Yesterday I went to Lahore Bloggers Meetup, organized by Badar Khushnood, Google’s country consultant, IEEE Student branch of LUMS and CIO Pakistan.
Event started (I was 10 mins late, not sure if I missed something) with Badar Khushnood’s introduction to blogging and how to earn money from it. Main points of his presentation were:
- Follow your passion
- Find your audience
- And earn money from it.
It was followed by success stories of 17 year old student Haris from Sizzledcore.com – told by Badar as Haris’ mother didn’t allow him to attend the meetup due to his exam next day – and Saad Hamid from Sizlopedia.com. Then came Maryam Nasim, a housewife earning from freelancing using her site PinkWool. Last hour was dedicated to Question and Answer session, which was pretty interesting as well as informative.
End results were, earning money from blogging takes lots of patience and hard work. Write original content, and follow your passion. If you work hard you will eventually start getting some results, but there is no shortcut. Most importantly, don’t write because you want to earn money, write because you love to.
In the end, I finally got to meet many people I already knew on web, some more thoroughly than others. It was great to finally meet them all.
This meetup is also covered (in more detail) by Sohaib Athar, UzEE, Imran Jafri and TechMynd (the most detailed roundup yet).
Nice review. Meetup was really great. Maaan… I visited the LUMS for the first time. Meetup was quite fun and information oriented. Got more information about Adsense and Blogger.net. pakistani Bloggers has got potential.
Hope something like this happens in Karachi soon!
SAWJ,
There is one meetup coming up in Karachi in December. At least that is what I heard.
Cool! I’ll have a biryani stand ready, going to make some money…
Thanks for mentioning TechMynd.