The launch of the AdSense Profits Course is getting closer (February 14), and I have two more interviews with past students lined up for you. Today’s interview is with Simon Ng. Simon blogs at SimonBlog.com. As you might have guesses it started out as a personal blog, but after a while Simon started focused on the iPhone, and today his blog is one of the most popular in this niche.
One of the most common ways to get your feet wet in the blogging world is to start a personal blog. While not always the classiest or smoothest transition into online publication, it gives you a good sense of what you’re capable of doing with a blog, what interests you prefer sharing publically, and what other people like and don’t like about your writing. But is a personal blog the best use of your time? Are there certain blogging platforms that suite it better than others? These types of questions are important to consider before you dive headfirst into blogging.
With the new year just a few weeks away, one of the most popular resolutions to make, is to make more money or to start a business in the new year. No matter how many people attempt to make the resolution, only a small fraction will take the plunge to actually get started, while even a smaller fraction will actually make any extra money in the new year. A very simple way to start making a few extra dollars online in the new year, is to start a blog on the side. While you probably won’t get rich off
“I’m having trouble deciding what topic to blog about.” This was a statement I heard three times at the ProBlogger meet up in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago and is a problem that many PreBloggers face. I’ve written numerous times about how to choose a niche or topic to write about but it struck me while talking to the Brisbane folk asking the question that the biggest factor in helping me to narrow in on my own niches was having a personal blog. When I started blogging in 2002 I had
