Why Getting Attention Won’t Make You Rich

Be remarkable. Be the purple cow. Get yourself noticed. Just be your own beautiful and unique snowflake self, and your allotment of raving fans will come find you and buy everything you make. Ever heard that advice? It’s a social media truism that as long as you’re authentic, you can’t go wrong. Fame, fortune, and the latest Apple products will all be yours. Let’s face it — authenticity can be a great way to draw a crowd. Especially if you have...

Interview: Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop is a 21 year old internet marketer who is most well known for his large income blogs such as IncomeDiary and Retireat21, together receiving millions of visitors and have been featured in newspapers, magazines and books around the world. Find out how he did it and, more importantly, how you can do it too! Tell us a little background info about yourself. Where are you from? How old are you? How long have you been working in this industry? I...

Help LogoMyWay Take Home the $25,000 First Place Prize

It’s really tough to create a new web site and break into a niche where there are already big and successful sites. When my friend Joe Daley said he was going to create LogoMyWay.com, a marketplace for graphic designers, I thought the idea was great, but knew he would have a lot of trouble competing with other big sites in this market like 99Designs. That was over a year ago, and now LogoMyWay is killing it, and also one of my favorite sites for...

Related Articles

• How Cornerstone Content Gets You Traffic and Subscribers
• Six Figure Affiliate Blogging
• iDevAffiliate, My Affiliate Tracking Solution
• How to Overcome Your Three Greatest Blogging Challenges
• The Ultimate Blogging Theme 3.0

Scribe 3.0 Launched Today

One of the popular premium plugins that I know many ProBlogger readers use is Scribe. This plugin (for WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal) is designed to help your posts rank well in search engines—without compromising the quality of your posts. Developed by the team at CopyBlogger, Scribe has gone through a number of updates that have added new features and functionality. Today it has been updated to version 3.0, and it now covers pretty much all of...

Win a Set of New Business Cards from Print Runner

After a conference or networking session, your business card is what you are represented as. What does your business card say about you? Everyone could use a new set of business card, or even a completely new business card design? BloggingTips.com has partnered with PrintRunner.com to run a promotion for someone to win a set of new business cards for their blog, web site, business or whatever they like. It’s amazingly simple to enter! All you need...

Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving Blogging Success?

“What’s the biggest mistake you see aspiring bloggers making?” This is a question I’m asked a fair bit on panels or in interviews, and it’s one that I suspect the people asking the question would like a technical answer to. The reality is that the biggest mistakes I see bloggers making are usually things that are going on in their minds, rather than on their blogs. A blogger’s mindset and attitude is as important more important than which blog platform they choose, their blog’s design, or how...

Performance Marketing Expo Recap

Today was the first day of the Performance Marketing Expo event in Miami, Florida. Last night I arrived with a bunch of other speakers and friends, like John Chow, Ian Fernando and Eric Schechter to mention a few. PMA sponsored a nice dinner for all of the speakers at a classy restaurant. It was great for all of us to meet up again… especially since we were all just together last week at ThinkTank in Del Mar, CA! As for the event, it was smaller...

Related Articles

• Join the Third Tribe Before the Price Changes
• Register Now for Social Media Marketing 2010
• Oracle’s Larry Ellison Weighs In On CEO Blogging
• Six Figure Affiliate Blogging
• How to Sell More From Your Blog (Blog Critique: Steven Aitchison)

The Umi Chicken Guide to Internet Marketing

Photo by quaziefoto I was in the mall the other day and was observing the people working at Umi Chicken. I’m sure that you have one of these or another in your mall where someone stands out front of the restaurant in the food court with a plate of free samples. As you walk by they hand you a piece of their chicken on a toothpick. And that one sample is really, really tasty. That single piece makes you start to crave what else Umi Chicken has to...