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Pinoy Problogger: Joachim Guanzon

Joachim GuanzonJoachim 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.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

2 Responses

  1. Avatar for joachim guanzon joachim guanzon says:

    by the way, my article was featured in hackaday:

    http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000003*****1/

    thanks :D

  2. Avatar for joachim guanzon joachim guanzon says:

    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

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