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Should A Blogger Have A Business Plan?

Monday, February 16, 2009, 0:30
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I had ask in one of my blog post should a blogger carry a business card.  No I would like to ask another question should a have a business plan?

Before we go into the depth of this issue we should understand what is business plan.  Wikipedia define business plan as:

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals

If you treat a blog as professional business than you should have a business plan.  A business plan will detail out how you going to make with your blog, your marketing and .

There are a few things that should be consider in your business plan among them:

  1. What is ? Your will determine how you make with your blog business.  It could be pure advertising, affiliate marketing or traditional online store, product or service that tight closely with your blog.
  2. What is actual business?  Nowadays blogging is not a blogging per say.  Blog exist as important medium of communication in any business.  Any business can have a blog.   A bridal service can have a blog, so does sport store, book store even a .  So what is your business?  Determining your business will determine what best suited for your business.
  3. Will you require fund for your business blog? Well, a good business plan can always serve this purpose.  It best to mentioned whether you need or self sufficient.

So how do you treat your blog, as a hobby or as a business?  If as a business, it time to build a good business plan, if you don’t have yet or to review again your business plan.

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One Response to “Should A Blogger Have A Business Plan?”

  1. SBA said on Monday, May 11, 2009, 0:22

    I’m on a team blog and we just got serious about treating our enterprise as a business. Definitely a business model will help keep us focused and moving toward the target. Our biggest hurdle was convincing ourselves that a real plan is necessary. It needs to be ‘living’, reevaluated with data and fine-tuned.

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