In his article Blogging Overheads – How Much Does it Cost?, Darren Rowse discusses just how low the expenses of running a blogging business are. His overhead, thanks to being a member of B5 media, is practically non-existent, but even without them he acknowledges that he could run his business on a few thousand dollars a year.

I run several blogs, and thanks to a good deal at Dreamhost, it costs me less than $300 a year to host them all. My computer equipment, internet service, advertising and office expenses run a bit more than that, but my yearly overhead is still around $3000 most years. You have to love a business that allows you to enter the market for so little money. Blogging is a business that relies more on effort and intelligence than money, although a $10,000 a year advertising budget would probably help my blogging business considerably, it isn’t necessary.