Archive for: January, 2008
Written on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm by Darren Rowse
9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
I was a little slow getting onto Twitter last year (when so many other bloggers embraced it). To be honest I didn’t think it had much to offer me - I’m beginning to see how wrong I was.
In this post I want to explore how I’m using Twitter to:
improve the quality of my blogs
network with […]
Written on January 23rd, 2008 at 04:01 pm by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger T-Shirt Hits Italy
Davide “Tagliaerbe” Pozii from Italy just emailed me to let me know that he’s got his ProBlogger T-Shirt. He sent a picture too. Anyone else out there with a picture to share? I know there’s more Tshirts in circulation and would love to see people modeling them!
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Written on January 23rd, 2008 at 05:01 am by Darren Rowse
A Reality Check about Blogging for Money
Last week’s article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that my blog earnings are in excess of $250,000 per year (a very ballpark figure).
The problem with these type of articles is that they report in a few words just one element of a story - in this case my earnings.
While it’s true that I have […]
Written on January 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
Face to Face with the Matthew Effect: Making Yourself Heard
Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites.
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. (Matthew XXV:29, King James Version.)
What the passage is […]
Written on January 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse
My Search for the Perfect Cafe [And What it Taught Me about Blogging]
Warning - Tangent Ahead…
As I’ve been Twittering lately, I’m currently on a search for a good local cafe to blog from.
While there are plenty of cafes in the area we’ve moved to - this morning’s ‘cafe crawl’ showed me that it could be more of a challenge than one might think to find one to […]
Written on January 22nd, 2008 at 09:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Run a Blog Competition [CASE STUDY]
Last week I wrote a couple of posts about how to run a successful blog competition. Today I thought I’d give you a little background information (case study) on how I’m currently running one.
The competition is over at DPS where I announced it about 12 hours ago with a post here at Win a Digital […]
Written on January 22nd, 2008 at 06:01 am by Darren Rowse
14% of Bloggers Prefer to Do It in Bed [POLL RESULTS]
A couple of weeks ago I polled ProBlogger readers about their favorite place to blog. 1481 readers responded.
In many cases their choices were determined by where their computer was (it’s hard to take your desktop computer to bed) and so the ‘home office’ was the clear winner. But the other results were interesting.
Also interesting were […]
Written on January 21st, 2008 at 04:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Writing with Confidence or Risking Your Reputation?
A guest post over at John Chow’s blog today by Steven York titled Successful Blogging - 5 Tips for Writing With Confidence caught my attention today. The title was something that I was keen to read as I think that being confident as a blogger is important - however as I read it I found […]
Written on January 21st, 2008 at 07:01 am by Darren Rowse
Win a share in 5000 Entrecard Credits
A couple of weeks ago in my Interview with Entrecard’s Graham Langdon I said at the end that I was going to run a competition to give away my Entrecard credits to some lucky ProBlogger readers.
The time has come.
I have 5000 credits to give away and I’m going to give them to 5 readers (1000 […]
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