
12 Traits of Successful Bloggers
I was just doing an interview on an Aussie radio station and was asked to name some traits of successful bloggers. My initial reaction was to giggle – because no two successful bloggers are the same – however as I began to answer I realized that there are some common ...more
Featured Posts

What Are The Unspoken Rules of Social Networks?
Bruce Simmons asks: Social Network sites like Digg and StumbleUpon and what not seem to have unspoken rules about who can promote a blog. What I mean to say or ask is: OK, with Digg, one cannot submit their own blog. But Twitter, you can chest thump all day long. ...more
Social Media

Monday Morning Coffee with Darren and Guy
Over the weekend one of the more comprehensive interviews that I’ve done of late went live over at Sun.com. The interview was with Guy Kawasaki (he interviewed me) and covers everything from: Small Business Blogging How much bloggers can make Seth Godin’s “no-comments” policy ValleyWag’s “ask us permission to comment” ...more
Pro Blogger Interviews

Take the Blogging Survey
Chris Garrett is running a Global Blogger and Blogging Survey which I can’t wait to see the result of. Take the survey here.
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Wendy Piersall Shares her Blog’s Tipping Point
Today Wendy Piersall from Sparkplugging answers my question of about when her blog had it’s Tipping Point. This is actually a difficult question for me, because there were several tipping points. The first one was the first link I received from an A-List blogger – you. It opened up a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Understanding the Blog Lifecycle To Prevent Common Downfalls
In this post Jeff from BuzzMyBlog.com examines the life cycle of a blog and gives some tips on how to buck the trend and keep your blog growing over the long haul. The average blog does not stick around for a long time. Sure, a couple big name blogs continue ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

On Making Your Blog Design Work For You
I’m doing most of my linking out to the great posts that I read over on Twitter these days but today a post by Chris Brogan got my attention that I’d particularly like to highlight. You can read it at: Make Your Blog Design Work For You What I like ...more
Blog Design

Frank Warren from PostSecret Shares His Blog’s Tipping Point
In this post Frank Warren from PostSecret answers my question – ‘when was the Tipping Point of your blog?’ My story might be a little different because my blog is dependant upon anonymous users mailing me silly, sexual or shocking secrets on postcards. The tipping point for my project/blog came ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Making Money from 2nd and 3rd clicks with the Amazon Affiliate Progam
Yesterday Jeremy Shoemoney Twittered to tell me that the review that he wrote of the ProBlogger book generated 38 sales of the book through his Amazon affiliate link. He went on to say that he made money money from the other things that people then went on to buy after ...more
Affiliate Programs