Here’s a great post on what ProBloggers actually do ! They don’t just sit around, make a few posts and then sip tea ! See the post called The Many Hats of a Professional Blogger.

His list he started is:

* Entrepreneur - the ideas, the vision, motivation and drive
* Salesperson - brings in the advertising, sponsorships, does the deals
* Bookkeeper - keeps the numbers in check
* Editor - controls the output, checks and amends for quality, final decision on topics
* Researcher - investigates stories and information for articles, gathers facts
* Writer - does the actual writing, possibly based on the researchers gathered materials
* Designer - keeps the blog looking great, formats posts so they look their best
* Organiser - admin, project management, to-do lists, calendars, diaries …
* Tech Support - backups, fixes things when they go wrong, hosting, software upgrades, modules, ad serving …
* Mentor - impartial wisdom and advice, been there got the t-shirt
* Network manager - for when the enterprise grows from one blog to many, someone needs to run the farm