My friend, David Risley, a six figure professional blogger, has just opened the doors to his new coaching program, Blog Masters Club. The Blog Masters Club is targeted to bloggers who want to become professional bloggers and make a full time living off their blogs.

David and I go all the way back to my tech site days. While I was running The TechZone, David had his own tech site call PC Mech. We both still own our tech sites to this day but we also have blogs that makes six-figures every year.

David’s blogging course is unique in that it combines blogging with Internet marketing, which is how I run my blog. The course contains 16 modules. You’ll receive a new module every two weeks that includes five to ten videos. The videos can be streamed or downloaded in MP4 format so you can watch on your iPhone. Transcripts for each video are available so you can read the material and MP3 files are included as well so you can listen to it in your car or iPod. The 16 modules are as follow:

1. The Pro-blogger Mindset
2. Selecting The Right Market
3. Optimizing Your Blog
4. Secrets of Effective and Compelling Blogging
5. Social Media Strategy
6. Pure Traffic-Getting Tactics
7. SEO For Bloggers
8. Making Your Own Videos
9. Blog Monetization Strategies In-Depth
10. Creating Your Product(s) And Sales Funnel
11. List Building For Bloggers
12. Creating a Recurring Revenue Stream
13. Become a Persuasion Ninja
14. Maximizing Profits From Your Blog
15. Joint Ventures
16. Automation & Outsourcing

As you can see, Blog Masters Club is a pretty complete course. Membership cost $97 per month for six month and comes with a 60 days no questions asked money back guarantee. If for any reason, the Blog Master Club is not what you’ve hoped it would be, send David an email within 60 days and he’ll gladly refund your money.

You will complete the core training after six months. After that, you will never be billed again and you will continue to have full lifetime club membership for no extra cost.

Join Now and Receive a $500 Mystery Bonus

For the first 100 members, David has a special mystery bonus. He won’t say what it is but knowing David, it’s going to be good.

I’m not going to spill the beans quite yet, but if you join my program today, I will tell you about this mystery bonus on the other side. It will not be ready immediately, but I will say that it is something that will be actually shipped to you in the mail! I will include it as a crazy, no-cost bonus to all graduates of my program. It will eventually be sold for about the cost of this entire program, but you’ll get it FOR FREE!

Membership to the Blog Masters Club is open until Tuesday, July 14. After then, the doors will close and I doubt it will open again until sometime in 2010.

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The Crab Pot is one of my favorite restaurants in Seattle. I always try to dine there whenever I’m down in Washington State. And it doesn’t get much better than dining at the Crab Pot with the boys from Unique Blog Designs and Neil Patel, who was recently named Americas Sexiest Single Indian Millionaire. How do you make it better? You have someone else pay for dinner, of course. That someone else was Clickbooth and I want to thank Eric at Clickbooth for picking up the tab.

We went for the Crab Pot’s famous Seafeast for four. We would have gone with the Seafeast for five but Neil doesn’t eat seafood. He had a veggie burger and salad instead. The Seafeast takes a variety of crab, clams, mussels, shrimp in the shell, salmon, halibut, oysters, potatoes, corn on the cob and andouille sausage steamed with mouth watering spices and pour it right on your table. They give you a bib, a craw breaker and a mallet and let you go at it. It’s not fine dining by any means but it is messy dining at its finest.

It was a great dinner and we had a fantastic time. Some of the highlights were talking about future projects and listening to Neil explain how he lost $1 million on an Internet deal. Moral of the story: don’t lose a million bucks unless you can afford to.

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What would you define as your blog’s greatest asset? Would it be the number of readers your blog attracts? The number of RSS or E-Mail subscribers you have? The ad revenue your blog generates or even the number of followers you have on Twitter? The correct answer to this question is none of the above. It is more basic, more fundamental, and the key to all the metrics one measure’s to determine the size and reach of their blog.

The greatest asset you have as a blogger is your authority and your credibility. According to Technorati, there are well over 100 million blogs out there. So with so much competition, what makes your blog stand out from the pack? Why should readers choose to spend their time on your blog over your competitors? This is a question that every blogger needs to ask themselves.

It is a blogger’s credibility which will attract readers. No one wants to simply read content from a no-name blogger with no substantial expertise. In order to succeed in the blogosphere you must build credibility, both for yourself as a blogger and for your blog itself. Take a look at the successful blogs in this niche, JohnChow, ProBlogger, Shoemoney, Daily Blog Tips, etc. The one commonality in all these blogs is that they are brands which readers trust as experts in the niche.

Many bloggers feel that pure traffic numbers are the key to the success of a blog and will go to any length to get as many page views as possible. Yet, from personal experience this is the wrong approach. Sure it is possible to drive tens of thousands of social media visitors from a popular story on Digg, but what is the point of this traffic if they never return?

Instead, I recommend that you direct more of your marketing resources to building your credibility and getting yourself known in the industry. This can be done through attending industry events, guest posting, and interviewing authoritative figures in your niche. Establishing yourself as an authority in the niche will take more time and probably result in less overall traffic than social media or other marketing campaigns, but this traffic will be targeted and will open up more relevant opportunities for you personally. It will allow you to actually build a blog community, instead of being a blog where new visitors come and go daily.

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Just when you thought the doors have closed on Become a Blogger Premium, Yaro and Gideon are re-opening the doors for another 24 hour period.

Why?

Because, since they closed the doors on Friday last week, they had over 300 people sign up to their early notification list. This is an unusually high number and they think it’s because of the US Independence Day Holiday that coincided with the Become a Blogger launch.

These are people who were ready to purchase Become A Blogger Premium, but for some reason, got to the sales page too late and missed out. So, Yaro and Gideon would like to give them all one last opportunity to get in. If you missed out last week for whatever reason, this is your chance to get in. The doors are open right now but it will close on Wednesday at 2PM EST. You have until then to take advantage of this opportunity.

Get A Free $500 Review When You Become A Blogger

My free $500 review offer will apply during this 24 hour re-opening. Sign up to Become A Blogger Premium and learn from Yaro and Gideon everything you need to start a money making blog. Then use your free $500 review to kick your blog off to a flying start. Cost of Become a Blogger Premium is $47 a month for Six month ($282 total). Advertisers pay $500 (next month, it will go to $750) for a review on this blog and you’ll get it for free. Add it all up and you’ll be ahead of the game by a whopping $218 ($468 when reviews goes to $750)!

To qualify for this offer. You must sign up with my link. If you don’t, then you won’t show up in my control panel and I can’t give you the free review. To make sure everything registers correctly, you may want to clear your browser cookies before clicking the link. But hurry. You only have this much time left…

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Back in February, AzoogleAds started a challenge to find their top affiliate publishers. During the period of February 1, 2009 to April 30, 2009, affiliates tried to drive the highest amount of incremental revenue through AzoogleAds. Thousands of affiliate entered the challenge and the top 25 affiliates were chosen on May.

The contest proved so successful that Azoogle decided to hold a round 2 and give affiliates who didn’t make it during round 1 a second chance. Well, rounder 2 is over and another ten affiliates will be joining the round 1 winners at the Playboy Mansion on Friday, August 29 for the party of a lifetime. Congrats to all the winners. Azoongle’s privacy policy only allows them to show the affiliate publisher number but you know who you are.

In addition to the ten winners, Azoogle hosted two other contests that were offer specific. They gave away 3 spots for NetQuote top revenue, and 3 spots in total for Video Professor revenue. Congrats to those winners. They will be joining us at the Playboy Mansion as well. Thanks everyone for entering. It was one hell of a competition and it’s going to be hell of a party.

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The live blog chat with my friend David Risley will be starting in a couple of hours. I figure I would get you started with a really neat video that David recently produced. It reveals the secret to maximum blog income and conversion.

You don’t need to opt-in to a list or anything to watch this video. It is right out there in public. It is about 20 minutes long, but contains some really solid info. Watch the video and then join us for the live blogger Q&A at 3PM EST.

In this video, David talks about:

• Why blogs actually suck at turning readers into money.
• How and why you need to get visitors off your blog.
• The tactic called “click funneling” and how it can make you a LOT more money from your blog.

Six-Figure, professional blogger David Risley will be holding a live, free Q&A session with bloggers. David and I go way back to my tech sites days. While I was running The TechZone, David had PC Mech. Like me, David still has his tech site but he also has a blog that makes him six-figures.

This is a great opportunity for you to talk with a successful pro blogger about your own blog, how to make it better, and how to get started in professional blogging. And the best thing is, the cost is ZERO.

The live chat starts at the Blog Master Club on Monday, July 6th at about 3:00 PM EST. Be sure to put this down on your calendar and show up. I’ll be mixing it up the chat room as well.

The chat will be hosted by Ustream.TV. It is easier to chat with Dave if you have a Ustream account. But, it is free to get one so no big deal. David tells me he’ll be broadcasting live from his office desk in Florida.

David released the Six Figure Blogger Blueprint several days ago. Did you get your copy yet? That is free, too.

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This music video was shot for Sour’s Hibi no Neiro (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album Water Flavor EP. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely with a webcam. The end result is pretty amazing and must have taken weeks of editing. One thing for sure, it’s not an editing that I would want to do!

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

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My last post showed you how to add an Aweber newsletter sign up box inside your Facebook Fan Page. Now, I’m going to show you how to optimize it to increase the sign up rate.

Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and can be a great source of new opted in leads for your email marketing. At first I thought that everyone who were friends with me on Facebook already read my blog or have signed up for the newsletter. How wrong I was! The newsletter sign up box on my fans page is converting at 10.5%! That is an awesome sign rate by any measures. Here’s how I did it.

Have a Really Nice Sign Up Box

Aweber offers a great deal of control over the look and feel of the sign box. You can take advantage of this by hiring a profession designer to create a really nice newsletter sign up box. Since I am not a designer, that is what I did. I asked Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Designs for help and he put together one hell of an attention grabbing sign up box.

Offer a Free Incentive for Signing Up

Offering something for free will dramatically increase the number of people who will subscribe to your newsletter. In my case, I offered my Make Money Online eBook. The key is to offer something of perceived value. It should also be related to what you blog about.

Make The Sign Up Box The First Thing They See

Normally, when people go to a Fan Page, the first thing they see are the wall posts. When new Facebook users visit my Fan Page, the first thing they see is the newsletter sign up screen. Putting the Newsletter sign up as the first page increased the opted in rate from 6.5% to over 10%. You can select your default landing page in your Fan Page view settings.

You won’t have to worry about your fans seeing the sign up box every time they check your page. Fans will get the wall posts as their default landing page. The sign up box is the default landing page for people who are not fans yet.

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The Become a Blogger Premium program will be closing its door in less than 24 hours. The door closes at midnight EST, July 3rd. This is your last chance to sign up and take advantage of my free $500 review offer.

Become a Blogger Premium is a world renowned course taught about Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick that shows you, step-by-step, with instructional videos, how to become a successful money making blogger. More than 1,000 people have already gone through the course, and now is your chance to join the new intake of members so that you too can set up your very own successful blog.

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The Become A Blogger Premium course is six months long and cost only $47 per month. If you’re ready to take your blogger to the next level, you can’t get better than this course. What can make it better? How about me putting you ahead of the game by giving you a free $500 John Chow dot Com review for signing up?

Sign up to Become A Blogger Premium and learn from Yaro and Gideon everything you need to start a money making blog. Then use your free $500 review to kick your blog off to a flying start. Six month at $47 a month comes to $282. Advertisers pay $500 (soon to go to $750) for a review on this blog and you’ll get it for free. Add it all up and you’ll be ahead of the game by a whopping $218 ($468 when reviews goes to $750)!

To qualify for this offer. You must sign up with my link. If you don’t, then you won’t show up in my control panel and I can’t give you the free review. To make sure everything registers correctly, you may want to clear your browser cookies before clicking the link.

You can claim your free review after you’ve completed the Become A Blogger Premium course if you choose the monthly payment plan. If you pay for the entire program upfront, you can claim your review after the 61st day. Become a Blogger Premium is covered by a 60 day no questions asked money back guarantee. It wouldn’t be right for you get a $500 review and then ask Yaro and Gideon for your money back.

However, you must act now if you want to take advantage of this deal because at midnight EST Friday, it’s gone. The clock is ticking… Become a Blogger Will Close in…

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