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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.

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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. :)

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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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Why Blog Masters Club?

Today is a day which has been anticipated for some time by many…. the day I reopen Blog Masters Club.

Of course, I know that sounds hypey as hell to say, but the truth is that I’ve had to turn away a LOT of people over the last year who told me they were interested in taking my training program. The program was closed down, and I didn’t make exceptions.

So, today, I reopen it.

Naturally, the environment has changed a lot since a year ago. There have been a LOT of launches over the last many months. A lot of claims. There is a lot of cynicism. And, in this environment, here I come with a “blogging course” which costs just shy of $500.

Some may be wondering what the hell I was thinking. :) Well, I thought I’d address this head on. I believe in transparency, and I think my readers (you) expect that.

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2011 Is Here. Time To Get Busy.

I have a question for you…

A year from today, are you going to be starting out the year 2012 from the exact same place you are today? In other words, are you going to make shit happen for REAL in 2011, or are you going to be sitting there in a year with things looking pretty much the same as they are today?

The beginning of the new year is often a time where we start the year off motivated as hell. The problem is, it often dies off. And that sucks

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Suggestions for Bloggers As We Head Into 2011

In just a few days, we’ll be starting a brand new year. For most people, it is a time to reflect, to look at where you’ve been, and decide where you’re going.

Today, I wanted to offer a few thoughts on 2011. But, first a quick update…

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Are You On The Blogger Hamster Wheel?

Are You On The Blogger Hamster Wheel?

Sitting in Las Vegas in October, Nathan Hangen, Lisa Morosky and myself were wrapping up our panel on turning your blog into a business. Jordan Cooper, as moderator, asked us for any final advice before we wrapped up. Nathan replied…

“Yeah. Stop blogging.”

He got a chuckle from the audience, but there is truth to it. Nathan was referring to the blogger hamster wheel. It is a wheel kept spinning by broke bloggers.

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Blogging Interview At The Wealth Building Annex [VIDEO]

A couple weeks ago, I was invited to be interviewed at a meetup of the Wealth Building Annex here in Tampa. I went out and met a lot of great people, and sat down to a loose interview by to Chris Krimitsos, founder of the Annex.

Before going over there, I got their agreement to get a copy of the interview on video so that I could share it with you guys – my readers. And, here it is. The video is just over 52 minutes long.

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A Story About A Blogger…

A Story About A Blogger…

I want to tell you a quick story about a blogger.

Like a lot of bloggers, this blogger wanted to get better and make more money. So, he did what any blogger would do – read other people’s blogs about making money blogging.

So, in his RSS reader, he’d read guys like Darren Rowse (Problogger), Yaro Starak, John Chow and a few others. He got a lot of ideas. He also subscribed to the email lists of several internet marketers. Guys like Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, John Reese, to name a few.

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The 7 Harsh Realities of Successful Blogging

The 7 Harsh Realities of Successful Blogging

This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele.

There are some realities to being a successful blogger, and failure to realize them can affect the success of your blog. Even though blogging can be done by everybody, not all are successful at it because most people don’t know what it takes to succeed as a blogger. Below are 7 harsh realities of blogging.

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