Wise words from someone who's "been there, done that!"

I'm pretty sure that if you look at the web's most successful bloggers, they all have in common a long path of hard work, failures and restarts, perseverance and stick-to-it-iveness. And that's what it takes. There's no "easy money" here.

As an aside to your own history, my oldest (still going) blog started in 2002... and it was not until 2009-- SEVEN YEARS-- later I got my first $100 check from Google Adsense. Everything up to that point was entirely for free.

Don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to paint this as a "I had to walk 8 miles uphill barefoot in the snow against the wind to get to school" story-- and I'm sure @hilarski isn't either... just saying that blogging is not some magic pill that gives free money for nothing.