If you are a blogger or want to be a blogger, one of the first questions that you will have is: How Do I Write Great Blog Posts? 

In this post, I would like to share my thoughts on creativity for bloggers and my 4-step strategy for writing great posts from my ten years of blogging experience.

Blogging is not different from other forms of creative work such as art and music. If you want to become a full-time professional blogger, understanding the creative process is very important. The ability to do creative work is the foundation on which your blogging career will be built.

Most of the creative professionals can make a full time living from their work within a few years of focusing on a specific field. To achieve mastery, it would take at least a decade.

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Let me introduce myself first before I start sharing what I learned about making money from blogging. My name is Pardeep Goyal. I started my blog on personal finance CashOverFlow.in in May, 2015 because I am passionate about credit cards, saving money on travel & shopping and love to read about optimising taxes to save maximum tax legally.

I can keep on telling you stories of how I saved money when I lived in Goa for 30 days in the cost of 3-4 days of vacation. And how travelled with family for 50 days in Thailand by spending less than 2 lakh rupees.

That’s half of my story. One part of my passion is saving money and other part is making money online. I am able to travel for long vacations because my entire business runs online and most of my income is passive.

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If you are a blogger, and if you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, daily backups are very important. There are many paid plugins and services that help you do this. But some are better than the others.

Free backup solutions do not always help you back up into the cloud. Most of the free solutions take backups and store it on your own server – and it makes your own server slow and bloated with several copies of the backups.

Also, most of the solutions take full backups of your blog periodically and it makes every backup very heavy. So far, VaultPress was one of the plugins which helped take incremental backups and store it in the cloud. But VaultPress is a paid plugin and it would cost $5 a month per website. Also, VaultPress doesn’t help you store your files in DropBox or Google Drive.

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