In 2009, the job market has resulted in a ton of layoffs for journalists, many print newspapers and magazines went out of business.

Writers who worked for these media didn’t just sit there and wait, they take their skills to the Internet and start to blog. It was a big booming in the year 2010.

Just like reality TV has now become a career pursuit for some young adults, blogging is being viewed as a potential income source for those who don’t want to take the regular route to financial success.

However, as far as I see those new bloggers, most of them are scared of entering into certain market because they think there is nothing left to be written.

If you are a new blogger who is reading this article, keep reading.

If you are thinking the market is saturated already, it is too difficult to get your feet into the competitive blogging world, don’t give up. Do your homework and look at it from another perspective; twist it somehow.

Look into the dimension of your blog’s design, figure out what you want to write about, and which niche you want to be in first.

After that, do a search on the net and find out all the blogs in the same industry, put their information into an excel sheet, and add all the important dimensions you can think of, and then start to test them from the perspective of be a reader.

During your evaluating process, ask yourself this question,

“What readers actually want if they come to your blog?”

Put down the values from 1 to 10 in all the dimensions, such as the quality of its content, the layout, blog design.

You also need to look into whether it is search engine friendly or not, the quality of the products they offer etc for all the blogs (that you put in your excel sheet). You can use 10 as high level, 1 as low-level.

Do some research; think about about how and what your blog will bring value to your readers, reconsider the important points in the low-level dimensions group.

After you get this work done, you can start the blog and fill the gap.

In regarding to which niche to get into, the best suggestion I can give to you is to go into the niche you are PASSIONATE about, which means you want to enter to a niche where you truly have a PASSION for it.

You can start a blog about Doritoes potato chips if you passionate about it, and once it get rolling with traffic, wait and see how much others will pay you to own it.

Do the things that you passionate about is important, because it can into frequent blog posts to help you build a loyal and enthusiastic like-minded core audience, which will grow like a wildfire.

When that traffic hits a certain numbers, competitors will come knocking at your door and hoping to make an acquisition, funnel that traffic to their own interests.

About other bloggers, you really don’t need to worry about, because many of them you’ll be competing with won’t have the marketing savvy and insight to monetize their blogs as yours, so initially they may not see the same financial success.

However, don’t count them out either, especially if they’re fierce about feeding the Googlebots with constant content, and they’re not hyping up their reviews in a way that violates current FTC Rules.

Even now is September, it is still the time to start your blog. Take a look of past and ahead, the past has lessons teach you, and the future is waiting for you – it is wide open with possibilities, opportunities, challenges and successes.

Beside that, your goal for the rest of the year as a blogger should be to continue leaving breadcrumbs on a daily basis for search engine spiders as well.

Those interesting stats are courtesy of 2009 State of the Blogosphere by Technorati. Do take some time to read and absorb the stats and draw whatever conclusions you will have.

* More than 133,000,000 blogs have been indexed by Technorati since 2002
* 77% of Internet users read blogs according to Universal McCann
* Two-thirds of Bloggers are male (ladies, where are you? Time to start Blogging!)
* More than half are married and more than half are parents
* 60% are 18-44
* 75% have college degrees and 40% have graduate degrees
* One in four has an annual household income of $100K+
* Around half of Bloggers are working on at least their second blog
* 68% have been blogging for two years or more
* 86% have been blogging for at least a year
* 70% of all respondents say that personal satisfaction is a way they measure the success of their blog
* 72% say they blog in order to share their expertise.
* 61% say they blog in order to supplement their income.
* 53% of professional Bloggers are interested in attracting new clients from blogging.
* 72% of those who are self-employed and blogging are interested in attracting new clients.
* 57% say that their future plans include blogging even more (including 74% of 18-24 year olds).
* Part-Timers, Pros, and Self-Employed Bloggers are blogging as much as or more than ever (73%, 76% and 80%, respectively), while Hobbyists are blogging somewhat less.
* 15% of Bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging.
* One in five Bloggers report updating on a daily basis.
* The most common rate of updating is 2-3 times per week.
* The majority of blogs use tags (85%).
* 82% of respondents say that they post photos to their blog, making images the most popular form of multimedia.
* Bloggers participate in an average of 5 activities to drive traffic to their blogs.
* 72% of respondents are classified as Hobbyists, meaning that they report no income related to blogging
* 54% are Part-Timers
* 32% are Self-Employed Bloggers
* 14% are Corporate Bloggers
* 51% of Corporate Bloggers – 58 respondents – report receiving a salary for blogging.
* 56% say that their blog has helped their company establish a positioning as a thought leader within the industry.
* 58% say that they are better-known in their industry because of their blog

If you haven’t read one of my previous posts on Stop Waste Time and Start to Your Blog, please check it out.

No matter what you interest are, whether you interested in religion, law, history, philosophy – all kinds of things. You know by blogging, you can get to reflect on issues that interest you and thereby clarify your own thoughts, with the bonus that thoughtful people might interact with you.

Unfortunately, many people out there are tend to think – who has time for this blogging work? Well, a dedicated 30 minutes out of your day to post on your blog, get it indexed by afternoon (Google tends to index blogs very fast) with a great keyword phrase ranking can bring you customers by evening.

If you are new to all those blogging things, please read this Previous Blogging Post.

For many of you, you know you should blog, you know blogging is good for market your business, and in fact, to start blogging is not difficult at all, it is really that simple.

The only thing you need to is that before you start your blog, the very step is to ask yourself: Why are you Blogging and what do you hope to accomplish? Do you want:

* To build brand awareness
* To improve customer relations
* To get new clients/make sales
* To boost search engine rankings
* To show knowledge & earn credibility

Or for any other reasons …

Once you get your question answered, then start to How to Crate a Blog that Wows and Inspires.

Maybe you were one of them or perhaps you’ve started up your blog more recently or are considering getting one up and running soon. Either way, the chances are that you’ve pondered one big blogging question – how can you turn your blog posts into cash?

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about this two different methodologies. If you blog for money then your business model is based on the content, by this, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts. As we see, in most cases, people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Because of perceived value, experts enjoy the perks of preeminence and higher conversion rates, thus, it’s easier for them to get publicity, In the other words, experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something – experience. No person can becomes an expert without doing things and learning. For new bloggers, in general case, they start their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again). There is nothing wrong with that, for many people, before you build up some expertise, it’s actually a necessity thing to do at first.

Unfortunately, when it comes to reporters and experts, the ratios are pretty skewed, there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle in order to gain attention, and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a ‘guru’ (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, often time the view a student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry – the internet marketing industry – not realizing that without expert status, it’s hard to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, let’s say, growing an email list of 1,000 people, for example, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, but the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche – Internet Mrketing – and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

Do you know how many products out there that claim to teach the same things – email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of internet marketing? There are lot, it’s a saturated market, when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it – making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) – your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is Not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you actualy can use the things that you learn to create your own blog.

Exampke, if you learn a technique from an expert, you should take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things by using your opinions, your stories, and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough, one day when you wake up, you may heard others call you an expert too without even realizing how it happened.

You Know You are Already an Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert anyway), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you, you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learn along your journey.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise. If all you ever do is to talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, then you haven’t hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting is a Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from ‘scratch’, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases, people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others. It’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

Finally, there are a number of great ways to create and market your blog, convert your random musings into cold hard cash. It is actually a pretty straightforward in creating a rather good income from blog writing, and surprisingly the secret is little to do with being a great author or writer. Instead it’s just a case of knowing how to start and construct your blog in a compelling way that builds readership and creates trust.

It means if you have a Google Blogger account, now you can monetize your content by adding relevant Amazon products to your blog posts without interrupting the blog editing process.

For example, if your blog is about shoes and handbags, you can make money by easily adding Amazon’s products to your site, such as Madden Girl Women’s Jaylyne Flat Scrunch Boot or Steve Madden Ruffles Satchel,Black,one size

This new tool allows Bloggers to add links and images to their blog posts in just 2 easy steps:

1. Bloggers highlight the relevant text and the Amazon Product Finder will search Amazon’s millions of products and recommend the ones that are most closely associated with the text.

2. Bloggers can then insert a link or image to that product which includes their Associates ID, enabling them to earn up to 15% in referral fees from Amazon.

You will also be able to show dynamic content in your blog sidebar using a new set of integrated Sidebar gadgets, such as gadgets for MP3 clips from the Amazon DRM-free music store, an Amazon Deals Gadget , and an Amazon Search box.

Also as part of this new integration, Bloggers who don’t have a free Amazon associates account can create one directly within Blogger.