Disclaimer: This blog is going to make you great. If you are great, then this post is going to make you greater. Blogging is a text-based television series. Name your favorite sitcom, then list all the reasons why you are glued to your television on a set day at a set time. You look forward to the familiar personalities going through...

It sounds rather exceptional, but I assure you, I did not do anything “special”. I had a social media network of zero, and no real experience aside from the books I purchased about blogging. However, I did my best to truly study bloggers like Darren Rowse, John Chow and Patt Flynn. What I learned from all three of them was the importance...

There I was driving a beat up MacBook Pro, running on the latest edition of Ubuntu Linux playing Brandon Yawa’s latest hit, “Frankenstein Can’t Touch Me”. I left clicked my mouse and there it was, a spaceship. To my disbelief, it wasn’t a disk-shaped object with eclectic lights. Instead, it was a URL that read problogger.com....

I posted my first blog on October 2nd, and my last blog out of 4 on October 7th. Between all the blogs, I have accumulated over 300 page views in my first week of blogging. Once again, I had a social network of zero prior to this blog. What I did have was John Chow’s and Darren Rowse’s e-net books on blogging and my wife’s Twitter...

You feel great. You have a topic you want to write about and you do what any writer does, you start writing. Hours pass and you are still on the first couple of paragraphs that seem more like a collage of standalone topics that were haphazardly coupled together. You ask your editor (your roommate) for his or her advice on what you have...

If you bumped into a handicap genie who said, “Sorry, I can only grant you one wish, and that one wish is complete and legal access to Donald Trump’s bank account”, I do not have to ask what your one wish would be. Just make sure to say thank you to the handicap genie when you pull off in your Lamborghini, or when you remodel...