The Blog Business Opportunities
By: Nerbie
Date: November-04-2002

I'm not a good writer in anyway. I try to write once in a while but then after making several articles I still don't consider myself as a good writer.

What I do like doing is expressing my ideas through my blog. For the sake of those people who might be reading this article let me give you a little intro to what blogging is. A blog is an online diary that can be open for all to see or if you are not that at ease for public viewing just make it private. Although making it private losses most of its essence. I'd say blogging is a way for people to express themselves. Like me, you don't need to be a writer or a journalist in order to write about something or anything that you can think of. If you want to express something just blog it!

With the phenomenon of the blog, some people see it as a way that leads to a new set of opportunities. Do you think its possible to start something new for the blogger communities? I might not be the right person to make any write up about the business opportunities that can be made in through blogging but I think I do have a few ideas that you can try out.

1. Blog Installers: This could be a way for techie's to earn few bucks. If you are familiar with server paths, modules, permission, ftp's and other scripts related configurations, I guess you could function as a good support for the installation of blog programs.
 
2. Blog Theme/Templates: Are you good in web design? Or even in web lay outing? Are you familiar with those blog programs that most people uses for blogging? Well, this is an opportunity for you. As long as you know how to change those templates then you are in.

3. Intranet Blog: If you are a programmer, you might want to create your own version of a blog program that you can sell to companies as an alternative option for communication within the Intranet.

4. Tie-up's with Web Hosts: If you have the time and the know how, then you got to talk to those web hosting companies and ask for a possible tie-up. You can offer to provide the support for clients who want to put up a weblog site

Above are just few of those blog business opportunities I can think of. Maybe it is not yet that common at of this writing but I do believe if the phenomenon of blog will continue to penetrate the internet and its users it can be consider an achievable new set of business opportunities.