It could happen.
Concepts developed and refined as blog content can form the basis of a business venture. By writing out the business ideas, and adding to and subtracting from them, a business can indeed be formed from a blog.
Many thoughts can be put to paper, or in this case, to keyboard and blog. As each concept is presented, others follow naturally, whether consciously or subconsciously. In the end, many great business ideas are born.
Hugh MacLeod of the highly popular and irreverent gapingvoid blog is currently thinking of several business possibilities.
One of them, as would be expected, is a result of his highly creative cartoons.
As another, and an offshoot of the creativity involved in cartooning, is to consult and advise other businesses on creativity and its processes.
An overall, and encompassing idea, is of course the marketing and advertising consultancy potential, resulting from Hugh's business experience. As a matter of fact, business consulting is a possible business, or sideline for almost any blogger.
Just like that, there are three business ideas resulting from one blog.
From my own blog, I have enhanced tremendously my freelance writing and search engine optimization (SEO) businesses. They grew up alongside the blog.
Most bloggers have at least one book in their heads; and probably many more hiding in the brain as well. Combining a print on demand or even a traditional publisher, with the marketing power of blogs, is already a proven and winning team.
Books can be marketed as standard hard copy editions or as e-books.
E-books and tips on your business area can be offered as a free giveaway, to attract more potential customers and clients.
Bloggers are writers. There is always a demand for good writers everywhere. Many website owners are prepared to pay very well for good copywriters to create website content.
Magazines, both on and offline, definitely pay for well written articles. Since you know your own area of interest well, there is really no one better to write about it than you.
Becoming a professional blogger, and writing the posts for business and corporate weblogs is about to explode onto the mainstream. As bloggers, who already have a track record, you already experienced to handle those professional blogging and writing assignments.
Of course, these are only a tiny fraction of a percentage of business ideas that can result from blogging.
I am confident that your creative mind will dream up many more.
Be sure to write them down.
You can even blog about the creative process that led to the new business idea.
