Interesting that this has been such a commented on post and also, when you read all the comments,how your readers don’t seem to care that you write about 2 or 3 different things as long as you write.

They’re more interested in you and your identity info than anything else and they’re interested in blogging and travel too because you are.

They’re worried that you’re in a pickle though and kindly offer to follow you on 3 or more different blogs if that makes you happier.

What a great crowd and well done for building up such a large and loyal following.

Here’s my take. You seem to have 2 blogs already on 2 different topics (pd and marketing) I think that’s enough. Weave a thread between the topics you cover in this blog – the identity element will draw it all together and you can be the personal identity man.

Great thinking points here and this has helped me as my personal development blog focuses on encouraging, inspiring and showing people how to live their dream. But I do a bit on happiness, living better and travel too. I think they’re all related and now I’m convinced that it’s okay for me to carry on that path. Everyone dreams of travel don’t they? Well, if they don’t they can find the ‘live your dream of staying put’ blog:)

So, you just need to keep doing what you’re doing, stop worrying and have fun. That identity hat looks good on you!

If you’re going to start another site, then devote it to how you started making $ online with cloud living. I think a site devoted to online business would be really popular in this day and age, just my 2 cents.

Write about the topic with a spirituality side, then productivity then making money online.

thought i think that people would probably be more interested in some short E-book on how it is you make money online and what steps to take. They are not here for the other two just to figure out how you did it.

So a good solution is to talk about those 2 subjects related to 1 topic.

You cna give the side of one related to the topic then the other.

As many people know you’ll never please everybody. If you make sure you’re pleasing yourself you’ll still maintain your readership and have a healthy looking blog.

Keep up the great blogs

Regards

Paul
diary4life.com

I’ve been reading your blog ever since I commented on a particular post back when you were living in Cape Town. Like you, I lived and worked there too although I’m from the UK, and still see it as my second home. For me, I got drawn in initially because you were a blogger who was “walking his talk” and covered the areas that resonated most where I was also at when I found your blog – all things marketing and personal development. And that hasn’t changed. I continue to follow your blog because you always offer good value and interesting fresh insights.

I’m currently battling with a similar thought process so found your post and all the comments really useful. My work straddles personal development and marketing comms, and I’m now thinking that rather than split those up, it’s okay to carry on as I am through the common link I use of wanting to nudge people to get to their important stuff.

In your case, as others have commented, the common theme is helping people to plug in to their identity and since that works on both a personal and professional level, for me, that neatly encompasses your different topics you’re interested in/write about.

Will be interesting to see what you decide and I look forward to reading further thoughts! Either way, as these comments show, I don’t think you’ll be reducing your readership any time soon!

All the best

Tamsin@nudgeme

I have the same problem as you too and there wasn’t a specific direction that my blog is going. But I believe a hybrid would be a choice of mine. A hybrid between personal development and making money online can match together as what the others fellow commenters had said. Which means you get to serve 2 side at a single blog which can save up lots of your time.

Cheers,
Vincent

This is quite a dilemma. I think continuing on the path that you are going is to be more fulfilling. Perhaps there is a way to 80/20 your blogs so that you can maximize your revenue. That way you will be able to ease off of the affiliate marketing and that will create time to update more often on all three topics.

Looking forward to seeing which direction you take.

I’m stumbled on PluginID for the first time about a month ago, and I’m now a subscriber. Since I’m not a long time follower, maybe I can give you some insight from someone who is newly following you.

I subscribed based on what you share: your insights, your challenges, and mostly your personally development stuff. I really enjoy your style of writing and your honesty.

I am intrigued that you make a living online, though, and find that interesting. But that’s not why I subscribed. Personally, I would prefer to read about that elsewhere, somewhere that’s devoted to that sort of thing, a site that would be a great resource, because I think you’ve got a lot to offer there.

But to me, PluginID isn’t a resource for that sort of stuff, it’s a different kind of resource, a great blog written by Glen Allsopp, chalk full of content to “awaken, inspire and motivate others into seeing that they can be who they want to be and live the life they want to live.”

If you did create another blog as a resource for all your other stuff, I would subscribe to that one, too, because to me you’ve got enough experience that I want to know what you have to say.

So, you’d get two subscriptions out of me! I have some friends that I’ve recommended to PluginID because of what you write about here, the non-online stuff. But people who come here looking for your wealth of experience making a living online really have to dig around and sift through a lot of other things to get what they are looking for.

I think splitting the two would grow your future subscribers for both quite a bit. Just my opinion. I know you’re concerned about your past and loyal followers, and although some would split off, I think most of them would end up following you on both, too.

Cheers,
Miche