Should I Monetize My Blog or Keep It a Hobby?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jeanette has had a music blog for a number of years. Should she keep trying to monetize it or keep it as a side hobby? Jeanette’s music blog is http://eatsleepbreathemusic.com/. Do you have a question about blogging? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.6	AskPath.com.
0:10.2	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.4	Pathlin here and welcome to episode 924 of AskPath.
0:15.2	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.9	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.5	We have a great question coming up today from Jeanette.
0:22.9	And here it is.
0:23.8	Here she is.
0:24.9	Hi, Pat.
0:25.4	My name is Jeanette Kimzel.
0:27.2	I run the website, eat, sleep, breathe, music.com.
0:31.3	I've been doing this for about nine years since 2008, mostly as a side hobby while I was working full-time in the advertising
0:39.1	business. I got to go to a lot of free shows, and I started blogging about them, and then it
0:44.0	kind of just grew from there. We've had a lot of up-and-coming artists, and even some bands
0:49.7	were featured on a lot of MTV shows or the CW, and went on to play a lot of music festivals.
0:55.8	So that was pretty cool.
0:57.0	My question is regarding if I should, you know, kind of keep trying to monetize this site
1:04.7	or if I should kind of, you know, just keep it as a hobby.
1:08.6	I've made a little bit of money through sponsored posts and
1:11.7	some advertising, but this market is very saturated, and I'm wondering if I should try to do something
1:17.7	to stand out or if I should just keep it as a hobby. But I just want to thank you for everything
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