Darren Rowse

How to Sell Products Through Your Blog – Business Blogging
Dave at Red Fly Marketing asks: “You mentioned that you would probably not sell problogger because it sells YOU so well. What advice do you have for business bloggers wishing to use blogging to increase their exposure and leverage that exposure to sell THEIR products?“ Thanks for the question – ...more
Case Studies

Why Affiliate Links are the best Form of Blog Advertising
This Post was submitted by Matt Jones, the author of Blogging Fingers With bloggers looking for alternatives to AdSense, which is renowned for it’s low click-though rates on blogs with ‘web-savvy’ readers, one of the golden oldies of Internet advertising has been making a comeback. Namely, using affiliate links. Out ...more
Affiliate Programs

What do You Know Now About Blogging that You Wish You Knew When You Started?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn’t it? While I’m the kind of guy that spends more time looking forward than dwelling on the past – I’m a firm believer that from time to time it can be a worthwhile exercise to look back on our experiences and let them help ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Speedlinking – 23 June 2007
Daily Blog Tips has written a post comparing Opinion Blogs vs Discussion Blogs and asks which you have? LifeClever shares 10 tips to beat blogger’s block – for more on this topic read my series on battling bloggers block Technology Evangelist shares a few tips for consideration when choosing a ...more
Pro Blogging News

How to Write Home Run Posts
The following guest post was submitted by John Wesley who blogs at PicktheBrain.com (feed) about motivation, productivity, and self improvement. The Importance of Home Run Posts Most of you are probably familiar with the Pareto Principal, also known as the 80/20 rule. The rule states that 80% of results come ...more
Writing Content

Blog Mentoring Program Launches
I’m really excited to see Yaro Starak finally launch his Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program in the last few days. I’ve been chatting to Yaro about this program for at least a year now and cannot believe the amount of work he’s put into developing it. He’s done so much research, ...more
Pro Blogging News

Goals to Achieve in a Blog’s Launch Phase
Brian has put together a Blueprint for a Brilliant Blog Launch which I think will be helpful for bloggers in startup mode. Brian’s 3 step process of starting a new blog is pretty simple: Cornerstone – before launching writing some ‘cornerstone’ content that will be a great foundation for your ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

7 Reflections on Scaling a Blog to a Sustainable Business
Wendy has written a heart felt post on her blog titled The Things That Get You Successful Won’t Necessarily Keep You That Way which is basically about the realization that her current blogging business model is not really scalable. Some of the areas she’s seeing this in: I cannot respond ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

10 Techniques I Used To Go From 0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months – With No Ads Or Leverage
The following guest post has been submitted by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar Hopefully, that title got your attention a little bit, but it’s true. I launched The Simple Dollar at the very end of October 2006. I had no pre-existing blog that I could use to drive early ...more
Blog Promotion