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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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The Danger Of Maybe
Have you ever found yourself caught in an endless rat-wheel of indecision? The kind that just paralyzes you and nothing happens? It is a rat-wheel. You just sit there and spin, but you go absolutely nowhere. There are three options to any decision o...
What Tiger Woods Can Teach Bloggers
Trust. It is everything in business. It can take a while to build it, but you can ruin it in minutes if you are a big enough idiot. Tiger Woods is just such an idiot. He is a gifted athlete and a man (I thought) worthy of respect. He had it all, but ...
The Downside Of Self-Inflicted Ignorance
I had a small exchange over on Twitter this afternoon that moved me to write an impromptu blog post. This post is NOT an attack piece or anything personal AT ALL. It just brought to mind an idea I feel is important. I have been working on tightening ...
Why You Need A Mastermind Group
Yesterday, I was over in Celebration, FL for a meeting of the minds. It was a mastermind meeting. Several people in internet business gathered in a board room and talked shop for several hours. The way it worked was this: First, presentations. Nothi...
Twitter On Your Business Card – Duh!
As might be expected, I picked up a lot of business cards from folks at BlogWorld Expo. When I get these cards, the idea is that I can check these people out after the show is over and see if they might be of any interest to me. Nothing personal, but...
Lesson From Izeafest (Day One)
As I sit here in the conference room getting ready for Day 2 of Izeafest, yesterday made clear a lesson… This business is NOT complicated. The only secret there is is TAKING ACTION. Yesterday, we listened to people like Brian Clark (from Copyblogg...
Overcoming The Technology Hurdle To Blogging
Hey, how’s that PHP programming going for ya? Not so good? Hey, you want to modify your blog theme? Well, just FTP into the themes directory, put the proper theme template tag in there, with the right function attributes, throw a little cascading s...
How This Problogger Is Dealing With Uncertain Economic Times
As you guys know, my business is problogging. I make my living as a blogger, and more recently I am making a business of showing other bloggers how to do the same. However, it is really easy to get so involved in MAKING money that you forget to figur...
Becoming a Better Problogger By Becoming a Better You
Ever been in a rut as a blogger? I can tell you that I most certainly have. Have you ever “worked” really hard all day, then sit there at the end of the day and wonder what you really accomplished? I have. Have you ever had difficulty concentrati...
Blogworld Discounts Expire 9/14
If you’re planning to go to Blogworld (or even considering it), you should know that I just got word from the folks at Blogworld that the discounts are expiring on September 14th. These discounts apply to both the conference and hotel stays. Save 2...
Are You at a Blogging Crossroads?
This is a guest post from Nathan Hangen, a webrepreneur, social media consultant, and triathlete. He authors the Webrepreneur Blog. I remember some time ago when I was thinking about giving up blogging. I wasn’t getting many comments and my pag...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Your Problem Isn’t Traffic, It’s You
When I ask bloggers about their chief issue they need help with, traffic usually ends up at or near the top of the list. And it seems obvious. After all, you can’t make any money if you don’t have anybody looking at your blog, right? However, I...
Do You Suffer From This Disease?
One of the most common traits of people who make little to no money online, almost across the board, is lack of action. It is a disease rampant among people who’d like to make some money with their blogs. But, while it is a disease, the cure is so ...
Do You Pause And Reflect On Your Business?
This last Friday, I decided to take a breather from normal production in my business. I took the laptop to Panera Bread (a local coffee place with free wifi) and sat down to do a little strategic planning. Do you ever stop and simply reflect? Do y...
4 Powerful Time Management Tactics For Overworked Bloggers
We all know that it is super important to spend time writing when you are a blogger. After all, everything we talk about (traffic, monetization, etc.) hinges on the fact that you actually have content on your blog that people will want to read, right...
Should You Buy That Internet Marketing Product?
If you follow the world of internet marketing (and you should, I think), then you are used to being pitched. There are product launches almost every week. Should you buy anything? How do you decide? Saying No The ability to say no is important, but ...
Back In Time, What One Thing Would I Change?
When you’ve been in any business for awhile, you look back and see the long list of things you wish you had known when you began. Do you ever do this? Here’s the question asked by Louis: If you could go back in time, just before you launch your...
Masters Seminar - Tampa
Being that I’m from the Tampa Bay area, I know that I have a lot of people reading this blog who have met me in person and live locally. So, I wanted to make absolutely sure that you know about an event coming up soon. And even if you don’t live ...
The Power of Saying NO
This last weekend at Rockstar Platinum in Las Vegas, I was reminded of the importance of a very powerful skill - the ability to say NO. First off, this was an internet marketing event. If you’ve ever been to one, you know that it is pretty norm...
5 Time Management Tricks For Bloggers
Blogging is a rather intense business. Certainly not something where you can “set it and forget it”. So, how can you take maximum use of your time and still get the most output? If you do things correctly, then only a small percentage of your...
Risley’s ProBlogger Toolbox – Software & Services Listed
As you know, I have turned blogging into a full-time business for me. And, yes, I do pretty well at it. Every day, I try to show people on this blog how to do things to turn their own blogs into a business. Another part of the story, though, is the t...
Going To Any Conferences This Year?
There are so many conferences going on all the time that it is easy to miss out on ones that would matter. Not only that, but it is easier to throw your hands up and just not go when it might actually be a really good thing to do. In 2008, one of t...
Open Letter For The Newly Unemployed, From a Blogger
The current economic turmoil is affecting some people more than others. For many, life hasn’t changed that much but the mood is different because of all the bad news circulating on TV (which I recommend you ignore, BTW). For others, it is all too r...
Have You Taken Action Lately? Honestly!
While I was in New York last week, I had my new virtual assistant (Lisa) do the analysis on the blogger survey I ran on this blog a month or so ago. I got a lot of great insight into what is going on with you guys in regards to your blogging. And som...
9 Power Blogging Strategies from a Master Programmer
This is a guest post by Robert Plank, author of the Action Comments plug-in that I have recommended so highly to my readers. Being a programmer, I have worked with a lot of smart programmers and a lot of stupid programmers. Many times I see site bu...
Getting Started With a Virtual Assistant
I am taking a plunge – again. I need to streamline things. I need to start ditching things. I need to outsource. That means I went looking for a virtual assistant. Here are a few things I’ve picked up along the way that I’d like to pass on. Fi...
