ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income | 
 enlarge | Authors: Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0470246677
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780470246672
ASIN: 0470246677
Publication Date: May 5, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Blogging for dollars - Do you have what it takes?
Here's the place to find out. Problogger.net is where bloggers worldwide go for advice and information on enhancing their blog's presence. Whether you're just starting out or have been blogging for years, learn from two professional bloggers how to turn your passion for blogging into extra revenue or possibly a rewarding career. This is not a get-rich-quick book, but rather a practical guide to creating and marketing a blog with the potential for generating a six-figure income.
Learn to:
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Choose subject matter that works for you
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Handle technical issues
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Examine different ways your blog can earn income
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Evaluate your blog's success
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Keep content fresh and interesting
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Use your blog to generate income indirectly
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Great foundational info. May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought and read the entire book in a sitting. It is easy to read yet provides some really good foundational info about how to take your blog(s) to the next level. I've been blogging for 5 years, but have only just started taking it seriously in the last year, and both the book and the Problogger.com site has helped me tremendously.
Putting the principles from the book into action on my blog, I have been seeing a 10-15% traffic. increase PER WEEK.
There isn't much fluff in this book, but it is still very approachable and easy to understand.
I highly recommend it (and his website) to any serious blogger out there, professional amateur, beginner or otherwise.
A Fabulous Primer For Starting To Blog For $$$ May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been blogging semi-professionally for several years as the author of scrapbookupdate.com and wanted to ramp up my efforts. I've been reading Darren's site for awhile now and his book puts together in a great, easy to reference package, the essential elements of being successful at blogging professionally.
This book is not about running a spam type site. It is not a "become a web milionaire" book. It is about running a legitimately useful site that you can make money from for your efforts. Whether you are a beginner at running this type of site or looking to improve your efforts, there will be something in here for you! It is definitely joining my library of essential tools that will be referenced frequently to remind myself of the basics and give me new ideas when I want to go in a new direction.
Problogging book, for pro or beginner usefull May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been blogging for about 4 years now, and know quite a bit, but I still found a lot of useful tips to implement and great reminders of things I've long forgotten. If you are an old time blogger, buy this book to keep you on track and try out new things. I've you are new, start at the first chapter and highlight everything. You'll love this book.
Blogging for bucks is just another small business. Think it, plan it, do it, and benefit from it. May 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It is the first one I have read that actually explains how blogging can be used to make money directly. Most books I have read, and what I have experienced, indicate that blogging is not something to be done to make money directly.
In this book the author explains that there are direct ways to make money from one's blog, and there are indirect ways.
Direct Monetization:
>>Advertising
>>Sponsorships
>>Affiliate commissions
>>Paid reviews
Indirect Monetization:
>>Freelance writing contracts
>>Book deals
>>Speaking engagements
>>Consulting opportunities
>>Service contracts
>>Sell your own products
After reading this book I am still a believer that blogs are not something to consider if you want to make money from them directly. However, it can be done! But probably not the way you would think. It's not done by creating a blog, i.e., one blog and making it popular online. It's done by creating many blogs. Creating an empire of blogs and getting well connected in the blogoshere does it. Writing on any topic that can generate advertisers, sponsorships, affiliate commissions, and paid reviews does it. One blog won't do it. Two blogs won't do it. But a lot of blogs creating little streams of income will do it.
The authors provide us with some lessons they have learned about blogging:
1. Blogging for income takes time
2. Take it one step at a time
3. It takes hard work and discipline
4. Follow your dreams
Does this sound familiar? It should if you regularly read books for entrepreneurs. Blogging for bucks is just another small business. Instead of writing content for an arsenal of magazines, you are writing an arsenal of content for various blogs. Instead of selling paper copies of writings, you are selling through Web 2.0. And you are using Web 2.0 strategies and tactics to make your blogs profitable.
If you have an interest in blogs, and you want two books on the subject that discuss blogs from completely different perspectives, then read this book and read "Blog Schmog" (ISBN: 078521576X). Both books are well written, organized, and sound. If you read both of these books, then you should have a pretty good idea of what blogs are all about, what you can do with them, and what you cannot do with them. 5 stars!
 Great for bloggers of all experience levels May 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Darren and Chris put together a great book - it is not just for beginners or just for experts, people of all skill levels will find useful information.
For experienced bloggers, designers, writers, developers, and general internet geniuses there are great tips for researching new niches / determining whether or not a niche is worth getting into, details on how to buy, sell, and value blogs, and great information on promoting and marketing blogs.
If you're a beginner this book has details on choosing which blogging platform you should use, how to get things up and running, etc.
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