ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income [Paperback]

Darren Rowse (Author), Chris Garrett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470246677 | ISBN-13: 978-0470246672 | Publication Date: May 5, 2008 | Edition: 1

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, these two professional bloggers show you how to turn your passion for blogging into extra revenue. This practical guide to creating and marketing a blog with the potential for generating a six-figure income shows you how to choose subject matter that works for you, handle technical issues, and evaluate your blog's success so that you can use your blog to generate income indirectly.

Editorial Reviews

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"Both authors are successful and profitable probloggers and here they reveal at last some of their secrets." (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

From the Back Cover

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:

• Choose subject matter that works for you

• Handle technical issues

• Examine different ways your blog can earn income

• Evaluate your blog's success

• Keep content fresh and interesting

• Use your blog to generate income indirectly

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Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470246677
• ISBN-13: 978-0470246672
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #62 in Books > Computers & Technology > Home Computing > Blogging & Blogs

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213 of 216 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blogging for bucks is just another small business. Think it, plan it, do it, and benefit from it., May 20, 2008

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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (Paperback)

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!

213 of 218 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely in the top one or two, May 1, 2008

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Tom Carpenter "- www.sysedco.com" (Marysville, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (Paperback)

This is the 12th book I've read on blogging. The books I've read have run the gamut from marketing brochures clothed in the covers of a book to real sources of valued information. This book is clearly in the latter category and I would place it in the top one or two positions as my favorite so far.

I appreciated the author's very quick overvew of "what is a blog". Blogs are very easy to understand and the authors who have gone on for 20+ pages just describing a blog have obviously just been shooting for page count. This author gets into the real meat of the topic very quickly. The brief overvier of professional blogging as opposed to just blogging in chapter 1 was also helpful.

From the first chapter on, it's all about getting your game on. You have to realize that blogging your way to a six-figure income does not happen overnight just like building an email list (in a valid way) that has hundreds of thousands of opt-in emails doesn't happen overnight. This book holds your hand along this prolonged journey.

72 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well-written but mostly covers the basics, June 24, 2008

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This review is from: ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (Paperback)

A great book and I was already a big fan of Darren Rowse and his blog. He is a very successful pro blogger, a fine example to follow and learn from and having the 2 perspectives - different backgrounds, both end up at pro blogging and both very successful - is very effective. The book is easy to follow, written for anyone who even hasn't the basics of technology down, and has a reasonably good flow. I just wish it covered the tricks of the trade in much more depth, with examples, case studies, personal experience, and tips that you do not find anywhere else. It was a bit general for me. I am still glad I read it.