Thanks Bec, I've been following your stuff for a while.

I'm writing this to the newbies, not to folks like you, tho, the challenge I'm extending is directed specifically at you and folks like you.

I'm trying to model this the way a new person would - how are they going to parse the advice to do blogs, compared to whatever advice they might be receiving?

The challenge I refer to is to test the thesis - 'can newbies make decent and equivalent money with bogs fresh out of the box?'.

In order to test the thesis, we'd have to get some newbies and get them to do blogs from a dead start, and measure their results and their happiness with the project.

I think it would be great content. A fascinating experiment.

But, without some challenge, it won't happen, because there are strong motivations to be vague. Which is partly why I originally said I thought it was a bit cruel to advise newbies to do blogs. "Proprietary Information" and all that.

Based on my measurements of the reactions to this topic so far, I'm thinking there aren't enough newbies here willing to try the experiment to make this test idea work. But more might show up.