I marked my http://gardenersdaughter.blogspot.com/2007/08/365-days-of-telenovela-love.html first anniversary as a successful blogger yesterday with over a quarter of a million unique visitors so far, and over 1.5 million page views in 365 days of blogging, posting about 450 telenovela stories. Having 3,000 unique visitors per day, with a page views of 15,000-27,000 on peak days (no Digg effect), is definitely not the norm in the wild, wild, web or blogosphere. What set out as a passionate hobby for me, later began to generate a modest average blog income of $500 monthly, which culminated in one year into about $5,000. All I did was to convert my writing gift into my passion for watching telenovela soaps on television. All of us have one passion for somethings or the other. When you blog about your passion, you are bound to generate an amazing followership from people who share the same passion, if that passion is popular enough, then you are on your way smiling to the bank! Telenovela Blogging is a new niche, I have climbed to number one spot as a blog, on Google Search engine for the search term 'Telenovela' out of 5.21 million search results, all in one year.
VEry good success story and yes, Passion is required for every success in life. congrats you on this achievement.