Beyond Blogging – A Review
Last night (at midnight) my friends Nathan Hangen and Mike CJ launched their new book, Beyond Blogging.
Now, I’ve seen several ebooks that are full of interviews. In fact, most of the time, the author didn’t do much of the actual writing – they just copy/pasted what the interviewee said and called it a book.
Beyond Blogging is not that kind of book. The book does have tons of input from a lot of big names in blogging:
- Chris Brogan
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Chris Guillebeau
- David Risley (yeah, funnily enough)
- Penelope Trunk
- Chris Garrett
- Darren Rowse
- Pete Cashmore (from Mashable)
- Jonathan Fields
- Shama Kabani
- Michael Dunlop (from IncomeDiary.com)
- Steve Pavlina
- iJustine
- Brian Clark (of Copyblogger fame)
- John Chow
But, Nathan and Mike went over and above. They took the interviews and digested each of them into actionable advice. This is no copy/paste job – this book is the real deal. Each interview has a biography as well as the author’s analysis of what makes these personalities successful as bloggers.
After all the profiles and analysis, the last section of this book brings it all together into the common elements of all of them. What made these bloggers successful? What did they do right? What did they do at the beginning?
When I began really taking my blogging seriously, I read and studied others who were successful at it. It only makes sense, right? Beyond Blogging brings many years of combined blogging experience and success into one content-packed read which is sure to give any blogger several “aha moments”. In fact, the only way you won’t learn something from this book is not to read it.
On a personal basis, it is an honor to have my name on the list with these other fine bloggers. I’m glad I could help. But, more importantly, this is a fine book.
I recommend it to you wholeheartedly.
Nathan and Mike… fine work, my friends.
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David Risley
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
