This is an unusual post and trust me there is a lot of wisdom in it.

Over the years I had the great pleasure of mentoring and coaching a lot of aspiring bloggers. Some became a successful and others just gave up and struggle to this day.

Occasionally some people ask me why they have failed as bloggers?. My answer is how much commitment did they have for the cause on hand.

When I ask that question instantly they say, we struggled for 3~6 months but we could not make any money, so we gave up.

If you carefully study all the successful bloggers who make a lot of money online there is a common pattern that that you can find
across all of them and that is, they all blog because they’re passionate about the subject. They hardly care if they make any money are not. Money for them is secondary, just a byproduct of their hard work.

Side Note: the top 10 bloggers in the world have custom themes for their blog

John Chow went on record to explain how it took one year for him to make his first dollar from his blog. During that entire year John kept on blogging and making at least two posts a day on his blog without expecting any money in return. John’s is a common story and every bloggers who has really made it to the top has struggled, myself included.

Just to give you an idea, on a given day I try to make about a minimum of three posts on this blog if you see the right column you will see that there are not that many comments on each of the posts, yet I continue to blog because I really do not know what else to do with my dead time other than just blog.

Also if I look back and see why I had been successful with some of my blogs I see a common pattern there again. The blogs into which I have put a lot of money are the ones that are doing really fine. Any blog that I ever set up for which I just downloaded and installed wordpress and a free theme are not doing that well.

My observation is big investment usually means longer stickiness.

Again this is my observation I’m not saying that you will not be successful using free themes or a free blog platform that’s not the point. It all about how much commitment you have for the cause.

I spent $,$$$ for custom creating this blog theme. At the time of creation of the theme I just had about 10 posts. I never had an idea that I would come this far but I had a vision and the willpower to do whatever it takes to make this blog successful.

I don’t expect you to spend $2000 for creating a custom theme but I do expect that you have a $2000+ commitment or more before you expect any kind of success from your blog.

Responsibly hand crating means you have good content, good presentation, good engagement and good feedback mechanisms on your blog.

Remember, with great success comes great responsibility.

One thing is very clear The more emotional and financial commitment you have in your blog the more successful you will be.

No questions about that.