5 Reasons Why Part Time Blogging Rocks

Everyday people start new blogs. Also, everyday a new blogger enters the blogosphere. Not all of them earn enough money to quit their day jobs. In fact 99% people don’t earn enough money from blogging. As a result of this, few of them quit blogging. The remaining bloggers stay as part time bloggers. Though part time blogging can be tough, it has so many advantages, and also helps in you in many ways.

I’m a part time blogger and freelance writer. Though, I find it difficult at times to blog part time, it has helped me in ways. It isn’t that full time blogging doesn’t rock. In fact it is completely awesome. But part time blogging, unlike how others see it, it does rock. Let me tell you how you are benefited and what advantages you have as a part time blogger.

1. Time management
Blogging needs hard work at the beginning, especially during the first 10 days during which you have to do writing, marketing, blog commenting, socializing and also drive traffic to your blog. After days pass by, you can cut the time you spend on them. Still, you would be in need of a minimum of 1-2 hours for blogging. The time you have after you finish you day job is less. In that less time, you have to spend at least help of it with your family. So how much time have you got remaining? Surely less than 2 hours. In order to achieve everything, you need to plan and have a schedule. Doing this will help you in achieving your goals in a short span of time.

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2. Good habits
You tend to pick up good habits like getting up early, using every single minute of your precious time etc. Getting up early is not very easy unless you have to finish something within a period of time. Since you have got less time for blogging, you will be able to get up early. The less time you have to do things, the more active you will be. As the saying goes:
Necessity is the mother of invention

When there is necessity, you will take action.

3. Helps to promote your primary job
Blogs have been used and are still used as a tool to promote one’s primary job. If you are a web designer or a consulting agent, you can promote your business using blogs. Many people have blogs that help them to grow their business. If you don’t believe it, you should ask to a person who uses his/her blog to get freelance work proposals.

4. You aren’t totally dependent on the income from your blog
Blogging will be a good way to make money in the coming years too. But due to some unavoidable reasons, you may be taken to a situation where you have to quit your blog. As a part time blogger, you don’t totally depend on the income from blogging. So you need not care when you are in a situation to quit blogging. Indeed if you are earning a living from blogging, you can quit your day job.

5. You don’t get discouraged when your income decreases
When you are a full time blogger and depend on the income from blogging alone, there are more chances of you getting discouraged when the income level drops. As a part time blogger, you don’t really need to worry about it. It is just an additional income for you. When you are earning $5,000+ from home working full time and the next month you see that your income drops to $4000, you will be really discouraged. But if you are earning $1000 blogging part time and if it decreases to $800, it doesn’t matter much.

In this post, I don’t mean to say that full time bloggers don’t rock or they don’t have any advantage by blogging full time. I, being a part time blogger and freelance writer, know how good it is to be a part time blogger. What type of blogger are you, part time blogger or full time blogger? Do you enjoy blogging part time? Have you every felt the above benefits? Please share it in the comments.