Comments on: How to Start a Blog Partnership

By: Arturo Diaz

Arturo Diaz — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:52:12 +0000

Right now im building a blog/forum web portal with some friends at school. Everything is fine is just im really worried about their commitment with the project. I think I will follow your advice and start with a much smaller project. And test their commitment. Unfourtunately they dont have a blog. And I met them about 3 months ago so Im not really sure about them. I know lots of people who started a blog and then just abandoned it.

It think the most difficult part of blogging is the start. Not only because you see no money from ads. But also because after a sometime you see that there is no traffic in your blog you get dissapointed and then you just shut it down. Here in mexico blogging culture is virtually inexistant. No one writes blogs and no one reads them so it is kind of disappointing. I have thinked several times in making a blog completely in english and see how much traffic do I get.

Arturo Diaz
http://www.arturodiaz.net

By: blogr

blogr — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:46:04 +0000

i really have no idea about blog partnership. i thought that only individuals blog and there is not community effort. your posts helped to understand it better.

thank you for your 10 suggestion on choosing a blog partnership.

-blogrtools
http://blogrtools.blogspot.com

By: SpeedYeoh

SpeedYeoh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:41:56 +0000

I starting a blog to blog other people business related to businesses. In this case, I really no ideas who to partnership with until I have very messy content category that I would like to clear it out and let other people to blog it since I was too busy to blog it myself. It was better to let people blogging themself rather than I blog about them. What should I do now?

By: binoculars

binoculars — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:43:45 +0000

I enjoyed reading your post. It just get better and better. I don’t have to go anywhere to learn about blogging. All I need to do is just reading all your post. Excellent job.

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By: Vitaliy K

Vitaliy K — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:26:48 +0000

Great article.

I’m looking for a partnership for http://www.ibdeal.com blog. Please let me know if you would be interested to write about making money online and internet business in general.

By: Allen Piece

Allen Piece — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:51:34 +0000

Nothing to add

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[...] When I started working with Dan, Dennis, Jeremiah and Robyn, I didn’t conciously go through a checklist like the one listed by Darren Rowse, but I did ask myself many of the same questions. We all took a chance by starting what is basically a business relationship with four other people we’ve never actually met face to face. I wanted people who were commited to the media of the Web, who were forward looking and who would make a good counterbalance to my own paranoid rantings. And so far it’s working out. [...]

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:10:54 +0000

Two things:
the comments of length are interesting: certainly when I set up Weblog Empire I was approached by a number of people who wanted in on the ownership side. There were no real matches pretty much based on your criteria on a length basis, indeed one guy got really abusive when all I pointed out to him (after initially declining politely) that he had a 6 month old blog with no PR or traffic. :-)

On the “What do others say about them?”, you must not have taken this to seriously, half the blogosphere thinks I’m as mad as a cut snake and yet we are still in business together :-)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:55:31 +0000

Aaron – I’d agree with that. I guess what I was getting at is that if you look in their archives and see that every month they seem to lose it and post something slanderous, or if they stop writing for months on end etc then you’d want to think seriously about it. I agree that archives should show growth as a blogger – but I guess I’m talking more about consistancy in terms of sticking at it and consistancy of character.

Tim – for me that’s been different every time. With b5 it’s been a company thing. With Andy and I we had a much less formal agreement. I guess it depending upon the nature and size of the partnership as well as your relationship with the person.

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:35:54 +0000

I’m sure you’re already aware of it, but I’ve actually gotten into blogging partnerships with bloggers I met right here on ProBlogger…you do need to feel it out a bit, but I find it’s usually not that difficult to judge someone’s character by their blogging, and so far I’ve had nothing but luck.

My only problem now…having more time, or perhaps more hands!

The quality and integrity of your readers is truly amazing sometimes :)

By: Tim Houghton

Tim Houghton — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:57:59 +0000

All very interesting points Darren, but how do you deal with the financial side? Do you form a company with the partner or sign a contract between you or what?

By: Z LANDOLT

Z LANDOLT — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:56:32 +0000

Another excellent post. Wish my blog had half your visitors. lol
Keep up the informative writing.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:16:56 +0000

Blog partnerships do help. They have worked for me. Mine aren’t partnerships really, more like alliances. It starts out when I leave a comment on a blog. The person follows up with a comment on my blog. Repeat a few times until found to the blogroll-worthy. They do the same to you. And Boom! You have yourself a frequent reader.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:46:29 +0000

Hey Darren,

One of the reasons I keep coming back, is that just about any tip you give can be applied to almost any business venture.

Thanks for the valuable info.

Joe

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:12:29 +0000

I’d say that surfing someone’s archives is not a good measure of their ability now. Archives are rather immutable and hopefully we all change. I know if you look at my archives from a year ago (I have a time capsule that shows posts from exactly one year ago so this is not hard), I guarantee that the tone, quality and direction of my writing then is different than it is today.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that if after evaluating archives, you don’t notice significant and dramatic changes in how they write, what they write about and how well they communicate then you should avoid them because they are stagnant.

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:20:16 +0000

My blog readership is fairly small, but I still get quite a few emails from people who would like to create a partnership to create a new site or blog.

I am usually suspicious of these kinds of people, especially if I have never spoken (on or offline) with them in the past.

I have made a few friends with people on the internet through my blog, with people I I have never met, or unlikely to ever meet, but surprisingly you can somehow get to know a little of their personality.