Doctor Abandons Medical Practice for Blogging
I came across this interesting bit of news this morning. A medical doctor has left his lucrative 6-figure medical practice to devote all his time and efforts to running his very popular blog: Macrumors.com. How interesting?
Dr Kim started blogging about Apple Inc’s Secrets while still a Computer Science major in the university, and the site has grown to become the 2nd most popular blog on the Internet, defeating such popular blogs as the Huffingtonpost.com etc. Don’t forget that this blog is a technology blog and it has managed to eclipse political and other news websites. How and why did this happen? The main reason is that the Internet is like “thirsty elephant”, it’s always seeking fresh “waters” in the form of fresh content. Since Dr Kim’s Macrumors.com blog regularly supplies this fresh content, it has become one of the most visited webpages (not just blogs!) in the world. Very interesting.
Dr Kim’s MacRumors thrived on the secrecy of Apple, and over the years has been able to amass an impressive following. With that huge following, Dr Kim has been able to monetize the traffic through advertising income to such an extent that the income generated from a single blog was enough to enable Dr Kim to effectively ‘retire’ from his medical practice to run Macworlds.com on a full-time basis.
Well, well.. Iam looking forward to that day when I can generate even 1% of that income through my blogging efforts. I hope that day comes pretty soon!.
You can get further details of this interesting and encourging news (to us budding internet marketers) here : Dr Kim’s story.