Joachim Guanzon, or Kim, is a US-based web developer who plays lead guitars for Big Tym Berto, a nameless-all-pinoy-saturdays-only band. He started getting deep into photography while reading about Lomography early this year. He currently works for XanGo slaving through code and bugs as a web developer.
Along with Rain Contreras, he co-founded the group photography blog, Litratista.org.
- How would you define problogging?
Pro-blogging is all about being an opinion leader, meaning you write quality articles and link to the hottest items on the web before everyone else does. Also, pro-blogging means optimizing your site to maximize the effectiveness of your ads.
- When did you start blogging? When did you get into problogging and how did you realize that there’s some money to be had from it?
I started blogging august 2003 when I was hired as the university webmaster for BYUH.edu. I realized that a lot of people were earning from adsense so I jumped right into the band wagon and started earning… slowly.
- Which blogs are you writing for and which blog networks are you affiliated with?
I have one personal blog/work portfolio that i nuked and rebuilt as a photoblog. I also write for Litratista.org, a blog for pinoy amateur photographers by pinoy amateur photographers.
- Are you problogging part time or full time? Do you see this career as a part time gig or you are looking into going fulltime problogging?
I blog at least once a day on my personal blog and I still have to get more inspiration for my group blog. Earning money from blogging is a part time gig for me, I definitely earn more from my day job and from photography than from blogging.
- How do you monetize your blog? Which ones bring in the most revenues?
I used to have adsense on my site, then I switched between Adsense and YPN, I discovered that I earned more from Adsense. It took me a year before I broke the $5 a day mark. but when I got busy with my family and my day job, it went back to a few cents per day.
- What are the requirements to go into problogging for a network? Flat fee or profit sharing? How much is the salary range?
I have never been part of any blogging networks, but I have really wanted to belong to one, though currently I have been really busy with a lot of family and work related agendas.
- How much time do you spend on problogging?
I spend at least one hour a day posting to different sites.
- What other benefits do you get from problogging?
the Benefits of problogging would be the extra income earned from just posting an article on the web.
- What’s the most significant event/moment you had in your entire problogging career?
That would be the time when I bought a filter for my Canon 20D using the money earned from Adsense.
- What personal tips can you share with bloggers who want to try out problogging?
Make sure your topics are unique and worthy of discussion.
More Filipino Probloggers:
Melissa Atienza-Petri
Joachim Guanzon
Ruth Schaffer
J Angelo Racoma
Markku Seguerra
Gloria Gamat
Paulo Ordoveza
by the way, my article was featured in hackaday:
http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000003*****1/
thanks :D
awesome, thanks Yuga, anyways, kelan ba natin lalagyan ng local ads ang Litratista.org? :D keep on blogging!!!
thanks din for featuring me sa presentation mo, hopefully di natakot mga tao sa terrorist look ko :p