I wanted to tell you about an exciting new event I am a part of and make sure you had all the info before the early-bird deadline, October 1st. The event is Wishlist Member Live. It has been put together by the folks behind the fantastic "Wishlist Member" WordPress membership plugin that I use to build the majority of my online courses. (If you are in Mojo Marketing Action Plan or Magnetic Webinars you are using this software.) Stu and the Wishlist team are gathering top companies, … [Read more...]

Guest Posting Workbook mini-course registrations are about to hit 2,000 and when it does I am going to increase the price. UPDATE: The member count just broke the 2,000 mark! The price is now $17 I have big plans for this product and therefore there will be another price rise after this one, so if traffic and SEO-boosting links is something you think your website might need then you should check it out before the price goes up again! … [Read more...]

I just got off a call with my NLP coach. We swap services, so I give him advice about internet stuff, and he helps me with my (many) "issues". One of the things he is helping me work through is my fear of moving my family thousands of miles away to live in Calgary, Canada. He said something that made me smile. "It will work out because you are an action-taker, you will %^&* make it work". Swearing is not a big habit of his, but in this instance it did add some force to what he was … [Read more...]

Mitch Meyerson has put together a fantastic book about social media, "Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars", but as important to me is the strategy he used to create the book. Anyone who has publishing aspirations should take a good look, not just at the product but the model. I got a chance to interview Mitch yesterday about the book and his strategy behind it. Check it out here. The book contains "the priceless secrets, strategies, tactics and insights of more … [Read more...]

I am proud to say the Problogger Book is now in a second edition :) Well, apparently - Darren and I have yet to see it! The previous edition was released back in 2008 and this second edition should start rolling out ... now! Apparently it will be hitting stores as I write this, and in fact it's already on Amazon with 34% off. This is an update of the 1st edition and not a complete rewrite - however there are a few significant updates including: Many many small updates and changes … [Read more...]

It's time to announce the winner of the Social Media Success Summit 2010 competition! We had hundreds of people enter, and there was an enormous amount of excitement and buzz around the competition. I hope you enjoyed it. To everyone who did not win, well there is always next year! (The competition was viewed 5,764 times via 171 sources, with 85 comments and, depending on which count you go by, over 1,300 Tweets or maybe more!) Dave Thackeray wins the grand prize of two tickets because … [Read more...]

Want to win a free ticket to the biggest online social media event of the year? Of course you do! After the success of last years competition, Mike Stelzner (the event founder) and I put our heads together to come up with something fun and interesting for you to get involved in. I think it is going to be great :) FIRST, WHAT IS THIS EVENT? If you haven't heard already, Social Media Success Summit is a HUGE online conference dedicated to help businesses succeed with social media … [Read more...]

I have two exciting announcements for you today! As some of you will have seen on Twitter, I have been bursting to tell you about these pieces of news but I had to wait until everything was ready. It's such a relief to be able to share with you now as these are two things I am both looking forward to and very proud of. First, Melani Ward and I have put together something very cool for anyone who would like to launch a business, product, service or program without all the icky stuff. Of … [Read more...]

You might have already seen some of my fellow bloggers talking about this product. So much that I actually avoided posting about it because I felt with my Authority Blogger launch you might have gotten sick of hearing me toot my horn, until Michelle gave me an email bottom-kicking ... So here I am telling you about it. beyond-blogging is an ebook by two friends from the blogosphere, Mike and Nathan. Both very cool guys, and judging from the names they managed to get to agree to interviews, … [Read more...]

If you want lots of free traffic then you are going to need to get your Search Engine Optimization sorted. Most of us are not SEO gurus so we try our best and see what happens. That can never compare with the advice of a true "battle hardened" SEO veteran. Good news everyone! DynamoAsh is offering chrisg.com readers a great set of SEO consulting prizes :) One grand prize winner will get a full Advanced SEO Audit where Ash will analyze your site and then give you all the advice you need … [Read more...]