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What Is The Blog Masters Club?

In Part One, you took a car trip to the post office with me. While I drove there, I shared some thoughts about blogging for a living. In today’s video, I am back at home and I jump right into answering the question…

What is the Blog Masters Club?

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Thoughts on Blogging For A Living [Video]

The other day, I asked whether you would blog for a living if you could. I got some great responses from you guys!
In this video, you’ll take a car trip to the post office with me. I’m heading down to check my PO Box to see if I have any checks waiting for me. While [...]

Secret To Maximum Blog Income And Conversion [Tactic Video]

Confession: Blogs suck at converting visitors into money.
Say what?! In this video, I explain what I mean and what you can do to get maximum benefit from the visitors who come to your blog.

If You Could Go Full-Time With Your Blog, Would You?

I asked this question on Twitter yesterday and here are some of the answers I got…

NEW: Six Figure Blogger Blueprint

As we lead up to the launch of Blog Masters Club, I wanted to remind my audience to download and read the Six Figure Blogger Blueprint.

Are Marketers Ruining Twitter?

There has absolutely been a rapid increase in spam on Twitter lately.
It was a problem beforehand. But, then some celebrities brought more attention to Twitter and, all of a sudden, the rest of the world is catching onto Twitter. And where the people are, marketers follow.
Is it a bad thing? What should be done about [...]

Twitter Suspensions Show Need For Social Redundancy

It might go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: You don’t actually own your social media profiles. So, don’t depend on them.
Last week, a couple of friends of mine got suspended on Twitter. Neither one of them did anything shady in the slightest. My guess is that Twitter will eventually reinstate their [...]

How To Sell Ads On Your Blog

Banner advertising is usually the first monetization option explored by any blogger looking to make some money. Within this method are two ways of going about it: (1) Using ad networks like Adsense and, (2) selling it yourself.
Some may get confused on the basics of how to sell your own ad space. In this article, [...]

25 [More] Random Things About Dave

Back in March, I did a post entitled 25 Random Things You Probably Didn’t Know About David Risley. It was a lot of fun to write and people seemed to enjoy it. Since I like to take occasional turns into other topics (plus, its Friday :)), I’d thought I’d extend that list of 25.

Action Comments Gets An Upgrade

Some news I wanted to pass on this morning…
The Action Comments plug-in for Wordpress has been updated with a bunch of new features.
In short, Action Comments allows you to capture the name and email address of people who post a comment on your blog and add them to your mailing list. This allows [...]

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