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This guest post is by Peter G. James Sinclair of Motivational Memo. Before I aggressively started to build my Motivational Memo blog at the beginning of this year I had already owned a web design company for over seven years. During that time I have seen the good, the bad ...more

This guest post is by Glen Allison of www.GlenAllison.com. This is a case study outlining my three-step website development and the graphic design aspects of my blog monetization. As a visual artist, when I finally decided to start monetizing my blog, one of my primary concerns was to maintain the ...more

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. How much time do you spend reading blogs? A few hours per week? Maybe even a few hours per day? I spend at least an hour per day, and sometimes more. You have to, if you want to keep up ...more

This guest post is by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Welcome to an increasingly social landscape on the Web.  Social media started this shift from information to conversation, and now with the search engines increasingly using social signals to determine what to show searchers it’s a trend that, as ...more

This guest post is by Ethan Waldman. Everyone starts from zero.  Zero readers, zero subscribers, zero dollars.  I can tell you from experience that staring at that number on the screen is one of the most gut-wrenching things about building an online presence. You’re staring that that big, fat, zero ...more

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Blogging is dead. In fact, if you ask some people, it was never really alive. Sure, there are a gazillion blogs out there, and sure, some of them have tons of followers and make lots of money. But let’s face ...more

At this year’s Blog World Expo, Darren joined with Brian and Sonia from Copyblogger for the keynote presentation, entitled The 7 Harsh Realities of Blogging for Bucks. As Sonia explained, these seven “crying babies” of blog monetization are worth noting and understanding. But as the keynote speakers address each of ...more

Today, Darren and thousands of other bloggers are congregating in Las Vegas for Blog World. It’s fitting that Blog Action Day should coincide with the world’s largest blogging conference. Particularly this Blog Action Day, which focuses on water. When we think about water issues, we don’t need to close our ...more

This guest post is by Nathan Hangen of Build Your Digital Empire. I remember back to early 2008, when I’d just started blogging, that even though I had great ambitions, my knowledge, expertise, and confidence as a blogger was sorely lacking. I stumbled through my blogging career for over a ...more