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Written on January 21st, 2010 at 01:01 am by Darren Rowse

How to Extend the Profitability of an E-Book Beyond Launch Week

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 104 comments

Much has been written about how to launch an E-book to maximise sales with a big bang in the time surrounding a launch. I wrote a few weeks back about my own $72,000 E-book launch and received a lot of feedback from readers on their own big launches.
What happens after an E-book launches?
Once all the [...]

Written on January 20th, 2010 at 02:01 am by kellydiels

Guest Posts. How To, Why To, Where-Not-To, AND NARY A LIST IN SIGHT.

Blog Promotion, Featured Posts 70 comments

guest post by Kelly Diels
I’m not a huge fan of arguments based on evolutionary psychology. They tend to justify the status quo, much of which is “status unacceptable” to me. They tend to explain social injustices and systemic discrimination as, oh that’s just the way we are. That’s evolution. That’s biology, baby.
Like this: oh, women seek [...]

Written on January 13th, 2010 at 01:01 am by Darren Rowse

Get These 3 Free Bonuses to Help You Build a Better Blog – Less Than 1 Hour Left

Featured Posts, ProBlogger Site News 54 comments

Update: This promotion is now over. The 31DBBB workbook is still available for purchase at its normal price of $19.95 but unfortunately the bonuses have been removed. Thanks everyone for your support over the week of this promotion!
2010 is here and it is time to kick start your blog into action to ensure that the [...]

Written on December 16th, 2009 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse

How to Make $30,000 a year Blogging

Blogging for Dollars, Featured Posts 395 comments

Last night I was chatting with a blogger who was feeling completely overwhelmed with their goal of making a living from blogging.
I asked them how much they wanted to make from blogging.
They responded that they wanted to be a full time blogger.
I pushed them for a figure – what does ‘full time’ mean for you?
They [...]

Written on December 8th, 2009 at 01:12 am by Darren Rowse

The Importance of Having Your Own Product to Sell

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 123 comments

Recently while on a beach vacation my family was out on the street having ice-cream when we came across two street performers/buskers.
The first one was set up 15 meters to one side of the ice-cream shop we were visiting. He had a guitar and had his guitar case open in front of him to collect [...]

Written on December 3rd, 2009 at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

$72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 143 comments

Over the last 11 days I’ve been on a massive learning curve.
This post is a number of the scattered lessons I’ve been learning – mainly from the launch of my Portraits E-book over at Digital Photography School. This builds upon the post – The Insiders View of How I Launched My New E-book from last [...]

Written on November 24th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

The Insiders View of How I Launched My New Ebook

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 78 comments

Updated: I’ve added a few quick updates on how the launch has gone at the bottom of this post.
Over on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we have today launched our first ever ebook – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography.
We’re launching with a 25% discount so if you’re interested in improving your [...]

Written on November 4th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Why Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog

Featured Posts, Writing Content 83 comments

As I write this it is the first Tuesday morning of a new month and I’m sitting in a local coffee shop going through my ‘start of the month routine‘.
It involves a large lattè (everything else hinges on this) and some delving into my blogs metrics to see how they’ve been performing.
While I do [...]

Written on October 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 281 comments

Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed?
You might not have known it at the time – but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down.
I had one of those course changing moments early in my blogging. [...]

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