I darn near had to slap my hundred bucks down on the table and report “I’m out!” No sooner had I finished the post about taking a break from guru’s for 30 days (Take a Guru Break) than I received a couple of tempting emails. I sorta broke my rule, by accident, by opening and [...]

Yesterday we looked at 5 Reasons to Buy Your Next Web Site or Blog. Today we’re going to cover why it may be a good idea to build instead of buying an existing site or blog. There are certainly benefits and drawbacks to each path. Let’s jump right into reasons to build. 4 Reasons to [...]

I was looking at some sites on the SitePoint Marketplace recently in search of a site to purchase for a niche I’ve been wanting to get in to. Since I tend towards being a dreamer, I always seem to find something that is enticing or has potential. On the flip side of that coin, I [...]

I meant to post this late last week, but ran out of time and never got it done. If you haven’t already seen it, you need to check out what Darren Rowse is doing over at Problogger.net. He’s put together a 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge with a new tip, thought or [...]

The ABC’s of Pro Blogging I’m often asked the question, “what does it REALLY take to make it as a pro blogger these days.” Although I don’t have all the answers, I do believe you can boil down the question to some simple points — the ABC’s of pro blogging if you will. Ability. If [...]

If you have your own gig, whether that be a little blog you run for fun, a multi-million dollar small business, or anything in between, you know first hand how tough it can be to take a break from your “baby”. Whether the break is a vacation or a forced leave of absence for one [...]

We all know how hard it is to manage blogging in a competitve niche such as make money online, which is just an example that I’m gonna use here, there are tons and tons of hard niches out there which I’m not even gonna touch in this post, let’s just stick to the common competition [...]