The Curious Story of Hybrid Blogging

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As the years have passed, I’ve learned a lot about building online income streams. I’ve learned how to effectively deal with information overload, overwhelm, uncertainty, and fear.

I’ve also learned how to simplify a process so that taking action is inevitable. In this article, I’ll go through the story of how Hybrid Blogging was born, or how I discovered a way to create a profitable website around my passion that is both simple and fun.

Many get stuck in article marketing or building niche websites around topics they don’t enjoy just to make money.

In the end, that doesn’t work, or I haven’t found it to work for me, my clients, or my friends.

So I started wondering: “Why not combine all of these into one process and eliminate a lot of the overwhelm and complexity?”

Doing this not only made creating profitable websites more fun for me, but it also increases your chances of success dramatically.

I want to stress that this is not a magic bullet process. Nothing is and never will be, because in the end, you are the one who has to take action and apply what you learn.

The Creation of Hybrid Blogging

Hybrid Blogging has been evolving ever since I started my online journey. Although it wasn’t something I could put words on until last year.

I like to simplify and make things easier instead of making them more complex. First and foremost, I do this because it makes things easier for me.

The second benefit is that it makes everything so much easier for the people that I teach to use this process and build their own online empire.

I have always been very curious about how to combine and simplify the different aspects in any area that I have been involved in.

And that is what I have done with building an online business. I simply became very curious, and I can’t stand standing still, so I automatically improve what I do, because it is who I am.

With that said, let’s take a quick look at how exactly the Hybrid Blogging process was born.

My First Website – 2007

In reality, I started my first website when I was 14 or 15 years old, but that was 10 years ago. While I made a few hundred then it wasn’t until 2007 that I really started to get serious about building an online business.

It took me almost two years to realize that I wasn’t doing it very well. I call these years my learning years.

We all have them. For some they are longer and for some they are shorter. It’s just a part of the game, but if you keep going and take action, you will succeed.

I wouldn’t trade these years for anything, because they taught me crucial lessons that would come in handy down the road.

My first failure was one of the most positive things that could’ve happened to me, because it taught me what mindset I needed to succeed.

And while you may feel like failing is bad, it isn’t. The reason is that the more you “fail” the more you learn, and the more you learn, the more you will succeed.

Nothing you do is in vain.

We always have to remember that even the most negative moments in our life to teach us something positive, even though it may not seem like that at the moment.

My First Successful Website – 2009

It wasn’t until 2009 that I decided to get smart. I opened myself up to feedback, bought a training course, and got a mentor.

I was determined to succeed, because I wasn’t going back to playing poker for a living, because that wasn’t what I truly wanted to do with my life.

My soul wanted something else, it wanted something exciting and something I was passionate about, so I went after success with a vengeance.

There was no going back.

It was with this first successful website that I learned search engine optimization. It to this day receives almost 2,000 unique visitors every single day, and it earns over $1,000 each and every month in passive income.

All I did was become really curious about what it was that made some people succeed online when others didn’t. I then followed the path of the successful and got the results that I wanted.

Article Marketing – 2009

After I had succeeded in building my first successful website, I started looking around and wondering what else was out there that I could use to build online income streams.

That’s when I discovered article marketing. I already knew what I had to do to succeed. I had to take massive action and apply what I learned.

I again bought a training course that was created by someone who knew what they were doing. I followed the instructions and I took action, and built up another income stream that to this day earns me 4-figures every month.

It was after this second success with article marketing that I came to realize that nothing is impossible. You can succeed at anything if you’re determined enough and put one foot in front of the other.

Also notice that I didn’t start succeeding until I began focusing on one thing at a time. If you have many projects going on, focus on one, because trying to do them all will only paralyze you.

It was also at that time that I started feeling the urge to do something greater, to do something that contributed to humanity in a much bigger way, and that is when I started blogging.

Blogging – 2009-Present

When I had a variety of online income streams, I started the Wake Up Cloud.

I hesitated for a long time to go after what I was passionate about, but I eventually got angry at myself and just took action.

I once again bought a training course on how to create a successful blog, and I followed the instructions until I started seeing massive results.

Are you noticing the pattern here?

To this day, this blog is something my soul burns for. I love this stuff. I love doing it, figuring it out, and teaching it to others.

I thoroughly enjoy seeing others succeed. As I kept blogging, creating my own products, utilizing guest blogging and building my email list, I had an epiphany.

I realized that there was no need to separate all the different areas of online business. I could combine them all into one process. And that is how Hybrid Blogging was born.

You see, I’ve used many different strategies and techniques to build online income streams throughout the years, but I discovered that not only is Hybrid Blogging much more fun, it is much faster as well.

It’s also not about just making money doing what you love. For me, it’s about contributing to the world while you’re making money following your passion.

That’s why I love the Hybrid Blogging process so much, because it incorporates all the most important aspects from the technical to the spiritual.

The Results of Hybrid Blogging

And what would a story of Hybrid Blogging be without the practical aspect of it?

The results with Hybrid Blogging have been nothing short of phenomenal.

I have used Hybrid Blogging to help my girlfriend build a website that now receives close to 30,000 unique visitors each and every month, and makes between $500 and $1,000 each and every month with minimal maintenance.

We’ve been very lazy with the website. It would be easy to get well over $1,000/month, but we’re happy with it as it is.

I’ve also coached a few close friends that are motivated and take massive action. They are also in the process of creating successful Hybrid Blogs, and their income just keeps growing.

The beauty of this is that once you learn how to create a profitable website around a topic you enjoy, you can replicate the process and create as many websites as you want, until you reach your income goals.

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