Because it’s damn hard and I need a challenge. My life was very boring and at a dead end. I was making good money, but was not nearly as happy as the time when I was writing my books and working from home. I won’t tell that I was close to pull the plug. It would sound dramatic but let’s leave it to my autobiography.
One day I threw everything away and decided to take a big, big chance: I was going to live by my writing, as I did once, but mainly on the Internet. In less than a year I’m one of the A-list bloggers in Brazil, with +5000 Unique Visitors / day, my (still tiny) AdSense revenue reached CDS$4,00 (will explain the currency later) and I’m writing for the best Brazilian technology-related website.
I wish I could tell it was harder, but it was not. As in USA (and everywhere) 90% of everything online is plain crap. It’s not hard to be noticed if you’re the only one that does not smell like shit.
So you ask: Why this in English?
Three reasons:
1 - I want a broader audience. If I write in Portuguese (one of the hardest languages in the world) I’m limited to Brazil and Portugal. If I write in English, I reach a lot of people. More visitors, more hits, CA-$HING…
2 - I follow blogs like ProBlogger and Lorelle, and Although they’re great, they don’t know everything. I can contribute with one or two things, here and there, and everybody will be happy.
3 - Brazil is a very weird country and I want to share our oddness with the World.
If one comes to realize, this is the way to make money. By helping people doing so. See the paradox? It’s brilliant.
Comment by Jin — July 30, 2006 @ 6:22 pm