Everyone and everything has a story. I want to use this opportunity to share my experience with you. It's been a tough but fruitful journey. I'll start from the very beginning so you can understand this story.

How I Started
I started using computers at the age of 8, and I love anything related to Tech and Gadgets. I always dreamt of owning a website and making it become popular.
I designed my first website with wapka and it took me about 3 months to even get it done because i didn't have any knowledge of html.

To be honest the first blog was a mess at first but after I got to know about CSS. I began to pick interest in web design. At this point in time, I never knew there was a way to earn money from a website. All I wanted was a platform to express myself.

With the web design knowledge i had gotten from wapka, I moved to blogger. Designing my blog was as easy as ABC because wapka already gave me the required knowledge. I opened a news blog but it didn't go well so I decided to move to my area of expertise. Tech.

Challenges
Tech Blogging is very challenging, I guess this is because most people who come to tech blogs are usually people who need a solution to a certain tech related problem and in order to keep their trust, you have to try to help them out unlike the entertainment blogs where its almost unnecessary for the blogger to respond to comments.

You don't just wake up one day and say you want to open a tech blog. If you have no knowledge about gadgets and technology, I'll advise you stay in entertainment.

Another challenge is writing phone reviews, this is the part that can really get frustrating for any serious minded tech blogger.

In order to keep up with the trends, I have to read the reviews of another blog to write my own reviews. I think this is because I'm not based in Lagos as most companies prefer to send phones to bloggers that are based there. Apart from the device I received from Obi Worldphones via Invicta Africa and devices I've used myself or requested from friends, for any other review I get details from different blogs then compare it before writing my own reviews but I guess it may be quite different if I get to more devices to review as I have my own view of things.

Tech Blogging has helped me work with quite a number of brands, Invicta Africa, Obi World Phones, JiJi, etc. in just a Year.

What I've Learnt So Far
1.Running a Tech Blog Alone Is Very Stressful

2.Keeping Partnership With Brands Is Very Important

3.Tech Blogs Tend To Earn More Than Entertainment blogs

4.Affiliate Marketing Favors Tech Blogs more.

5.Having a good relationship with your audience on social media helps a lot

6.Being controversial once in a while helps but avoid getting into trouble or posting anything that will ruin your reputation

7.As a Tech Blogger, remember you're not just there to make your money, you're also there to help people. Never neglect your audience.

8. Don't chase potential advertisers away with high costs of advertising.

9. Sometimes schedule posts and take a few days off. Even people working at top tech blogs like TechCrunch get days off.

10. Reduce blogging stress by using an RSS FEED Reader.

That's my story. What's yours? I'd like to know.

Hmmmm. Blogging is stressful

Blogging is not for the lazy

give me laptop, Na yahoo yahoo i go do.. money de inside pass bloggin.. abi nor be so

weldone

nice one from Naijatechguy.. Op no add link
http://www.naijatechguy.com/2016/12/what-18-months-of-tech-blogging-has.html

That's true, to remain at the top. you have to provide unique content.

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Cool, Think I'm going to try this RSS reader thingy

chinedu2412:
give me laptop, Na yahoo yahoo i go do.. money de inside pass bloggin.. abi nor be so

And u get jailed for 100years

What's your blog address let's check it out?

Nice writeup i must say. If i may ask, did you request for these phones from the dealers before you wrote reviews on them or did the dealers themselves find you?.

blog no easy for over 5yrs na only 220 USD...dey my account

Thumbs up

chinedu2412:
give me laptop, Na yahoo yahoo i go do.. money de inside pass bloggin.. abi nor be so

Walahi talahi you want to "Chache"

That's really great. Blogging is not an easy thing. Nowadays i only hire people to write for me.

OK... kudos to u op, Even though I don't av any idea of blogging..

Cauhlins:
Nice writeup i must say. If i may ask, did you request for these phones from the dealers before you wrote reviews on them or did the dealers themselves find you?.

I had to request. Only Obi world phones contacted me

chickengeorge:
What's your blog address let's check it out?

Naijatechguy.com

hmm, so you are a blogger. nice

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Dude,can I write for U on ur blog,under futuristic tech trends?I would appreciate ur reaching out.

Doubleoo:
That's really great. Blogging is not an easy thing. Nowadays i only hire people to write for me.

Boss writing is my hubby,hire me.

One of the best thing about tech blogging is that a 2015 post can still be giving you 1k a day traffic while for those on entertainment, each new post is dead on the second day