Dear bloggers a poem by Alfonso Gatto entitled "Who knows'" and which has some bearing on this post.
A ball is a ball
and it will never be right.
Who knows if the butterfly
he knows he's a butterfly.
And the magpie?
I wonder if the sea is afraid of the wave,
who knows' if the wind by dint of calling
when no one answers
you only see it black
like a cemetery.
I wonder if the stars are beautiful
as everyone says,
if in the midst of the waves
or in the midst of storms
the boat feels shaking
all alone with the sea.
Who knows if the world will know
to be suspended in the sky
without a thread, without a hook
in its orange color,
seared and suffused like a veil
of blue and lilac clouds'.
I believe he doesn't know.
(from "Il vaporetto" by Alfonso gatto, Mondadori - Milan 2001)
Cue for this post: "The garden of ideas" by Salvatore Veca - Ed.Frassinelli
live dark
Herman Hesse, In the fog
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It is strange to wander in the fog!
Alone is every bush and stone,
No tree sees the other,
Everyone is alone.
The world was for me full of friends,
When my life was still bright;
Now, as the fog falls,
Nobody can be seen anymore.
In truth, no one is wise
If it doesn't know the dark,
What a plan and inexorably
Da tutti lo separa.
Strange, wandering in the fog!
To live is to be alone.
No man knows the other,
Everyone is alone.
by Guglielmo, in http://ineziessenziale.blogspot.com/2008/06/meme-poeticotre.html
HISTORY TIME POETRY
History does not unfold
like a chain
of unbroken rings.
Anyhow
many rings do not hold. [...]
History
it does not make its way, it persists,
hates little by little, does not proceed
nor recedes, moves along the track
and its direction
it is not in the timetable. [...]
History is not then
the devastating bulldozer that is said.
Leave underpasses, crypts, holes
and hiding places. There are those who survive.
[...] History scratches the bottom
like a trawl
with a few tears and more than one fish escapes.
Eugenio Montale, History, in Satura
Old age
For which
an old man like me gets up from his
chair without wavering and looking
around. And he realizes, without having any
fright, that time slips like
rena, and that the new is all to come
still everything to come: and hears
to say in itself softly, from life:
we are part of the humus it prepares
the future, we who are leaving.
Carlo Betocchi, First and very last, ed. Mondadori, 1974
VENICE
Venetian stanzas, 2, VIII
...
I write these lines, sitting outside in a white chair,
in winter, with only the jacket on,
after many glasses, widening the cheekbones
with sentences in mother tongue.
The coffee cools down in the cup.
Lava the lagoon, punishing with a hundred minimal flashes
the cloudy pupil with the anxiety of staring into memory
this landscape, capable of doing without me.
1982
Josif Brodskij, Italian poems. Milan, Adelphi, 1996. Translation by Giovanni Buttafava
HOME TRAVEL
Ithaca
If you turn your journey to Ithaca,
make a wish that your way will be long,
and full of events and knowledge.
Don't fear the LestrÃgoni and the Cyclops
o Angry Posidone: never
you will find such monsters on the way,
if your thought remains high, and exquisite
it is the emotion that touches your heart
and the body. Neither LestrÃgoni or Ciclopi
nor will you encounter bitter Posidone,
if you don't bring them inside, in your heart,
if your heart does not set them up before you.
Make vows that the way is long for you.
And there are many summer mornings
that they see you enter (and with what joy
cheerful!) in previously unknown ports.
Stop at the Phoenician emporiums
to buy beautiful merchandise,
madrepores and corals, ebony and amber,
voluptuous aromas of all sorts,
as many voluptuous aromas as you can.
Arise in many cities of Egypt,
to learn learn from the wise.
Ithaca always keep in mind.
Your fate marks that landing place for you.
But don't rush your journey.
Better to last many years than old
you finally dock at the islet,
rich in what you earned on the way,
without waiting for him to give you riches.
Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey.
Without her you would not set out.
He has nothing to give you anymore.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deluded you.
Come back so wise, so expert,
you will have understood that it means an Ithaca.
Constantine Kavafis
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CASH ONLINE STORE OPPORTUNITY
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I make my living from blogging! Do not you believe it? Let's talk about it here
There are many articles related to earning online through your blog or website in Italy. For years now he has been debating fiercely, with different points of view, on this issue.
I wanted to collect in this post some projects that have deepened the subject, which you can read below. Not only that, you can also read my point of view, my experience and a case study of how I too, thanks to the blog, can get by. If you want to ask me further questions, join the discussion at the end of the article.
Earning online: What do other freelancers think?
It all started from a post published on html.it on the profession of blogger in Italy, which resulted in a discussion that I joined too, expressing considerations based on my experience. Soon after, other articles were born on the same line that contributed to deepen the topic.
From Lauryn's blog, a long line of comments shows how the topic of living with blogging gets a lot of attention.
No less important is the position of Davide Pozzi and his Tagliablog, which deals with the subject by talking about the Illusion of earning online in Italy, and he is not completely wrong, but I want to disprove it with the article you are reading now.
Can a blog lead to economic independence?
I would say yes. It depends on many factors, but it is feasible, especially if we do not think of short-term monetization but of a return of image . That's why I wanted to write this article.
Only adsense for a niche blog like this, only carries a few coins in my pocket. I run multiple blogs and my small network, it also uses adsense for monetization, but the earnings from Google advertising are the smallest part of my income.
If you want to know who earns a lot with adsense, you can take a look at the Isayblog blog network that with a staff of hundreds of authors, publish ten or more posts a day for each of its 50+ blogs owned by the network.
Personally, I would never aim to create yet another project of multiple blogs gathered under the same roof, because the work is huge and you must also be good at choosing the right collaborators if you do not want to succumb to the competition. If you want to bet all your cards on promoting yourself as a freelancer, then think about the importance of a blog for a professional who wants to position his figure in the market through the network and emerge as an expert in his sector. Isn't this monetizing? I really think so.
My experience on how a blog can be an economic source for a freelancer
This is a small recipe to understand how to face the crisis and start your own business using the blog as a self-promotion tool . For example, the primary goal with Blographik was not to make money right away with adsense.
I want to share my experiences and new knowledge acquired over time, with study and practice, as a freelance web designer and web marketing consultant .
I didn't give up my first job as an employee right away when I created Blographik, I don't like taking big risks and on balance, it went well. I have always focused on quality over quantity , I don't have the time to manage a project that is often updated and with great content.
So better quality articles with constant even if not frequent frequency. I work well with one post a week, but your choice may differ depending on the time you have and the customers to manage. I worked for free for other projects as a post author, which brought me (in addition to some inbound links that brought me benefits and visibility thanks to Google) a huge result.
A concrete example of how I found new customers
I met Davide Pozzi's blog online thanks to the passion that unites us for SEO and web marketing. I first made myself known through the comments on his blog, I often participated and left my contribution in the discussions on his articles. Then I proposed myself as the author of some guest posts .
After this first collaboration, I then decided to work for him for free in exchange for visibility . In fact, I had the pleasure of creating the TagliaBlog logo for Davide, and I also made some changes to the theme (now a bit dated).
As a thank you, Davide offered me an advertising space with a banner present at the foot of all his posts, which continues to bring continuous profiled traffic of readers interested in a high-value project for Google. Not surprisingly, the readers who come from Tagliablog, are only a hundred a month, have a time spent on Blographik twice the average.
Thanks to this little free job for Davide, I have received many requests for various types of quotes , from the creation of logos (which is not my specialization) to the creation of bespoke blogs / sites. From this collaboration with Davide, two estimates have been accepted for medium-large jobs.
Given the success of this collaboration, after a few years, I also created for him the design of the squeeze page that invites you to subscribe to his newsletter. This work was also done for free, but in the footer of the page there are credits that indicate my name and the link (nofollow to avoid penalties from Google) to the blog. Even after this work, I received requests for a quote to create squeeze pages.
I showed you how to make yourself known through a blog that talks about a specific topic, which can then allow you to get in touch with other freelancers or companies, with whom you can collaborate for free in exchange for visibility. This is the strategy I recommend you follow, at least for your first period of activity, when you don't have many customers and you need to make yourself known as an expert in the sector.
So my suggestion is to put your nose out of your blog, to dare and propose yourself to other more or less famous online experts, first through comments, then with collaborations of different types. Your goal must be to reach an audience of potential customers. In the meantime, keep updating your blog with great quality content that makes you stand out from the crowd. Only after this promotion work, you can think about earning methods.
Diversify your income
You can earn decent money and live on it if we don't just use google adsense. Not surprisingly, when asked how I make a living from blogging, the first thing that comes to mind is:
Diversify your methods of earning .
In fact, I also use other monetization systems, such as affiliations, the sale of my services as a web marketing consultant and the collaboration with other seo agencies as a teacher for masters or seo courses. The set of these jobs, added to the customers who contact me to create their sites and blogs , allows me to live well and do a job that I like and don't weigh on me.
In conclusion
It is not that you earn online via blog in one night, the work is a lot and often does not correspond to the earnings obtained, especially in Italy. From my experience, however, with a job of content curation, market niche research, collaborations with seo and web agency and diversification of earning methods, things can change, even with our language.
You have to commit yourself fully and full time. The objectives are not necessarily achieved, but if we are here complaining without doing anything, what can we expect? I'm not instigating anyone to start their own business, also because, as I often repeat to those who ask me on the net, it's not all pink and white.
Now I would like to know your opinion. Can you make money with your blog too? The word is yours.
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