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I am a firm advocate of blogging. I am also living proof that you can make a living writing on the Internet. Beyond this, I believe that there are many untapped markets and opportunities just waiting for the right person when it comes to blogging.

Do I believe that you should quit your day job to blog? Nope. At least, not to start with. Why? There are at least four good reasons why you shouldn’t quit your day job to blog:

1. Blogging takes time to go from startup into a reliable source of revenue. Generally speaking, a blog will take at least six months before it begins to show any sort of a profit. In many cases, a blog may not make a dime in its first year. Quitting your day job means jumping into a business that won’t pay off for a very long time.
2. Blogging success isn’t guaranteed. Some niches, for example, won’t make much money. Other niches, such as the Internet writing niche, can be profitable. I discovered this with a hobby blog about Dungeons and Dragons that I created. After six months, I’d zero in revenue. I kept the D&D blog as a hobby, but started up my Internet writing blog, which has been tremendously successful. If I had not had some other sources of income when I was only doing the D&D blog, however, I’d have been in big trouble.
3. Day jobs provide better benefits than blogging. Chances are you get sick time, vacation time, paid holidays and health insurance with your day job. Blogging doesn’t provide you with any of that. To be able to quit your day job to blog, you’ve got to have a steady enough source of income already so that you can still pay your mortgage if you get a cold.
4. Blogging is a single area that, while profitable now, may not be forever. If you quit your day job, you’d better have a more diverse source of income than just blogging. It may be that you’ve got a product to sell on your blog; if blogging ever goes away, you can still sell the product through whatever medium replaces blogging. You might diversify your efforts, and write web content as well as blog. Whatever you do, you’ve got to see your blogging career as a small business that offers many services.

Once your blog is providing a steady stream of reliable income, you might start to consider quitting your day job to blog, but not until then. 

I’ve had many people who have emailed me and private message me on my forum asking me where the non-phone jobs are. I have read on numerous work at home forums people asking for non-phone jobs mainly because they have babies, young children or because phone work is simply not their cup of tea. Add to this mix, some even state they have no experience.

Even to someone who has no experience, you have options.

One, you can choose to take a course online in a particular subject or choose to brush up on your skills such as your typing speed, learn Word or Excel. You can find a tutorial online or you can go to your local library and borrow a DVD.

Two, your other option we are going to discuss six telecommuting job options for people who have no experience and who prefers non-phone work.

1. Writing - Almost everyone can write and compose a sentence. You don’t have to be a professional writer to get paid. I’m not talking about companies who require their applicants to have a journalism degree or writing degree. AssociatedContent.com requires you to write well with proper grammar and spelling. They have a variety of categories you can write about. It’s a good entry-level start to get paid for writing which may open you to other writing jobs whether it’s ghostwriting or freelancing jobs.

2. Blogging - I’m sure you often wonder how you can make money blogging. It’s really quite simple. Blogging, in my opinion, is a great outlet to practice and to hone your writing skills.

Once you have started a blog, you can bring in revenue by monetizing your blog in several ways. You can add Google AdSense ads, Text Link ads, sell ad space, and promote affiliate programs or business opportunities. Another way is to get involved with “Get Paid To Blog”.

What is “Get Paid To Blog”?

Get paid to blog are companies who have advertisers who would like bloggers to write about their products or services. Pay varies from company to company.

Or there are many blogging companies who will pay you to write blog articles for their blogs.

3. Texting - Texting is not for everyone. You use your computer to chat with a person of the opposite sex. Usually the conversations are adult-oriented.

4. General or Legal Transcription - While general or legal transcription doesn’t require specialized training, it does require a good ear, speed and accuracy. There are some companies who will hire without prior experience, but you are required to meet their standards.

5. Virtual Assistant - You can market yourself as a Virtual Assistant. There are many basic tasks you can perform if you’re not an experienced administrative assistant. There are people who look to outsource easy clerical tasks such as article submitting, promoting or partial maintenance of their websites like link checking, answer general inquiries, advertising etc. Oftentimes, people are looking for ghostwriters because either they aren’t good writers or they don’t have time to write. It’s a good idea to brush up on all of your skills or become more knowledgeable in areas where you are lacking so you can be more marketable and versatile.

6. Forum Posting - You’re certainly not going to get rich doing this, but you will make some money.

What is forum posting?

Forum posting is boosting forum activity for forum owners. You create topics or reply to topics of interest. Depending on the specifications, you are either paid by post, length of post, number of posts etc.

With all jobs there is a learning curve and each of these options will require learning in progress, but there is tons of free information on the web that will help you along the way. The best way is hands on experience, trial and error and learning from others.

If you’re determined to work at home, have no previous experience, prefer non-phone jobs and a willingness to learn, these six options are a good starting point to gain some valuable experience. Although the income may be on the low end at the beginning, it is something to be expected, but as you gain more experience, you will also see an increase in your pay scale. This will also open you up to better and higher paying telecommuting jobs and positions in the future.

Only a few years ago writing a blog was one of those arcane hobbies were reserved for a select few, but in this rapidly changing 21st century, blogging has not only become a pastime within the reach of nearly everyone, it also can be a full-time job.

For a lot of people, this news is arriving just in the nick of time, as millions of recently unemployed and underemployed men and women have been scratching their heads trying to come up with new and better ways to make money.

Even though a lot of people have learned how to earn a steady income by blogging, the process is by no means automatic. That is why anyone interested in learning about setting up profitable blogs would be well advised to find a good set of instructions to follow.

For starters, although it is a very daunting challenge to make money with one highly successful blog, the task is much simpler when it is broken down into easier steps. This means setting up numerous small blogs, a strategy recommended by many blogging professionals.

Surprisingly, a lot of the steps in making a blog can be done almost automatically and can be accomplished in literally a matter of minutes. But the foundations on which money making blogs are built require the most time and effort. These elements are preliminary planning; selecting a topic or niche, doing keyword research and identifying the strength of your competition. The idea is to have a blog on a topic that a lot of people are interested in, not a lot of people are already in ahead of you, and — possibly most importantly — there is money to be made with it.

Once you have done some market research and picked out a topic you think will interest a large number of people, it is wise to check out the strength of your competition. How many other websites already exist in the same niche, and how well optimized are they to rank high with search engines?

Another very big challenge can be writing enough posts to serve a network of blogs. The more different niches you are covering, the more likely it will be that you will need to have some of your content written by others. You could either use free articles available from sources such as EzineArticles.com or pay for outsourced material. Amazingly, there is one source of professionally written blog posts that provides content in pre-researched niches for less than 7-cents per page.

Even if you follow the steps outlined above to the letter, your blogs may still not be profitable unless you get enough visitors reading them and responding to your advertising. It has been found that an excellent way to increase traffic to blogs is to get backlinks on other people’s blogs by writing comments that include the URL of your website.

By grounding yourself in the basics of blogging, such as how to get backlinks and finding inexpensive sources of professionally written content, a person is much more likely to be able to make a profitable profession out of building a network of successful blogs.