Written on May 10th, 2008 at 08:05 am by Darren Rowse

My Book Arrived!

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Today there was a little excitement in the Rowse House.
On returning from a morning out there was a parcel sitting on our doorstep. On opening it I found:

It’s been fun to watch many of you ordering, receiving and even reviewing the ProBlogger book - but it’s a very strange feeling to hold it in your […]

Written on May 5th, 2008 at 09:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Become a ProBlogger Premium Sponsor

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Do you have a product or service aimed at bloggers that you’d like to be put in front of hundreds of thousands of bloggers?

The premium sponsorship package here at ProBlogger has just become vacant and our ad sales team would love to chat with you about the opportunities that are available. The package includes multiple […]

Written on April 29th, 2008 at 06:04 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Readers Prefer ‘No Show Briefs’

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OK - time for a ‘comical’ interlude.
I was just over at the ProBlogger Book page at Amazon and scanned down the page to see this:

OK - so what ProBlogger reader is searching for ‘no show briefs’?
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Written on April 28th, 2008 at 07:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Speed Posting - the Aftermath of Answering 19 Twitter Questions in a Weekend

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This past few days have seen me experimenting with a new type of post here at ProBlogger - Speed Posting.

I set myself the challenge to answer 20 or so questions from my Twitter followers in no more than 3 minutes per post. I then handed each post over to readers for them to continue to […]

Written on April 26th, 2008 at 11:04 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Book - Shipping This Week

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Just a quick note on the ProBlogger Book. Amazon have it listed now as coming into stock on 26 April (a week or so before they previously estimated) and have been emailing some of those who have pre-ordered it to say it’ll ship in the next few days.

So if you want their 5% pre-order discount […]

Written on April 25th, 2008 at 05:04 am by Darren Rowse

This weekend is a Speed Posting Weekend!

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This weekend is a long weekend here in Australia (for ANZAC day) and it’s also my birthday on Sunday… so this weekend I want to try something a little different here on ProBlogger.

Yesterday I asked my followers on Twitter if they had any questions that they wanted me to answer on ProBlogger. There was a […]

Written on April 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Book Launch - Highlights and Updates From the Pre-Launch

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It’s time for a little ProBlogger Book Launch Update.

A number of readers have been asking how the launch is going and are watching some of what we’re doing for their own launches - so let me share a few things we’re learning and seeing (plus I’ll give you a chance to win a copy below).

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Written on April 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger the Book - Sample Chapter Now Available

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Last week when I announced the release of ProBlogger the Book I mentioned that we’d be making the first chapter (the Introduction and chapter 1) available as a sampler download.

It took us a few days longer than we anticipated to get it up but it’s now available.

To get it all you need to do is […]

Written on April 17th, 2008 at 04:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Alexa Announces ‘New’ Rankings

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Alexa have announced it has overhauled its ranking system. You can see their announcement here via TechCrunch.
They have ditched their toolbar as the sole source of their rankings and are now pulling in data from other sources too. This means that the skew towards tech sites (as their readers are more likely to use the […]