Darren Rowse, Lorelle VanFossen, and other bloggers, as they have said numerous times, do not make their money simply through their blog. No, they have several other things that they have on the side. These things include:

Books
Projects
Blogging Contests
Speaking positions
Services

Figure out what you want to do, and do it. Also, I updated my services offered [...]

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So, the iPhone: The most popular phone ever, right? Maybe not. Today, I decided to take a stroll down an outdoor mall into a Cingular AT&T Wireless store, and lo and behold, the glorious device that only recently had its record for most people in line defeated by the nefarious Mr. Potter, known only as [...]

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Three people I know (Two I know offline) have expressed so much undying love for Harry Potter that they have gone out and waited outside various bookstores until Midnight to buy the bloody book. I’m sure there’s more out there.
I honestly have no clue why people love this book series so much. If the [...]

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Because I feel like having a little fun, I’m going to use this post to enter a few blogging contests by doing some quick reviews. We’ll start with a parody site:

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A lot of people out there want to monetize their blog. One of the best ways to do so is to use advertising, as we have covered previously. However, it’s important to realize that too much ads could seriously impact your readers, as nobody really wants to look at advertisements. As people also directly sell [...]

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The majority of bloggers out there want to make some money. Now, doubtable that we all could get to the level of Darren Rowse or Yaro Starak, but maybe we’d like to earn a sizeable income. That being said, I’ve identified the two primary ways most bloggers make their money: Through donation or through ads. [...]

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I came across a post on Freelance Switch which was talking about how software was so expensive and how it should be cheaper, offering such staples as OpenOffice and Google Docs. Unfortunately, the list is nowhere near complete, and thus, I’ve decided to add my own to the fray. Here are 21 programs that are [...]

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I’ve come up with a better term for what people like me, Lorelle, Darren Rowse (Though I’m obviously nowhere near their level) and others really are: We’re people who want to hack blogs and our blogging styles so they others improve their blogs, with inprovements ranging from SEO to Monetizing.
We are more then just advisers, [...]

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If you’re going to be serious about blogging, you’ll eventually want to go into guest blogging, which is basically kindly asking a particular individual to post a blog entry that you write. Before we go further, I would suggest you check out Blog Me Famous’s Five Guidelines to guest blogging (found via Lorelle on Wordpress,) to [...]

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