Darren Rowse

In 2002 I published my first ever blog post. I don’t remember too much about what I wrote in it, but I still vividly remember the feelings and questions I had as I hit Publish. Who’s going to read this? How will they find it? What will their reaction be? ...more

It has been around 2 years since 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook launched and in that time thousands of bloggers have taken the challenge to improve their blogs over a month. Since launching the eBook the price has always been $19.95 USD but on 10th May on ...more

Over the last two weeks I’ve been lucky enough to have some time away with my family in Singapore and Indonesia. With our 3rd child arriving in early July it was our babymoon and a last chance to get away with our two little guys for a bit. The bulk ...more

Today I asked my followers on Twitter what their biggest challenge as a blogger was. There were hundreds of responses but the word that stood out to me time and time again was “time.” Finding time to blog is something most of us struggle with at one point or another, ...more

Here’s a little exercise that I do periodically to help me keep my blog on track. It’s based upon a typical life coaching-type exercise where you’re asked to visualize your own funeral and write your own eulogy—to think about what you want to be known for after you’re gone. But ...more

Earlier in the year I surveyed a small segment of ProBlogger readers on their blogging experiences as a way of keeping in touch with the needs of readers. I asked a variety of questions, but the answers to one particular question stood out to me like a sore thumb, because ...more

No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke: we’re closing our flagship community, the Third Tribe, to new members on April 1, 2011 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S.). If you’re not familiar with Third Tribe, it’s a community that I co-founded in 2010 with Brian Clark (Copyblogger), Sonia Simone (Remarkable ...more

Last week I tweeted that I’d not checked my Google Reader account in a month. Well, it turns out that I’m not the only one. Within minutes, I started getting tweets back from others saying that they rarely check their RSS feeds any more. Instead, people were finding content from ...more

Have you ever felt a personal connection with a blogger who you’ve never met and have no real reason to feel connection with? You read their blog day after day and in time come to feel like you know them—as if their blog posts are almost written as private messages ...more