As you read this I will be either on my way to Chicago for SOBCon, or landed and trying to recover from jetlag, depending on where in the world you are right now. Hopefully one of the two, I am trying not to think of the unfortunate alternative scenarios! I am excited and nervous, and not just about the usual long haul travel logistics. It's a while since I attended any event like this, let alone speak at one. Pretty well out of practice. But, we have to keep pushing ourselves beyond our … [Read more...]

Last week I gave you Five Ways to Win the ProBlogger Book I guess I had better give you the winners :) ProBlogger Book Email List - Becky Degrossa Authority Blogger forum - Sue C Authority Blogger list - Slade Twitter Follower - Glenda I will let Darren select his own Twitter follower. If you have already ordered then never fear, the spare book will make an excellent gift or blog competition prize! There is still another opportunity to win, sign up to ProBlogger or subscribe … [Read more...]

One of the best things to come out of the original incarnation of Performancing was the Firefox extension for bloggers. Originally called Performancing for Firefox, when Performancing was sold to Splashpress it was rebranded ScribeFire (the software was not part of the sale). I'm pleased to learn that Patrick has not abandoned it, but has with developer Christopher Finke been quietly upgrading it. Today I discovered my browser was telling me the extension has been improved yet again to … [Read more...]

Want to win a copy of the ProBlogger Book? Each of the following will give you a separate chance to win another copy of the book, five opportunities, one book per list. If you win twice or have already ordered a copy, you can always hold your own competition! Sign up to the ProBloggerBook email list Follow Chris on Twitter Follow Darren on Twitter Sign up to the Authority Blogger email list Introduce yourself on the Authority Blogger forum Existing members and followers are … [Read more...]

If you want to have a taste of what is in store when you buy the ProBlogger Book we have a treat for you. We just uploaded the special preview to the email signup success page. So now, when you sign up to the email list and confirm, you get access to download the PDF. Now I know some of you have found a PDF on the Wiley site, and some of you have been curious to know why the PDF wasn't already available. Well, we have been waiting for this version to be built for us, we wanted something a bit … [Read more...]

You may have spotted that I have been migrating email subscriptions over to Aweber from FeedBurner. This was not a decision I took lightly. FeedBurner has a lot of advantages, not least it is free and automatic, but most importantly, I didn't want to lose anyone. That said there were problems with FeedBurner and no solutions forthcoming. Many people had complained that my email subjects never changed so they would often ignore them or have to open them up to see if they were interesting. I … [Read more...]

If you subscribe to this blog via email you might see some strangeness while the list migrates from FeedBurner to Aweber but hopefully the end result will mean a much better email experience :) Update: The import is complete but somehow I have to turn off the FeedBurner emails (thousands of them) and I can't see a simple switch so might mean lots of clicking. Also fighting the crufty Aweber template system. Bizarrely you can't test your changes into your email box, and while you can … [Read more...]

I woke up to find that today was a new world holiday invented by Darren We're in it together, blogging is about collaboration and together going further than we can by ourselves - so why not help another blogger today by shooting them a word of encouragement, a pep talk, a congratulations, an idea to help them improve or some other positive constructive message. Better still, do it publicly on your blog and tell the world about another blogger who you appreciate. Today is Blogger Appreciation … [Read more...]

You might have already worked this out, but for a while Darren and I have been beavering away on a little book project: ProBlogger Book —” Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income The book is our combined experiences in professional blogging. Making a full time income either directly or indirectly by building effective blogs. It's going to be published by Wiley in the next few weeks. All the attendees at SOBCon are going to get a copy, but hey, why not buy one for a … [Read more...]

It's time to announce the winner of the SOBCon, Blog Catalog and Authority Blogger SOBCon08 Competition! I'm both happy and sad to be writing this post. Happy for the winner, but sad for all the people who entered but have not been selected, some scraping through at the very last minute. Making the selection has been tough, very tough. I know, boo-hoo, let's feel sorry for Chris, just give us the winner already. OK, OK ;) The winner is Andrew Dubber of New Music Strategies with his … [Read more...]