Comments on: ProBlogger’s First Tipping Point

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:37:25 +0000

Man, I just need some time and direction, and hopefully I can get there, thanks for the info

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:21:47 +0000

That’s certainly the tipping point I would have picked, Darren.. As you said, the /. seemed to do it all. I’m not even an avid slash dotter … but my wife (who also blogs for income) read an article about you and mentioned that you were making 6 figures a year from blogging. I googled your name the , /. came up and the rest was history. Up until that point I had consciously avoided blogs because all the (limited) number I had sampled were spending all their time arguing should or should not, not ‘can’ and ‘how’.

Thank you for your unfailing help and your constant demonstration of politeness and good will … may the figures just keep climbing.

By: Rosh

Rosh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:56:55 +0000

Once we found a few solid places to post information about our blog on regular bases and stayed consistent, we found solid growth.

It is true, you will have multiple points of discovery that lead to multiple tipping points

Rosh
http://www.prosperousartists.com

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:25:02 +0000

Great article, i like the site its greeaat too keep it up

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:53:09 +0000

I feel like I’m climbing a mountain…there are small tipping points that feel like small accomplishments. What I want to know is how many “near” misses did you have before the big tipping point? I write a home improvement site and it’s gaining traffic each and every day and I get emails daily from advertisers and similar sites but nothing yet that can help me get up that mountain.

By: Sue | UpperMoney.com

Sue | UpperMoney.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:42:19 +0000

Hi Darren

Nice site with loads to read and hints and tips can be very revealing and helpful when you sometimes get ‘blogged’ oops sorry bogged down.

Keep up the good work.

Sue

By: Wayne Tully

Wayne Tully — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:45:19 +0000

A tipping point is and sounds quite great to have happen on your blog, small or minor the fact of any tipping point is good to think about.

Right now I’m having a debate (with myself…?) on whether I should launch into a fantasy art drawing blog as this is my main passion in life, so this in itself could be a tipping point, realising that I should follow my drawing and see where it takes me…On a blogging journey of discovery, I have other blogs, but I certainly don’t want to shelve them or let them die.

Tipping points could be points where you change your direction your path is not always certain in this life, so just follow what ever you like and you will get there!

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:36:44 +0000

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:08:02 +0000

My tipping point is coming I can feel it I’m up to $0.15 cents in Adsense revenue after only a few months. Watch out Darren here I come. LOL

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:51:42 +0000

It’s funny to me that earning money from blogging can only make you earn more money from blogging.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:04:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing your ‘tipping point’!

By: Ben Barden

Ben Barden — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:40:09 +0000

Thanks for the post Darren. Taking the element of luck and multiplying it several times, it sounds so simple but I hadn’t even thought of it before. I think a lot of bloggers are so focused on becoming well-known in the first place, they haven’t quite figured out what they’ll do if it happens. Maybe they don’t believe it’ll happen, or maybe they think “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it”, but it seems like you stand to do a lot better if you’re prepared for the exposure if/when it comes.

By: Terence

Terence — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:18:01 +0000

When you first start a blog or indeed any type of website you have such high expectations for it but when the traffic doesn’t come you start to think that you have gone down a dead-end.

I felt that way myself about my very first website after watching only 2-3 people a day visit and disappear quickly. Nothing really happened for the first year until Google started to take notice of the content I was adding to it.

But this website is now a couple of years old and I am glad to say it is currently at #1 on Google, and has been for some time. It has nothing to do with making huge amounts of money as I created it to help people with personal problems. It has lots of content, some of which I wrote myself and some by experts on the subject.

I can’t honestly say it had a tipping point though, it was more a gradual process. Persistence and hard work usually pays off but you definitely need good content and a bit of luck never hurts.

By: Kenneth King | Destiny Building

Kenneth King | Destiny Building — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:03:23 +0000

Results attract attention. My guess is that the explosion of traffic happened as part of a process that was building up over time. It wasn’t an isolated event. You were putting forth good information, following all the good advice you give us, and when you reached a milestone worth shouting about, people were there to listen.

I agree with Andre regarding Adsense. It seems like a waste of valuable blog real estate to get precious little in return? Any other thoughts out there on Adsense?

By: Barry Hurd

Barry Hurd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:09 +0000

I agree with your observations Darren. The lucky strike is actually a very strange mixture of community acceptance and social change. I think you did a good job “riding the wave”, as one wrong step could have meant a complete wipeout.

I’ve been consistently impressed by the amount of persistence you have in your blogging, both tactically and strategically. Putting half of the stuff into writing, podcast, or video is simply impossible on a daily basis- yet the 10% of brain power you share with the world on this topic is almost always on-target.

I believe the credibility portion probably was one of the biggest assets you developed, keeping your esteem/ego in check until you factually knew you weren’t stumbling onto success by accident.

By: * Miss Universe

* Miss Universe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:46:21 +0000

There had to be an earlier tipping point in order to get to the point of earning over $100,000…..

It just could NOT have been after that success was revealed.

That just does not seem logical

By: Edward Lomax

Edward Lomax — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:41:11 +0000

I’m just getting started with blogging, after being on the Internet for a while now. I’m looking at is a long term project, but hopefully can reach one of these tipping points. Thanks for sharing yours!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:30:27 +0000

I look forward to the day when I can reveal that I’m a one-figure blogger.

By: Make Money Talks

Make Money Talks — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:30:10 +0000

Nice article Darren,
i like it!

By: Andre Kibbe

Andre Kibbe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:25:40 +0000

I certain wasn’t aware in 2005 that it was possible. I think it was from Steve Pavlina that I read the first mention of making a five-figure monthly income blogging, but that was though AdSense, which hasn’t exactly been the royal road to riches since then, but was still a solid option back in the day.

If mentioning a six-figure income from blogging was your tipping point, I’d like to know that the tipping point to the tipping point was!