For some bloggers, their blog is not their source of income but a way to promote their source of income. We’re not all cut out to ride the waves of a six figure blogging income. But instead many of us will add to our additional income source because of our blogging skills and experience.

If you follow me on Twitter or Plurk, you may know that last week I obtained a “real” job and am now working away from my home part time. And while typically I wouldn’t be jumping up and down about a new job, it’s the first time that I have been hired by a company (instead of an individual person) for blog consulting. Thus, I’m now headed out of my home every morning and going to work at a local web start-up company, Batteries In A Flash.

Because of this new experience for me, let’s talk about adding blogging to your resume and what you should include with the additional knowledge you have obtained.

My Experience

If you’ve never read my about page, here’s a brief overview. My “real world” job experience does not at all entitle me to be a blog consultant. Years ago I was a Jr. Broker for Salmon Smith Barney. From there I moved on to be an funding assistant for a mortgage company in California. When I moved to Nevada, I picked up another job as an assistant. None of this experience led me to learning anything, even slightly, about blogging.

When my daughter, Zadey was born I became a work at home Mom developing websites in the Work at Home Mom community and a full-time Wife and Mom. However, having Zadey is exactly what pushed me into blogging… nearly 3 years ago.

Finding My Job

My partner, Joanne is a big on surfing Craigslist. She often hunts down writing and designing jobs for me. In her search, she found the ad for the job that I applied for at Batteries In A Flash. Though the job did not ask for a blogging consultant, I was well qualified and decided to apply. I interviewed the day after applying and was hired for the job the next day. My interview lasted a whopping 90 minutes where we spent the entire time talking about blogging and social media.

My Resume

The resume I sent to Batteries In A Flash wasn’t anything overly special. Because it had been more than 3 years since I had been in an actual work setting, there wasn’t a lot of recent experience to put on a resume. Except for a few tidbits and herein lies the point of this post.

My work experience for the last 3 years consists of building my own work at home business, web designing, designing for WordPress, social networking, blogging, and earning an income with blogging.

Because this is what I have done for the last 3 years, this is all I included on my resume. No mention of being a Jr. Stock Broker or working for a couple of mortgage companies. Instead, I displayed only my knowledge that I had taught myself (with the exception of working with my business partner, Mindy, who’s proven to be quite a valuable source for me).

Adding Blogging to Your Resume

Consider the work that you have put into your blog and all the things you have learned along the way. If you started another blog tomorrow, would it be better and more successfully faster than your first blog? Chances are, if you have learned anything from blogging you could launch a second blog with more momentum than you did your first. As a blog consultant, I’m helping Batteries In A Flash do just that — but it’ll be their blog, not mine.

Your knowledge may cover writing to capture attention, promoting your posts with social networking, increasing RSS subscribers, and how to create a community with your blog.

All of these lessons, trials, and errors teach you something about the world of blogging that can easily be passed on to someone looking to do better with an existing blog or starting a new blog.

This information should be included on your resume as the lessons are valuable skills to individuals or companies looking to break into the blogosphere.

When you decide to add this information to your own resume, consider even more possibilities for experience. The next tid bit I added to my resume was the rank that my blog holds. My Alexa rank (70,008) and my PageRank (4 on index). These certainly aren’t the best ranks in the blogosphere but it shows my ability to create a community large enough to establish some authority in my niche. You may want to add the same information.

Getting a Job

Just because my blog consulting job is away from my home, doesn’t mean that you have or need to apply this same principal to working in an office. In fact, there are many successful bloggers offering blog consulting services right from their own blogs and from the comfort of their own home. But each of these people get business blog consulting because they are able to demonstrate their knowledge based on the efforts of their own blog and help others achieve similar results.

Additionally, blog consulting doesn’t have to be just about how to setup a blog, earn an income from it, and gain attention. Instead you can incorporate ideas of blogging for businesses and how to help businesses promote their flagship products by blogging (this is the route I’m headed with Batters In A Flash).

What’s on your resume?

So, is adding blogging to your resume something that might work for you or is it something that you have already done? Where do you think a blogger needs to be in order to sell their services as a blog consultant? Have you learned enough from blogging to teach others how to produce the same results?