It was 17 December 2004 and my dream was falling apart, right before my eyes. I had just celebrated the 2nd anniversary since I started to blog and I was on the tipping point of my part-time earnings becoming a full-time income. I’d quit my only other employment to devote 100% of my time to blogging...

This is a guest contribution from Gary Newell. I started blogging almost two years ago and since then, my blog has grown considerably. I have learned a lot in a relatively short period of time and I want to share five of my biggest mistakes so you can avoid falling into the same traps. 1. I didn’t...

This is a guest contribution from freelance writer, Jawad. Over the last few years, the significance of high value content, in generating qualified sales leads, has increased tremendously for businesses. More than ever before, businesses are now focusing on generating regular content for their target...

Earlier in the year I published a post where I shared links to 13 tools and services that I use every day in my blogging business. Today I wanted to add a four – particularly ones that relate to creating images for my blogs. PicMonkey I use PicMonkey every day to help me create images for sharing...

What Is Leverage And Why It Is Your Only Path To Significant Wealth Online… This week I am in Melbourne writing to you from an apartment I am renting for a month in South Yarra. I'll tell you more about my trip later in the newsletter,...

“How relevant is blogging for today in a world of so many types of social media?” I must hear this question – or a variation of it – at least once a week. So I thought I’d open it up for some discussion to the wider ProBlogger community. What do you think? My feeling is...

I’m regularly asked if I have a blogging mentor or coach – or if I’d consider being one for someone else. I’ve never had a formal coach or mentor myself although there have been plenty of people who have given me advice along the way. I have not offered any kind of coaching service...

This morning, a new blogger asked me to name 3 mistakes I made when I started blogging so he could avoid the same pitfalls. I thought this might make a good discussion starter and something that might help new bloggers. So… take a few moments to answer these two questions. What are the mistakes you...

This is a guest contribution by Nicholas Whitmore. The title: What on earth does it mean? Well, recently it seems like a lot of bloggers fancy themselves as marketers. You can’t read a post on a blog without seeing a load of other bloggers commenting at the bottom, with a link back to their own site....

Do you feel like you’ve lost clarity around what it is that you’re trying to do with your blog? I’ve recently bumped into a few bloggers grappling with this idea. Some were new,  even ‘Pre’ Bloggers, while a couple had been blogging for a while but had lost some direction. Out...