Why Start a Teaching Blog for Veterinarians
What is a teaching blog? How can you earn money with one? Why would you want to start a teaching blog for veterinary
If you’re thinking of starting a veterinary-related blog and aren’t sure where to start, a teaching blog might be right for you.
Keep reading to find out more about the three ways you can have a teaching blog and why you may want to start one.
Types of Teaching Blogs
There are three basic types of teaching blogs you can have that will allow you to earn money by providing education to veterinary professionals. Let’s take a closer look at each one.
List Continuing Education Opportunities
The first way you can help other veterinary professionals through your blog is by giving them a list of the various continuing education opportunities that may be available to them.
You can personally review events or courses you have taken. But, to reach a broader audience, it makes more sense to use other people’s reviews and share your own opinion based on those.
This type of blog can earn money through:
- Affiliates
- Memberships
- Advertisements
If you can make your website the one-stop-shop for finding continuing educational opportunities for veterinary professionals, you could earn quite a bit of money.
Provide Continuing Education
Another way to earn money through blogging by providing continuing education opportunities is to provide them yourself. This will require more time and money upfront, but could also be more lucrative in the long run.
Before you can start offering any courses, you need to get them approved by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB). Check the RACE standards to find out more.
With this type of blog, you would primarily earn money by promoting your continuing education courses. However, you could also earn some from advertising and affiliate marketing as well.
Teach Other Skills
There are many other skills that veterinary proffesionals need that are valuable enough to be paid for even if they don’t count towards continuing education hours.
These skills may include:
- Clinic management
- Marketing
- Communication with pet owners
My blog here is a great example of one of these. Here, I teach veterinary professionals how to blog for fun and profit. But there are many other opportunities to teach other professionals the skills they need to succeed.
This type of blog can make money a few ways:
- Advertisements
- Affiliate marketing
- Sponsored posts
- Online courses
- Digital products
- One-on-one coaching
Another idea for this category would be to provide updated information about anything in the veterinary industry. This could include new procedures and research, or new medications.
Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the reasons why you might want to start a teaching blog for veterinarians.
1. Make Money
I already covered a few ways you can make money with a teaching blog, so you already have some of the how’s. Now, let’s take a closer look at how much money you can potentially make with a teaching blog.
There are over 120,000 licensed veterinarians in the United States. There are also nearly 80,000 veterinary technicians. That’s around 200,000 veterinary professionals in need of continuing education.
Those numbers don’t include veterinary assistants and hospital managers that may also be looking for information in the veterinary field.
That’s a massive audience that you can potentially reach and share your knowledge with. It’s also a specific audience which is easier to reach compared to other types of blogs.
Imagine you built your blog to have just 10% of these professionals following it. That’s 20,000 people. Now, imagine that just 10% of those bought a new course you offered for $500.
2,000 people x $500 = $1,000,000
Let’s even take it down a notch and assume only 5% of your audience bought a $200 course.
1,000 people x $200 = $200,000
Would that be worth all the extra work it’ll take to build up your blog and reach out to other veterinary professionals?
2. Help More Animals
I went into this in my post about personal veterinary blogs, but it still holds true to teaching blogs.
The more you’re able to teach other veterinarians about how to treat animals and even reach out to more pet owners, the more animals you’ll be able to help.
If you find out about an incredible new drug that can help animals and share it with your veterinary audience, it can then be used to treat them.
You may also help veterinarians communicate better with pet owners. This will ensure the pet is cared for better at home and given the medication properly. Pet owners that feel more connected with their veterinarian are also more likely to go when needed.
Just think of how many more animals around the world by supporting veterinarians through your blog. Starting a teaching blog will start to make far more sense.
3. Better Career Opportunities
If you feel stuck where you are and aren’t sure how to further your career, then maybe a blog is the way to go.
For one thing, it will connect you with numerous veterinarians around the world which makes it easier to reach out to them and let them know if you’re looking for a new job opportunity.
You can also consider other career moves beyond staying within a clinic setting. Perhaps you’ve always thought about teaching or are ready to retire from clinic life and work from home.
Through blogging, you can build up a side income that can become your main income. This frees you up to make risky career moves or walk away from your job altogether to blog full-time.
4. Further Your Own Education
As you research topics to help other veterinarians, you’ll inevitably learn some things along the way that you can apply to your own career. This is another way blogging can help you better your career.
The more education you have, the more valuable you are as a member of a team. This can secure your place in a clinic that you love, even during uncertain economic times.
It can also be advantageous to the pets you see in your clinic. With your extra knowledge, you may think of things that other veterinarians wouldn’t have considered simply because they’re caught up in the day-to-day and not thinking outside the box.
Besides that, learning is fun. It keeps your mind sharp and can ward off age-related mental illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The more you learn, the younger your mind stays.
Want to Get Started with a Teaching Blog?
Now you know what a teaching blog is, a few types to get you started, and why you may want to start one.
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