Seth Godin has written an entry in his blog with the title: The three elements of full employment

You will never be out of work if you can demonstrably offer one of the following:

Sales

Additive effort

Initiation

These are the three things that can ensure that if have any of them then you will never be out of job. Losing a job or being unemployed is perhaps the worst nightmare of a modern human being. If you are an educated person and you do not have any job then it is embarrassing for you. Anyway, I want to discuss the value of these 3 things in the field of blogging.

First of all, in blogging, you have to always try for sales. You have to find advertisements and also you have write something linkable. In fact, sales in blogging is more perhaps getting links by other websites, blogs and social bookmarking sites than actually selling content. Of course, there is affiliating products. If you can persuade people to buy them by clicking from your blog then you get a healthy commission depending on the product. Just imagine that some one visited your blog about laptop and clicked on an affiliating advertisement and bought a laptop worth $1,000. 4% commission would bring $40 for you. This is cool, isn’t it?

The second thing is additive effort- which means something more than ordinary. I like to think that I am this kind of person and that is why, my blogs get good traffic although I work under all kind of limitations. In fact, I work with a very slow Internet connection (2-8 KBPS) and most person in my shoe would have quit blogging. It also take quite a long time to cash the Adsense checks sent by Google.

Initiation means that you should not be afraid to test something new in blogging. This is a very important thing. You have to try all kind of things to get good traffic. It is not easy. You have to try new ideas and take risks.

I think that most people lack thee 3 qualities in blogging and that is why, very few people actually can make a living out of this work anywhere in the world.