I was reading a post on TechCrunch this morning and thought I would add Michael Arrington as a Facebook Friend, but I got this message:

Seems he’s a tad popular!
Oh well.

Yesterday I spoke briefly about moving from a personal blog to a pro blog.
I covered very briefly that you need to move from blogspot or wordpress.com or any other free hosted platform to a platform like Wordpress, were you have more control.
The main reason I love Wordpress is because of its plug-in structure. You can [...]

I’ve been asked this question about a dozen times now, and I think it’s time I answer it.

How do you take a personal blog, and make it a serious professional one, that can generate an income?
In answering this question, I’m going to make a few assumptions, and I’m going to break it down during the [...]

This is really funny, if you’re running Firefox 3, type about:robots in the address bar.

I’ve been talking about traffic this week, and getting traffic to your site. Something else I thought of this morning is which kind of sites attract lots of visitors.
It’s easy to talk about traffic, and large audiences and so on, but if you have blog that only talks about the African Earth Worm, you cannot [...]

I seem to have started a little series on getting traffic. Because I believe it’s the foundation of ANY success online, I’m going to give the topic a lot of attention.
There are about as many ways to get traffic to a site, as there are websites. This post is mainly going to deal with getting [...]

We all do.
Bloggers that get a lot of traffic, make a lot of money. Those that don’t get a lot of traffic don’t make a lot of money. Simple really.
Was reading John Chow’s blog this weekend, and the thought crossed my mind, why does he make $30k+ every month from his blog, and you don’t? [...]

… if you spend all your time on the wrong things. So, can you really make money online?
By that I mean, how do you make enough money on a regular enough basis to pay the bills?
I think for every person who makes money online, there must me thousands asking how to do it. What I [...]

Apple have just announced their new iPhone. It’s now half the price and has twice the features.
It makes my current iPhone look stupid, even though tonight, it’s still the best damn phone on the planet.
Apple have done a fantastic job once again. They have sold 6 million iPhones in the last year. I wonder how [...]

Recently I invited Bev from Fiesty Female for lunch and an interview. I suppose I love the whole concept behind her blog. She’s open, honest and to the point. Bev is one of those what-you-see-is-what-you-get-go-getters. Having run her own promotions company in George, and now working with MANGO-OMC.
I suppose I could say a lot about [...]