Yes, one of the guys I work with got us into Wordpress and haven’t looked back. My last blog was just getting a bit messy and didn’t have a direction, so I closed it and concentrated on the work one but found there was stuff I wanted to blab about where it conflicted so back onto this one again.

Not looking to monetise it, just keep raising awareness and play with some ideas as I move more into e-commerce side of things.

I haven’t been on the old forum for quite some time. I used to get frustrated a bit and lost interest… Great to hear from you.

You’re right: blogging is bloody hard work! And I can see how easy it would be to give in, I’ve done it myself with a few tentative projects.

Instead I’ve piled all my efforts into the one project, Holiday Pad, which started over 2 years ago and I’m still at it! In fact, it is almost a full-time job.

Having some good press and a huge increase in both visitors and subscribers, certainly provides motivation to carry on. That, and having a firm long term strategy born out of personal circumstances helps keep the motivation ticking over.

But it depends on what your expectations are I guess. If you get into it with the sole aim of making lots of money with Adsense then you may end up being disappointed and lack the stamina to continue.

If you’re looking to this wonderful medium in order to establish an idea, and learn a lot of stuff both technical and creative whilst you go along, then those rewards far outweigh any pennies you’ll earn from Adsense.

Like I said, it depends on what your expectations are (and your long term goals)