Category Archives: News

Blogging news and updates about this site

Email Fix and Packing for Kjerringøy

This WeekJust a quickie this morning as I am tidying up and preparing for my trip to Kjerringøy, Norway. I will be there with a client for the week telling them how great I am and how lucky they are to have me around. Or something.Posts will be pre-populated but ...

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Another interview … with me

I know I advise your blog should be all about your readers but it would be remiss of me to not inform you that Darren from blogged-out has interviewed me. You lucky people.

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Friday Quick Links

As you will have noticed I don't often go in for link posts but every now and then people send me links that I think will be interesting or useful to you my dear readers :) Jan Hemmingsen has an interesting take on my Problogger post "Is Your Blog Truly Valuable?" asking Who ...

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Email Delays and Spam Bounce Problems

It seems my email service has gone wonky somewhere along the line. I have been informed by a couple of people that my email service is bouncing their messages as spam plus I have noticed it is taking some messages a loooong time to reach me. I have a complex arrangement where my email is variously ...

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Buy Me a Beer Plugin and Donations Conclusions

You might have noticed my "buy me a coffee" icon has gone. I didn't want to keep it up too long, at first I only had it on here to try it out then I thought I would leave it while I could draw some conclusions. Now it is time to write up those ...

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Insight Into a Range of Business Models from New York Magazine

New York Magazine has a fascinating set of business case studies investigating how New York businesses turn a profit The wild risks, unexpected niches, and day-in-day-out grind behind making a dollar in New York for everyone... from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs. It makes me glad I work online and from home, many of these ...

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Blog Profits Blueprint Review

Blog Profits Blueprint is a free ebook in PDF format about making money with blogs from Yaro Starak. The other day I wrote about it but had trouble getting the download. Today I can tell you what I think about it. The first thing to note is ...

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Free Blog Profits Blueprint Ebook

Direct monetization isn't something I write about a lot. As most of you will know, my personal speciality is business and authority blogging. Indirect monetization through using your expertise, experience, credibility and authority. I realise though that many of you do want to know about how to ...

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About that “Buy me a coffee” button …

You guys! When I tried out the "buy me a beer plugin" (or in my case buy me a coffee plugin) I didn't expect so many of you to go ahead and use it. Have a guess what I spent the donations on, ...

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Finally a Digg Just for Bloggers?

Many people have been complaining lately about Digg. The "bury-brigade", who bury stories just because they don't like the subject matter, and bullying trolls who tear apart anything just for sport. Digg do not seem to want to do anything about it either, Kevin and co seem quite happy that they are pulling together an audience ...

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