Online Money

Pros and Cons of Niche Blogging
In this article Mark Avey discusses the pros and cons of running a niche subject blog, from a point of view of making money.A little HistoryI run a number of blogs. Most of them cover pretty niche subjects but one, in particular, is about as niche as you can get - flight simulation. Nothing more, […]

Six Defining Moments of a ProBlogger
There are defining moments in everyone’s lives that often get looked back on as times that determined how things eventually played out.My reader question for today is to ask for you stories of defining blogging moments.What are the most important decisions and discoveries that you’ve made as a blogger?What realizations did you have that shaped […]

Another Chance to Win 1,700 Visitors: Review FreeMoneyFinance.com
This week s community consultation of Free Money Finance boasts a very useful prize for bloggers: 1,700 visitors. Leave a helpful review with some non-intuitive points in your comment and you could win a stampede of 1,700 StumbleUpon users to your favorite post. If your content is good, those 1,700 visitors could grow into a much […]

Blogsavvy up for Sale - an Interesting Opportunity
Friend and fellow Melbourne Blogger James Farmer has decided to put his blog Blogsavvy on the market. It’s going to be an interesting auction to watch - because it’s a little different to many other blog sales that we’ve seen.What is different about this auction is that it doesn’t run advertising on it, there’s no […]

The Curse of the ProBlogger - Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up
I love my work - but if there’s one thing that I struggle with more than anything else it is that I get to the end of each day and wish there were a few more hours.image by ErikIt was a couple of years ago that I first said to a friend that I wish […]

Make Sure Your Blog Design Communicates Your Voice - Wife Advice Revisited
Late in December we ran a Community Consulting project for a blog called WifeAdvice. I invited Nancy Clark (one of the bloggers behind the site to come back and give some thoughts on the process and show us some of the changes that they made to WifeAdvice as a result of the consulting. I’ve always […]

Blog Design Competition Winners
Last week I ran a little competition here at ProBlogger asking readers to nominate their favorite blog designs to put them in the running to win one of five copies of Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads.This has been one of my favorite competitions to watch because the 113 […]

Why Do You Blog?
It’s time for another poll - this one gets at your motivations for blogging.Why do you blog?Why do you Blog?MoneyBusinessFame or ProfileNetworkingFunOtherView ResultsI’m not asking why you started blogging - but what keeps you blogging - what are your motivations?Obviously I’ve only chosen a few reasons for blogging and there could be many more. If […]

Top 5 Recommendations for MarketMe.com
It s time to summarize and consolidate over 10,000 words worth of advice and suggestions given to MarketMe.com as part of our community consultation program. While there s a great depth of knowledge to be mined from the comments on the launch post, I want to highlight the top five most common recommendations here.Before we start, I d […]

ProBlogger Server Issues
Just a short note to let readers know that I do know we’re having some server errors at the moment on the site. The tech team at b5media are aware of it too and are working to resolve the issues. In short it’s symptomatic of the massive growth we’ve been experiencing lately as a network.Apologies […]