Pinoy Problogger: Joachim Guanzon

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.