I started one about a year and a half ago after reading personal finance blogs saying how if you are interested in personal finance, you should start a blog about it. Soon after, I realized that whatever I had to say had already been said so many other times and more eloquently that I didn't want to re-hash the same thing....again. I felt like I didn't have much more to contribute on the subject, and I wasn't interested in becoming an expert or get too far into details or anything (like someone else here mentioned). So it dropped off. Every once in a while, I'll do a monthly summary or update, because something might give me a spark of what to next focus on. Lifestyle perhaps? We've got some pretty interesting goals and ideas that people might be interested in hearing about as we try to get there. Maybe? So I hardly count this one.
The boyfriend and I have been tossing an idea around for over a year to start a blog on something that we think might be of interest to others. He once did a huge project and had to make it up as he went because there were so few resources for him to use; then one day we're like, "Why shouldn't we be the ones to write that guide?". It's been a year though and I think we struggle with whether people would actually find it useful enough for us to make money off it (the blog would eventually be monetized). We asked ourselves: Do we do a website, or write a book, or make up a course? The first seems easiest to reach people but might result in hardly any income, the second seems like we can do that instead of the website and actually have a chance to make consistent money, and the third seems like too much work for us newbies at the whole thing. Very recently, it struck me that there are plenty of websites that have their website, and also wrote a book(s) on the subject that they promote. We could do that too, but then, what would the book cover that the website wouldn't? The info would all be "free" on the site so why would anyone pay money for a book that presents the same material? The plan is that the website would become more or less static after some time when the project was all out there and explained..
So we're still trying to wrap our heads around this whole concept. I'd like to think we'll jump in the next few months..I'm just not sure to where.
Edit: Making words work together, better.