“If you follow your passion, the money will follow” goes the old saying. While this is not always the truth, it could be, with a twist.
One of my old passions, computers, is still paying my rent and more, every month. But let me start with the beginning…
About eight or nine years ago, I stumbled over a free course in writing news letters. I had no idea about what I could use that for, but I thought the idea sounded intriguing, so I studied the course with great eager.
We ran a mailing list for our former students, we had taught about using computer programs, so that they could continue to ask questions and get answers that way. One day, I started to post tips on this list, and after a while, I got an idea: Why not make a news letter (I didn’t know the word Ezine at that time) with my tips?
So I asked, or rather almost forced, the members of our computer list to join my news letter.
Soon the word spread, and I had one hundred people who received my tips every week. Newcomers would ask me for old news letters, so I put up the tips in a folder on one of my sites.
One day, my husband gave me a great gift: My very first domain, dedicated to my tips.
Little did he know that years later, this would be the domain that payed our rent.
At that time, it was only a hobby, my passion lived out. I spend around 10 hours per week, later on as much as 20 hours per week, finding and writing tips, and I made only very little money from the ads, I had started to put in my ezine.
What I created was a high quality website with unique content, frequently updated, since I wrote five new tips each week.
It was only after discovering AdSense, and especially after learning how to make the ads blend with my content that things changed, and I started to make real money.
Although it is true that I was able to make money with my passion, it also took a lot of work, especially in the beginning, and there was also one other ingredients present: A targeted market.
People were eager to learn tips about creating homepages and adding useful programs to their computers. They actively searched for the subjects, I had written about, and almost every time somebody on our computer mailing list asked a question, I could answer with a URL to my site. I had already answered that question, before they even posed it.
If you have a dream about making a living online, go for that dream. If you have a passion, check if that passion could make you money. You have to have an audience that would be willing to pay to get a solution to their problems, or at least be willing to join your list, and click on the links, you provide them.
My last piece of advice for you: Go for it!
Thank you for taking your time reading this. I am Britt Malka, and I’ve been making a living online since the year 2000, and loving every minute of it – even the early struggles endeavoring to make ends meet.
If you would like a copy of my report about “How to write blog posts in 5 minutes or less”, it’s yours for free at http://FreeContentSystem.com/5minblogs
I can certainly vouch for the high quality of the site. I was there since the very beginning. I remember all the birth pangs, when list software was changed and all the little funny things along the way.
Britt was very good at writing every single week – only very few exceptions – and you always had numerous good tips that made it all worth waiting for.
Tips & Tricks will always have been a special site indeed. 
Hello, I'm Mikkel Juhl, young blogger. I started blogging in 2007, let's say that I've been around for a while. I'm 14 years old, I have a passion for email marketing, internet marketing, social media and Twitter!
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