Comments on: Why I’ve Been Offered Close to a Million Dollars for My Blog (and Why I said No)

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:13:42 +0000

One of my blogs is a photography blog. I can only hope that in 2 years I am offered a cool mil for it. Myself .. I would take the money .. then start another one. :)

By: Dr. House

Dr. House — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:30:11 +0000

Million is great number. Congrats!

By: Steven-Sanders

Steven-Sanders — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:35:56 +0000

Even if this blog wasn’t a part of who you are, and was only in existence to make you ungodly amounts of money, I don’t think a million dollars would even be close to enough.

I’m fairly certain you easily make that within a couple of years time.

By: GMSM

GMSM — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:07:55 +0000

Congratulations on resisting the offers. Considering the state of the global economy, you might not get these type of offers again for a while.

By: jennine

jennine — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:08:47 +0000

wow, congratualtions! sometimes it takes other people seeing value in what you’re doing before you take a closer look. Cant’ wait to see what you do with DPS next year!

Also, I’m glad you talked about slow launches. I’ve been doing things really slowly with both my blogs…waiting for the right ideas to come before expanding.

By: Rene The Harlemite

Rene The Harlemite — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:13:05 +0000

Congrats on the development of your blog. Putting things in different phases makes it easier not not feel overwhemled.
Thanks for the insight.

By: Goldie

Goldie — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:39 +0000

Wow a million dollars! I would have passed out if someone offered me that amount of money, but congrats on resisting and sticking to it

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:24:38 +0000

Wow, that just shows the difference between just blogging, and really blogging. Thank you for inspiration, Darren…

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:13:04 +0000

Steve, you seem like a semi-illiterate hack. Since it’s hard to believe that someone who can’t write a simple English sentence would be so widely-read, one is left with the assumption that you’re a scam artist who is using junk blogs made entirely of links to other peoples’ content to push your own pathertic lineup of books and audiotapes. How I wish there was a separate internet devoted entirely to crap like this!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:44:40 +0000

If anyone wants to offer a million dollars for my blog then you can be 100% sure that I WILL NOT TURN YOU DOWN!

:-)

By: gout

gout — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:24:56 +0000

your posting always give something different…more benefits and useful information for visitor….yes, you are success blogger……thanks for many advice and learning

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:59:00 +0000

I’m not surprised at all, especially since you are already a high-level blogger and probably make close to 1 million a year.

Your priority is no longer money, it’s being even better, building an even bigger fan base, and being more successful and influential now.

Good decision by the way. I hope you write more articles about how DPS got so popular

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:48:39 +0000

It’s hard to sell your “baby” The fifth or sixth one will be mucheasier to sell

By: Byron

Byron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:29:49 +0000

Hi PB mates,
This is one of those posts that sucks me in and forces me to read every word and all the comments.

I notice that some folks found Darren’s post on DPS’s 2 year launch phase to be espousing a “slow growth” approach. I read the post with a slightly different emphasis. I found the emphasis to be on building a “solid basis” for DPS. It seemed to me that the growth rate was sort of irrelevant to what was being done. But by any calculation, I wouldn’t consider reaching 1.2M page views per month in just 2.5 years slow growth.

If you want to see a slow growth approach, my blog could be the poster child. I post 2 or 3 posts per month…maybe 4 if I’m really hot. I try to make my posts solid and helpful, but there is a lot to be said for volume. After 1.5 years, that nets me about 300 page views per day. I don’t think I’m going to match Darren’s slow growth pace with DPS ;-)

At any rate, Darren, thanks for the inspiration on building a solid basis. Can’t wait to see what phase 2 of DPS will bring.
Cheers!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:11:07 +0000

Oh wow, just close to 2 and a half years of starting and being offered nearly a million dollars. But, I would believe that you can make more than that if you owned that site yourself. If that was me, I would definitely have second thoughts.

Cheers mate.

By: Ali Hale (from Alpha Student)

Ali Hale (from Alpha Student) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:43:45 +0000

It’s very interesting to read that you’re considering the first two years as a launch phase — yet you’ve still built up what most people would consider a hugely successful and mature blog.

When I started The Office Diet, I decided I’d stick to it for at least 6 months, regardless of whether I made any progress or not! Ten months on, I’ve now launched Alpha Student as well, and I’m already seeing much faster growth than with The Office Diet: there’s definitely a steep learning curve with blogging.

I’ve decided I’m sticking with Alpha Student for a year, “whatever happens”. Now I’ve made that commitment, I might as well make the most of the year…

By: William

William — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:22:06 +0000

Darren, wow, 2 1/2 years. I have only been blogging for a few months and sometimes feel like throwing in the towel. I guess I will stick with it a little longer. Thanks for the great tips.

By: Daniel Bates

Daniel Bates — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:46:37 +0000

Wow, What a relieving post to read. My first blog is a 1 1/2 years old and I finally fee like it is “ready” due to many of the factors you have pointed out. So many people expect to find every website in their complete stage when in truth a good website is never “finished”, there will always be tweeking to be done and new technology to experiment with. My second blog is a few months old now and getting good traffic, but I still have lots more content to add before I can advertise it. Like many of your followers this is all a hobby for me, I work one job 40 hours a week and then another 20-30 hour a week job so finding time is always rare.

By: Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:14:06 +0000

Hi Darren, Just woke up to this really inspiring blog post, thank you so much.

My sites have only been going a few months and those first points you raised have given me so much clarity and focus on what we need to do to take things to the next level.

Thank you.

By: Dilip

Dilip — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:35:39 +0000

Darren,

A million dollar – that’s enough money. What about taking this money – keeping a good percentage in your bank account and launching 4 more blogs – sell them each for a million dollars 2 years down the line and launching 8 more blogs ….

Does this sound poetry to you?