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...

Hello World It’s day one, my name is available, my dot com is purchased, and my social media accounts are up and running. I am “so pro”, and the consensus is, “No you’re not. You don’t have followers.” As if turning pro or committing yourself to doing something on a pro level has anything to do with having a fanbase....