Making money with blogs - a hint of realism

This post is a little off beat and hopefully a bit informative, it is about taking a reality check before venturing into making money with blogs. I think many are going through financial difficulties, and looking for ways and means to make money on the side, contrary to what some think I am not a reality so different from you.
What bothers me is that it seems that I have become a 'merchant of illusions,' when my goal has always been and will continue to be to disseminate information. To align the expectation of some readers with reality, let me share lessons I have learned from my experience working online.

Lesson no. 1: Create a unique environment of information for your visitors. Only when you are able to create some unique information which is not available on every other blog, will you be able to keep visitors coming back for more. Information should be aligned with your expertise in one subject and preferably should also be useful to your readers. People who are successful with online blogs are very careful to post content which is unique and gives better information that is not available elsewhere
Lesson no. 2: Study as much as possible, if you think you'll find a ready recipe for solving the mysteries of building a site I think you will be dissapointed. I bought books on design, spent years studying HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, PHP and still have a lot to learn because the Internet is a land in constant transformation. Ultimately you will have to use your time more constructively and your outsourced work at one point or the other. It is impossible to work alone and handle a lot of work on your own. Automation or outsourcing is one of the most important lessons to learn if you want to be effective and earn money online.

My intention is not to discourage anyone, however the realities are very different from what you see on the pages of most salts internet marketers that you find online and you will more often than not be wasting money on things that do not work. I hope that this post will help you to be more productive and achieve your goals with a little effort and patience