Archive for January, 2011
OptimizePress – On The Inside [VIDEO]
I recently spilled the beans on my personal lovefest with OptimizePress. Today, I wanted to followup with a quick video showing the inside of this theme.
I’m going to take you “behind the scenes” into the pages of my Blog Masters Club launch, which I recently ran on top of OptimizePress. You might have seen the public side of that launch… now you can see how I set the whole thing up with OptimizePress.
Optimizepress Review – After Using It On Two Sites
It is rare when I see a Wordpress theme that actually gets me excited. One such theme I’ve been using lately is OptimizePress.
Now, by now, you may have heard about it. I’ve mentioned it before in a post about product launch platforms, and others have talked about it as well. But, since I originally mentioned it, I have a lot more personal experience with this theme.
As I said on my Toolbox page, I frickin LOVE this theme. And here’s why…
The 3 Harsh Truths About Making Money Online
My readers know that I tell it like it is. And, I’m about to do it again.
… Because I get asked questions fairly often, and sometimes those questions make me want to bash my head up against the wall.
The typical template of that question goes something like this….
If I work X hours per day, how long will it take me to be making $____ per month?
Ugh.
So, time to dish out some truths. Once you understand these things and accept them, the closer you’ll be to actually creating the success that you want online.
5 Tips to Avoid “Blogging Burnout” and Take Care of Business
This is a guest post by Chris Ducker.
I always say I am a businessman first, and a blogger second. Even though I take my blogging seriously, focusing on putting out the best content I absolutely can on my chosen niche of virtual and mobile entrepreneurship, it is not my focus in my day-to-day routine.
However, I am smart enough to know that by blogging I can definitely attribute a certain amount of new business that has come to my offline companies, from my online activities from last year, as I worked my way up from complete blogging virgin to attending BlogWorld and interviewing tons of great bloggers (including our Blogging-God-of-a-Host, David!) and building a pretty popular blog of my own.
This year, with the small amount of success that I experienced blogging last year, I decided that I was going to ramp it up a little and announced that I was going to attempt to post daily, Monday-Friday.
That plan lasted all of 12 days.
7 Colossal Mistakes Bloggers Make – And It Is KILLING Them
I just recently finished recording about 20 video blog evaluations for people (a bonus offer I had put out there that I was following through on). All in all, it took me probably close to 5 hours to record all of these videos. And, after doing so, I noticed something.
I’m seeing a LOT of the same mistakes being made over and over again.
This isn’t to say that there is only a single way to do things. Surely, there are probably people who would look at this very blog and disagree with some things (and that’s fine). But, my experience in this business speaks for something. Simply put, if you want to build traffic, keep traffic, and make money with a blog – there are certain things you want to not do.
So, after all of these reviews, I want to lay out what I believe are the most common mistakes – in no particular order.
10 Business Ideas That Cannot Fail
This is a guest post by Joshua Noerr.
If you have been reading David’s blog for any length of time, you know how important it is to think of your blog as a business, if blogging for dollars is the goal. Where most people have trouble with this is finding a business that will be profitable and providing either a product or service that people will want to buy.
If you find yourself in this camp, I have composed a little list that will help jump start your business and get you going. I absolutely promise that these ideas will work.
Blog Evaluation: SoldByStyle (Blogging When The Purpose Is Getting Leads)
Today, I continue with my blog evaluations that I promised as part of the Only72 promotion a month or so ago. They were on pause due to the Blog Masters Club launch, and now we’re going to begin wrapping these up over the next couple weeks.
Today’s evaluation is of Sold By Style, a business blog for a home staging company up in Canada. And, in this evaluation, I talk about it from a different standpoint than many other bloggers – generating leads for an offline business.
Here’s the video….
2010 Annual Blogging Income Report – And The Year Ahead
My wife’s grandmother thinks I’m a drug dealer.
Well, she did. I don’t know what she thinks now. She comes from a time and place (back in Russia) where the very concept of what I do for a living was completely unheard of. When she came and visited us a couple years back, she asked my wife if I was into something shady. From her viewpoint, I sat there and pressed buttons on some strange machine (my computer), and yet somehow our bills were paid and my wife wasn’t working.
My wife’s grandmother has since passed away (God bless her). She has one grandmother left, and who knows what she thinks it is that I do.
How To Tackle 2011 Like A Blog Master [Webinar Recording]
Last night, I did a public webinar with the above title. It went really well and the feedback I got from it was incredible. If I had to summarize the general “mood” of the feedback I got from it, it was this…
“It changed my way of thinking.”
… and that was the point. 
How To Tackle 2011 Like a Blog Master – Webinar + Scholarship Details
I don’t know about you, but I intend to make 2011 an awesome year.
Are you with me?
For me personally, I’ve already started off the year strong by kicking off Blog Masters Club again. And this time around, my approach has changed. I launched in a more relaxed form (over the holidays), and I’ve opened up the Club this time for good.
This was done strategically for me to set the stage for bigger games in 2011. I’ve got more things planned, and it just didn’t make sense for me to continue to run Blog Masters the same exact way as I had. Plus, turning people away isn’t very smart business, and yet that’s exactly what I had been doing in 2010. People would come to me and tell me point-blank that they’re interested in Blog Masters and asked when I’d reopen it. I told them I wasn’t quite sure and told them to wait. Yay, +1 Dave for being an idiot! 
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