Comments on: How To Autopilot Your Blog – Managing a Website With Zero Hours a Week

By: Lita

Lita — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:12:57 +0000

Same here Dean,

but don’t give up 🙂 All of us have to start somewhere!

By: Sheyi Shobayo

Sheyi Shobayo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:57:01 +0000

Howard, I can help you out with this. I’d take a less amount though and will write first 3 articles for you if you like them you pay and if not you keep them. Let me know if you are interested… sheyi AT ivblogger.com

By: Sheyi Shobayo

Sheyi Shobayo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:32:44 +0000

I guess paying people to write is a great thing. That I will agree to it if the b mean a blog that can be sold later – such idea of hiring writers is great for such blog.

Sheyi

By: Jamie Northrup

Jamie Northrup — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:27:26 +0000

I’m starting to apply some of these things to one of my blogs. I run several blogs, but one at a time I want to reduce the amount of work I have to do, the biggest piece is the writing (on the blog and guest posting back to it), I haven’t hired a writer yet, but I’m looking for someone local. In the meantime I have people writing for my blog in exchange for backlinks.

By: Alina Navarro

Alina Navarro — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:48:22 +0000

I Love the little Nuggets you drop everywhere!! 😉
I haven’t had time to play & chat on forums in the last couple of months, but now I guess I will resume the effort with more focus. I usually end up helping others, instead of getting the help I need.
LoL…. yes, it’s all good!

Thank you again Hun, for your candid and informative post!
Gotta love ya!!
xoxo

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:31:30 +0000

When I first read the article, I had some of the same thoughts about the sloppy proofreading. But my first thought was *not* to offer help. That sort of sloppiness is an invitation to *compete*. An offer to help is usually viewed as an insult by the blog owner, and is unlikely to be accepted, anyway. Competing, OTOH, puts the ball squarely in your own court. If you are lucky, he won’t notice until he gets ‘pwned’ and has to play catch-up.

I generally don’t bother to critique grammar and spelling, either in an article or the comments (er, ‘replies’), since I’m prone to the occasional typo myself, and I don’t particularly like looking like a fool.

One of the things that I always do with my own blog articles is run them by my editor (aka my CPA aka my wife), who does a fantastic job of catching my typos and grammar errors. I’ve also been taking more care in my own writing, and I’m actually getting good enough at it that my editor rarely finds any problems these days.

If I end up hiring writers, I will almost certainly also hire editors.

Other than that, this article did contain some useful, actionable ideas that I plan to test — and maybe blog about, depending on how the tests go. Oh — and compete with 🙂

By: Lisha

Lisha — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:37:02 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I don’t have a solution for you being able to make your own money online at this point, but I do want to give you some encouragement because judging my your almost perfect spelling and grammar, and being able to get your point across very well, I think you will be an extremely awesome blogger (much better than most adults).

If you cannot make money on a blog yet, I would say blog anyway, get your name out there, start building traffic. You will have a huge following in a few years when you will be allowed to start earning the money.

Heck, maybe if you get enough followers to your blog you can convince your parents to handle the money your blog could earn and then put it in a bank account for you. Do it! 🙂

~Lisha

By: roger

roger — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:31:21 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’m an avid reader of your posts and your blog in general but this is the first time i have responded or left a reply. In my opinion Income Diary is one of the few significant ‘credible’ reference blogs on the internet. I enjoyed the post – as always very informative and well written – its an easy read. However, over the past months i am left surprised by the amount of basic spelling mistakes and incorrect descriptive words contained not only in this post but almost every post, plus the replys using your own name. When you yourself were involved in a more ‘hands -on’ capacity basic errors like these were seldom seen. Taking into account the high profile nature of Income Diary and the fact that it essentially informs and advises others how to get things right re internet marketing etc, it is surprising to find a lack of proofreading and attention to detail. I’d be happy to help…