A six-figure blogger

Darren Rowse, author of the ProBlogger site, announces that he's earned $100,000 in the last 12 months blogging.

Andy Merrett Says:

I did some maths to prove that blogging is a legitimate business to be in.

1. Take US$100,000 = GBP £54,688 (at current exchange rate)
2. This is £149.83 earning every single day of the year.
3. Broken down into a ‘normal’ working week (5 days p/w, 48 weeks per year), Darren would either have to earn about £32 an hour, for a 35-hour week, or else work an 18 hour day for about £12.65 an hour.

£12.65 per hour is a low-end professional wage in Britain. Even £32 per hour is not an extortionate wage for the sort of work that is involved in pro-blogging.

So anyone who sneers at pro-blogging as some sort of walk in the park, or get-rich-quick scheme, ought to check out the raw figures, when broken down. Damn hard work for fair remuneration.

Of course, the earnings could yet go far higher, and deservedly so.

The maths may not be great, but you get the idea.

Clearly, one needs to devote a lot of time to blogging and as always Problogger wannabes will quit their jobs to follow Rowse's money trail--and then fail.