It’s great to see how many young bloggers are starting to come through the ranks now, and they’re not too shabby either. I must admit I do enjoy seeing the success of the younger bloggers a little more than the veterans, purely because they are coming from the same place I did those 4 years ago.

However the more seasoned bloggers, give you the inspiration and the motivation to achieve not only what they have already, but possibly become even bigger and better than they are. That however is not an easy task!

Then there are the veteran bloggers the die-hard big boys (and girls) that just never seem to stop and never seem to drop their continuous stream of brilliantly written content. The blogging community is thriving as always and I think it may only be the start. Want to be on the list next year? Try my FREE Blogging eCourse out! Remember to share this with your friends:

Top 50 Bloggers Making Money Online

#1 Collis Ta’eed

Why has Collis Ta’eed made the list?

The Netsetter! He had to be top of the list right? Not only is his blog one of the best, it is designed well, visually exciting and appealing and the content is most certainly king here. Collis Ta’eed Is one of those bloggers that is extraordinarily good at his writing skills. Collis Ta’eed is the CEO of Envato, and he started Netsetter in 2009, basically as an outlet for him to get rid of some of those excess thoughts. His personal blog alone has over 4,500 RSS subscribers, his twitter following has risen to over 1,400 and he still keeps going. Why is he Numero Uno in today’s list? From living in his in-laws garage to becoming the CEO of Envato in less than five year! how can he not be.

www.envato.com

www.workawesome.com

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#2 Yaro Starak

Why has Yaro Starak made the list?

Yaro is not only a professional blogger and entrepreneur, he’s also a great teacher. From the comfort of his very own blogs and websites, Yaro has been able to teach literally thousands of ‘students’. From this stand point alone its easy to see why he is regarded as one of the most influential bloggers of 2010. Easily earning over $20,000 per month is no mean feat, but he manages to do this every single month.

www.entrepreneurs-journey.com

www.blogmastermind.com

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#3 Darren Rowse

Why has Darren Rowse made the list?

With over 107,000 Twitter followers why wouldn’t he be! Darren is constantly gaining new subscribers, followers and fans due to his ever consistent style and posts via his three main blogs. From hobby, to profession, Darren has managed to create some great blogs and continues to excite and delight his fan-base every week. Definitely a man to look out for.

www.problogger.net

www.twitip.com

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#4 Joost de Valk

Why has Joost de Valk made the list?

Joost de Valk is one of those bloggers that seemingly come from nowhere and all of sudden they are everywhere, but Joost is everywhere for a very good reason. He helps literally hundreds of people to create solid SEO within their own sites, allowing them to dominate their niche and get on top of their goals. Through his careful planning he has become a great blogger, consultant and above all person. If you are in desperate need of some SEO consulting, there’s not many other people better for the job than Joost.

www.yoast.com

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#5 Pat Flynn

Why has Pat Flynn made the list?

Firstly Pat is an incredibly insightful blogger who, early on, has realised just how important interviews and podcasts are to him. Secondly Pat really is an extremely helpful, genuine and all round niice guy. His aim is to help others gain the kind of rewards he is, from his online escapades. One of the great things about Pat is that he is so up front everything, from showing his monthly income reports within his blog posts and even stating he “not a millionaire”. Well Pat you may not be a millionaire yet, but we’re sure you’re on your way.

www.smartpassiveincome.com

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#6 David Risley

Why has David Risley made the list?

I’ll start with a quote from David himself “I show bloggers how to turn their blogging into a business” and in a nutshell that is exactly what he does. He’s to the point, genuine and tells it how it is. By reading any of his numerous blog posts its easy to see how passionate about his work and life David really is. With a wealth of knowledge and the ability to be brutally honest, David is definitely one of the best.

www.davidrisley.com

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#7 Glen Allsopp

Why has Glen Allsopp made the list?

Glen is a high profile blogger and viral marketeer who has an abundance of followers, fans, and subscribers. Firing off his monthly reports, stating the obvious and the not so obvious, Glen knows how to write a great post. Glen is also one of the younger bloggers on the list today, he like myself, stared online at the tender age of 15 years old, he was featured in a book aged 17 years old, by 18yrs was a social media manager for some huge brands, and by 20 years old he had sold the 10th biggest personal development blog in the world!

www.viperchill.com

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#8 Gideon Shalwick

Why has Gideon Shalwick made the list?

Gideon is a very influential blogger that likes to use videos within his blog, but he doesn’t just use video, he shows others how to do the same successfully. With a variety of offerings such as reviews, concepts and even a few rants now and then Gideon definitely knows how to please a crowd. Again he is one of those bloggers who likes to give back to the wider community and offers his teachings to those who will read, listen to or watch his posts. With some great inspirational and genuine blog posts Gideon is very much one of few highly respected bloggers.

www.gideonshalwick.com

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#9 Katie Freiling

Why has Katie Freiling made the list?

Katie is a great blogger, her posts are always from the heart and she offers a plethora of exciting an innovating concepts and ideas within her blog. One thing that stands out with Katie is her ability to be very serious, humorous, and simple with her writing, she is very consistent and very optimistic which is a breath of fresh air sometimes. However don’t think for a second that she isn’t a big player, Katie is very good at dominating her niche, want proof? How does over 16,000 twitter followers sound? Katie is here to stay and has huge potential, check her out.

www.katiefreiling.com

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#10 Syed Balkhi

Why has Syed Balkhi made the list?

Syed Balkhi has very strong work ethics and beliefs, one such belief is that people often wait too long to get started in blogging and online businesses, and he’s right too! Syed is a very successful and young blogger, since 2009 his websites have pulled in over 145,000 unique visitors. Syed is very good at helping others and is currently making a good living online. He’s got tonnes of potential and I’m sure we will see a lot more of him in the near future.

www.wpbeginner.com

www.balkhis.com

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#11 Brian Clark

Why has Brian Clark made the list?

Brian Clark is from the very well known blog Copyblogger, I’m sure all of you have heard of that site once or twice? His blog posts are always well written, informative and sensible. There is some great content surrounding how to be a better blogger, copywriter, website owner the list goes on. Over 130,000 people subscribe to the Copyblogger so it’s easy to see why Brian is so successful.

www.copyblogger.com

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#12 Vitaly Friedman

Why has Vitaly Friedman made the list?

Vitaly Friedman is a very well known blogger who is best known for his role (Editor-in-Chief) at the highly respected website Smashing Magazine. Vitaly is also a freelance web designer, and pro-blogger where he shows all his subscribers the best places to find fonts, themes and graphics on the web. Smashing Magazine is one of the most important design blogs on the internet, and the success shows with some 209,000 magazine subscribers and 268,000 followers on Twitter. Vitaly’s posts are often in a teaching sense, educating the subscribers and readers in the dark art of web based design. If you are stuck in a rut for some design work, or just need a little inspiration to get you kick-started into gear, then check out his personal blog as well as Smashing Magazine, I’m sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

www.smashingmagazine.com

www.alvit.de/blog

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#13 Gary Vaynerchuck

Why has Gary Vaynerchuck made the list?

Educating the online community of bloggers and website owners is the name of the game when it comes to Gary Vaynerchuck. Not only does he passion for blogging and video blogging in particular, but he loves showing others how to succeed. After finishing his first book “Crush It” in 2009 it went on to be a top seller on many well known websites, play.com and Amazon to name but two. He oozes enthusiasm and passion for the art of blogging and video blogging and as such he is now one of the most respected vloggers and bloggers around the world. Gary also has a very successful website all about wine! If you are a wine lover you will love his videos and posts, its a must see website so be sure to check it out!

www.garyvaynerchuk.com

www.tv.winelibrary.com

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#14 Tim Ferris

Why has Tim Ferris made the list?

Ever heard of “The Four Hour Week”? Sure you have, it’s been all over the place, NBC, Wired Magazine, heck even USA Today and CNN! Well meet the author, Tim Ferris, not only has he created the ever successful book but he is also a top blogger! Tim’s posts are often one of three things; Serious, Humorous and inspiring, I think that is one of the best things about Tim, his ability to take complex topics and make them simple, and vice versa too. He’s also a pretty funny guy and his writing style keeps you enticed and ready for more. Intrigued? Check him out.

www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog

www.timferriss.com

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#15 Rand Fishkin

Why has Rand Fishkin made the list?

Rand Fishkin (The Wizard of Moz) is one of the best SEO bloggers in the world. His success has been astonishing over the last few years and he has consistently been added to some of the latest, and greatest top list in recent years, the “40 under 40 List” and the “30 Best Young Entrepreneurs Under 30″ to name but a few. Rand Fishkin saw the light in 1993 when he became intrigued by the online world and started using MS Frontpage to get started, and just look at him now! He is the CEO and co-founder of the company SEOmoz, helping thousands of people to get their websites, blogs and business seen, heard and noticed. I’d highly recommend seeking out his company if you are stuck for SEO ideas.

www.seomoz.org

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#16 Adii Rockstar

Why has Adii Rockstar made the list?

Yes folks that is his name, Rockstar by name and by nature it seems, as he’s kicking up an almighty fuss in the world of WordPress. Adii is the founder of Woo Themes, a very successful, and exciting website that basically helps you to get your blog looking the business. With a Bachelors Degree in Accounting as well as an Honors Degree in Business Management it’s plain to see why he is such a successful guy. There’s more however, not satisfied with his years of study to finally attain his Degree(s) he went on to create Woo Themes which is now one of the most successful WordPress theme publishers on the web. If you want a theme but don’t know where to turn to, or if you don’t really know if you should go for a premium WordPress theme, then go check out Woo Themes because they will definitely have you reeling for more.

www.woothemes.com

www.adiirockstar.com

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#17 Chris Brogan

Why has Chris Brogan made the list?

Chris Brogan likes to teach, he loves learning, and wants others to learn by his example, which is great. There are far too few people in the world that want to make a genuine difference for us online bloggers and Chris is right here to help. Chris is very popular with the top Fortune 100 and 500 companies around the globe and this just goes to show how much we can learn from him ourselves. President of New Marketing Labs and Human Business Works, you would have thought that he’d have his work cut out, but not wanting to under achieve Chris gives you the chance to speak to him live via your own personal seminar (if you have the money, space and subscribers). He really does not stop and he is so passionate about what he does that it makes you want to get up and do something yourself.

www.chrisbrogan.com

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#18 Chris Pearson

Why has Chris Pearson made the list?

Chris is one of those bloggers you need to keep up with, his funny popular blog posts are great reading fodder. Although there is a lot of humor in his writing he is often very practical and creates some great blog posts which are both extremely insightful as well as informative. He’s also the creator of one of the most widely used WordPress themes on the planet “Thesis” add to that the delightful DIYthemes website which offers many other themes in it’s arsenal Chris sure knows how to pack a punch in the online business world. To say he is successful is an understatement, and I think Chris has long deserved to be on this list so here’s to you Chris.

www.pearsonified.com

www.christopherpearson.com

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#19 Seth Godin

Why has Seth Godin made the list?

Seth Godin has a very minimalistic approach to his blog layouts and it is great to see, I think you can tell a lot about a blogger by the way they have things designed as well as their writing style and there content, its all part of the package and Seth Godin does all these things very well. Seth is very successful in the offline world of publishing too, with no fewer than twelve books under his belt (every one of which has been a best seller). He also does a lot of public speaking in seminars as well as online interviews. I love that he offers everything from free content to seminars, he really is a man of many talents.

www.sethgodin.typepad.com

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#20 Jeremy Schoemaker

Why has Jeremy Schoemaker made the list?

Jeremy Schoemaker is a very tough-skinned individual, bullied in his younger years he put his strength and energy into being successful, and guess what? He now is, and very successful at that. Creator and co-founder of AuctionAds which is an ebay affiliate marketing service that basically puts your ebay ads onto whatever website you need, or the product needs to be advertised upon, great thinking! His success was really brought home when he and business partner David Dellanave won multiole awards in less than six months, a truly flying start to say the least. Now he shares his secrets, thoughts, information and techniques in his online blog. Catch up with him to see what you may have missed.

www.shoemoney.com

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#21 Neil Patel

Why has Neil Patel made the list?

Have you ever heard of Crazy Egg? How about KISSmetrics? Well if you haven’t where have you been? Neil Patel is the co-founder of both companies and boy has he done well, he has become one of the go-to guys for some very high profile brands and companies, helping them to make a lot more money. Neil has some great insights into the world of online entrepreneurship so if you are thinking about becoming one, or have already started on your quest to become the next big thing, then check out his blog. His posts are often inspirational and thought-provoking but he has an uncanny ability to give those hard to find answers. So if you have been googling the heck out of “How to become an online Entrepreneur” then be sure to take a glance at his posts.

www.quicksprout.com

www.neilpatel.com

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#22 Andy Beard

Why has Andy Beard made the list?

With tonnes of informative writing it was hard not to put Andy on the list, always informative, highly addictive and often very humorous Andy is a must for all bloggers. Andy enjoys blogging about SEO, and marketing strategies more than most, which is a good job really because he is great at it. He writes concisely and appropriately for the title of all his posts and he is one of the rare people who likes to give back to the online community. He can teach you anything and everything you need to know about the online marketing world if you are ready to learn.

www.andybeard.eu

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#23 Matthew Mullenweg

Why has Matthew Mullenweg made the list?

Well…Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years , or unless you are completely new to blogging (in which case you are excused), Matthew Mullenweg is the founding developer of a little thing we like to call WordPress. That’s right, Matt’s our man, he created the amazingly versatile WordPress which many of us love and use daily. You can imagine the scale of his success just by the statement that he is the founding father of WordPress, neat right? Not only is he an expert developer but he also puts aside time to go and speak publicly so we can all hear what his thoughts are on various topics, but if you can’t get to any of his seminars, or to any seminars in which he is a guest to, then you are till on luck because Matt has a couple of nifty blogs where you can find out just what Matt is all about.

www.mullenweg.com

www.ma.tt

www.matt.wordpress.org

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#24 Jack Humphrey

Why has Jack Humphrey made the list?

Blog Marketing is the game and Jack Humphrey is definitely the name, Jack is one of the foremost experts of blog marketing and traffic funneling in the world. He is a very serious but humorous sounding individual and all of his posts have some value to offer. In other words it’s pretty much all killer and no filler in Jack’s blog. Back in 2002 Jack wrote one of the most widely downloaded books on link building – “Power Linking”. This was a game changer for Jack who went on to great success, in 2005 he started ContentDesk.com, and BlogSuccess.com, both of which were highly successful businesses aimed at helping others to gain the marketing audience they couldn’t quite grasp alone. If you would like to know more about Jack then I’d definitely recommend you go visit his blog it’s very much worthy of reading.

www.fridaytrafficreport.com

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#25 Daniel Scocco

Why has Daniel Scocco made the list?

Daniel Scocco is an entrepreneur, a teacher, and a scholar, armed with his Degree in International Economics, Daniel pureued a career within a multinational business, however he was not there long. Fast forward to the present day and Daniel is now a respected blogger, who has been online since 2005 creating and developing websites and blogs for himself and others. In 2007 his blog was nominated for “Best Web Development Blog” at the weblog awards. On a near regular basis Daniel posts about all manner of things from how to make money to how not to lose it, from the best plugins for your site, to what to write in your own blog. Daniel really does give back to his subscribers, he’s one to watch out for.

www.dailyblogtips.com

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#26 Skellie Wag

Why has Skellie Wag made the list?

Ever thought to yourself… I’d quite like to be a freelancer. Or maybe you want to know how to run an online business? Well Skellie Wag is a great place to find that sort of information. Skellie Wag is a blog which is made up of, essentially lots and lots of essays from blogging to happiness in work and lots of things in between. It’s a great place to go to when you are feeling a little less motivated. They have recently brought out a book that you can buy from their site entitled “The Blog Business Funnel” which is sure to be a motivating read. Go have a look-see.

www.skelliewag.org

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#27 Erica Douglass

Why has Erica Douglass made the list?

Well at the tender age of 26yrs, Erica sold her original online business for a fairly hefty $1,100,000! After “Retiring” from the traditional work she had been doing previously, Erica now teaches other how to become successful online. She doesn’t only teach the good though, she also teaches the bad, the failures, the pitfalls you know, the parts we all want to avoid but no one ever lets us in on. Well Erica certainly does, so if you are motivated, and want to read some concise, succinct and inspirational blog posts then you must go and meet Erica on her blog.

www.erica.biz

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#28 Robb Sutton

Why has Robb Sutton made the list?

He is the owner of Oneninety8, Robbsutton.com and he’s an all round Mr Nice Guy. Seriously, Robb is a great chap, full of exciting, inspiring and thought-provoking content within each of his blogs. He has many passions in life, blogging is definitely one of them, the man is obsessed, and we mean that in a very complimentary way. He’s also a giver, of advice, freebie icons, graphics and code, he really is a true gentleman. His blog posts are always worth a read and you will be hard to find other writers who have so much to offer at such a young age. He now has a new ebook ready for download if you so wish I wont reveal the surprise you will have to head over there to see for yourself. If you are looking for success and don’t have the get-go then Robb Sutton’s blogs are definitely worth a read.

www.robbsutton.com

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#29 Chris Garrett

Why has Chris Garrett made the list?

Chris is hard to pigeon-hole and I’m pretty sure he likes it that way, writing for his personal and business blogs he always has very informative posts and interesting topics that keep you interested. He is very successful within his niche and he loves to give back by helping others learn how to avoid the pitfalls. Chris also writes offline, co-authoring five books so far, one of his most successful being “Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” which he co-wrote with our #2 on today’s list, Darren Rowse.

www.chrisg.com

www.chrisg.org

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#30 Lewis Howes

Why has Lewis Howes made the list?

Lewis is a very interesting blogger, an unofficial world record holder, founder of two highly successful companies and co-author of the LinkedIn book, LinkedWorking: Generating Success on the World’s Largest Professional Networking Website. His online success is easily seen and he has a large number of supporters, even his Twitter account has nearly 40,000 followers. Lewis is very much a professional in the world of social media and networking, Which he writes about in his highly successful blog.

www.sportsexec.net

www.sportsnetworker.com

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#31 Denise Wakeman

Why has Denise Wakeman made the list?

Denise Wakeman offers blogging, marketing and visibility tips for all that decide to look her up. She gives a very serious account of how to do things the right way and helps countless bloggers to keep their eye on the ball. With almost 20yrs of experience in the business and online marketing realm she is one of the most important bloggers online. Having written many different programs and posts for her subscribers and followers her unflinching and charismatic presence shines through her writing. Often using videos to emphasize her point across to the readers Denise certainly knows how to make herself heard. Denise has a huge online presence and enables others to contact her easily through her blog, if you need training or advice, or simply want to get the inside know-how of online marketing Denise would be a person to seek out for sure. Her success is no accident, she works hard and gets where she wants to be.

www.biztipsblog.com

www.buildabetterblog.com

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#32 Kristi Hines

Why has Kristi Hines made the list?

Kristi Hines provides informative and valuable posts on her blog as well as a very clear writing style. She is a Internet Marketing Specialist with the company Vertical Measures which provides link building services to those that need it most. Her tips and advice are second to none and she is always writing new posts on a near daily basis. Her success is greatly matched by her ability to blog in a very intellectual and yet simple way allowing you to get the most out of the internet, be it by yourself with her advice and tips or through her company. Another definite blogger to look up to.

www.kristihines.com

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#33 Rae Hoffman

Why has Rae Hoffman made the list?

Rae Hoffman is a self-confessed Internet and Marketing SEO Consultant…try saying that after a few drinks! Specializing in viral and affiliate marketing, Rae is one of the SEO gatekeepers, she really knows a thing or two about her chosen career, that is for certain. Just by reading any number of her online posts its clearly evident that you are in the presence of SEO royalty. Rae has been mentioned in a lot of publications, and I mean a LOT, USA Today, Forbes, and ZDNet to mention a few of the more well known ones. Rae runs a lot of different affiliate and content based websites and is also the co-founder/co-owner of two high profile businesses; MFE Interactive and Outspoken Media. Both of Rae’s companies have had great success, both for her and her clients. Watch out, Rae’s about.

www.sugarrae.com

www.outspokenmedia.com

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#34 Marko Saric

Why has Marko Saric made the list?

Marko ‘How To’ Saric has made the list because he definitely knows his stuff. His blog is a great big how to of everything a blogger could want to know but hasn’t got the nerve to ask. A lot of his blog posts are entitled “How To” and for good reason, he really goes into depth about the kinds of things all blogger should know, want to know, or just plain didn’t know. Marko Saric Is also the co-founder of the London Blog Club, where he gives back to the community of bloggers, in fact that is a great place to be if you haven’t already checked it out.

www.howtomakemyblog.com

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#35 Leo Babauta

Why has Leo Babauta made the list?

Leo Babauta has no formal qualifications (how many of us do have?) but that hasn’t stopped him from getting on the list of the top 50 influential bloggers of 2010! Leo likes to help others, and also write about the difficulties he has faced and overcome. He is also a very competent writer, in 2009 he wrote 108,000 words in 30 days to complete a novel! Now that takes some doing! He is also the author of “The Power of Less” which was a best seller on Amazon, but that’s not the end, he’s also written “Zen to Done” an ebook which has been downloaded by tens of thousands of readers and subscribers. Leo is forever working hard and because of his excellent standards and writing skills Leo has made our list. Leo..we salute you.

www.zenhabits.net

www.thepowerofless.com

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#36 Mary Jaksch

Why has Mary Jaksch made the list?

Practical inspiration, creative ideas and generally good informative content, that’s what Mary offers at ther blog the GoodlifeZen. Mary is an officially authorized Zen Master, a Psychotherapist and an author. Wow, that is a lot to aspire towards. Mary as you can already see is a very successful woman and her blog is just an extension of her success which she throws out to help and inspire others. Not only does she offer tips, advice and general thoughts, she also has a great ability to make you want to relax, grab a cup of green tea and just read through her topical posts. A master in her own right, Mary has helped many people around the world to get to grips with all manner of serious topics, and although mostly serious, it is one that you will enjoy.

www.goodlifezen.com

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#37 Alex Fraiser

Why has Alex Fraiser made the list?

Blogging trickery is what Alex Fraiser specializes in, well, in a sense anyway. He is the 17 year old mastermind behind blogussion, see what he did there? Good right? Alex has been given the gift of the gab and can write his socks off. Don’t let his age fool any of you either this young blogger is becoming a real hard hitter on the bloggin scene and we can’t wait for more. His posts are informative, creative and concise. You have just got to give him credit for his ability to write such great content at such a young age, it’s great to see! He now has over 4,000 twitter followers and in excess of 1,900 subscribers, and he’s only been doing this blogging malarkey since 2009. Well done Alex.

www.blogussion.com

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#38 Corbett Barr

Why has Corbett Barr made the list?

I have one simple goal for this site: to help you build a high-traffic traffic website or blog. That’s the opening line in one of Corbett’s blogs and it speaks volumes don’t you think? His willingness to give back to others and exercise his right to help those in need, heck he’s almost like the online version of Batman! Seriously though, he really is a top blogger, great guy and his posts are of the highest quality you will see from a blogger. He’s definitely not an amateur that’s for sure. He has had great success in a venture-capital backed company too! Corbett’s writing, so go read his posts!

www.freepursuits.com

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#39 Andrew Warner

Why has Andrew Warner made the list?

With $30+million a year in sales alone Andrew is one of the heavy weights in the online world. Still in his 20′s Andrew and his younger brother decided to create mixergy a website that has clear and simple goals, to encourage, inspire, introduce and give. What a guy, what a generous thing to do, and all his subscribers are glad he did too. Sharing his wisdom, expertise and his courage to take a huge leap of faith in the name of online entrepreneurship Andrew has been able to help many, many of his subscribers just by posting his thoughts. I recommend taking a look at Andrews story to get the full down-low.

www.mixergy.com

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#40 Michael Martine

Why has Michael Martine made the list?

He blogs, he coaches, he blogs about coaching, oh, and he also consults too. Michael Martine’s blog posts should not be missed, he has a wealth of inspiration and advice to offer and you would be mad not to listen to him too. He loves nothing more than to guide, excite and entertain with his posts giving you the vital information you need to motivate yourself or maybe write an extra post a week. Maybe you are stuck for topics to write about? Well head on over to his blog and get some inspiration. Michael’s success has been created through hard work, determination, and basically being brutally honest at times. Miss him at your peril.

www.remarkablogger.com

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#41 Zac Johnson

Why has Zac Johnson made the list?

He’s not just any old affiliate marketer, oh no my dear friends, he’s not even a great affiliate marketer…he’s a “Super Affiliate” marketeer! I may sound as though I a joke, but in all fairness, would he be on this list if I didn’t think he was worthy? of course he’s worthy, his content is great, his style unique, and he really is a super affiliate you know! Never shy of getting behind the keyboard, or in front of the camera, you’ll find some great posts on his blog that will make you want to come back more and more. Zac is fantastic at reproducing his techniques over and over to see huge sales, and he’s not keeping it a secret either go and check out his latest post to see what he’s up to at the moment!

www.zacjohnson.com

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#42 James Chartrand

Why has James Chartrand made the list?

He’s a business web designer and creates some great posts on his blog, which by the way is a very cool looking site. He’s the founder of Men with Pens and his writing style is solid, he was featured in many major online media resources such as Newsweek and the Huffington post and he’s a regular over at Copyblogger. He’s an informative writer with plenty of humorous and anecdotal offerings. He also writes as I imagine he speaks, very openly, and very real. His online website has made him a great deal of success both with subscribers, affiliates and probably in offline popularity. He’s a top blogger and he’s on the list.

www.menwithpens.ca

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#43 Tyrone Shum

Why has Tyrone Shum made the list because he is a very influencial young blogger, he specializes in “Outsourcing and Automation for Lifestyle Business Owners”. What? You want me to delve a little further? Well okay since you asked so nicely… Tyrone has a really useful style, he aspires to reach the best in order to reach complete automation for money making. His posts are really insightful and he leaves nothing to the imagination, he like many of the bloggers on this list, is a giver and that is one of the key’s to success with blogging. To receive you must first give seems to be the natural quality all of today’s top bloggers have in common. Tyrone teaches his subscribers how to find the best programs, blogs, videos and basically everything that will lead to an automated money making business. No mean feat I’m sure you will agree.

www.tyroneshum.com

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#44 James Schramko

Why has James Schramko made the list?

James Schramko is an Australian internet marketer and all-round good guy. His aim was to leave the 9-5 working lifestyle to one better suited to us bloggers and hasn’t he done well? James has identified how to find and dominate niche areas to build his online empire, and in his blog he divulges into all his inner thoughts. It’s yet another great example of a blog that gives back to the community. James has sold millions of dollars worth of goods, services and information products over the span of his online career. He is now one of the most prolific speakers in the blogging world and is a regular at many of the industry events held all over the world.

www.internetmarketingspeed.com

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#45 Dave Navarro

Why has Dave Navarro made the list?

Dave Navarro is a very well known blogger, best known in fact for his product launches, product launch coaching and his ability as one of the best online marketing consultants. He is widely popular with many bloggers, mainly for teaching them how to essentially launch their own products. What a great guy to have on your side. He is someone I would honestly read about a couple of times a week, his posts are so informative and offer very real techniques, none of that fake guru persona, Dave is the real deal and he has made a fortune launching products, teaching others how to launch services and products and of course his ebooks. Go and have a look I’m sure you will agree.

www.thelaunchcoach.com

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#46 Lynn Terry

Why has Lynn Terry made the list?

Lynn Terry is a valuable source of information, she creates tutorials, advice, and tips for newbies and the expert bloggers alike. She is always added to her valuable collection of posts and there is always great content to indulge in. After quitting her “last real job” back in 1996 she started her first business and never returned to the 9-5 lifestyle. She eventually left her business behind to become a super affiliate and she has gone from success to success each year. In 2003 she received the Best of Success Award at Total Life Success, she has also had the pleasure of contributing to a #1 best seller and has been featured on the Entrepreneur Magazine’s home biz talk show. I think you can see why she is on the list, and staying there too.

www.clicknewz.com

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#47 Michael Stelzner

Why has Michael Stelzner made the list?

Michael Stelzner writes, about…well writing actually. He loves to teach his subscribers and followers how to expertly write, white papers. Michael has written over 130 white papers many of them being for some of the worlds biggest and best companies. Michael is also an author – “Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged”. On top of all of this he is also the editor of the White Paper Source Newsletter which has a readership of 20,000+. Finally he also teaches corporations and leading professionals how to write white papers in his “Monthly Teleclass”. Be sure to check him and his blog out, its worth a read.

www.writingwhitepapers.com

www.whitepapersource.com

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#48 Hesham Zebida

Why has Hesham Zebida made the list?

Blogging tips galore, advice grotto, Hesham’s blog really is a place where bloggers can find the secrets to those never asked questions. Not only does he offer his fellow bloggers advice, he also teaches how to create a buzz, gain traffic and the most important of issues, keep subscribers. On top of all of this she also blogs about how to make your own blog look better and how to blog better, or should we say, blog properly. One of the main reasons that Heshams blog is so much more appealing than a lot of other blogs is due to the fact he used to be a web designer a few years back. He has helped many, and will help many more in the future I’ve no doubt.

www.zebida.com

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#49 Rob Rammuny

Why has Rob Rammuny made the list

Rob Rammuny wants to help you to have the online lifestyle that you crave. He needs to teach, advise and share with his fellow bloggers and readers alike. Did I mention he is only 16 years old? That correct 16yrs! It’s so fresh and inspiring to see someone with such talent and diversity create such a fantastic blog with great content and advice especially at such a tender young age. I can see big things ahead for Rob. His main aim is to get out of the rat-race and leave the 9-5 lifestyle before he even has to join it, and I’d have to agree that it’s definitely the right choice. Why work for others when you are perfectly good at working for yourself? I really hope Rob keeps up his terrific work and I look forward to what he does in the future.

www.robswebtips.com

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#50 Chris Guthrie

Why has Chris Guthrie made the list?

Chris Guthrie earns a six figure income from working online. He’s only 26yrs old and already he is a big name in the blogging world. He first started working for his own business back in school, trading pokemon cards for money, this early lesson in business eventually got the better of him and he decided working for an employer just wasn’t going to cut it. He eventually ended up as an online marketer after “playing too much Halo 2″. How many people can boast that playing a video game could lead them to a career of such magnitude? Well it wasn’t entirely Halo 2 that helped him, getting fired must have been a factor too, but nonetheless, with monthly incomes of $13,000 and more a month, he must be doing something right.

www.makemoneyontheinternet.com

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Hi Everyone,

Today, I am posting My Top Ten Tools & Resources For Bloggers plus some specific advice for business bloggers. It is also slightly longer than I normally do but there is something for everyone, no matter what your level of experience

But first, I want to go of at a slightly different angle with regards to blogging.

Here is a bold statement:

Offline Businesses have the most to gain by using Blogs!

It appears (at least from the emails I get) that most people think that blogging is a way to make money online exclusively and nothing else.

But an offline business can use Blogs to increase their brand awareness (both personal and business) while at the same time communicating with their customers and increasing sales.

Indeed I’d go further – every offline business needs a blog. I speak to a lot of offline business owners and the most common ‘objection’ to them getting personally involved in updating a website is that they are not Techies or don’t understand HTML.

But with modern blogging software rather such as WORDPRESS and my Blogging eCourse there really is no reason why any business owner cannot get online and manage their own website.

And if you are someone who only has an online business then there is a great opportunity for you to assist offline businesses with their blogging needs – as you will see below.

First – Let me give you an example

I have a friend of mine – Matthew Glover who runs a website called RenegadeConservatoryGuy.co.uk (A conservatory is another word for Sunroom in the UK)

OK, RenegadeConservatoryGuy is hardly the most interesting website in the world – unless of course your business is conservatories / sunrooms, but the important thing here is that Matthew has established himself as one of the leading authorities and industry experts since setting up his blog 2 and half years ago. Matthew is an ambitious guy and a lifelong entrepreneur who has used a BLOG to add real value to his “Brand” (himself) and to his offline business ConservatoryOutlet.co.uk

Matthew is not using his blog to make money (although I do know he has picked up some new customers via it) – rather he is using his blog to add value to his offline businesses.

This is a model I am noticing more and more – using a Blog to establish authority and to engage in conversation with other people within your industry. (Interviewing Top Players in your industry is my top tip for getting the ‘conversation’ going)

Building Contractors, Chiropractors, Life Coaches, Accountants and Business Consultants are just a few of the businesses that are adding value to their offline businesses in this way.

Before I go into My Top Ten Tools & Resources For Bloggers I did just want to take a few moments to highlight some keep considerations for Business Bloggers (But frankly they are equally applicable to all bloggers)

Essential Considerations For Business Bloggers

1) Voice. What voice do you wish to use when speaking to your audience? That of the company? Or that of the individual? Many businesses tend to opt for a boring “COMPANY VOICE” that has no personality. It is up to you of course but I prefer to hear the voice of the Boss, The CEO, The Founder — not some boring corporate voice.

Not the best example of an individual voice (and I imagine that is because he doesn’t write it all himself) but Virgin Founder – Richard Branson at least has a go at not sounding too corporate on his “personal blog’ – http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog

2) Be consistent. If you are going to blog – do it on a regular basis. I recommend at least once per week – but of course you can do it more than that. (But remember my Quality is better than Quantity rule) Please do not do a post that starts…. Sorry I have not posted for a while..blah..blah…

3) Lead Capture. Yes, get the contact details of your readers. The best way to do this is to exchange their contact details for an Ebook, eCourse or Special Report. (e.g. 10 Things To Know Before You Buy Your New Kitchen) But be careful – don’t spam your subscribers. Deliver them value and not only will they be glad they subscribed, they will also tell their friends. (More about this in the Tools and Resources section below)

4) Newsletter. I am not a huge fan of newsletters, but correctly presented it is another excellent form of lead generation. But make it sound interesting – don’t just call it “My Newsletter”. Call in something interesting like: “The [Your Niche] Insiders Newsletter”

5) Use Video. Make a video of your office, your customer support section, interview your staff on camera and ask them about their role in the business. Then when people are buying from you they can put a face and a personality to the name. People buy from PEOPLE! (Host video on YouTube)

6) Use Audio. Much the same as video – a personal message from you the founder is a nice touch.

7) Don’t Sell. Well less on the selling and more on the entertaining, educating, informing and inspiring. I cringe when I see business owners using their blog to sell, saying we are the greatest etc. I am all for lead generation and establishing a relationship with your potential customer but only on very rare situations does it make sense to use your blog to actively sell. If you do the entertaining, educating, informing and inspiring bit right, the selling (or rather buying) will take care of itself.

8 ) Interview Your Competitors. OK, this is a bit scary for some business bloggers but it really is worth considering. Perhaps interview a competitor that operates in another geographical location rather than a direct competitor. This is also a great way to MASTERMIND and learn new things yourself plus it is excellent content for your website. Conducting interviews is also a great way to establish your Authority Status.

A bit related to above – Interview your suppliers, take your readers up the supply chain and get them ‘involved’ with your business. The more familiar they are with your products, the more likely they are to buy.

My Top Ten Tools & Resources For Bloggers

(Note the NEW resources that I am recommending for the first time)

1) NEW! Not very familiar with wordpress and want a down to earth guide then go to: WPBeginner.com Most other WordPress sites are maintained by developers, there was a lack of focus on beginners but at WPBeginner, they explain each tutorial thoroughly, so users of all levels can understand it. WPBeginner.com provides quality tips, tricks, hacks, and other resources for the WordPress community.

2) Download WordPress Or better still use Hosting that allows you to easy install WordPress from CPanel

3) Get yourself a great design / theme. My No1 Recommendation for themes is WooThemes.com WooThemes makes making beautiful websites easy – and I use them all the time.

4) Set up an Autoresponder. Lead Generation – wither it is just someones email address or all their contact details (name, address, phone number) is perhaps the most valuable thing you can do with your blog.

If you are doing a great job, delivering awesome value and helping people they naturally will want to joint your LIST. I have had the most success with building a list by providing a Blogging eCourse. Note that I said you must deliver value – many people have told me that my FREE Blogging eCourse is actually more valuable that courses that people have bought from so called gurus!

People are naturally getting more and more cautious about giving up their email address to websites so please don’t short change your readers, deliver REAL value. Always strive to deliver more value than the “cost’ even if it is ‘free’. My friend Yanik Silver puts it perfectly when he says:

I’m rich by enriching others ten times to a hundred times what they pay me in return

For list management and autoresponders they don’t come much better than AWeber Indeed, working with Aweber is probably one of my best business investments ever.

For example, when I was on Vacation last year I emailed my list a promotion and was able to pay for my whole entire trip two week trip, all it took me was 5 minutes.

Find out more about list building and autoresponders at: my list building and autoresponder post

5) NEW! Daily Blog Tips – DailyBlogTips.com Daniel Scocco started developing blogs and websites in 2005, and Daily Blog Tips is the place where he shares what he learned along the way. The blog was nominated under the “Best Web Development Blog” category in the 2007 Weblog Awards, and currently it is ranked among the 500 most popular blogs in the world (according to Technorati)

In particular check out Daniel’s: ‘Q & A’ Category and get answers to questions like:

Are Sponsored Reviews and Paid Blog Posts Evil? AND Will My Readers Leave If I Accept Guest Posts?

6) Darren Rowse and http://www.problogger.net. Is there a serious blogger in the world who has not visited this site? A constant stream of blogging tips, information and inspiration.

7) Gary Vaynerchuk and http://tv.winelibrary.com Gary Vaynerchuk is the Super Star of Video Blogging. I am including him here because first and foremost, Gary started as a Business Blogger – and has grown into something much more. Even if Wine is of no interest to you Gary’s blogging model is one that all business owners should investigate.

8 ) Join a Blog Mastermind The one I recommend is by Yaro Starak. Yaro teaches how you too can master the exact SYSTEM he uses to make a minimum of $10,000 to as much as $35,000 per month, blogging part time.

As an aside, I have been approached by someone asking me if I would be interested in hosting a 2 Day Blogging Workshop in London this summer – I am still considering it, but it is quite a likely. Everything you need to know to get your blog of the ground, how to establish authority, SEO, creative writing and much, much more PLUS an action plan to move your blog to the next level. If this would interest any of my readers I would appreciate you Contacting Me – which you can do HERE (And if you can, include details of your biggest challenge with blogging and what you hope to gain by attending this workshop)

9) Brian Clark and CopyBlogger.com. Compelling content drives the Internet, so the content is the marketing. And using the right words in the right way will determine not only how well your site converts visitors into sales, but also how well you rank in search engines and how many links you get. Brian is the master at reaching Content strategies and copywriting skills for bloggers.

10) NEW! FeedShark Pinging is not really necessary these days but if you are . However, if your site is not ranking in search engines give FeedShark a try. FEED SHARK will ping your blog, feed, or podcast for free!

Extra Tip: If your WordPress Blog is not appearing in search engines – check out your Privacy Settings and make sure you have selected: “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers” under Blog Visibility. (Usually found under DOMAIN/wp-admin/options-privacy.php)

An Opportunity

Remember I said at the beginning that Bricks and Mortar businesses represent an opportunity for established bloggers?

Well despite what I said earlier about Blogging being easy to get started in and frankly if you can type a letter – then you can blog, it appears a lot of offline business owners don’t want to be ‘bothered’ with blogging, but they would pay someone to BLOG on their behalf on a regular basis.

I know some blogger’s who are actually being paid to BLOG for a business. It is not a business model I want to follow, but if you enjoy writing and are a quick learner then this is a great opportunity.

One blogger I know just collects press releases from the business, puts a bloggers spin on the releases and publishes then in WordPress. The nice thing for her is that because WordPress is so search engine friendly every post gets indexed almost immediately and indeed the blog put-ranks the main website for many terms now. The business owner thinks she is a SEO Goddess!

What can you earn?

Well it appears $250 per month is fairly typical to manage and maintain a blog that is not doing much more that publishing the “Latest News” (My contact limits that to 10 posts per month). OK not a great fortune, but she believes she could easily handle 20 clients on that basis. Each client representing approx 5 – 8 hrs work per month. 20 x $250 = $5000 per month

Like I said, not an opportunity I would follow but I am sure it is one that will suit a lot of people, especially work at home moms.

If it was me, I would charge a lot more and have fewer clients – 10 clients at $1000 sounds about right. But for that you would of course have to be more creative and original in what you do. But that’s not difficult – just a case of asking the business owner questions (You could even record their answers and publish as a podcast) Questions like: My Biggest Mistake in Business? OR ‘If I you were starting over in this business what would you do differently?’ always get great replies!

Your comments, suggestions and feedback are as always very welcome.

To All Our Blogging Successes

Michael

PS: If you are interested in my Blogging Workshop I would appreciate you Contacting Me – which you can do HERE (And if you can, include details of your biggest challenge with blogging and what you hope to gain by attending this workshop)

PPS: Ref my last post – Todays Post Title came to me in the shower – where do you get you best Blog Post Ideas?

It is around 3 years since I first started blogging and if you have been following My Story you will know I have come along way.

But what is most amazing to me is just how far some of my featured Top Bloggers of 2009 have come. It almost feels crazy to think that many of these bloggers started their blogs at home, in a spare room or bedroom, just like most of us and yet today they are ‘famous‘ all over the world for their blogging.

I have said it many times on this site and in my Blogging eCourse – the OPPORTUNITIES in blogging are almost endless and today’s post of the fifty most influential bloggers of 2009 proves it.

Before you check out the list completely I would like to just draw attention to 3 individuals in particular who have been a huge inspiration to me. (Actually very hard to pick out three – because as soon as I did it – I could think of three more who equally could appear here)

The first is our No 1 Blogger (Video Blogger) – Gary Vaynerchuk. I was fortunate last September to visit with Gary in his offices in New York and do this interview. I don’t think I really need to explain why Gary is No 1. You would have to be living under a rock in the last 12 months to not know who Gary is.

Gary comes out with the most profound statements – he states the TRUTH in a unique and inspiring way and the quote below by Gary acts as a very good reminder to all of us.

”People are always talking about what you’re doing now… To me, it’s not what you’re doing now, it’s about where you’re going.”

The second individual I would like to give a special mention to is Timothy Sykes. I have also met with Timothy in New York (a different trip) and his insights and business wisdom has been a huge help to me personally. Timothy has also done an interview for me and you can find it in this Earning Big Money With Blogging post.

And finally there is my good friend James Schramko. James is such an amazing guy and a very generous teacher who has been a huge influence on what I have done with IncomeDiary.com. You can see my interview with James at this post: Work At Home Dad – Dominates Affiliate Marketing

Please Note

There is no scientific way to choose those who are on the list, these are purely the people who I know have impacted the way I and my friends do blogging. If you feel that we have missed anyone out, please leave a comment below.

I hope you are inspired you to follow in the footsteps of these most influential bloggers of 2009 – I know I am

I look forward to your comments below and it would also be great to hear who has inspired you the most to build a better blog!

To Our Success

Michael

#1 Gary Vaynerchuk
	Why Gary Made The List Gary has shown the blogging world that anyone can be successful at blogging as long as they are passionate about what they are talking about. Gary is one of the world’s best video bloggers and has set a high standard for everyone else who wants to make it in video blogging. He has just released his first book “Crush It” where he shares how to cash in on your passion which no doubt will inspire thousands of new starts ups around the world.Websites http://garyvaynerchuk.com http://tv.winelibrary.com
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#2 Collis Ta’eed
	Why Collis Made The List In 3 years has gone from living in his wife’s parent’s garage to running one of the largest and most successful blog networks. Thousands of blogs have started with the aim to have a fraction of the success Collis has had in the blogging world. Collis’s network boasts over 430,000 twitter and RSS readers earning his company several million dollars a year!Websites http://envato.com http://thenetsetter.com/blog/
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#3 Darren Rowse
	Why Darren Made The List Darren in the past year has gone from strength to strength, now with 3 super successful blogs and 100,000’s of RSS readers, he really does know what he is doing. Darren has monetized his Problogger website in two new ways this year, by adding a paid forum and an eBook which has influenced a lot of other bloggers to follow suit.Websites http://www.problogger.net http://digital-photography-school.com http://www.twitip.com
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#4 Timothy Sykes
	Why Timothy Made The List Timothy is doing things the way they should be, you don’t have to just monetize your website with banner adverts, and you want to diversify your income so it comes in multiple streams. Timothy has earned over $150,000 in one month from his blog and makes it look so easy, check out one of his monthly blogging reports to see how he does it!Websites http://timothysykes.com
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#5 Tim Ferris
	Why Tim Made The List Tim is a angel investor and blogger. He was nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007, and is the author of The 4-Hour workweek which has been written and sold in 35 different languages. The book hit #1 in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and was also a BusinessWeek bestseller.Websites http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ http://www.timferriss.com
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#6 Pete Cashmore
	Why Pete Made The List Pete deserves to be on our list because he started the most popular social networking blog online to date, Mashable. Mashable has then acquired many authors to write daily content on the social side of the internet, including news, reviews and new web startups. Pete is an inspiration to everyone in the blogosphere. Websites http://mashable.com
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#7 Michael Arrington
	Why Michael Made The List He is a corporate attorney who left law to become a Web entrepreneur. When he took a year off, and returned to the work world, he started blogging as a way to understand the new Web start-ups that had arisen in his absence. TechCrunch took off, and he soon found himself an accidental power broker. Another success story for those who blog about their passion and the money and success follow.Websites http://www.techcrunch.com
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#8 Vitaly Friedman
	Why Vitaly Made The List Vitaly made our list because he started up one of the most popular design blogs on the internet that teaches thousands of people daily principles of design. Smashing Magazine is known in every corner of the internet. The content served up on this blog daily is amazing. Designers can head over to Smashing Magazine and expect to find something new, original and juicy each and every day. Websites http://www.alvit.de/blog/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com
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#9 Brian Clark
	Why Brian Made The List Brian Clark most well known for CopyBlogger and Thesis Theme is one of my favorite bloggers because he keeps everything clean and hasn’t sold his soul to get to where he has today. His theme has been a huge hit among bloggers making it easy for those who want to customize their blog to do so. Can’t wait to see what 2010 brings…Websites http://www.copyblogger.com
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#10 Alborz Fallah
	Why Alborz Made The List Alborz made our top 50 list because he is the creator / founder of Australia’s fastest growing automotive editorial site, caradvice.com.au. Their posts, reviews, news and photos they put up on the site makes it stand out from the competition. Alborz is a big influence to many car lovers. Websites http://www.caradvice.com.au http://www.alborzfallah.com
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#11 Lisa Stone
	Why Lisa Made The List Lisa made our list for her compassion and work she has done on her web statup, blogher. Lisa co-founded blogher.com (the woman’s blog network). Blogher reaches more than 15 million woman each month, via the website and conferences. Keep up the great work Lisa! Websites http://www.blogher.com
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#12 Yaro Starak
	Why Yaro Made The List Yaro known in my circle of friends as the nice guy in blogging who lets his products and blogging speak for themselves. I have interviewed him twice and both times the wealth of information he has shared for FREE has been astonishing. For those who are new or advanced with blogging, check out his course’s as he has something for everyone.Websites http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com http://www.blogmastermind.com Become A Blogger
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#13 Adii Rockstar
	Why Adii Made The List Adii Rockstar is a remarkable man, which is why he has scored so high up in our list. Adii renamed himself just for marketing purposes, that’s how passionate he is. He owns one of the biggest theme websites, WooThemes, and blogs on his personal blog Adii.co.za. He has recently started video-blogging, which has been a huge success. Adii’s posts are very genuine, plus he started one of the biggest blog theme websites, that’s why he is a big influence in the blogging world. Websites http://www.adii.co.za http://www.woothemes.com http://radiiate.com
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#14 Arianna Huffington
	Why Arianna Made The List Arianna made it to our list because she is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the famous Huffington Post. The Huffington post is an online styled newspaper / blog that writes about politics, business and entertainment. Arianna’s website is read by hundreds of thousands of people. Websites http://www.huffingtonpost.com
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#15 Matthew Mullenweg
	Why Matthew Made The List Without Matthew half of the people on this list wouldn’t be doing what they are today. Matt is the founder of the world’s best and most well known blogging software, WordPress. The reason he is on the list is because without all the new features Matt and his company release each month, we wouldn’t be having the results we are having today.Websites http://ma.tt http://wordpress.com http://automattic.com http://wordpress.org
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#16 James Schramko
	Why James Made The List Another person I met at the Underground in 2009, James has really set a new standard for affiliate blogging. If you took James’s site and put it along side some of the top blogs in our list and looked at the traffic, James would only have a small fraction of their traffic but would most likely be earning more! Check out James’s website and learn how to create a affiliate funnel to bring in a lot more money from your blog!Websites http://www.internetmarketingspeed.com/about/ http://www.jamesschramko.com
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#17 Pawan Agrawal
	Why Pawan Made The List Pawan first came to my notice back in 2007 when he launched MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad which is a stripe advert along the top of a blog which can still be seen on some of the blogs that made this list. Since then he has released multiple new products including WordPress Wizard, an eBook teaching you how to create a successful blog and also a WordPress plugin convert text into affiliates links.Websites http://www.maxblogpress.com
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#18 Brian Gardner
	Why Brian Made The List Brian made our list because he has come so far in so little time. Around 2 years ago he had never owned a domain name or touched a piece of WordPress code. Today, he has a nice blog, and offers services alongside his blogging which include WordPress theme design, Website Strategy and Internet Marketing. Websites http://www.briangardner.com
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#19 Gina Trapani
	Why Gina Made The List Gina is a Technophile, writer, and coder. She has her own podcast named TWIg, blogs on smarterware.org and also blogs about tech, is a programmer and also is a book author of “Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better”. She is also a Sun certified Java programmer who builds Firefox extensions and web applications. Websites http://www.ginatrapani.org http://smarterware.org
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#20 Jeremy Schoemaker
	Why Jeremy Made The List Jeremy made our list because of the content he publishes on Shoemoney.com Shoemoney teaches people how to make money online, something Jeremy is very good at, and passionate about. He is a very clever man, and his website gets thousands of daily readers. Jeremy is a big player in the blogosphere, and there is much to learn from himself and his website. Websites http://www.shoemoney.com
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#21 Chris Brogan
	Why Chris Made The List Chris teaches entrepreneurs and bloggers how to use social media to build their business and brand. Chris can be seen speaking at some of the biggest events around the world and tweeting tips to his 100,000 twitter following.Websites http://www.chrisbrogan.com
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#22 John Chow
	Why John Made The List John Chow, also known as the dot com mongol blogs about his life, and the miscellaneous ramblings of the dot com lifestyle. John influences many people, and teaches them how to make money online. All of Johns posts are original, fresh and interesting, not just your standard stuff. That’s why he shines over many competitors in the blogosphere. I have read Johns blog since a very early age when I was in school, back when he had just over 1,000 RSS Readers. Since then his blog has grown dramatically along with the internet. Keep up the good work John! Websites http://www.johnchow.com
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#23 David Risley
	Why David Made The List David launched two blogging products this year, 3 day money and blog masters club which were both a big hit in the blogging world. David is most well known for being a 6 figure blogger in the tech industry but has recently been looked at as more of a guru to the bloggers. Look out in the coming months for the relaunch of his blogging membership website.Websites http://www.davidrisley.com
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#24 Andy Beard
	Why Andy Made The List I always have know about Andy but never spent much time reading his content but earlier in the year I contacted him for a review and the wealth of knowledge he sent back in an email was just remarkable, a guy every blogger should be speaking with! Websites http://andybeard.eu
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#25 Mario Lavandeira
	Why Mario Made The List Mario made our top 50 list because he is the founder of perezhilton.com, one of the biggest celebrity blogs. The notorious gossip columnist brands himself as queen of all media. The website has thousands of daily readers, and attracts alot of attention. Mario inspires many with his daily articles about news, celeb and gossip. Websites http://perezhilton.com
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#26 Steve Pavlina
	Why Steve Made The List Steve writes a blog about personal development for smart people. Although his site has a plain design, its booming with traffic, so it just goes to show content is king. Steve has his own podcast and also speaks at many events. His blog attracts more than 2 millions readers every month! His book “Personal Development for Smart People” was published back in 2008, and since then been translated in to several languages. Websites http://www.stevepavlina.com
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#27 Heather B. Armstrong
	Why Heather Made The List Heather, the founder of dooce.com made our list because of her compassion as a blogger and writer. Her website makes enough money to support her family, and enabled her husband to quit his day job. Heather has wrote books which include “It Sucked and Then I Cried” and “Things I Lenard About My Dad In Therapy”. Websites http://dooce.com
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#28 Jake and Amir
	Why Jake and Amir Made The List When I think of funny videos, I think of college humor. Jake and Amir created this awesome website that attracts tens of thousands of daily readers. They have inspired thousands with their network of funny humorous videos, awesome images and funny ramblings. Websites http://www.collegehumor.com http://www.jakeandamir.com
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#29 Al Carlton
	Why Al Made The List I first met Al by accident in 2006 on Digital Point forums and somehow I got him on MSN, after a random chat I realized he was one of top earning bloggers I knew but had one of the best business models. Simply blog about what you love and the money followed, TOP bloke, making blogging a more fun place. Websites http://www.coolest-gadgets.com http://selfmademinds.com
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#30 Robb Sutton
	Why Robb Made The List Anyone who can get given over $100,000 worth of products to review for their blog in under 18 months is someone to be watching. I have been really impressed with what Robb has done in such a short time from his first blog, anyone who wants to make money reviewing products should check out his eBook.Websites http://robbsutton.com Ramped Reviews eBook
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#31 Nick La
	Why Nick Made The List Nick made the list because he has influenced so many individuals including myself from a very young age. I remember reading his first blog ndesign-studio when I was in school. Nicks artwork, blog posts and overall designs influenced so many people and his site grew very fast. He then went on to launch bestwebgallery, webdesignerwall and recently icondock. Nick is a true inspiration to the art & design side of blogging. Websites http://www.ndesign-studio.com http://www.webdesignerwall.com http://bestwebgallery.com http://icondock.com
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#32 Daniel Scocco
	Why Daniel Made The List Daniel made this list for a couple reasons, he has a small popular blog network know as “Daily” which he earns a full time living from but the really great thing about his blogs is his following, so many people have 10,000s of subscribers but they don’t seem to take action, care what you write about or share their point of view. This is not the case with Daniel’s blog, he has a strong community built around him that everyone should aspire to have.Websites http://www.dailyblogtips.com
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#33 Ewdison Then
	Why Ewdison Made The List Ewdison contacted me earlier in the year when he saw me publish a post of the top earning bloggers, he mentioned he saw me it on Twitter and that he was earning over $60,000 a month from his tech blog. Ewdison has a great network of blogs where he uses several monetization techniques to make sure he doesn’t keep all his eggs in one basket.Websites http://www.ewdisonthen.com http://www.slashgear.com
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#34 Hongkiat Lim
	Why Hongkiat Made The List Hongkiat Lim blogs on his very well known site hongkiat.com. He teaches people daily how to design, by providing tutorials, inspirational showcases and huge sets of resources for bloggers and designers. Hongkiat is a true inspiration to now only bloggers, but web designers. Websites http://www.hongkiat.com
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#35 Alvin Phang
	Why Alvin Made The List Alvin is most well known for being the author of his eBook “Atomic Blogging” which teaches new bloggers how to make money from a blog. Alvin has made over $300,000 from blogging in the last 3 years and when asked if he would take twice that to work a 9 – 5 job again, would he take it? Phang replies, “Of course not, I will never do it, even if I am broke because I treasure and love the freedom of being my own boss”.Websites http://www.alvinphang.com http://www.gathersuccess.com Atomic Blogging
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#36 Fabio Sasso
	Why Fabio Made The List Fabio started one of the most inspirational design blogs ever made, called Abduzeedo. There are some outstanding design showcases posted on there every month. His blog is all over search engine results, and he teaches thousands of people Photoshop every day. An inspirational person for sure, and that’s why he deserves to be on our Inspirational bloggers 2009 list. Websites http://fabiosasso.com http://abduzeedo.com
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#37 Leo Babauta
	Why Leo Made The List Leo runs one of the top blogs in the world with over 140,000 subscribers he sure knows what people want out of a blog, CONTENT! Recently Leo has released a new blog teaching people how to write great content for there blog and how to create better blog posts. Leo proves to us all that you don’t need no $5000 design job, just a really clean, simple theme will do the job if your writing is up to scratch!Websites http://zenhabits.net
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#38 Walter Apai
	Why Walter Made The List Walter made our list for sure with his website WebDesignerDepot. WDD has a large twitter base of over 60,000 people. Walter writes daily articles for WebDesignerDepot, including inspirational showcases and galleries, tutorials, tips and tricks, and ramblings. Walter has inspired many with his extremely creative, original and colorful website. Websites http://www.webdesignerdepot.com
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#39 Ted Murphy
	Why Ted Made The List Ted Matters because he has created two great companies to help bloggers monetize their websites, them being IZEA and PayPerPost. IZEA represents over 250,000 bloggers and 25,000 advertisers worldwide. Put simply, they help advertisers identify people who will promote their products and services on their blog.Websites http://www.ted.me
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#40 David Leggett
	Why David Made The List I first met David back in March after convincing him to come to Yanik Silver’s underground event. We both sat down in the lobby with other attendees giving out blogging advise and setting up there blogs. When I returned home to England he took my idea for IncomeDiary and brought it to a whole new level. Leggett adds the wow factor to every site he gets his hands on, if you ever get the chance to work with him, take it! Websites http://www.theleggett.com http://www.tutorial9.net http://www.uxbooth.com
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#41 Skellie
	Why Skellie Made The List We think Skellie deserves to be on the list, because she manages all of the Tuts+ network which is owned by Envato. That Tuts+ network consists of many different tutorial blog sites including the famous PSDTuts that started it all out, NetTuts, AETuts and so many more. Its the biggest tutorial networks on the internet today and every day teaches thousands of people about design and programming. Websites http://www.skelliewag.org http://tutsplus.com
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#42 Rosalind Gardner
	Why Rosalind Made The List Rosalind made our list because she is a truly inspirational person. When she first started blogging, she received a first check for $10.99, and by the end of the year was turning over $5,000 a month. Rosalind blogs about affiliate marketing, blogging, content development, traffic generation, business strategy and many more topics. Websites http://www.netprofitstoday.com
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#43 Michael Martine
	Why Michael Made The List Michael has been exploring the web and making websites since 1997. He created his first blog in the year 2000, and since then has come a long way. Michael runs remarkablogger.com where he blogs about marketing, and also coaches individuals and large groups about blogging. Websites http://remarkablogger.com
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#44 Rob Benwell
	Why Rob Made The List I first met Rob back in 2006 when he spoke at Yanik Silver’s underground seminar and he shared a wealth of information about blogging, some stuff people haven’t even heard of yet! When it comes to blogging, this guy knows his stuff! 3 years old and he has made over a million dollars from blogging and from selling his best selling eBook on blogging!Websites http://bloggingtothebank.com/bttb/
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#45 Lorelle VanFossen
	Why Lorelle Made The List Lorelle is most well known for helping people learn more about blogging and WordPress. On her personal blog which is surprisingly still hosted on the WordPress.com domain she gives out tips, advice and techniques for blogging and using WordPress.Websites http://lorelle.wordpress.com
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#46 Chris Garrett
	Why Chris Made The List Chris co-authored the ProBlogger book with Darren Rowse which shares secrets for blogging your way to a Six-Figure Income. As well as his the book and his personal blog, Chris writes for some of the biggest blogs on the internet including Blog Herald, FreelanceSwitch and CopyBlogger.Websites http://www.chrisg.com
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#47 Carl Ocab
	Why Carl Made The List I first found out about Carl when he was 13 years old and he had launched his first main blog about making money online. Carl has made this list because he has set a standard for ALL young bloggers who want to make money blogging. He has inspired and shown that anyone young can get online blogging and make it big. Although Carl hasn’t blogged much this year, he released a premium blog theme which has been really popular among some of the top bloggers.Websites http://www.carlocab.com http://www.ultimatebloggingtheme.com
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#48 Joost de Valk
	Why Joost Made The List Joost is well known for his search engine marketing and speed to user experience, the things a lot of people forget, yet are really important. On his personal blog and at live events,  he shares tips and tricks for WordPress users to get more out of there blogs.Websites http://yoast.com
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#49 Jack Humphrey
	Why Jack Made The List Jack runs the Friday traffic report, which is a blog on blog marketing tips. Jack talks about blog promotion, social marketing, interviews people, link building tips and many more. He also has his own radio show. Jack has influenced many bloggers, and has a huge reader audience. Websites http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com
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#50 Lisa Irby
	Why Lisa Made The List LIsa Irby deserves to be on our list, because she created the website 2createawebsite.com where all beginners can go to find out how to create a blog from start to finish. The brainstorming process, design process and finishing result all included. Lisa has influenced many new people into creating their own blog using her forever growing guide. Also included in her free online guide are video tutorials, free blog creation software / builders and many more tips and tricks. Websites http://www.2createawebsite.com

To Our Success,

Michael Dunlop

PS. To have your chance of being on this list next year, check out my FREE eCourse to making money blogging by clicking here!

PPS. Who has made the biggest impact in the way you do blogging?

Blogging has been great platform for so many people to become a huge success. Take me for example, because of my Retireat21 blog I was offered to host a hit new MTV show in LA just because they liked how I came across on my blog. Blogging isn’t just about making money online, for some people it could be because they want to be a best selling author but can’t get a foot in the door right now and for others it started just so they could pay there grocery bills. Today I have created a really cool list of 20 people who started blogging and now are so much more then just bloggers. Looking down at the list I have created today, I should really rename it the 20 best bloggers ever as these guys have set such high standards for all of us. Please note that the list isn’t really in any particular order, just the 20 best although I have to say Tucker Max’s story was one of the most entertaining.

If you would like to take the first steps to follow these bloggers and make it big then check out my FREE eCourse teaching you exactly how to build your first blog, drive traffic and make money!

20 Entrepreneurs Who Started With Blogging

#1 Tucker Max
		Tucker’s Blog TuckermaxWhy He Started Blogging: Tucker Max was blogging about his drunken, womanizing exploits before the phrase “blogging” even existed. Tuckers blog attracts 100,000s of visitors weekly who like to read about his ‘interesting’ exploits and enjoy his amazing writing style. Where He Is Now: Because of Tuckers blog, he was able to get a book published which The New York Times called “…highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible…” no wonder it was in The New York Times best sellers list for 100 weeks. He is filming a movie based on his book/stories/life by the title “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” coming soon!
#2 Gary Vaynerchuk
		Garys’s Blog GaryvaynerchukWhy He Started Blogging: Gary Vaynerchuk’s story started as the co-owner of a wine store in New Jersey. He gained fame as the host of Wine Library TV, a video blog on the subject of wine, built his wine store into a multi-million dollar business and established his personal brand with TV appearances and speaking engagements around the world. Where He Is Now: He has now signed a seven-figure book deal about the things that made him as successful as he is in creating opportunities for himself via his video blog. He also is among one of the most sort after speakers for any marketing events.
#3 Collis Ta’eed
		Collis’s Blog Tutsplus.comWhy He Started Blogging: Began his first blog, FreelanceSwitch, in 2006 with his wife Cyan in her parents garage when their first site wasn’t earning as fast as they expected. Where He Is Now: Collis is now one of the top earning bloggers in the world with over a dozen high traffic blogs, collis has been able to quickly launch new blogs because of such a rapid and loyal readership. Collis is able to work from anywhere in the world while he travels with his wife on new and exciting web projects because of the success of his blogging career.
#4 Mario Lavandeira
		Mario’s Blog Perez HiltonWhy He Started Blogging: Mario has always loved intrigue and who better to showcase this than celebrities so his blogs started all about celebrity gossip. After graduation from New York University in 2000, Mario attempted to be an actor, but he end up working as a very well earned blogger because he thinks setting up a website like this “seems easy” unlike being an actor. He found his talent in riling up gossip and controversies about Hollywood figures and is one of the most infamous bloggers in the United States. There are actually two sides to it since he is hated by many Hollywood stars but is loved by millions of web patrons. Where He Is Now: Mario rides on both fame and infamy. In 2007, Mario announced that he would be starring in his own reality television show on VH1, titled “What Perez Sez”. He is also a regular on TRL, Much Music and Extra where he reports about Hollywood gossip from his own closet studio. In May 2008, he also launched his own radio show called “Radio Perez”.
#5 Michael Arrington
		Michael’s Blog TechcrunchWhy He Started Blogging: He is a corporate attorney who left law to become a Web entrepreneur. When he took a year off, and returned to the work world, he started blogging as a way to understand the new Web start-ups that had arisen in his absence. TechCrunch took off, and he soon found himself an accidental power broker. Where He Is Now: Michael now spends his time scouting the internet and investing in some promising internet start-ups.
#6 Pete Cashmore
		Peter’s Blog MashableWhy He Started Blogging: Due to his inquisitive mind and great interest with web-related matters, Pete Cashmore focused solely on writing about MySpace and other social networks. One of Cashmore’s first articles that became instantly popular was, “If You Don’t Have A MySpace, You’re a Lametard.“ It was a unique approach to blogging, but it worked. Where He Is Now: Peter still does writes about everything happening on the Internet although he has slightly deviated from his focus on just social network news. Given the fame of Mashable, Peter has weaned himself from writing and has begun to concentrate on the entrepreneurial side of his web-business. To further strengthen his enterprise, Peter moved to California and focuses on West Coast operations. His success has brought him to celebrity status and he has been featured on many shows in the US and the UK. Peter also travels between the two countries as a consultant and speaker.
#7 Josh Marshall
		Josh’s Blog TPMWhy He Started Blogging: Marshall started a blog called “Talking Points Memo” during the 2000 Florida election recount. He was inspired by political bloggers such as Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan. Where He Is Now: Josh Marshall played an important part in exposing a scandal which involved the politically motivated dismissal of US Attorneys by the administration of George W. Bush. For that he was nominated by Arianna Huffington to the Time 100. After declining numerous offers to buy his company, Josh still operates it in Manhattan with a staff of seven reporters. Aside from managing, Josh also has established himself as a columnist for Washington DC newspaper, The Hill.
#8 Alborz Fallah
		Alborz’s Blog Car AdviceWhy He Started Blogging: Alborz has always had a great passion for cars. Curiously, he started out just like a few bloggers who wasn’t sure what topic to write about, so he created three blogs at once to see which one would stick. Sticking to his passion, he noticed that the car blog got the traffic so he dropped the other two and slowly built up his site off the back of his own content. Where He Is Now: Alborz sold some of his blog to investors and his blog became a real serious business that he finally left his job to focus 100% on his project. Capitalizing on his success, Alborz has shifted his focus from the web to other forms of media. He has now moved into DVD sales of his videos and doing podcasts. Of course, nothing will ever pull him away from his life’s greatest passion; cars!
#9 Robert Scoble
		Robert’s Blog ScobelizerWhy He Started Blogging: Robert Scoble started blogging four years ago, when he worked for NEC, a Japanese technology company. His blog is all about a place where he could converse with NEC’s customers, give tech support and listen to feedback. He was always honest about the products, and his readership grew. Where He Is Now: Scoble and Shel Israel are currently writing a business bloggers book, called The Red Couch.
#10 Darren Rowse
		Darren’s Blog ProbloggerWhy He Started Blogging: He started blogging just about 5 years ago, and it was just a hobby. After a year he began to experiment a little with advertising and affiliate programs on my blogs and discovered that they could actually make money! He began to record the things he was learning on the topic of making money from blogging on his personal blog. Where He Is Now: Darren’s success has earned him great fame and he was awarded the Best Web Development Weblog blog award in 2006 for ProBlogger. In 2007, he was also named in the Forbes Celebrity List. In the following year, Darren co-authored the book ‘ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six Figure Income (Wiley) and founded TwiTip – a blog dedicated to Twitter Tips. Preferring to live a simple life, Darren lives in Melbourne, Australia but does frequent traveling for numerous speaking engagements.
#11 Jeremy Schoemaker
		Jeremy’s Blog ShoemoneyWhy He Started Blogging: Starting with absolutely no capital, he educated himself and began building ecommerce sites to earn revenue. During this time, he started blogging his experiences at Shoemoney.com and then used the blog to springboard new companies like AuctionAds, which had one of the most impressive launches of any online advertising company ever. Through his blog, Jeremy provides advice on all areas of Internet Marketing, including SEO, affiliate management, blogging, and revenue strategies. Where He Is Now: Jeremy continues to launch new start-ups and also chronicles his adventures on his own blog site. Given his fame and expertise, Jeremy is a frequent speaker at search engine marketing and affiliate conferences, and co-founded the Elite Retreat conference.
#12 Tim Ferriss
		Tim’s Blog 4 Hour Work Week Why He Started Blogging: Tim being a productive guru had a message to convey and blogging was the means he deemed fit for his purposes. Being a neuroscience graduate, Tim has many innovative ways of looking at life and gives valuable advice on how to approach situations differently. His blogs are well-written and very thought provoking. It is a favorite among CEOs around the world. Where He Is Now: In 2007, Tim launched his book, The 4-Hour Workweek under Random House and marketed the book mostly among bloggers. The book launched him to stardom and he is now a guest lecturer at Princeton University and has spoken in hundreds of seminars and conventions.
#14 Timothy Sykes
		Timothy’s Blog Timothy SykesWhy He Started Blogging: After incurring great losses in his previous businesses, Timothy Sykes decided to write a book detailing his journey into managing the hedge fund and the lessons he learned from losing so much money. Capitalizing on the potential of the web, he then started a blog, with the goal of documenting the step by step process of turning another $12,000 into millions. Where He Is Now: Tim is now a writer for AOL Finance and has been featured on ABC, CNN, CBS, CNBC, FOX News, FOX Business Network, Reuters, Business Week to name a few. He also starred in the TV show, “Wall Street Warriors” on MOJO. His monthly blog income is in the 6 figures and this is definitely one young man who should be checked out!
#15 Steve Pavlina
		Steve’s Blog Steve PavlinaWhy He Started Blogging: Steve is someone who started blogging about his take on LIFE and other personal development stuff, and now has one of the leading sites in that niche. Where He Is Now: On twitter, he says he is a human alarm clock. He awakens people who are sleeping through life. Steve Pavlina has been doing some research into the art of video, and playing around with making and editing sample videos. Eventually there will be videos on the Steve Pavlina site, and we would love to see a Steve Pavlina personal growth DVD product in the future as well.
#16 Lisa Stone
		Lisa’s Blog BlogHerWhy she Started Blogging: Founded in February 2005 as a labor of love by three bloggers, BlogHer’s mission was to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. Where she Is Now: BlogHer reaches more than 14 million women monthly through its conferences, Internet site and publishing networks.
#17 Heather B. Armstrong
		Heather’s Blog DooceWhy She Started Blogging: She started her website in February 2001. A year later she was fired from her job for her website because she had written stories that included people in my workplace. When most people would fear the worse when hearing “your fired”, Heather just saw it as a challenge and took on blogging as a carerr. Where She Is Now: In October 2005 she began running enough ads on her website that her husband was able to quit his job and become a Stay at Home Father. Since running her blog she has found that she has a loyal readership and was able to publish two books so far.
#18 Jake and Amir
		Jake and Amir’s Blog CollegeHumorWhy They Started Blogging: CollegeHumor started to posts blogs and articles through ideas form its staff and users, including humorous essays, comics, interviews and weekly columns on sports, video games, college life, and dating. Where They Are Now: Jake and Amir are now both making a lot of money from advertising on their site. In December 2008, College Humor.com proudly announced the premiere of the MTV Show “The College Humor Show”. Jake and Amir along with everyone else in their team wrote on the show and play fictionalized versions of themselves.
#19 Michelle Malkin
		Michelle’s Blog Michelle MalkinWhy She Started Blogging: She started and still is focusing on creating blogs which are always form a conservative viewpoint. Where She Is Now: Malkin was a frequent commentator for FOX News Channel and a regular guest host of The O’Reilly Factor. She then quit, and concentrated on her writing, blogging and public speaking, although she still appears on television on occasion.
#20 Harvey Levin
		Harvey’s Blog TMZWhy He Started Blogging: He is an American television producer, lawyer, legal analyst and a celebrity reporter. His blogs started all about celebrity gossip since this is one of his passions. Where He Is Now: He still produces and hosts TMZ on TV. He is also a frequent guest of The Kevin and Bean Morning show, in addition to CNN’s Larry King Live, and recently the Fox News Channel and Local FOX Affiliates regarding Michael Jackson’s death.
#20 Yaro Starak
		Yaro’s Blog Entrepreneurs-JourneyWhy He Started Blogging: Started his first blog because he thought it would be good for SEO and a chance to talk about his business journey. Where He Is Now: Yaro found himself being one of the most respected bloggers and launched two blogging membership websites teaching people exactly how he has done it. Earlier in 2009 he launched a new membership site teaching how he makes money from membership websites. This guy is one entrepreneurial blogger you should all be following!

To Our Success,

Michael Dunlop

PS. Who’s background in blogging appeals most to you?

I have known Yaro for sometime and he has always been an inspiration – indeed, when I was starting up RetireAt21.com Yaro was one of the very first Big Names to give me an interview.

If there was ever an example of someone living the Internet Lifestyle, traveling the world and making lots of money doing it then it is Yaro. But more important that all that as you will discover in this podcast, Yaro is also very generous of spirit and a tremendous giver – and frankly a great example to all of us and how we should live our lives for the higher good.

I give Yaro and his products, especially his Highly Recommended Blog Mastermind and his more recent Become A Blogger Premium Program which he created along side Gideon Shalwick my highest recommendation.

The Become A Blogger Premium Program is the perfect Step-Up program for anyone who has followed my How To Make Money Blogging eCourse.

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Enjoy this Podcast or read the transcription below – I look forward to your feedback.

Michael

TRANSCRIPTION:

Hi Yaro

Michael Dunlop: Your most known for your blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and making money blogging. Would you like to give us a brief introduction how you actually started making money from blogging?

Yaro Starak: Sure. I will give you the short version because it could be a long story otherwise. I have been making, or at least running some sort of Internet based business, for almost 10 years now. I started while I was in university. I was given a free dial-up Internet access account back in 1998. That is when I started playing around with websites.

That led me to building my first profitable venture, the first website that made money. It was a website I built on a card game I used to play as a teenager called Magic the Gathering. I built a little fan site for it and started sticking up advertisements in there.

I made up to about $500 a month, so it wasn’t huge money, but it was pretty awesome as a university student to have that income stream. So I never had to get a part-time job or anything like that.

That was during the sort of dotcom boom area, so I started getting really interested in starting some sort of startup company that hopefully would get bought out for millions of dollars.

That didn’t happen. But it did lead me to start lots of different ventures. A few years later I found myself running an online proofreading business where I wasn’t the proofreader. I basically connected professional proofreaders with university students, particularly international university students. So I had a nice little business going there.

Someone told me that blogs were great for search engine rankings, so that is actually the main reason why I started — or at least investigated — blogging, was to start one for that proofreading business.

It was a short-lived experiment because I really did not like writing about that subject, proofreading. It is quite a boring subject. But I did enjoy playing with blogging. So what happened is I just switched it over from a slash blog at that proofreading website to what now is Entrepreneurs Journey and started to write pretty much what I enjoyed talking about, which is entrepreneurship, Internet business, just business in general, a little bit of self development; that sort of subject area. And four and a half years later I am still doing it, so it hasn’t stopped.

There is so much conflicting advice out there about making money blogging. What is the biggest thing new bloggers should stay away from right now?

Yaro: Well I think the biggest mistake, or at least the biggest attitude shift that people need to make, is the idea of quick money and a get rich quick scheme sort of idea with blogging, or with anything online really.

If people are looking to start making an income, there is really nothing out there that will make you quick money. You might make quick money because you get lucky, but very unlikely will it be sustained.

So I think a lot of people enter the making money with blogging area with sort of a desperation in their attitude, which is understandable. You might have just lost your job or you hate your job and you need to find an income stream, and you have got this sense of urgency or sense of panic. And when you are in that sort of mentality, people generally tend to look for quick money.

And unfortunately that is the absolute opposite of what they should be doing. You should look at this as a business and make that decision as you do starting any business. It should be something you do a bit of research in. You should be learning a lot and not expecting instant results and building something over time.

Yaro being a tourist at Niagara Falls ~ All part of the Internet Lifestyle!

That has been my philosophy with blogging as well. It is certainly possible to start getting results quickly, but if you need to be making $2,000 by the end of the month and you are hoping that some sort of online business, blogging for example, is the way to that, then I would adjust your expectations and have a fail safe. Get yourself a part time job first. This is what I did. I had a part-time job as I built up my blog. And eventually, that blog will become a full-time income source and become much more than a full-time income source. For me today it is a multiple six figure business. It is a center point of that.

But I have had to do some work. I have had to focus on what I think are my core strengths. I have had to learn a hell of a lot about running an Internet business and how to be consistent. So there are a lot of lessons to go through, and definitely a lot of education needed. But as long as you have got the right mindset, and really I think that is what I am talking about here, is having the right mindset about what you are doing, you will succeed.

Once you learned how to make money blogging,  I understand you then decided to create a membership website teaching people exactly how you have done that. How did you go about creating your first membership website and attracting your first paying customers?

Yaro: It is a bit insidious, that is, isn’t it? You hear of people making money and then they start a program to teach people how to make money, and then they start a program to teach how they teach to make money. So it can be quite insidious like that.

But I actually just wrote an article to my blog regarding this subject. No one should every feel bad because they are making money doing something and also making money teaching somebody how to do it.

That makes a lot of sense. If I was an investor in real estate, I would make money buying and selling property, and I would also make money teaching people how to buy and sell property if I was good at it.

The key there is being good at something. So in my case, I noticed that I was actually getting good at blogging. My income started at like $500 a month, then $1,000 a month, $2,000, $5,000, $10,000.

When I started seeing $10,000 a month, I’m going, “Whoa. There is a six figure income here.” Even before that, even at $4,000 a month, this is a salary. This is what most people dream of; quit their job, write to an Internet business a couple of hours a day of work, and a lot of freedom, a lot of free time. So I thought, “Wow. This is something that people want.”

So that was when I definitely decided, “OK. I can definitely have an angle here, first of all because I have done it and I have enough to teach.” So that was the belief I had to really have first.

That is pretty important, because a lot of people try to start teaching or selling products on how to do something when they haven’t done it. So credibility and authenticity is really critical.

So once I had the proof and I had done it, I made some money over many, many months and I had quit my job and I had paid for my house, and all this sort of stuff, I really felt that I was in a situation to start teaching as well.

I should also say that I was studying Internet marketing as well. I just love the idea of information publishing and selling your expertise. So I did some research. And I had a lot of false starts. I started an e-book. It took me six months to pretty much write it or get about 80 percent of the way through. Then I started playing with the technology to deliver it and it just took so long.

And after a year of pretty much false starts, I said, “All right. This is ridiculous.” I finally had someone say, “Membership sites are the way to go,” and I saw what they were doing and I said, “All right. The next two months I am going to sit down, get the membership site out the door, and actually have a product,” because I had heard over and over again two pieces of advice from Internet marketers. One, have a list, and two, have a product.

So obviously, I need to heed those wise words as a blogger, because bloggers don’t naturally build email lists, and they rarely produce products. And I wanted to be a very successful Internet marketer, not just a successful blogger. I wanted to use my blog to take me to the next level.

So I did launch that up-logging training program. It is called blogmastermind.com. It was quite a quick rollout, actually, once I finally put the pieces together and really committed to it. I had studied Jeff Walker’s “Product Launch Formula.” I had studied Mike Filsaime’s “Butterfly Marketing.” I had his software.

I played with some scripts. I eventually installed, for my first launch of a membership site I used Butterfly marketing to deliver the product. I did a launch. I rolled out through, I guess, sort of the Jeff Walker technique. There was definitely a lot of influence from Jeff Walker and his techniques for launching products, and a lot of influence from some other people. I modeled their membership sites. Andrew and Dell Grant Pearson; they are some well known marketers here in Australia.

So I sort of combined those two and mixed in my own sort of style. Obviously I had a blog that was successful, so I used that as my launch pad and rolled out this membership site. I opened up for, I think it was a week at an introductory price, $47 a month. I think within the first week I got almost 400 members.

I had no idea what to expect. I was looking at 50 members as what I would call successful because that would be enough people where I would be making a couple grand a month. I was happy to teach the program.

The great thing about the model I used was I didn’t have to create the product until I started the members. I only had a little bit of product created. So I just spent the next six months teaching those 400 people creating the product, and within six months I could reopen it again. So it is a fantastic model and I really do recommend it to anyone.

You just touched on creating a mailing list. Do you have any tips on how bloggers should go about doing that?

Yaro: Well am I big, big fan of AWeber. I have been using their service for almost as long as I have been blogging. They are my email newsletter service. I have got almost 60,000 people on them, on my different email lists.

It is the basis of my business. Everything is through that list. So my advice to anyone listening is sign up to AWeber. If you don’t like AWeber for some crazy reason, Getresponse would be the next choice I would recommend.

You definitely want some sort of dedicated email auto responder that is focused on that and that alone and really has good delivery, good features in terms of what it can do with segmenting email lists and using follow up sequences, and moving one person from one list to the other; all these kind of features you get with services like AWeber and Getresponse.

And then the next thing I recommend you do is get an opt-in box on your blog. That is the obvious thing to do as the first step to start building that list. Create some kind of incentivized offer like a free report, or an email course, or a series of videos or audios; something that is a clear offer of value in exchange for that person entering their name and email.

Put that box on your blog somewhere at the very top, left side, right side, or maybe use a pop up if you want to do that, or both, those sorts of things, and start getting people who are targeted onto an email list.

Even if you don’t know what product you are going to release, starting that list now will mean, when you do have a book you have written or you had someone else write, or you do a membership site, or even if you just record 10 videos and sell that for $50, you have got a list to start selling to, as well as your blog. So you have got two ways to communicate with people. That is the strongest piece of advice I can give you right now if you are just getting started in this game.

So you make money from blogging and then you teach people how to make money from blogging. And then you have taught people how to make money from a membership website. Which makes you more money and why?

Yaro: I told you it was insidious, isn’t it? And now I can start the membership site…

Michael: Wait, wait. Let me just make this clear to everyone, actually. Yaro is a good guy. I can’t count the amount of times my Dad has called me down and said, “Hey, you have got to check this thing Yaro is doing.” Yaro is one of the top guys in the business and you can trust this guy. All right. You can carry on.

Yaro: To clarify all this, I could not even start my blog…If you want to go back to the real reason I am successful is I spent, before that four and a half years, five and a half years starting different websites and businesses. Some were successful; some were not.

They gave me the experience to create valuable content to write a blog on entrepreneurship. I can tell you right now, if we really want to say which one is the most profitable business, I have to say it is my blog, because the membership sites don’t exist without the blog.

I may not derive directly as much income from the blog. It is the membership sites that, in terms of cash flow, if I was to show you my accounting books, will show you much more money. But I don’t have any credibility, I don’t have any audience, I don’t have any relationships, I don’t have anything that gave me the leverage to launch those membership sites without the blog.

So there is a chicken and egg relationship here. You have got to build the blog first or some way of getting attention, getting an audience before you can have success releasing your own products like a membership site.

In my case, to create value or get some traffic back to me, get some attention, I had to have stories to tell. If you look back at my blog, you could go back to the first two years and you could see I was talking about my proofreading business. I was talking about running an English school which was in the real world. So I talked about how to find office space to run the English school, how to get clients, how to do gorilla marketing and putting up posters to advertise my proofreading business.

Before that it was the hobby website. So I talked about how to get forums populated and building a popular forum and how to put banners on websites and make money from banner advertising. So every experience I had I started to regurgitate onto the blog, and that created the value in the first place.

So it is easy now today to sort of look at the surface outcome and the surface situation and sort of think, “Yeah, wait a second. This guy is teaching how to make money using a blog that is on how to make money, and then he is teaching how to make money blogging on a membership site, and then he is teaching how to make membership sites and how to make money off that. That doesn’t sound right.”

But there is a sequence of events and there is value. Obviously no one would give me money if they weren’t getting any value from what I teach. And honestly, I couldn’t teach what I teach if I hadn’t done it. And that is the key here.

So first impressions can be a bit deceiving sometimes. So make sure you look and try and see what people are teaching you, first of all, for free. I always tell people, “Don’t join any of my programs or anything like that until you have read the free stuff I give, because that will give you an indication whether or not I am helpful to you.”

So read my free reports. Read my blog. Watch my videos. Listen to my audios. And then you will know whether it is of value to you or not.

You mentioned earlier that you are only opened your first blogging course, Blog Mastermind, for only a few days. Is there any reason why you only opened it for a few days, and how has it impacted on business?

Yaro: Well to clarify, the very first opening of Blog Mastermind was actually opening at a price for only a few days. So the first seven days it was $47. Then it bumped to $77. But it remained open and then I closed it a few months later after that. And it stayed closed for about four or five months while I was traveling overseas. I reopened it while I was overseas.

To cut a long story short, there is a reason why you do…Well there are multiple reasons, but let’s talk about the marketing first. Scarcity is by far the most powerful trigger point as a marketing tool.

People tend to fence it and they leave things for later. If there is a sense of urgency, a sense of scarcity, a need to actually make a decision, that is more likely to trigger them to making that decision.

In my experience, making something limited in terms of availability is the best way, and obviously also having a price incentive. If they save themselves 30 percent a month joining now rather than joining tomorrow, that is a simple decision and it will force them to make a decision, too.

On top of that, there are certain strategies I teach with membership sites. I am not the only person who uses these things, but if you develop a membership site over time…Like I said before, I launch my site with maybe 10 percent of the content of the membership site ready and then I build it over the next six months.

So the other justification for offering a lower price is you have a charter group. So the first group of members is getting a cheaper rate because they are actually helping you create the product. They are going through the lessons as you create them, or whatever content you produce. If it is not a teaching program, whatever the case is, and they are giving you feedback. So they are telling you, “I like this. I didn’t like this,” and that is very valuable.

So you reward that feedback they give you with a discount. And then when you reopen it it is a complete course. So when I close my program down and then when I open it again several months later, I have an entire program ready to actually sell. So I can sell it as an upfront product as well as a membership site.

That is benefit worth nothing. You usually make more money, or you certainly make easier money, on the second run through, depending on how you go, simply because you can sell the product as a standalone product as well as a membership site. So there are all kinds of subtle things like that that go into doing a launch.

You mentioned two great pieces of advice you have given, which has obviously impacted on your business. What advice would you give to someone else who wants to start their business?

Yaro: Well the first thing is to start.

Michael: Yep. Just do it!

Yaro: Yep. It is amazing how many of these interviews you might listen to from people who are making any kind of money online, or even offline, and the first thing they will say is do something. Take action.

So let’s just assume that you are going to take action. I find there are a couple of really big sticking points people have. Mindset is one thing. This is something that is difficult, because mindset is your set of beliefs, the way you have been brought up, the people you associate with, how you think. This is something that can be very difficult to change. And often you don’t realize how your thinking is actually holding you back. So what I recommend to deal with the mindset issue is actually education is huge.

That can be for free. You can get out there and just watch what other people do, read other blogs, read free reports, study videos, study audios. You don’t want to do that forever. Definitely, as we mentioned before, take action.

So a little bit of study to give you that general awareness. This is important because there is a phrase, “You don’t know what you don’t know,” and that is the first thing you have to deal with.

So that education helps you to understand what you don’t know and become aware of it. And that gives you at least the awareness. And then you can decide what part you actually do need to learn. So it is important to do that first.

Secondly, after mindset, this is just a thing for the Internet-technology. It is a necessary evil. If we want to make money on the Internet, we have to do websites. We have to use email auto responders like AWeber. There are a lot of technical issues, especially for people who are brand new to the Internet, to struggle with, because it is just scary. People are scared of HTML code, or CSS, or servers, or FTP, and all these things that, for people that are not technically savvy, just make you want to run and hide.

So the piece of advice I recommend to a lot of people, if you are resonating there with what I am saying, is to actually outsource straight away. Acknowledge the fact that you are not good with technology and say, “Listen. I want my website to look like that, but I want my photo there instead, or something like that,” and just have someone else build it for you. It is going to cost you a bit of money up front, but it will save you a lifetime of headaches.

If you are technically able, just be careful you don’t spend too much time focusing on the technology, because in my experience, I started my blog and actually installed it myself. I started playing with scripts and plug-ins. I did a lot of work in the sort of first…Well, even before my blog I spent probably three or four years playing with technology. And the first year or so of blogging I did a lot myself, and it slowed me down tremendously.

I play with my blog design and I am not a good web designer. It is not a strength of mine. So I would spend four or five days to do something that takes an hour for someone who is good at it. So it doesn’t make sense. It slows down your success. I really recommend you look for people and partner with people, hire people, outsource the people who are good at technology if that is not your strong point. And that will just accelerate your progress really, really quickly.

If you had to start all over again and you could get in a time machine, what would you tell yourself? What would you do differently to make more money online?

Yaro: To make more or to make quicker?

Michael: Up to you.

Yaro: Like I said, there were a couple of things, as I mentioned before, with the technology that slowed me down. So obviously I would outsource a lot quicker than I did now and learn to find my strengths quicker, too.

I think there was an issue, and this is emoting we all face when we don’t have a market. I noticed a lot of my students have this issue. They haven’t got a niche yet and they are trying to discover what it is they can make money with, and also what they want to spend time working on. It is tough to get those to line up together.

Often you can find a niche that is making money, but it is about some weird thing like fish tanks. And frankly, unless you are a fish tank fan, it is boring as all hell, so you are just doing it for the money. For me, that is not what it is about. It is also about really caring about the subject matter.

So there is a bit of a balance there. One of the key learnings I did, and this is only in the last couple years, was to really reflect on what it is I wanted to do for my business. What is the role I wanted? Did I want to write my content? Did I want to make my websites? Did I want to be doing regular coaching calls? Did I want to attend events and speak on stage?

All these opportunities were being presented to me and I know what I wanted to do and what my strengths are. In my case, I like to create content, but really I want to focus in writing online. And a little video, a little audio, but writing is my main thing.

So I tried to then take every other component of my business and get other people to do it, and also choose the opportunities that let me leverage that and sort of skip the ones that I don’t want to do right now.

I have said no to an awful lot of speaking gigs simply because I don’t want to travel around that much. Going back further though, if you are right at the start of this adventure, you need to figure out what your market is. So make sure you do a couple of things.

I would go back and do more extensive research on topics that can you money. I tend to do things like a war of attrition. I will pick a subject that I like and just keep hammering away at it, hoping that it will eventually make money.

I have had a couple of failures because of that. I had a website called youngactivists.com many, many years ago before I started blogging. I spent about six months just playing with the HTML to get it to look pretty like a magazine. This is before blogs were available and no WordPress or anything like that.

I launched the website. I wrote a couple of articles for it and then no one ever read it. And I lost interest completely because of that. I basically through six months worth of development work, because I was just having fun doing the development. I can talk about it now as a little case study of what not to do. That is the biggest extent of the advantage I got from doing that.

Pick your opportunities wisely. Don’t jump into anything too quickly. I would definitely gravitate to the money, but make sure you like the subject as well. I said this at the beginning, but find things you can really see a future for yourself in, unless you are just planning on building and flipping. Some people, that is their strength. They can just see where money is, create something to get in front of that money, and then just sell it. That is fine too if you love that aspect of what you are doing. I would definitely heed that if you are just starting this at the beginning of blogging or making money online, whatever you are doing at the moment.

One thing any reader of your site will know is you have traveled a lot and you live a pretty cool lifestyle. What is the top thing about being an Internet entrepreneur and living the Internet lifestyle?

Yaro: The freedom is the keyword and everyone will agree with me here. Freedom is what we all want. It is funny. People will sort of ask, “What do you want from your life?” I think there are a lot of different words to describe things.

Fran and Yaro Watching watching Nadal at the Canadian Open

Some people will say, “I want experience. That is what I want to do.” That is true. I think we all want to experience things in our life. We all want different experiences. Some of us love traveling. Some of us just want to stay home with our kids and not have to work. Some of us want to be constantly educating ourselves and hanging out with superstars, so they want to get on the speaking tour and meet people and become famous.

For all that to happen, you have to have the freedom to do so. So the reason why I love what I do is I have an income stream that is largely independent of me as long as I do a handful of core activities, which I have chosen to do and I want to do.

I love writing blog posts. And as long as I still love that, I get a lot of leverage out of it, so it builds my audience. And those people eventually, some of them, buy my products. They help me buy affiliate products. They click my advertisements and allow me to get sponsors, so I am able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from collectively 10 hours a week worth of work. So that is a fantastic return on investment there and the rest of the time is what I want it to be.

I traveled for eight months of the year last year. I really want to see a lot of places and do this sort of Internet running a business, see family in Canada, see Europe for the first time. And I did that. It was great, but now I want to stay at home and really settle in. At least this year I am not going to be doing any traveling beyond Sydney and Melbourne close to where I am now.

It is great that I have this freedom. I just bought a new apartment in the suburb I have wanted to live in for all my life. Everything is great in that regard. I have been watching a lot of DVDs, watching “Entourage.” I play tennis. There is no such thing as the weekend for me because everyday can be a weekend if I want to. But when there is a product launch to do, I love doing that too.

We just rolled out a reopening of a blog training program called “Become a Blogger” and that was a lot of fun. I love doing that as well as making the money. And let’s not forget, it is great to have people who appreciate and recognize what you are doing.

So whether there are people who just read your blog for free, whether there are people who buy your products and benefit from that, either way it is nice to have recognition for your work. So there is an element there that needs to be considered, too, especially if you are a teacher, or a mentor, or a coach, or some kind of leader in a marketplace. There is a lot of kudos there that I think people desire as a core human motivation for what you do in your life.

So those are the things: freedom, recognition, and enough money to do what you want when you want, good friends, travel if you want to; that is wonderful stuff.

Quick fire questions just to finish off this interview, just to learn a bit more about you.

What do you like most about the Internet?

Yaro: I like the globalness of it. I am amazed that I can now keep in touch with people around the world and people around the world know me. It is impressive. I land it all kinds of cities around the world and there are people who want to meet up with me just because of my blog, and that is incredible.

Like what we are doing right now. Where are you?

Michael: I am in England.

Yaro: Yeah. How far away is that from Brisbane? Like halfway around the world. So look what we are doing now. You sound like you are my next door neighbor. It is incredible.

What do you like least about the Internet?

Yaro: I would say as a health concern there are some issues with it. People tend to spend a lot of time staring at a monitor, often sitting hunched over and squinting at code. That is not good, people!

I have actually taken steps to avoid that now. I have a stand up desk and I am actually talking to you standing up right now. I am not sitting in a chair. I have got a massive screen; a 30-inch cinema display from MAC.

I don’t sit here too long because I know from the past, especially when I used to design my web pages, I got sore eyes, and that was not a good sign for a guy in your 20s. You don’t want to be getting sore eyes, so I made some changes.

Anyone listening to this definitely watch your body and your eyes when you are using the computer for long periods of time.

I know you have met a lot of really cool people. Is there anyone you look up to or model yourself on?

Yaro: Well in the Internet marketing community I do really admire a lot of guys. I mentioned Jeff Walker from Product Launch Formula. Rich Schefren from Strategic Profit. That is his company, and particularly his Internet Business Manifesto and the Coaching Program behind that. That was really good. I did that.

Yaro With Rich Schefren and Mike Filsaime

All the Internet Marketers: Frank Kern, Mike Filsaime, John Reese. Evan Pagan has been huge for me recently. I have been studying a lot of his stuff. These guys in particular — I don’t have heroes in my industry. The heroes, I think, are people you don’t see very much, the doctors, the nurses, and the people working in third world countries and saving lives. That is what I think is heroism.

But because I am interested in Internet marketing, as mentors, those guys I really connect with because we share the same interests, and I model what they are doing. I don’t even necessarily have to take their teaching program, but I study what they are doing. I study how they do it.

I might buy their product just to see how they deliver it and what they teach because it is very relevant to me. And let’s face it. We are all in the same industry, so we can be friends, and that is the community. Community is another, I think, thing that I think is really important to us as human beings. So those guys are really important to me.

What is the best advice you have ever been given?

Yaro: I am going to get a bit spiritual here, but I think some of the stuff you might learn goes way beyond what we are talking about. If you study anything like Eckhart Tolle and living in the now, that basically you are in charge of everything and what happens to you…You are how you think.

Mindset is ridiculously important. You can be happy 100 percent of the time, no matter what circumstances you are in, even if you are not making a cent online, if you choose to be. I have read a lot of good advice from authors and spiritual leaders.

If you really want an interesting read, just go into Google and type, “What is the meaning of life?” And you will get some really interesting stuff there. That is where I think I get the best advice.

Thanks very much, Yaro, for this interview. Are there any plans or personal business that you would like to share with us?

Yaro: No, not really. Obviously you mentioned my blog already. If you want to find what I do, just Google my name. I find that is the easiest way. It is Yaro, and you will get my blog.

I think there is one piece of advice I will end with. If you are in any sort of teaching space, take a leaf out of Michael’s book here and get on a podcast like this or an interview and talk to someone, record it, and stick it up on your blog or your website as an interview, because what Michael is doing now is actually one of the key things I did to grow my blog. So definitely a powerful tip. I will end with that one.

Thanks Yaro — as I said in my introduction, you are an amazing inspiration and I love your comments about LIVING IN THE NOW — I shall check out Eckhart Tolle.

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