Have you heard? At DumbShoppers, they do the reading and reviewing of products and services, and YOU just do the shopping! 
With the increasing number of bloggers who tell you how to optimally monetize your blog, surely there are something they aren’t telling you?
Bloggers won’t tell you that:
- blogging takes a lot of time,
- you will probably never be adequately compensated for your time blogging,
- blogging is about doing better than your competitors,
- you will get slashed, based, maligned and savaged by other bloggers,
- you will get burned, scalded, tarred and feathered by commentators,
- if you don’t know what you want out of blogging, you won’t get it,
- blogging is physically and mentally hard work,
- blogging involves networking,
- you will probably regret your domain name, and that
- there is a life outside of blogging.
Ahhh… There IS a life outside of blogging. And the irony is that we almost always spend THAT life outside blogging thinking about blogging!
So if you’ve been blogging for a while, have you discovered anything by yourself that you wished somebody had told you before you started blogging? As for myself, I often wished that somebody had told me how addictive it is to tweak my blog themes because I’d never stop until I’m satisfied with it. And boy, it IS time-consuming!!
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“And the irony is that we almost always spend THAT life outside blogging thinking about blogging!”
I totally agree with that. LOL! Sometimes walking around, i wonder ’should i take a picture of that and blog about it?’ or sometimes think ‘how am i going to describe what just happened’ and then start writing a post in my head….which disappears when i get back home and sit in front of the pc to write. haiyaa~
Iced Nyior: Yeah, yeah! I forgot to mention also in my post that I normally don’t blog about the things I see on the streets. I just “think and form sentences” but when I get back home, something else always pops up
Blogging is like a competition too. Everyone is competing with each other. Who has the most comments, most readers, make most money, most beautiful template, and the list can go on and on.
Hijackqueen: Yeah, mentioned that in #3. I wouldn’t mind some healthy competition though
No hair-pulling, girls! 
“So, have you discovered anything by yourself that you wished somebody had told you before you started blogging?”
Yes, of course! I wished someone had told me earlier that blogging was fun, besides making new friends and learning more things. I also wish someone can encourage me to blog more than a post a day to increase my readership (wuakkaa) and at the same time, teach me ways to be more observant!! Hmmmp! (=
True true but I guess that is a phase every blogger has to go through. After that, they’ll all have to make up their mind whether it’s all worth it.
Personally, I think pro-bloggers (who earns from their blogs) are a little different than recreational bloggers. :-)
I believe these dilemmas you rightly brought up are most likely faced by recreational bloggers than pro bloggers.