Teaching Sells is closing its doors! If you have been thinking about joining, now is the time to do it. Brian has announced the course is going to evolve, and the price is going up. You have until the end of this month to get in at $97 a month, after that the doors shut to new members and will not open again in the current form or price. Click here for full details. In my talk on making a living from blogging over the weekend I told the attendees that one of the best ways of making money … [Read more...]

I got back from WordCamp UK last night, tired but happy. If you missed the event you don't need to miss out as I took quite a few Qik clips of various sessions and there will be video provided by Benjamin and Sam.  Unfortunately I could not film the whole thing in real time as the conference wifi while perfectly fine on my laptop didn't like my phone very much. As I look around the various comments and write-ups that are appearing I am remembering different bits of the weekend, one of the … [Read more...]

As you might have seen over at BlogHerald, I am speaking at WordCamp UK this Sunday. My talk is titled "Making a Living From Your Blog". If you want to hear it, buy a ticket :) I want to meet you, so if you are able to make it to Birmingham on the 20th of July, and you spot me, make yourself known :) Please note there will be two Chris Garretts attending. I am the older and chubbier one. I will try to get him to wear a t-shirt saying "the OTHER Chris Garrett" but for some reason … [Read more...]

Ryan from Performancing wanted me to tell you about a new deal that could make you more money if you have a blog with more than 100k page views a month: We go direct to the advertiser and you get more money High quality, big brand advertisers We optimize the ads you run to get you more money from your traffic Non-exclusive: you are free to run ads from any network you'd like More details here If you have not got to the point where you are seeing 100k page views a month, but … [Read more...]

Why people blog was one of the blogging survey questions I most wanted to get numbers on. We blog for many reasons, and I was fully aware "Why We Blog" might well be different from, say Darren's readership. Turns out way different to how I imagined. It seems I have very few "make money online" readers. We are split pretty much between "for pleasure" and "for business". Why People Blog Detail Why do you blog? Count For pleasure 414 To promote my own business 299 I … [Read more...]

In this part of the Global Blogging Survey I asked some personal information about yourself. The aim was to get an idea of the sorts of people who blog, and to see if the "young male geek" stereotype was true. More Bloggers Are Male Than Female To be honest I was expecting the male/female balance to be more even. Many of my clients, twitter and blogging contacts are female, and I see more female bloggers now than I ever have. While I did expect males to be higher, I never anticipated it … [Read more...]

Blogging survey results, as promised! Even though we didn't quite get to the magic 1,000 mark once junk entries were taken into account, I am going to start rolling out my survey results. Hopefully I will be able to get through them before my vacation so I can incorporate any feedback required to make them useful. Todays result is how long people have been blogging and there were 911 useful entries once I had trimmed out junk and made each entry numeric. When people gave me a range, such as … [Read more...]

Last week I mentioned my Global Blogging Survey and your chance to win one of 10 ProBlogger books. Well we are just over half way to the magic 1000 submissions mark, can we get some more? If the total can get to 1000 or more then the results will be more reliable and statistically "ok". It's always better to draw conclusions from a good base rather than infer something that might not be based on anything real. As well as 10 books I am going to sweeten the pot. One lucky submitter will … [Read more...]

While of course I am happy to be home with my family there is a part of me that is already missing the people of SOBCon. I am full up with a cold now, some strange foreign nasty I picked up on my travels, but even so I am on a high.The subtitle of the conference should have been "Hugfest 2008". I have never had the quantity and quality of hugs from so many people. This will be one of my enduring take aways and I am deadly serious. Until the internet can deliver a hug experience, ie. an … [Read more...]

Well I managed to arrive in one piece and thanks to Terry Starbucker, got to my hotel safe and sound too! 50mins after checking in we were back out to meet the rest of the early arrivals over beer and italian food. What have I learned so far? Lots of people are just as shy as me but everyone is completely great company and just like you imagine them from their online persona's (a good sign of things to come) I seem to be the only person sans business … [Read more...]