There are many things people could be doing in their leisure time. Even being a couch potato has some benefits if people are watching TV or listening to music. Reading, in fact is a recommended pastime because learning has a lot of real-life benefits since people are learning new things that they might put to good use in their day-to-day life. Most people might want to take a walk in a park or in their neighborhood. Some might want to jog, which is good for health and physical strength, and it might be ahead of simply strolling in the ranking of things to do.

This leads to looking at hobbies simply because they avail a lot of opportunities for using one’s leisure time effectively. The good news is the list of hobbies is long and some of them such as photography has the potential to generate money or become lucrative careers that could go a long way to supplement one’s income or even change one’s life. It might even be important to look beyond the financial benefit since a good hobby can rejuvenate the participants and make them ready for what is in line such as going back to work the next day. Leisure activities that do not have to be physically involving have the ability to reduce and fend off stress, what everyone needs to continue with whatever they are doing in life.

Photography that this blog was discussing is primarily a hobby with the potential to become a career or generate income as a sideline.  In fact, the big majority of people use it as a hobby. The good news is there are a lot of hobbies out there that are ideal for spending one’s leisure time, while at the same time they have the potential to supplement one’s income. Unless one is well off, any amount of money can find some use. Money is also an incentive that can make individuals take certain tasks more seriously because as the saying goes the sky could be the limit.

Hence, the blog will continue to post photography material for those who are at an intermediate level, while at the same time exploring hobbies, especially those with the potential to generate money until they are exhausted and of course the discussion can continue to discuss other useful hobbies, especially those that are beneficial in helping people to spend their leisure time in an enjoyable and memorable way. Consequently, how many hobbies are out there that can be as lucrative as photography? Photography might be lucrative for the fraction of the overall photography enthusiasts as the rest of them might have to do it as a labor of love.

Blogging is a recent hobby that came into the picture after the arrival of the digital world. It does not require much equipment since it is possible to use a normal cell phone. Once a blog is up and running on social media such as Facebook or Blogger without a charge, it might be possible to monetize it although it is not an easy feat. It takes time to write interesting posts that compel visitors to return often that also requires posting frequently, at least once a day. If there is frequent posting the chance of attracting repeat visitors gets better.

Once the blog becomes popular it is possible to display ads through Google that will pay on the number of click-throughs. That means if the blog meets Google’s a bit stringent requirements, ads from advertisers can appear on the blog and if someone clicks on them, the advertisers pay certain amount, which is small, hence it requires a lot of click-throughs to create a sizeable stream of income. That means any blog that attracts many visitors has a chance of making money from click-through ads.

Individual businesses are also looking for places to put their ads without middlemen and they can be solicited or they themselves can approach a blog when they come to know it has many visitors. Talk about more than two or three hundred thousand visitors a month to be able to attract such advertisers that can pay a lot of money.

If the blog makes it to a certain level it can attract another kind of advertisers that are always businesses that want to see their products’ reviews on the blog because they know the blog has a big number of visitors that gives their products a high level of exposure.

Affiliate sponsorship could also be another source of income because companies agree to pay a commission when someone clicks an ad on a blog and make a purchase. A blogger can also sell one’s own e-books and even other products that is straightforward.

All these show that there is a possibility to make money through blogging, but it might require a lot of work because attracting a big number of visitors is obviously a difficult undertaking. Yet, a few had done it, and there is no reason those who have what it takes cannot do it.

There are networks worth checking out too that do not bother about the number of visitors a blog has such as PopAds, PropellerAds, and Revenue Hits that are much easier to start even for beginners so that a blog does not have to wait until it has hundred thousands of visitors before it is monetized.