Archive for June, 2009

If You Could Go Full-Time With Your Blog, Would You?

I asked this question on Twitter yesterday and here are some of the answers I got…

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NEW: Six Figure Blogger Blueprint

As we lead up to the launch of Blog Masters Club, I wanted to remind my audience to download and read the Six Figure Blogger Blueprint.

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Are Marketers Ruining Twitter?

There has absolutely been a rapid increase in spam on Twitter lately. It was a problem beforehand. But, then some celebrities brought more attention to Twitter and, all of a sudden, the rest of the world is catching onto Twitter. And where the people are, marketers follow. Is it a bad thing? What should be [...]

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Twitter Suspensions Show Need For Social Redundancy

It might go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: You don’t actually own your social media profiles. So, don’t depend on them. Last week, a couple of friends of mine got suspended on Twitter. Neither one of them did anything shady in the slightest. My guess is that Twitter will eventually reinstate [...]

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How To Sell Ads On Your Blog

Banner advertising is usually the first monetization option explored by any blogger looking to make some money. Within this method are two ways of going about it: (1) Using ad networks like Adsense and, (2) selling it yourself. Some may get confused on the basics of how to sell your own ad space. In this [...]

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25 [More] Random Things About Dave

Back in March, I did a post entitled 25 Random Things You Probably Didn’t Know About David Risley. It was a lot of fun to write and people seemed to enjoy it. Since I like to take occasional turns into other topics (plus, its Friday ), I’d thought I’d extend that list of 25.

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Action Comments Gets An Upgrade

Some news I wanted to pass on this morning… The Action Comments plug-in for WordPress has been updated with a bunch of new features. In short, Action Comments allows you to capture the name and email address of people who post a comment on your blog and add them to your mailing list. This allows [...]

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It Is About Lifestyle Design (Part Two)

Yesterday, I talked about this idea of lifestyle design. I walked you (and myself, quite frankly) through an exercise of determining what one would need to produce online in order to live the tropical island life. This exercise hopefully made it clear that creating the ideal life (whatever that may be for you) isn’t really [...]

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It Is About Lifestyle Design (Part One)

One of the most powerful overall concepts which came out of Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week was the idea of lifestyle design. The concept might have existed previously (I really don’t know), but it was Tim’s book which first brought the concept into my own world. Lifestyle design is simply creating the life that [...]

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Your Problem Isn’t Traffic, It’s You

When I ask bloggers about their chief issue they need help with, traffic usually ends up at or near the top of the list. And it seems obvious. After all, you can’t make any money if you don’t have anybody looking at your blog, right? However, I’m hear to tell you that, most of the [...]

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