Archive for Pro Blogger Interviews
Written on May 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
StrongLifts.com 0 – 13,000+ Subscribers in 12 months [INTERVIEW]
Today I want to feature an interview with Mehdi from Strong Lifts – a good example of a blog that is focusing upon a niche topic and growing a readership quickly over the last 12 months.
Tell us about your blog – what’s it about, why and when did you start it, who reads it?
StrongLifts.com is [...]
Written on May 19th, 2008 at 09:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Monday Morning Coffee with Darren and Guy
Over the weekend one of the more comprehensive interviews that I’ve done of late went live over at Sun.com. The interview was with Guy Kawasaki (he interviewed me) and covers everything from:
Small Business Blogging
How much bloggers can make
Seth Godin’s “no-comments” policy
ValleyWag’s “ask us permission to comment” policy
Blogging tools
RSS Feed Readers
Some of My favorite blogs
Google PageRank
Six [...]
Written on April 15th, 2008 at 08:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Renaming eMomsatHome to SparkPlugging [Interview]
Regular readers of ProBlogger will be familiar with Wendy Piersall from eMomsatHome.com. I’ve watched Wendy establish a presence with her own first blog and then in more recent times expand it into a small blog network of 7 blogs.
A few weeks ago she emailed me to talk about the rebranding and naming of her blog [...]
Written on March 31st, 2008 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Interview with a Weblogs Inc Blog ‘Producer’
While at SXSW Interactive earlier this month I was fortunate enough to spend a little time with some of the Weblogs Inc bloggers. It was great to get a little insight into how one of the original blog networks has grown and is now currently operating a couple of years after it’s sale to AOL.
One [...]
Written on February 19th, 2008 at 03:02 pm by Darren Rowse
Chris Garrett and Darren Rowse Talk Blogging
Got a spare hour (55.24 minutes to be exact)? No me either – but if you want something to listen to today while you blog you might like to listen to a podcast interview that Chris Garrett did with me a couple of days back – The Story of the ProBlogger – Darren Rowse. Towards [...]
Written on January 21st, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Be a Rockstar eBook Seller [Interview]
In mid December last year I posted a mini review of a new ebook – How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer by Cyan and Collis Ta’eed from the popular FreelanceSwitch blog.
I enjoyed the book so much (and am always fascinated by bloggers making money from these types of resources) that I asked Collis if I [...]
Written on January 10th, 2008 at 06:01 am by Darren Rowse
Interview with Entrecard’s Graham Langdon
Entrecard is a blogging service that has quickly emerged (or exploded) onto the scene over the last couple of months. Entrecard widgets are popping up on thousands of blogs around the blogosphere – including here at ProBlogger since they became a ProBlogger sponsor.
I get a lot of questions about Entrecard and how to use it [...]
Written on November 8th, 2007 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Creating an eBook to Make Money Blogging – An Interview with Leo Babauta
Yesterday I wrote about Leo Babauta launching an ebook (Zen to Done) as a way to monetize his blog. In that post I promised to try to get an interview with Leo to explore both the wild success of his blog (over 21500 subscribers in 6 months) and the journey to releasing his ebook. Leo [...]
Written on October 26th, 2007 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
“This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me!” says Brian Clark on Page Rank Decreases
An Interview with Brian Clark
Yesterday when I posted that the new Teaching Sells resource has just launched I mentioned that I would have an interview with one of it’s founders Brian Clark from Copyblogger. Brian has understandably had a pretty hectic few days – but was generous enough to give us some time to explore [...]


