Darren Rowse

I just got my hands on a press release that announces that PayPerPost Inc is changing it’s name to IZEA. IZEA will be the parent company for the different services that PPP has been operating including PayPerPost.com, Zookoda.com, BloggersChoiceAwards.com, RockStartup.com, RSSBrief.com, URLBrief.com and BlogInSpace.com. PayPerPost will continue to run as ...more

Click To Play Today is 1 November which means that like thousands of other Men around the world I’m starting to participate in Movember (see my page on Movember here). Movember is an event that originally started out of Australia and New Zealand (but which has gone international this year) ...more

BlogRush has announced it’s Phase 2 launch today and I’ve just taken a look over it. What you’ll notice when you first log in is a new dashboard (instead of an ‘under construction’ note). The interface is all very nice with new graphs etc. The information in the graphs is ...more

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been testing a new service called PubMatic on one of my blogs and I think it’s something that will interest some ProBlogger readers – particularly those with medium to large blogs wanting to optimize their advertising. The premise behind PubMatic is that when ...more

At midnight tonight (at that spooky time this Halloween) the introductory special price offer for the newly released Teaching Sells program ends. I’m not sure what the new price will be – but Brian Clark tells me that it is definitely going up to a new price at the deadline ...more

Collis Ta’eed has put together a 10 point post with Tips to Successfully Selling a Blog which has some useful tips in it both to those selling and those buying blogs. What I found particularly useful was the tips for those buying blogs – especially the advice around keeping the ...more

I’ve got some exciting news to share with the ProBlogger community. A few couple of weeks ago I sat down in a local cafe with fellow Melbourne blogger – Skellie from Skelliewag. I’d been reading Skellie’s work for a number of months and recently she wrote a couple of guest ...more

One of the challenges that many bloggers face once they become established and grow a profile in their niche is that they become the target of ‘pitches’ – or people emailing to ask them to do ‘stuff’. These ‘pitches’ can be on any number of fronts including: announcing new products/services ...more

Last week in the wake of all the Page Rank changes that were going around I decided to run a little competition to see who could Create the best Slogan/Banner/Button for bloggers caught up in all the changes – particularly those getting deranked. Brian from Teaching Sells kindly offered a ...more