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Who Are The 10 Most Influential Bloggers? And The Video Of My BlogWorld Presentation

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 1st of Nov, 2009 09:30:02 AM

REMEMBER: You have until Friday November 6th to pre-order any/all of my 4 new instructional DVDs to get access to special FREE followup webinars on each topic…these instructional DVD packages will help you get smarter faster, saving you from thousands of dollars in ignorant trading losses

After releasing lists like ‘The Highest Paid Bloggers‘ and ‘The Top Bloggers In The World‘, IncomeDiary.com is back with another hugely informational post detailing ‘The 50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009′…he is far too kind to put me at #4, but let’s face it, most of the other people on that list haven’t innovated providing commentary and getting ads since AOL acquired Netscape!

Don’t be afraid to try new things people, the blogosphere is still brand new and we have no idea what’s gonna work in the long run.

Before I get to the list, I gotta embed a video that John Chow (#22 on the list) was kind enough to record of Pallian and I speaking about how to have a membership site and make $60k/month at the Blogworld Expo…Lisa M. recorded a video that wasn’t just my head so that’s cool too if you want to see what Pallian looks like…our session was moderated by the excellent Jim Krukal. It was also awesome to meet blog kings Zac Johnson and CopyBlogger (Look how polite I am to link to everyone, this is what we learn to do at Blogworld, blehhhhhh…)

Enjoy and learnnnnn:

How To Make $60,000 per month with a Membership Site from John Chow on Vimeo.

Here are the top 10 most influential bloggers of 2009, to see more details and the whole top 50 visit IncomeDiary.com:
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Come See Me Speak At Blogworld About Growing Membership Sites & Listen To This Podcast I Did With MemberCon

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 13th of Oct, 2009 07:40:45 AM

REMEMBER: You have until this coming Friday, October 16th, to register to attend this special event. from the comfort of your very own home or if you can’t make it live buying that 2-day pass will serve as your order for the DVD of the event, which will be 12+ hours of footage and come with an instructional !.

If you’re gonna be in Vegas this weekend, maybe a day or two early for my Sunday and Monday seminar, to which you can still purchase 2-day live webinar access, pop over to the Convention Center to hear Pallian and I talk about “How To Make $60k/Month From A Membership Site”…if you’re already attending, you can register to attend our speech HERE and definitely check out the whole Blogworld schedule as there are some fine presentations.

We’re schedule to speak Saturday afternoon 4:15-5:15PM Vegas time in Room 233 so if you can’t afford to pay to get in, I dare you to sneak in…be warned, bloggers are tough and so are their security personal.

To give you a taste of what we’ll be talking about, check out this interview I did with the fantastic Tim Bourquin, who also interviewed me a while back on TraderInterviews.com, about how to grow a premium website…the entire podcast is here on MemberCon.com, but check out some of the convo below:
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FTC Crackdown On Bloggers Too Little Too Late, How About A Major Financial Coward Crackdown?!?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 7th of Oct, 2009 09:17:51 AM

So the FTC is “cracking down on bloggers” forcing us to disclose when we get paid or get freebies when writing posts like this one with Cy Group, or this one with ISellMac.com:
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How My Blog Has Earned $964,730 In 14 Months & How I Will Teach You To Be More Successful

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 6th of Oct, 2009 03:30:09 PM

So you know from my post this morning that my blog generated $120,000+ in July/August this year and a few months back that my blog made approximately $470,000 through the first 6 months of 2009, but how much have I now made from blogging since I started?

I may only be #14 on the list of the top bloggers, but check out my blog’s lifetime earnings below (or since I started keeping detailed monthly records in July 2008, just weeks after after launching the highly successful TIMalerts real-time trade alerts newsletter)

Remember, in November 2009, I’ll be unveiling a 10+ hour instructional DVD on how to grow and profit from a blog-based business which will retail for $2,000…it won’t just be footage of me, we’re filming with a dozen or so other highly successful bloggers about their tips and secrets too and it’s gonna be one amazing step-by-step huuuuge instruction manual….and by pre-ordering now, you can get your copy right now for $797, aka more than 50% off…but the pre-ordering special won’t last long….I’ll be detailing everything I’ve learned from 2 years of blogging, the things I did right, the projects I did wrong and how I’ve managed to grow my blog income pretty steadily throughout the entire process so if you like my other instructional DVD packages you know I hold nothing back, which I believe is the best way to teach, so I highly recommend you purchase your advance copy of my 10+ hour instructional blogging DVD (taking you from the absolute basics to advanced techniques too!) today…

Check it out and realize how much I have to teach you guys, considering I’m an infinitely more successful blogger/internet entrepreneur than stock trader!
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How My Blog Pulled In $128,518 In July & August 2009 & Yes I Have A New DVD To Teach You How To Create Your Own Blog Business

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 6th of Oct, 2009 07:40:32 AM

Remember, in November 2009, I’ll be unveiling a 10+ hour instructional DVD on how to grow and profit from a blog-based business which will retail for $2,000…it won’t just be me, we’re filming with a dozen or so other highly successful bloggers about their tips and secrets too….and by pre-ordering your copy now, you can get your copy right now for $797, aka more than 50% off…but the pre-ordering special won’t last long….I’ll be detailing everything I’ve learned from 2 years of blogging, the things I did right, the projects I did wrong and how I’ve managed to grow my blog income pretty steadily throughout the entire process so if you like my other instructional DVD packages you know I hold nothing back, which I believe is the best way to teach, so I highly recommend you purchase your advance copy of my 10+ hour instructional blogging DVD (taking you from the absolute basics to advanced techniques too!) today…
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Who Are The Top Bloggers In The World?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 3rd of Oct, 2009 08:30:36 AM

There’s a few top lists out there, here’s one that lists the top 30 highest earning blogs (I’m #5), but the list below from Income Diary lists “20 people who started as blogger, but are now so much more“, yours truly is #14:
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Guess How Much My Blog Made In June? I’ll Give You A Hint: More Than What Most Doctors Make In A Year

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 28th of Jul, 2009 03:40:43 PM

Gotta scroll down to the center of this article or at least do me the honor of reading this blog post:
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Dumb Bloggers Debate Whether You Can Make Money Blogging, Failed Blogger Dan Lyons Debate Part Deux

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 2nd of May, 2009 01:30:10 PM

Thanks to this WSJ article that says:

The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That’s almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click — whether on their site or someone else’s. And that’s nearly half a million of whom it can be said, as Bob Dylan did of Hurricane Carter: “It’s my work he’d say, I do it for pay.”

Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates. Most are white males reporting above-average incomes. One out of three young people reports blogging, but bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as “spokesbloggers” — paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around — but it can also be quite profitable. For sites at the top, the returns can be substantial. At some point the value of the Huffington Post will no doubt pass the value of the Washington Post.

The barriers to entry couldn’t be lower. Most bloggers for hire pay $80 to get started, do it for about 35 months, and make a few hundred dollars. But a subgroup of these bloggers are the true professionals who work at corporations, serve as highly paid blogging consultants or write for sites with substantial traffic.

Sounds good, right?

Well, that started a backlash from the hardworking but narrow-minded, basically dumb bloggers who work their asses off, but don’t know how to make $ from it! Dumb people like Megan McArdle who says:

The estimates of professional bloggers seem wildly inflated–if you help update the company blog once a week as part of your marketing internship, you are not a paid professional blogger. And the numbers they themselves link to tell a much different tale from the article: most blogs bring in pitiful amounts of money for their owners.

This seems to follow the model of Mark Penn’s book: find some bizarre number and mindlessly extrapolate it to an absurd conclusion. Yet I still don’t understand why common sense did not keep him from publishing this article. Anecdotal evidence would suggest that almost all of us know many more computer programmers than professional bloggers–this is true of me even though I am a professional blogger, as are half my friends. Or he might have called some professional bloggers, who would have (sorrowfully) told him that no one is making $75K a year off of 100,000 pageviews a month, that being about how much traffic I pulled when I was starting up in 2002. Or, hell, he might have noticed that in the very BLS survey so nicely transformed into a table for his article, there is not entry for “blogger”–but that if you add up every writer, reporter, editor, PR person, technical writer, or “media and communications worker, other”, there are only 499,890. Since Penn says that there are 452,000 paid bloggers, this implies that 9 out of every 10 communications workers are professional bloggers.

There may be one guy with some incredible niche–or moronic employer–making a ton of money with a modestely well-trafficked blog. But the plural of “anecdote” is not data.

Believe me, I’d love to think that blogging is a surefire path to riches and job security–but I’m afraid all most people get out of their blogs is the satisfaction of a job well done.

This all reminds me of when the surprisingly narrow-minded Dan Lyons posted his tirade on how despite all his education and effort, he was still just a poor dumb blogger.

Again, I’ll speak on behalf of the 1% of bloggers who do make $–this is my best month ever as I’m closing in on $80,000+ for April–it all comes down to trying new tactics, products–not just ads dum dums–and most importantly, not taking anything too seriously because they’re always new news, readers and ways to profit.

I’m reminded of the few people who claim my trading strategy, making my 30 hours worth of content on my instructional DVDs totally worthless and full of lies (I’m not talented enough to lie for 30 hours), is a fraud because they think it’s impossible to short sell stocks under $5 or $3…no truer words than the following have ever been spoken:

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE TOO IGNORANT/INCOMPETENT TO PROFIT FROM ANY STRATEGY, BE IT BLOGGING OR TRADING, DOESN’T MEAN OTHERS WHO ARE SMARTER & MORE DETERMINED THAN YOU AREN’T ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING IT!

….aka it sucks to be mediocre, but that’s the vast majority of the world…stop the pity party, stop whining and work your butts off until you make something of yourselves!

How To Make Money Blogging: My Latest Interview On How I Make $80,000/Month

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 14th of Apr, 2009 08:05:57 AM

Check out the whole interview HERE or just read a lot of it below as there be gold in my words as I’m apparently one of the highest paid bloggers in the blogosphere (see the list HERE):
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The Financial Web 2.0: Covestor vs. StockTwits vs. StockPickr

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 1st of Apr, 2009 08:05:18 AM

These are cool “web 2.0” websites that are hot right now so what are they and what makes them special?
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Check Out This List Of The Highest Paid Bloggers

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 19th of Mar, 2009 11:56:30 AM

There’s a new list in town and it seems far more accurate than Douglas MacIntyre’s wannabe list a few weeks ago (before he was shipped off to blogosphere purgatory), check out the new hotness:
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One Reader’s Mom Doesn’t Want Him Following Me Because…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 13th of Mar, 2009 03:05:09 PM

Got this great email from Glen Bradford (he wanted me to use his name, so there ya Glen, hope this doesn’t get you a spanking from mommy) a few weeks ago and thought I’d share:
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Why The Latest 10 TIMalert Subscribers Cancelled

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 27th of Feb, 2009 08:20:23 AM

TIMalerts has over 700 subscribers, the vast majority of whom banked in 2008 and are very happy, but just to be overly transparent when this joke of an industry is anything but, here’s a few reasons why some people have cancelled:
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Douglas McIntyre Earns Title Of Worst Blogger In The World With His Atrocious List Of The 25 Most Valuable Blogs

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 24th of Feb, 2009 08:15:41 AM

I don’t mean to go looking to pick fights with people, but when those with power/influence prove they deserve none, someone must call them out. Considering our society exemplifies mediocrity and laziness, the task falls upon me to take those guilty of such American sins to task…
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How My Blog Income Was $43,683 In January While My Trading Gains Amounted To $6, Yes $6

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 23rd of Feb, 2009 03:20:00 PM

A big drop from my record $83k month in December and $70,000 in August 2008 and below I’ll tell you why…
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Is This List Of Oscar Winners Leaked On Twitter Real Or Fake?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 22nd of Feb, 2009 03:25:16 PM

This list is making the rounds on Twitter, nobody seems to know whether it’s real or fake…whatcha think? Looks like a real list to me, we’ll find out tonight!
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Why Failed Blogger Dan Lyons Exemplifies Financial Narrow-Mindedness & Failed Traders

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 13th of Feb, 2009 08:25:04 AM

That’s the title that popped into my head when I read THIS Newsweek article of his.
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Dear Barry Ritholtz, Quit Dealing With Antiquated Publishers & Choose My Publishing Company

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 11th of Feb, 2009 03:10:34 PM

After reading Barry’s blog post about how shitty his “bigtime” publisher treated him and his new book Bailout Nation, I can’t help but offer my assistance…
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FinacialStability.Gov Needs A Whole Lot Of Work

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 10th of Feb, 2009 11:31:15 AM

As just announced by the new treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, Financial Stability.gov is gonna be the site where the government will outline their ‘financial stability plan.
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Who Is Employee Of The Month, Jo-Ann, Joel Or Pallian? I Need Your Vote!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 8th of Feb, 2009 04:45:00 PM

To the thousand or so of you who’ve signed up for TIMalerts or bought my instructional trading DVDs, you have probly dealt with my mom or dad because they are my back office and shipping department.
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