ben sherman
279
days to overnight
success by chris guillebeau
an unconventional journey to full-time writing
How I Became a Full-Time Writer in 279 Days
The Complete Revenue Estimate for my Personal Site in 2009
The World Domination Strategy for Establishing Your Brand
Avoiding the Vampires Who Want You to Fail
Why Adsense (and most other Web Advertising) Sucks
How to Stay Off the Digg Home Page and Still Get All the Traffic You Need
This report is free and does not contain affiliate links. Share it with the world under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
© 2009 Chris Guillebeau
Layout by Reese Spykerman
Table of Contents
PART I: How to Become a
ProBlogger in 10 Months
Introduction
What Does Success Look Like?
Show Me the Money
World Domination Strategy
Big Mistakes
PART II: Fire Google and
Hire Yourself
Why Adsense Sucks
How to Get Paid for Meeting the Needs of Your Followers
Listening
Examples
Scaling Up
PART III: Short Notes on
Vampires, Rule-Breaking,
Email Lists, etc.
The Vampire Chronicles
Hard Work and Working for Free
Logistics
Wrap-Up: Go and Be Awesome
www.chrisguillebeau.com/3x5
How to Become
P A RT
1
a Problogger in
10 months introduction what does success look like show me the money world Domination Strategy big mistakes
279 Days to Overnight Success
Introduction
This is the story of how I created a new career in social media for myself in less than one year. More importantly, the personal story is a case study other writers and artists can use to build a community and create a full-time income in approximately the same amount of time — by doing exactly what they like to do.
A funny thing happened the other day. I woke up and discovered that
I am now a full-time writer. Wow — I’ve become a ProBlogger, without putting ads on my site, praying that an article will get ranked highly on
Digg, posting five times a day, or many other conventional blogging
days to overnight
success by chris guillebeau
an unconventional journey to full-time writing
How I Became a Full-Time Writer in 279 Days
The Complete Revenue Estimate for my Personal Site in 2009
The World Domination Strategy for Establishing Your Brand
Avoiding the Vampires Who Want You to Fail
Why Adsense (and most other Web Advertising) Sucks
How to Stay Off the Digg Home Page and Still Get All the Traffic You Need
This report is free and does not contain affiliate links. Share it with the world under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
© 2009 Chris Guillebeau
Layout by Reese Spykerman
Table of Contents
PART I: How to Become a
ProBlogger in 10 Months
Introduction
What Does Success Look Like?
Show Me the Money
World Domination Strategy
Big Mistakes
PART II: Fire Google and
Hire Yourself
Why Adsense Sucks
How to Get Paid for Meeting the Needs of Your Followers
Listening
Examples
Scaling Up
PART III: Short Notes on
Vampires, Rule-Breaking,
Email Lists, etc.
The Vampire Chronicles
Hard Work and Working for Free
Logistics
Wrap-Up: Go and Be Awesome
www.chrisguillebeau.com/3x5
How to Become
P A RT
1
a Problogger in
10 months introduction what does success look like show me the money world Domination Strategy big mistakes
279 Days to Overnight Success
Introduction
This is the story of how I created a new career in social media for myself in less than one year. More importantly, the personal story is a case study other writers and artists can use to build a community and create a full-time income in approximately the same amount of time — by doing exactly what they like to do.
A funny thing happened the other day. I woke up and discovered that
I am now a full-time writer. Wow — I’ve become a ProBlogger, without putting ads on my site, praying that an article will get ranked highly on
Digg, posting five times a day, or many other conventional blogging