Why are you writing the blog, again? If it's for accountability, great -- do it, but make it private. If it's public, you are going to spend too much time and effort working on it, when you should be working on paying clients.
Additionally, it's going to take more than 93 days to build a following on your blog. And I would doubt that you get very good advice from visitors, especially at first.
If you're main focus is to make $X per month to support your family, stop doing anything that doesn't make you money. Stop reading HN/reddit/cnn. Stop writing your blog. Stop asking for advice. If you cannot draw a line from what you are doing to profit, stop doing it and switch to making money.
Blogs are hugely narcissistic, which is only going to take your time away from making money. There are some great ones out there, but it sounds like you need to make money, not navel gaze.
I highly doubt that you will make any significant money off of your blog in 93 days. Or ever. You know where you will make money? By solving an existing problem for a business that increases their income. In exchange, they will give you money (so much better than the attention that blog visitors give you!)
Great comment, thanks. Though it was not about narcissism. It was not my only way to get paying clients, it was just one of the ways. I also didn't say I had no paying clients. I have some and we work on a couple of projects and they pay me. Though, I am aimed to increase the income and your tips convince me once again that I should focus on something other, not this idea. Thanks.
It's a very easy trap to fall into. You've heard of certain bloggers and respect other technologists because you've read their blogs. It only seems natural that someone would read yours in order to find you.
However, in my personal experience (a long lesson to learn!), it's a bit like Field of Dreams thinking: "if you built it, they will come." That does work, but it's a long process, and I suspect it's generally a side effect of the blog.
Think about it this way: is your ideal client really going to be spending a lot of their time reading blogs like yours? I would guess not; the people who would likely read it would be other technical people.
When I went from Field of Dreams thinking to direct line to profit thinking, I was amazed at how much work I was doing that had no chance of yielding income. I discovered I was only doing profit-generating things for about 2 hours per day. I thought I was busy and going to be successful, but I was just wasting my time.
HTH. Good luck to you. I think you definitely can make that much money per month in income, but make sure you have a definite value prop.
FWIW, when I was doing blog/email marketing/web design work, I found the best path was thus. Get them to sign up for a webinar on your blog, and give a live webinar via GoToMeeting once a week. That was my best success -- I think the key was that it qualified leads a ton, and gave me a chance to exhibit my professionalism and skillset before I asked for money.
Additionally, it's going to take more than 93 days to build a following on your blog. And I would doubt that you get very good advice from visitors, especially at first.
If you're main focus is to make $X per month to support your family, stop doing anything that doesn't make you money. Stop reading HN/reddit/cnn. Stop writing your blog. Stop asking for advice. If you cannot draw a line from what you are doing to profit, stop doing it and switch to making money.
Blogs are hugely narcissistic, which is only going to take your time away from making money. There are some great ones out there, but it sounds like you need to make money, not navel gaze.
I highly doubt that you will make any significant money off of your blog in 93 days. Or ever. You know where you will make money? By solving an existing problem for a business that increases their income. In exchange, they will give you money (so much better than the attention that blog visitors give you!)