Is Your Blog a Business or A Purpose?

The “Purpose” of this blog is to help people. The “business” of this blog is to make money.

But the irony is…when you focus on purpose you lose money. When you focus on money you lose the purpose.

How To achieve a balance between both?. People who usually go after the purpose make more money than people who go after the business. There are a few countable number of people who have done businesses with a purpose that is larger than money in life. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey in the big league and count less other people whose names are not in the public.

They say passion can survive any adversity.

Look at the right column of this blog. You will see a bunch of posts with zero comments. Read this entire blog and you will see the content, after all is not that bad. In fact I’m planning to move the entire content into a membership section on this site and charge a monthly fee for it, its that good. No jokes.

But still people ask me, how can I stay positive day after day, everyday and stay active on this site when there is no one commenting or interacting with me?

At the core of all this, I have a burning desire to share what I know about how to make money online. Help aspiring entrepreneurs to make money online. Teach them to live a darn good life and live a life on their own terms. That is a big purpose, Because my purpose is big I really don’t care how many comments I get for each post I make. How many people trash my ideas in the short run and how many don’t take me seriously.

Now that’s passion. I blog becuase I’m passionate about the world of blogging, I truly believe that blogs are the catalysts that connect common people to the big media. Bridge the gap between technology and human interactions and certainly can create full time and part time income for organizations and individuals alike in many a different ways.

If you have a blog or you identify yourself as a blogger or thought leader but are not making any money. I want you to ask this question to yourself. Was your purpose bigger than the money you were expecting to make from your blog?

If the answer is YES, its a matter of time. You are on the right track. All you have to do is, not drop the ball in the middle. If the answer is a NO then you have to make a simple change and that is.. re-define or define your purpose before you go any further.

on a side note:

If you think you don’t have passion? don’t worry there are about 60 million people there trying..Technorati says out of the 75 milllion blogs only 15.5 million blogs are active.

Want to know how many people are making money from blogging or at least trying to do so? Technorati says out of 2 Billion web pages only 200 million pages don’t have the word “Money” on them.