Welcome to the Austin James Blog!

The goal of this blog is to help you go full-time in blogging. To me, that means making at least $10,000 per month via writing words, there are many ways to get there and we explore them all throughout the blog posts. I strive to help you achieve a comprehensive strategy for winning the blogging game.

In my opinion, the most probable way to getting to $10,000 per month is creating multiple blogs. How many depends on what’s working for you. It might be 2 or 3 blogs making $8,000 + $1,000 + $1000 per month. Or it might be 20 micro-blogs each making $500 per month. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter how you get there, just as long as you get there. I prefer being the “uncool” blogger with 20 sites on extremely niche subjects. It offers more resiliency and less competition.

Expect 3 – 5 years of hard work outside of your normal day job to achieve $10,000 per month. There is always an overnight success exception to the rule, sure, but it’s best to go in with the mindset that that’s not you. A few of the avenues we look at to achieve our goal:

• Standard WordPress Blog(s): This is the starting point and my absolute favorite avenue. It gives you the most control over your destiny and makes the most money. There are a million different types of blogs you can launch with WordPress and a million more ways you can monetize them.
• Kindle eBooks: If you love to write you gotta get in the Kindle game. I’m not talking about writing the next Great American Novel, think more along the lines of writing a helpful 120 page guide to managing acne (if you know about such things). The point is super niche Kindle books are valuable and should be part of the game. Yes, you can use a penname and use your real name for your novel.
• Substack Newsletters: I don’t know if Substack will always be a good option or not, platforms come and go, but currently Substack is on fire. We talk about adding this into your blogging portfolio.
• YouTube: Yeah, I know. Nobody wants to be on YouTube because we are writers. However, you will need to have a YouTube channel in conjunction with your blog or you’re not gonna make it as a blogger. It can be faceless. It can be as simple as “Hey guys let me give you the rundown of my latest blog post, link below.” (This is what I do). But it’s a necessary piece of the puzzle.
• Pinterest: Full disclosure. I’m not on Pinterest yet, but I will be. I’ve researched it and everything I read and see points to this absolutely needing to be a part of everybody’s blogging strategy. I will write blog posts on Pinterest as I learn it, sharing my  results in real time.
• Third Party Social Media Platforms: While it’s fully possible to make a full-time living on social media platforms alone, nobody reading the Austin James Blog about page has any desire to be a social media influencer, including me. The way we use social media here is to drive traffic to our blogs. We will talk about this further in the blog posts.

There are other avenues for blogging too, but the above are the main ones we will focus on here, but I am not opposed to making 90 degree turns into new blogging platforms that present big, temporary opportunities. I know I’m supposed to say we only focus on steady long-term results, but if you look at rich people, most of them got started with a cash grab on an opportunity that quickly came and went. Why shouldn’t we do the same in our blogging when such opportunities appear? I can’t think of a single good reason not to. I’ll alert everybody on the email list whenever such opportunities appear.

That’s it for now. Please take a time to click around the blog because there’s a lot of good information that deals with winning in today’s blogging landscape, not the old landscape. Sign up for the email list for the latest on what works in the blogging world today.