him. But just to note, that you can’t make those 22,000$ each day with freelancing profile that you could get in blogging carrier.

To summarize, it depends what level of targets you have set for your selves. So it is the right time for you to decide, Blogging or Freelancing?

4-What is Blogger or Word press?

These are the major blogging platforms which help you create a free Blog. But if you are confused which one to start with then go for Blogger. It has many features which word press doesn’t have and the best part is that Blogger allows you to customize your template in any way you like by editing the CSS style sheet! So what are you looking? Start blogging now and build up a new cyber life. Best of luck!

2- How do I create a Blog?

Creating a blog is absolutely free. There are many quality Blogging hosting services that you can choose to create a blog but the best among them is Blogger. I have created this blog with Blogger without even paying a penny! Want to know how?
All you need to do is go to www.blogger.com and sign up for a free account. Fill up the vacant blanks, submit the form and give your blog a name. Amazingly within seconds you will have your blog up and running with a unique web address.


Then after the successful publication of your blog the next step is to customize it to your preferences in order to give your blog a more professional look and feel that may go according to your blog’s topic theme. And then, comes the best part .i.e. monetizing your blog.
In a nutshell:

 1-Set up a blog and start writing on a topic you are good at.

 2-Customize it, giving your blog a pro touch.

 3-Monetize it to start earning in dollars.

3-What is the advantage of blogging?

You pay nothing Instead you earn in $$!! You earn by displaying advertisements on your Blog. People are earning from $100 to $100,000 monthly! I am not kidding an example is shoemoney.com and problogger.net
Plus you will make new friends in the Blogosphere and you earn respect in the eyes of thousands of people. You can become a celebrity! But you can achieve all this with a little hard work and great patience.
Revenue is not the only advantage of blogging. There are dozens of other good blessings of setting up a blog .By blogging you share your limited knowledge to an online crazy crowd of more than 1.67 billion people, all desperate to know what you have got! As an author you need to communicate with visitors from different countries, continents, race, color and creed. Blogosphere is indeed a multi cultural environment where everyday delivers a new message and where there is a lot to share and explore. You will make new friends every second and will develop a stronger and firm social character. You develop a versatile tone of dealing with people of any age and color. Your writings, social character and personality will reflect your sense of intellect and each single day you will meet your friends and family, you will sound bolder.
And the best advantage is that you learn every second online! Your internet and computer skills will improve to an extreme edge and this is what the coming era demands from you. Every second on blogging is undoubtedly a new experience!

1-Introduction to Blogs

There are many people who still do not understand what a blog is or why is blogging so much expanding in the cyberspace. I feel all these people deserve the right to know what a Blog is and how can a Blog be created along with some other similar questions. So for those who just heard of a Blog from their friends, media or any other source, here is a short and precise illustrative tutorial to help you find answers to four important questions in most people’s mind.

Which is:

• What is a Blog and Blogosphere?

Now here come some useful answers for each demanded question.

What is a Blog and Blogosphere?

A blog is nothing but an Online Notebook Diary. What do we write in a notebook diary? Of course; stuff that we like and things that we feel important to be recorded and shared with our friends and family. A notebook diary can be based on any topic that you like for example you can write on your hobbies, activities, poems, songs, tutorials, pets, home and family, your personal thoughts etc. People will read your Online Notebook Diary on daily basis and will leave you a comment, suggestion or feedback.

If you write about your personal experiences in a notebook made up of papers, then your writings will reach only limited people around you but with an online diary like a Blog you speak to the world!

So in short a blog is your Personal website where you write and share things you like with millions of people out there who are eager to read what is cooking in your mind! . Blogosphere, in simple words, means the world of blogging and bloggers. It is the bloggers’ community where you can find the blogs of all sorts.