Sorry for the last couple of days lighter posting – its the weekend and our focus for the last couple of days has been pretty much upon buying this little house that you see pictured.
Yesterday was the auction and thanks a pretty good deposit from the past six or so months of blogging income we were successful in being the last bidder standing (after a pretty fierce bidding frenzy). I’m thinking of unofficially calling our new home The House that Blogging Built.
So I’d like to take this moment to thank a few people for what has been a pretty amazing year of blogging. I realise that in many ways the purchase of this house is not really about me, its very much been a collective effort. Firstly to my partner ‘V’ who ,for some reason that neither of us really understand, let me dedicate significant amounts of time to blogging, even when in the early days it was only earning a few dollars per day. She initially gave me 6 months to work my butt off on being a full time blogger (before I’d have to go get a ‘real job) to see if we could build it into something substantial. She saw the potential and gave me room to follow my dream.
I’d like to thank the five million or so readers who have read my blogs in the past year or so – without them this would obviously have been impossible. I thank the thousands of bloggers around the world that have linked to my blogs and who have therefore been responsible for these readers.
I’d like to thank Rachel for her great blog design and Regan for his hosting of my blogs – both have gone above and beyond the call for me. Also I’m grateful to a few companies that have been sending me cheques each month. They include Google’s Adsense, Amazon, FastClick, ClickBank, Trade Doubler, AdBrite, BlogAds, Commission Junction and LinkShare. And lastly to the many smaller companies and individuals who have sponsored my blogs with text and banner ads. Its amazing how every bit helps.
Ok – thats the end of my academy award speech – now its time to get back on with some serious blogging – after all its only paid the deposit so far!
I’d say congratulations were in order. That looks to be a very nice house indeed.
Nice house… which suburb is it in (not looking to stalk you, just wondering).
Great looking house, Darren. Congratulations ;)
Congradulations ! :)
i’m very very happy for you !
Keep up the good work and insight….
What a great way to incourage new bloggers. Great.
Congrats Darren! Great to see all your hard work paying off!
The Blog House
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You’re an inspiration to me Darren. I am definitely going to start a blog now. This is amazing. Would you be coming to Malaysia at any point in the next few months? I have a group of people that would love to learn from you. I would like to set up a seminar please. Let me know if you would like for me to do this.
Nice one – just discovered your site and now it’s a daily read…from another aussie.
Anytime Darren :)
Congratulations, Darren!
I only saw this post now! Nice house and very impressive considering the activity many consider little more than a hobby effectively bought that house for you. Ok, I know your blogging has been a little more frenetic than most people. Very inspiring!
Congrats on your house Darren!
Seems legit-how about the “others” who claim 30-50k monthly from such adventures in blogging/”affliating”..?
Brian
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(paintless dent repair)
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This is very impressive – many of us will put in our 2 weeks notice after reading this.
Good luck with the business and let´s hope Google is a good business partner in the future also. P.S. Google sent me a Christmas present last year.
P.S. And look what Google bought me http://www.busterboat.com/fi/240_l.html
nico :-)
Hi Darren,
Nice house, I have been lucky to over the last year to, but I have made most of my income from overture. Thanks to them I have a toyota echo, plasma tv, nikon d70 digital camera and alot of money in the bank.
Regards Paul
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That’s a lovely home and it’s inspired me.
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Great achievement Darren.
I read this blog almost everyday, it become my inspiration.
While you’ve gotten a new House, I’ll seek my first Digital SLR.
Thank You Darren
nice house
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Wow Darren.
Great Job you have done. Congratualations.
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Hi Darren,
Congratulations. You had mentioned a few parties who had been responsible for your succes. I myself had started a blog a couple of months back but never really worked on it, but my husband is very much into this.And your success has certainly inspired both of us and from now onwards i am going to make sure he too sees success in his blogging. And I know, with success stories like yours to inspire him,he himself will be a great success because he has the right substance.Thank you.
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WOW Darren, I might be a late comer but my congratulations nevertheless. Its very motivating and aspiring to hear about (and see!) good things happening to sincere, successful patient people around the net. I am ready to put in all the work required if someone can teach me what goes into blogging. I don’t want to stumble and learn, make mistakes, waste time, go in circles directionless, because of info overflow.. I want a `Darren’ to guide me through it.. any takers… To Darren Congratulations once again….great…..
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Wow… a house??? Congratulations….
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My god , you live like King ;)
Congrats!
LOL… I call mine the house that affiliate marketing bought. ;-) About 25% of my latest ventures have been blogs simply because of the ease in updating and promotion. For some that aren’t time sensitive, all the posts are written a month in advance and then set to post one each day (gotta love that feature about expression engine).
After a couple of weeks of just reading your blog I finally found this page. I must say that you’re doing a good job. That house looks pretty nice.
ps. You made a typo of the word ‘hosting’:
“great blog design and Regan for his hosing of my blogs”
thanks mark
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..wowowow..! ..that’s quite impressive – and inspiring at the same time! Not that I desperately would want a house at the moment – but maybe in the not so far away future..? ..:]
kind greeetz from Berlin, t..
will be coming soon, the SLR camera that adsense bought
:)
Great work! It’s reassuring to me to see that others are also making good money off the Internet and turning that online passion into tangible items in the real world. I wish you more success!
Does a blog gives more financial return than a website on a particular product, e.g. cars, mobiles, TV……
What if the information on the site is updated frequently? Does it have a better chance of earning?
Thanks
wow.
Congradulations !
I am learning a lot too.
thanks
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