Darren Rowse

Over the weekend I updated my Blogging Will. Perhaps it’s because life is changing for our family with baby #3 due in July, or perhaps it’s the trip to Tanzania I’m on this week, but one way or another I decided it was a good time to update the document ...more

I remember, in the early days of building a business around my blogs, being given the sage advice, “don’t give up your day job” when I told friends or family members about my dreams of becoming a full-time blogger. It was advice that was well-meaning, and probably pretty wise on ...more

Earlier in the week I wrote a post about two factors that played a significant part in the growing of my own blogging business over the last two years. making a mind shift away from just relying upon advertising and affiliate revenue to starting to build my own products investing ...more

My accountant just called and asked me if I’d robbed a bank. She just saw the figures from the last few months of blogging and, as I mentioned back in my December earnings update, we’ve had some very good months lately. December was my biggest month ever, but January and ...more

Where do you blog from? One of the most attractive parts about blogging as a profession for me is the independence and flexibility that it brings. I can work from anywhere that I can find an Internet connection. In fact, I don’t even need that at all times—I just need ...more

Blogging has been very good to me. Over almost nine years, it’s been a daily blessing in more ways that I can count: new friends new skills new knowledge the opportunity to travel the ability to pay off a mortgage business partnerships the chance to do what I love (communicate ...more

Last week I shared my answer to a common question that many people getting into online product marketing ask: “Should I offer a money-back guarantee?” Today I want to tackle two others: “Should I start an affiliate program to promote my product?” If so, “how much should I pay affiliates ...more

Over the last 12 months, I’ve continued to shift some of my own online business activities to producing products to sell on my blogs (I wrote about some the process here). This has been a profitable move for me, but has also been one that has meant making a fairly ...more