Well, I’m back - blogger burnout has been abolished, and I’m coming back with a new sense of direction for Working Blogger.

It’s been an interesting time away from the blogging world - during this time, I didn’t blog very much (not at all here) and I didn’t keep up with any of the various blogs I was following. Feeds stayed unread, and I entered into a totally different world.

Basically, the last half a year to ten months, I’ve been exploring the world of “Internet marketing” - by that, I mean that world where people create infoproducts and sell them. It’s been a very interesting journey, but at the end of the day, I can honestly say that it’s not for me. I never even got as far as coming up with an idea for a product, much less creating it and selling it.

I also focused a lot on building up VRE (Virtual Real Estate), most of which were niche blogs. And I’m happy to report that niche blogging has been successful.

But now I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, and plunge back into the blogging world. I’ve missed meeting fellow bloggers and making new friends. I have a lot of catch-up to do, but my time away has been good, in that it’s given me a new sense of direction for Working Blogger.

A New Direction

One problem I always had with this blog was, “what’s my purpose here?”. There are, as everyone knows, a LOT of good blogs about blogging.

But I’ve discovered that niche blogging is where I do my best work. My niche blogs aren’t famous, I’m not known as an expert in various niches, my posts don’t get on the front page of Digg every so often, I don’t get tons of people linking to my various posts.

Instead, my niche blogs have developed into a nice stable source of income. They each make a bit of money - nothing startling - but taken as a whole, it does add up.

And that’s what I’ve been realizing I do know something about. Niche blogging. What it is. What has worked for me. What are the good tools. How to work smarter, not harder, when it comes to niche blogging.

And one of the keys is that there’s a lot of stuff out there - be it SEO, blogging, promotion - that can be tweaked and applied to niche blogging.

The other great thing about niche blogs is that they don’t burn you out. There’s no constant pressure to top your last great article, to network with the right people. You just need to write good, solid (and usually “evergreen”) content - all on your own terms. You post it whenever it’s ready, rather than because it’s been a day since you last posted. And each post continues to work hard for you.

So there you go. I’m back, and I’m ready to start this journey again. I’m looking forward to it!