Is blogging dead? This is one of those questions that I hear asked often. People worry that they will start a blog and that no one will read it, that they won’t be able to grow their audience, and ultimately, that they won’t make any money with it.

As a response, I would ask you, are coffee shops dead? Are book stores dead? Are flea markets dead? All of these have been around for a very long time, and you can still find plenty of them all over the cities. So why should blogging be dead? Just because there are more of them today means nothing, fortunately. The only thing that it does mean is that there are more people putting out content of poor quality in the hope of becoming rich this way.

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