How a Flip Camera and My Blog Got My Business Over $20,000 of FREE Publicity
17th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How a Flip Camera and My Blog Got My Business Over $20,000 of FREE Publicity

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mark Hayward. You can follow him on Twitter @mark_hayward. Do you ever feel like you want to pull your hair out over the lack of return (you feel like) you’re getting from your small business blogging and social media efforts? Man, sometimes ...more
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Thirteen Steps to Write and Publish a Free Ebook In Thirteen Hours
16th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Thirteen Steps to Write and Publish a Free Ebook In Thirteen Hours

Have you ever considered producing an ebook for your blog readers? In this comprehensive post Ali Hale breaks down the process of how to do it. There’s never enough time. In an ideal world, you’d be posting to your blog frequently, writing great guest posts, building relationships with other bloggers, ...more
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Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine Shares a Popular Post Case Study
15th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine Shares a Popular Post Case Study

This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of their most popular posts. 1. What is the ...more
Case Studies
How Passion Can Transform Your Blog
14th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Passion Can Transform Your Blog

By Leo Babauta from Zen Habits. Many of the problems that many bloggers face — not drawing enough readers, not knowing what to write about, not writing well enough, not finding the time to blog — can all be solved with one solution. And that solution’s name is Passion. All ...more
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A Quick Note about the Next Week at ProBlogger
13th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

A Quick Note about the Next Week at ProBlogger

Over the next week (potentially the next week and a half) ProBlogger will be in ‘guest blogging mode’. Tomorrow morning I’m heading into a local hospital for a small procedure on my wrist which will leave my left hand out of action for a week or two. It’s not carpal ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Has the Economy Impacted Your Earnings?
12th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Has the Economy Impacted Your Earnings?

The news continues to be full of economic gloom and doom (although here in Australia we seem to have avoided being in recession and there seems to be some confidence around) yet I continue to talk to bloggers whose income is actually on the rise. But is this just a ...more
Reader Questions
Outbound Links – An Endangered Species? [And Why I Still Link Up]
11th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Outbound Links – An Endangered Species? [And Why I Still Link Up]

Yesterday on Twitter I made this remark: “A change I’ve noticed from the ‘old days’ of blogging – people don’t link when they quote you as much as they used to.” The replies to my tweet were quite varied – some agreed while some disagreed – some argued that a ...more
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Forums – How to Expand Your Blog #1
10th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Forums – How to Expand Your Blog #1

Yesterday I share with readers an exercise to brainstorm 10 ways that they might expand their blog in the coming years. The reason I suggest the exercise is not that there’s anything wrong with being ‘just a blog’ but because as I look at a lot of top blogs going ...more
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Brainstorm 10 Ways to Expand Your Blog [HOMEWORK]
9th of September 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Brainstorm 10 Ways to Expand Your Blog [HOMEWORK]

In this post I’d like to share a simple exercise that helped me to grow ProBlogger beyond being just a simple blog {image by deserttrumpet}. How are you planning on expanding your blog?
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