Online Money

7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience
Do you want to grow your blog’s audience? Today Chris Brogan shares some strategies on just how to do that.It took me years to start figuring out how to grow my blog’s community such that it was steady and sustainable. A few years back, I figured out how to hit the Digg front page from […]

Speedlinking - 17 September 2008
Here are a few links that caught my eye over the last week. I hope something in them inspires, teaches, motivates, informs or connect with you:Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.Shoemoney […]

BlogMastermind Launches With Bonuses and Prizes for ProBlogger Readers
As this post goes live the doors at the BlogMastermind blog mentoring program are opening again for the first time in many months.Signup for the six month package and I’ll give you a bonus one hour consulting/coaching session with me. Read on below for more details.When he first launched BlogMastermind I was really impressed by […]

Win a Full Conference Pass at Blog World Expo!
One of my biggest regrets of 2007 was not being able to attend Blog World Expo.The reports that came out of BWE from thousands of bloggers were quite amazing. Rich networking, great teaching, showcases of services and tools for bloggers and much much more.This year Blog World Expo is on again (20-21 September) in Las […]

Tips on Live Blogging an Event
Over the weekend I asked readers how they suggest Live Blogging an Event. The resulting comments were really helpful so I thought I’d collect some of them together into a post on the topic here.Travis Prinzi suggests that you use the opportunity to promote your Twitter or Plurk account by using those social media accounts […]

Twitter for Beginners - 5 Things to Do as a New Twitter User
Yesterday I added all 538 Twitter users that submitted their details in our Social Media Love In. It took me a couple of hours to do - but I’m glad I did it because already there have been some wonderful conversations emerge.As I was adding new people to follow I noticed that there were a […]

What do you get if you put Shoemoney, CopyBlogger, Chow, Johnson, Kukral and ProBlogger in the same Room?
OK - that heading sounds like a bad joke (and it could be) but I had confirmation this week that Jeremy from ShoeMoney is joining our ‘make money online with a blog‘ panel at Blog World Expo.This makes the lineup - Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, John Chow, Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, ShoeMoney and myself. It’s […]

If you only had one hour a day to blog what would you spend it doing?
If you only had one hour a day to blog what would you spend it doing?A reader recently sent me a question asking how I’d approach blogging if I only had one hour a day. I can’t find the email for the life of me (if it was you please email me and I’ll give […]

Passion, Honesty, Content and Light-Footedness - Ingredients of Successful Blogging
Yesterday I linked up to an interview with an Australian blogger (Alborz Fallah from CarAdvice.com.au) who has built his blog from a hobby to a million dollar business in just two years.I’ve not been able to get Alborz story out of my mind since as it’s a brilliant example of what is possible with blogging […]

5 Lessons on Making Money with Affiliate Programs
In the last 24 hours I’ve been interviewed 3 times and on each occassion I was questioned about affiliate marketing and how to make money from it.Here are 5 lessons that I found myself touching on in each interview.Image by foundphotolj1. Relevancy between Audience, Product and ContentOne key to high conversion when promoting affiliate products […]