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Since Heather has worked full-time on the site, which garners up to two million pageviews a month. In April this year, she announced she was getting back to her roots: Instead, she would be earning an income elsewhere, by speaking, writing and consulting, and the blog would be just that — a blog.

Will you shut it down? What is your last post going to say? I have no intention of shutting this space down. There are too many memories in these pages, and frankly, I still like to write stories. I still have a few contracts that I need to see to completion, and I will continue posting here. What is it like to wind down a commercial machine and broaden your income horizons elsewhere? Is this the new normal? I was just going to write stories until forever. I am opening the heart of who I am and how I feel and that that has carried me through the ups and downs and valleys and peaks.

No actually, I never really did it. A big part of mormon culture is journaling. I kinda failed at that. One of the few points of mormonism I failed at, as I excelled at every other point! I knew I kinda liked to write. There was an underground newspaper I found out about, and I wrote several articles for this newspaper, and I realised people thought it was funny.

Nowadays you just cannot make a living off of banner advertising, you have to do sponsored posts. That kind of writing and selling alone with stories of your family will definitely take a toll on anyone who writes about their family for a living. Once it was just me at home with the children, I no longer could keep up with the schedule I had in place before he left.

I was the only one to take care of it. People noticed when I published less often, and and complained, but I was like: It meant that I was panicking to come up with content — what can I do? What can I write about this week? Bloggers are on a hamster wheel which is going faster and faster and faster. There was a time when we loved every minute of it, we would gush and say oh my god, we love it.

But I do love a bigger story. It put a knife into it and let it bleed out. This has all turned into something we never intended it to be. Those of us who were writing at the start, we never intended it to look like this at all. Did we ride the wave of this success? I have spent the last 18 months of my life in an absolute panic.

I was talking to someone recently, and they asked if there was a segment of the population that are ridiculous in terms of their criticism of what you do — and there is. I used to do that. Our work is everywhere. Now you have to do Pinterest and Facebook and Twitter, and each one of those audiences is very different. Taking care of each audience takes up its own time. This is what the Facebook audience wants, that sort of thing. Everything is at an accelerated rate because basically you have to take care of seven blogs.

I guess it all depends on whether you want to make money. If you do, you can get into a niche that is sustainable. Start a fashion or DIY blog and hire a team of people. In , I was the first personal website to take advertising. One of the most important things I can do for myself, and the most feminist thing I can do for myself, and I can ask myself this as a white woman in America — is ask: I wanted to do something different.

As their mother and as their feminist? What do you want to do to your children?

What do you want them to learn about this? Here I have how many years of experience, and an untapped audience who have no idea who I am, but I have all these stories to tell.

I mean, I still plan to write a story on the blog when the stories need to be told, but I can tell them in different formats now. But with speaking… I gave a very small version of an upcoming talk to the audience at Alt Summit in Salt Lake City. So what do you think? Are you disillusioned with the turn blogging has taken?

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Or are you enjoying the new road? Stacey is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger. I think blogging as a business is very all-encompassing. Working with brands on sponsorships is one piece of the puzzle.

But so are ads, and outside writing gigs and products virtual or otherwise. Blogging has changed a lot since the beginning. But I love getting to make my own schedule, choosing who I work with and creating for a living.

But then again I started a DIY blog specifically to be a business. My heart goes out to Heather and those who were sharing personal stories as their blog. That definitely has to be a hard way to do it. Well, my blog oplevelserogefterskole. So far I find blogging fun, but if I loose interest I will quit — i do this just for fun. I tried doing more and turned into a mad woman. Finding that sweet spot helps ward off burn-out, at least for now. Thanks again for the great interview. Great insights into long term blogging, I am at 3 years and still enjoying it, but I get the pressure!

Seriously though — blogging is a great way to engage but I am moving more and more to writing books and putting my writing, editing and publishing skills out there in this format.

There is simply no effective way to monetize blogging that is sustainable long term unless you break through as a mega star. That said, I love the idea of regular free content sharing and that is why I have moved to podcasting — I can still put the thoughts and content out there, but it is nowhere near as time intensive.

I can create a podcast as I am doing and literally engage people from then on. Crafting a decent blogpost take considerably longer — and it steals content that might otherwise make great book content.

I think your experience is quite a common one and the move to podcasting is smart! It can be a tough gig to monetize sustainably long term and it can really wear you down. I can give you far more accurate and far better copy ProBlogger. Thank you so much for this post, it really resonated with me.

I prefer to pursue paid opportunities elsewhere for now and keep my blog for me and my readers. I do love those breaks though: Thanks for an insightful post! I really was thinking of quitting blogging. Somehow it was draining me, i had no time for any other thing. This is just the inspiration i was needing. Thanks alot for this post! I just keep on moving ahead, thinking up new ideas and thinking outside the square. I make that choice and keep on going because this is what I want to be doing.

I am not a professional blogger yet but through articles like this I am learning more and more by the day. Just an example of the self absorbed attitude that bloggers can end up getting sucked into. I completely LOVE my job! I can work while I watch them do their swimming lessons the pool has great free WIFI , while we are on vacation, when they are sleeping, or when they are watching a movie sitting next to me on the couch of course, always one that is incredibly educational ;.

I also love the changes and challenges that come with a job that is constantly having to readjust to the technology or fast moving algorithm shifts because it means I am constantly learning and can never be complacent. I do think this interview brings up a good point about blogger burnout though. Yes, everybody has a different experience of it! At its core, writing is communication. It is about recording thoughts on paper and compelling others to agree with them.

To that end, writing just like every other form of communication that has ever existed improves with practice. Because the process of writing includes recording thoughts on paper, the blogging process encourages you to stop and think deeper. You will delve deeper into the matters of your life and the worldview that shapes them.

And that just may be reason enough to get started. By necessity, blogging requires a filter. Instead, blogging is a never-ending process of choosing to articulate the most meaningful events and the most important thoughts. This process of choice helps you develop an eye for meaningful things. Blogging requires time, devotion, commitment, and discipline. And just to be clear, those are all good things to embrace — they will help you get the most out of your days and life.

Whether it be through comments, e-mails, or social media, you may be surprised at how quickly you meet people on-line. And by meet people, I mean legitimately form relationships that seek to serve one another.

The blogging community is friendly, encouraging, and genuinely cheering for you to succeed—the only thing missing is you.

In fact, sometimes making money from your blog can actually start to distract you from the joy that you found in the first place. Blogging not only changes your life, it also changes the life of the reader. And because blogs are free for the audience and open to the public, on many levels, it is an act of giving. It is a selfless act of service to invest your time, energy, and worldview into a piece of writing and then offer it free to anybody who wants to read it.

After all, blogging is an exercise in give-and-take. One of the greatest differences between blogging and traditional publishing is the opportunity for readers to offer input.

You take time to lay out a subject in the minds of your readers and offer your thoughts on the topic.

Then, the readers get to respond. And often times, their responses in the comment section challenge us to take a new, fresh look at the very topic we thought was so important in the first place.

Your blog can begin today without spending a single penny now or ever. I use WordPress and highly recommend it. I use and recommend Bluehost. Blogging introduces yourself to the world. It causes you to articulate the life you live and the worldview behind the decisions that you make. Whether you have 1 reader or 10,, the blogging process opens up your life to those on the outside.

It is a good exercise in human-existence to be known by others. Blogging serves many of the same roles as a personal journal. It trains us to be observant and gives weight to the personal growth that we are experiencing. It trains our minds to track life and articulate the changes we are experiencing. Blogging will help you discover more confidence in your life.

You will quickly realize that you do live an important life with a unique view and have something to offer others. We all love to recommend something we have found enjoyable or beneficial—whether it be a nice restaurant, a good book, or a new outlook on life. The fullness of joy is not experienced until we have shared that joy with others.

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A blog provides an opportunity to do that very thing. It provides a platform to share the joy we have experienced and recommend good things we have discovered to others. OMG…omg…yes…yes they did just give Dooce 15 life lessons about blogging. When I was seriously blogging years ago — I had a six-year blog — I can add that everything you say is true. Especially trying to make a personal blog a business, I think that would be incredibly challenging.

This was a great interview and had me hooked from the start! I have to say that the content creation hamster wheel is REAL and can definitely burn you out. This also makes it easier to bring in guest writers, too. Seriously happy that dooce is realizing she can step off the hamster wheel and create the life she wants! Such an interesting take. The face of blogging changes so much — I would never have imagined.

I only really started blogging in November last year and I love the challenges it presents with having to work on so many difference facets — not just my writing. This has made me realise the importance of keeping my day job though. While blogging full time is my goal, I am also lucky enough to have a job that is vastly different and that I can reduce my hours to say, 1 day a week.

I wish Heather all the best in her new purists and look forward to hopefully meeting her at PB next week and you too of course Stacey!!! Interesting to read that sponsored posts are viewed as the only way to make money now?

What about affiliate income? I got a lot of waste of time enquiries about placing sponsored posts on my site. Yet they want do follow links which is contrary to Google guidelines.

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Heather has seen such a transformation in the online world. I agree with the sentiment of such as Instagram, sanitised pictures of beauty and desirability. Where is the reality? I never really got into IG and think FB is such a changed beast it is hard to find a strategy to work without paying for success.

A personality, a truth, a human connection. I myself have put the brakes on for a while. I love my blog but I also know it is and was incredibly time intensive. So glad you saw that burnout coming! It can make all the difference when you can take some time out. And agree — those dofollow requests have got to STOP. This article hits the nail on the head. I truly miss when blogging was just about sharing. When interaction from readers was real and not based on SEO. This job is not easy.

I NEED time to focus on my family without the constant hamster wheel cranking in my brain. Thanks for the article. Ok, I do love this piece. Heather broke it down the crux of what every blogger goes through: Our blogs should be run as a business: Facebook is my One Thing. I stay current with it, and occasionally post to Pinterest via Ahalogy. And I do video tutorials.

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But I skip over Instagram. I enjoyed reading this. I have been reading Dooce on and off for about 8 years, and it is interesting to read the story behind. I started a paper quilling craft blog several years ago.

Almost 2 years ago I changed to self hosted so I could start a more professional blog and make some income as well.

I am a teacher by training, and it has been great teaching people on my blog through tutorials. It combines my love of teaching with crafting! Bloggers are losing readership because people get tired of reading the same stuff. Dooce might think about expanding her universe, and not just in terms of free trips with celebrites or sponsored posts.

I was going to start blogging again to build an audience, authority, a network and then start developing services sometime next year. This article, plus a lunch with a friend, has helped me re-evaluate the strategy.

I will start writing very focused information and how-to posts and start moving on the services from day one. In that way, I do not have to worry about advertising, affiliates and sponsored content. It will be tougher and I will have to buy in help, but thinking it through it is a better plan. I really enjoyed this article. However it has opened up some great opportunities. I once got to speak at a conference and it lead to a great contract blogging for company that I love.

BUT since I blog about our full time travels as a family even for the company I wrote for it can be a bit much at times. Wait, working life as a year old single person is different than for a year old parent?

Get out of town with that crazy notion! They do all of that in an environment that is generally considerably less flexible than that enjoyed by bloggers or other people who work from home having done both I have some perspectives on the perks of each. Having a job is hard. None of us are mining for coal so the whining is maybe a bit over the top. This whole post is just ridiculously tone deaf and entitled; no wonder nobody reads Dooce any more. Asking yourself if your job makes you happy is not feminist at all, let alone the most feminist thing a person can do.

I make a little money but to do that of course, I have deadlines that fill up the calendar and cause pressure…the work often bleeds over into my weekend and sometimes I find myself preparing for life- — staging life- instead of simply living.

Is that burn out or just poor work-life balance? What a self-centered POV! Some people may take this as blogger burnout or the death of blogs, but I take it as a natural progression. Her blog has opened other avenues and she is pursuing those. I think that is what any business person does.

You start in one direction, like opening a restaurant, and then you may become a teacher or cookbook author. ANYTHING you do can become stale. You have to take things in the seasons they are offered. What a cool time — being on the verge of new things.

I also appreciated the 15 thoughts by Professional Web Design. It also reminds of the gift I could create and give to others as I develop my site. Thank you, Heather and Pro Web Design, as well. I think many of the bloggers would agree with what docee has to say.. I am curious then what is that other bloggers are doing? Fun is only so much, motivation is another thing. Money is one of the biggest motivators. What is the motivation for you guys?

This is the stage which every blogger passes, this is generally because of the blog not getting huge visits or our competitors taking over us. This need to publish is based around the notion that you must always be growing.

I have been blogging for more than 11 years now and I still love it. I been blogging for around 6 years, 3 more seriously, and it is constantly changing and becoming more demanding. I still like that I can bring in some income from home on flexible hours, but serious blogging is serious work, and having multiple revenue streams is never a bad idea. I noticed there are a number of folks complaining that they, too, think about work all the time and they are not bloggers.

It is so true that those blogs which catch on are written by people who are just being themselves, writing about their passions. Of cuorse there is more to it than that, but that is definitely a necessity. This article really puts things in perspective. Thank you, Stacey, for this! I upped my scheduled from 3 to 4 times a week, and after several months, started feeling burnt out. So I went back down to 3X a week, and a couple weeks only 2X a week, and I felt like it was a vacation!

I have been blogging for more than three years and I never hired any people to do any of my stuff. My blogs are like my child to me. Even though there are lots of change in seo but it kept giving me some extra cash which are very important to me.

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Lots of people start blogs about their life musings, but why do you think yours was one of the ones that stood the test of time?

How do I even sum that up? How does it feel to be the only person filling your publishing schedule — what kind of a toll does that take on you? How much do you think the pressure of publishing schedules has contributed to lots of bloggers either burning out or giving up in favour of something less relentless? Do you think too the move away from storytelling and into more curated posts have been a part of that?

What about things like having to ensure our headlines show up in search results, and crafting intros that hook the reader in, that sort of blog post creation? Now, how do you disconnect now from that constant feeling that you need to be online, chronicling everything?

I could walk away. How do you keep in check the raging beast that is a blog? Explain how this massive change has had an impact on your days now. How do you feel? I was going to be ok. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. I need help to Start a Blog Create Content Find Readers Build Community Make Money Blogging Be Productive Understand Technology Get Work. Don't Lose your Funds to Amazon - How to Stay Within The Operating Agreement 24 May A Practical Look at Turning Your Blog into a Functioning Business 10 May Treat Your Blog Like an Actual Business 02 May Yes, that ever-loving sweet spot!

Just when you think you have it, it moves! Thanks for bringing this up and I wish Heather every success in her new projects! Some of them I would never dare breathe a word of online and she was so candid. Can take the shine off anything!

Glad to hear it! Could not agree more DL. Did you just try to give Dooce 15 life lessons about blogging?! The Guy Who Flies. Fabulous insight and interview from someone who really has seen the transition of blogging. Thanks for a great interview. Serena Thrift Diving blog. Jenn — Newschool Nomads. Everything that Heather said about blogging is true of office jobs. I hope you find that elusive balance: Hey , I agree with you. This reminds me of my favourite Australian, the late Leon Noone, and his take on it all.

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