Darren Rowse

Today I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a fun challenge together that draws on a number of things that I’ve previously taught here on ProBlogger (see below for what these teachings are). The idea is to publish a post that is a list of 7 ...more

Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed by some element of your online business? Image by Stephan Poff I’ve felt that way many times, both in the early days and even now. For me it usually comes when I’m working on a new venture or expanding something that I’m already doing ...more

I am very excited today to be able to announce to you that at this year’s BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 that Chris Garrett and I will be running a full day of training – the ProBlogger Track. In this post I want to share a little more information ...more

If you’re a blogger and looking to work with a group of other bloggers to improve your blog – then there are two new groups starting up to work through the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook together in the coming few weeks. They are both for different ...more

A Guest Post by Chris Birk from Write Short Live Long and GrowthPartner.com. Blogging is neither dead nor for losers. Google Suggest would perhaps prefer to play devil’s advocate: The search engine’s auto-suggest feature has evolved into a key marketing and online reputation tool, providing users with suggestions shaped by ...more

Over the last couple of years a number of fairly prominent bloggers have decided to shut down their blogs and move their communications to subscription only email newsletters. Bloggers such as Jason Calacanis, Joel Spolsky and Sam Lessin were three (all mentioned in this post on Gigaom). Some of these ...more

Yesterday on Twitter I tweeted out a question asking anyone who is interested in coming to a full day of blogger training in Melbourne to express interest in coming along. 20 people very quickly indicated their interest. It looks likely that in the next month this will actually become a ...more

How do YOU ‘give something back’ with your blogging? Blogging has given so much to me: financially it’s given me a living, paid my mortgage and put food on the table for my family now for 5 or so years. socially it’s opened up some fantastic opportunities for new friends. ...more

“Can you help me to become more Influential?“ This was the question I was asked by someone at a recent networking event. I replied: “Why do you want to be influential?” He responded: “I want more people to know about me.” I said: “Why?” He answered: “Because I’d be more ...more