Posted February 10th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
Image by mgonamission via FlickrIn times past this blog has been a blog about blogging. I've also blogged about marketing, and pretty much anything that mattered to me at the time. I'm finding now isn't the best time in the world to be starting a blog to make money.Sure I'm still making some money - not nearly as much as I used to, especially
Posted November 24th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
Consider this a primer to making money with a blog.
Blogging can be very profitable. Can we all make as much as Darren Rowse or John Chow? Not likely, $43,485 per month is a lot of dough.
Can we make a fraction of that? You betcha. Would you be happy making just 10% of that?
Think about it, being able to earn $4,348 per month
Posted November 19th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
Well, this may not be blackhat but it's definitely gray.
The key to successful blogging that I've been mentioning lately is focused dedication and continually writing new content. You may notice that I don't always post new content every day to this blog, although I do try to. A lot of the content I create, I use on article sites,
Posted November 16th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
Pillar Article Writing Week + Contest + 7 tips to Perfect Pillar Articles.
We all sometimes get stuck in the mode of just writing our thoughts, or small news articles, or informative but small articles daily.
This week I submit a challenge = Write 1 Pillar Article for each weekday for the Week of November 24th - 28th, 2008. You can write them
Posted November 10th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last week, here's a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
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The top 3 laws of blogging.
Law #1 is write.
Law #2 is write some more.
Law #3 is never stop writing!
I know this sounds quite redundant. Writing is the untold key to successful blogging.
The more you write, the more traffic you get, the more money you make.
Yeah, I know sometimes it's not easy to 'just write'. Sometimes we
Posted July 11th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Stupid News
Jason Calacanis, one of the most influential bloggers on the scene right now, founder of Mahalo, exploiter of twitter and facebook, has announced he is going to quit blogging. What has the world come to? Eh, maybe it's for the better.
I'm waiting to see a social network popup just around 'betting' whether or not he will come back to blogging.
I have it on good authority that I'll have the funding for our roadtrip this week. Give a few days to gather up all the equipment, we will be launching on our trip, maybe on monday - June 23rd.
Visiting 50 states is going to be a huge endeavor. I've promised my sponsor that I can and will complete the tour and interview 50 bloggers in 50
TNX - pronounced 'thanx', as in sms texting language is an up and coming Text-Link Exchange marketplace.
The premise behind TNX is that by increasing the amount of 'quality' links coming into your website, you will also increase your search engine rankings, and thus get more traffic.
It's a good practice when using services like these not to
I've chosen the cities that we will be stopping in. We will take any blogger in the state as long as they are able to meet us at the chosen city.
I do apologize for any who would like to be interviewed but cannot meet us in these destinations, but we have picked them as they are logistically the best cities to visit in order to save as much gas