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I am a pro-blogger and Internet entrepreneur who generates six figures online per year. I've been making my living online for years, but never really talked about it much. Now, I talk about what I do so others can do the same. I am an Internet busine
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Important Skill in Life: Saying NO
Do you ever find yourself going in a million directions at once? Do you ever find yourself being tempted into some new opportunity when you’ve already got plenty of stuff going on? Do you ever find yourself being really busy, but ultimately not liv...
Sponsored Tweets: Polluting The Party?
The idea of sponsored tweets usually triggers a pretty emotional reaction. Most people when asked how they would react to a person tweeting an ad respond by saying they would immediately unfollow them. Then my friend Ted Murphy launched Sponsored Twe...
Top 10 Signs You ARE Worth Following On Twitter
It was suggested by a few of my readers that I do a counterpart to my post on the Top 10 Signs You’re Not Worth Following on Twitter. It seems it is only fair. After all, I’ve done enough complaining. So, without further ado, why would I follow...
Blogging Income Report: Last 3 Months
My blogging income reports were popular, and I was expressly asked to keep doing it. However, it looks like I’ve forgotten to do it since April. I’ve been so busy with other things (including creating content for my students in the Blog Masters C...
Stupidest DMs From The Last Month on Twitter
As you can probably tell if you follow me on Twitter, I’m on a rampage about Twitter spam. Right now, I’m rather fed up with it. Today, I thought I would highlight some of the lamest DMs I have gotten in the last 30 days on Twitter. I have remove...
Top 10 Signs You’re Not Worth Following on Twitter
Since I stopped auto-following people on Twitter, I’ve really been trying to weed out all the spammers from my follow list. I’m still pondering whether I should do a big mass-unfollow and then re-build my list. I still might do so. I was ready to...
Disqus: Not So Stupid Anymore
Disqus is a leading third-party comment option for bloggers. In the past, my opinions about Disqus have been mixed. I started out by calling it stupid. Then, about a year ago Disqus fixed some of my concerns, yet I ended up still not using it on my b...
Why Throwing Money Away Can Make You Richer
We’ve all heard the phrase: “It Takes Money To Make Money”. Do you agree with it? Usually, it is thought that this means you have to invest money to ultimately make money back. In almost all cases, this is true to some degree. However, I think ...
Affiliate Marketing 101 For Bloggers
Selling products as an affiliate via your blog is an excellent way to make a buck. In fact, you can often do a lot better with affiliate marketing than you can with banner ads. Most banner networks (like Adsense) require that you have a LOT of traffi...
Bloggers, Don’t Lose Your Soul
A couple of posts I’ve seen in the last week or so have raised a little bit of alarm. Both posts are shedding light on what appears to be a growing attitude of “gimme gimme” among the blogosphere. Is it all about getting free stuff? First, we ...
Lessons From Billy Mays About Blog Monetization
Billy Mays was a TV marketing powerhouse. Like many, when I saw Billy Mays on TV, I got a little chuckle at how “over the top” he was. When the show Pitchmen came out, I got a new respect for the hard work and thought which goes into those commer...
Should You Pursue Problogging?
It is a fair question. A lot of people read about the success of some bloggers (perhaps like myself) and want that for themselves. That is a noble endeavor, and a worthy one. However, is blogging the right business for you? There are a lot of diffe...
The Key To Launching A Brand New Blog
Situation: You have a new blog. You want to get some traffic to the site. You’re frustrated that everything seems to be happening at a snail’s pace. Nobody seems to care about what you’re writing. What do you do? I’m going to boil this down ...
Official: My Wife Is Pregnant
In the middle of the Blog Masters Club launch, I leaked the fact on Twitter that my wife was pregnant with our #2. I wanted to go ahead and make it official here on my blog, and give you the story. In short, Malika is close to 3 months pregnant. W...
Lessons From Blog Masters Club Launch
The first launch of Blog Masters Club went pretty well. It was quite a bit of work, and it is quite nice to have the dust settled and be able to just work on content and helping my new students. All product launches are learning experiences, though. ...
The Evolution of Blogging
This is a guest post written by Nathan Hangen, from Webrepreneur Blog. There’s been a lot of talk lately about blogging as a dead medium. Although I suspect that a majority of this talk spews out of the dying media outlets…probably as a ...
I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]
We all know that Twitter is an awesome social networking platform. The one-to-many communication, the ease of tweeting from anywhere – it is cool and the growth rate proves it. However, that growth rate has been so high that there are negative side...
Would You Like Me To Coach You?
The launch of the Blog Masters Club has been both exciting and adventurous. I will have tales from the battlefield to tell once the launch is over. That said, it has been going pretty well. A number of great, motivated people have chosen to work di...
My Evolution Into a Six Figure Blogger
Before I go on, if you want me to be your personal blogging coach, so you can work with me to realize the income potential of your blogging efforts, you have until this coming Tuesday to decide to join us. http://www.blogmastersclub.com/signup/ The ...
Blog Masters Club – Your Questions Answered
On Friday, I posted my video where I officially introduce the Blog Masters Club and describe the course in full. As I expected, the video resulted in a bunch of questions, both on the blog and via email. And, I’ve got answers. Before I answer tho...
What Is The Blog Masters Club?
In Part One, you took a car trip to the post office with me. While I drove there, I shared some thoughts about blogging for a living. In today’s video, I am back at home and I jump right into answering the question… What is the Blog Maste...
Thoughts on Blogging For A Living [Video]
The other day, I asked whether you would blog for a living if you could. I got some great responses from you guys! In this video, you’ll take a car trip to the post office with me. I’m heading down to check my PO Box to see if I have any ...
Secret To Maximum Blog Income And Conversion [Tactic Video]
Confession: Blogs suck at converting visitors into money. Say what?! In this video, I explain what I mean and what you can do to get maximum benefit from the visitors who come to your blog. NOTE: If you want to view the video much bigger, just click...
If You Could Go Full-Time With Your Blog, Would You?
I asked this question on Twitter yesterday and here are some of the answers I got… @miklb said: Absolutely, because I dig not wearing long pants and shoes. @CardCycle said: Hi David! Not sure because I just started. What do you enjoy about it?...
Are Marketers Ruining Twitter?
There has absolutely been a rapid increase in spam on Twitter lately. It was a problem beforehand. But, then some celebrities brought more attention to Twitter and, all of a sudden, the rest of the world is catching onto Twitter. And where the people...
Twitter Suspensions Show Need For Social Redundancy
It might go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: You don’t actually own your social media profiles. So, don’t depend on them. Last week, a couple of friends of mine got suspended on Twitter. Neither one of them did anything shady in ...
How To Sell Ads On Your Blog
Banner advertising is usually the first monetization option explored by any blogger looking to make some money. Within this method are two ways of going about it: (1) Using ad networks like Adsense and, (2) selling it yourself. Some may get confused ...
25 [More] Random Things About Dave
Back in March, I did a post entitled 25 Random Things You Probably Didn’t Know About David Risley. It was a lot of fun to write and people seemed to enjoy it. Since I like to take occasional turns into other topics (plus, its Friday :)), I’d thou...
It Is About Lifestyle Design (Part Two)
Yesterday, I talked about this idea of lifestyle design. I walked you (and myself, quite frankly) through an exercise of determining what one would need to produce online in order to live the tropical island life. This exercise hopefully made it clea...
It Is About Lifestyle Design (Part One)
One of the most powerful overall concepts which came out of Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week was the idea of lifestyle design. The concept might have existed previously (I really don’t know), but it was Tim’s book which first brought the concept i...
