Comments on: Get 2,500 Subscribers and Not Earn a Penny

By: Naeem

Naeem — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:19:41 +0000

hmm great
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By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:44 +0000

This means digg is very important for traffic but how you make 500 friends on digg.

By: Andini Rizky

Andini Rizky — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:29:40 +0000

Feeling like a loser here. I envy you, Mr. 2500 subscribers and $2000. Meanwhile, my blog has two readers, one is myself, another one is my mother (^_^)/ If you asked me, I’d say you’d been very successful. Your recipe for disaster is actually recipe for a very successful blog site, at least to me.
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By: Miranda

Miranda — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:24:15 +0000

I’ll do my part to get this 100 comments

Thanks for sharing your experience, Ian. It really helps cut the learning curve when we can learn not only from our on mistakes, but those of others!

I had one blog in 2005/06 that suddenly skyrocketed because the top blogger in that niche put me on her blogroll. At that point in my life, I was really just starting out and wasn’t at all prepared for the huge exposure. I became so intimidated, thinking that all of these people were looking to me as an expert when I had really just started it as a therapeutic outlet more than anything (topic was postpartum depression). I did the worst thing possible and just quit writing, feeling that anything I could possibly say to these other people experiencing the same thing would be inadequate. I just let the site die.

Looking back, I could have monetized it and just kept going – after all, people liked what they were reading – but it was a bit too personal, anyway. I learned an important lesson, though! Don’t put it out there if you’re not ready to keep it up!

Thanks for your story… another good example of the importance of having a plan.
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By: Shirley

Shirley — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:10:46 +0000

The fastest way to things is often not the best way. Great story shared, Ian .
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By: Daryl James

Daryl James — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:37:06 +0000

There is a ton of valuable information in this post, but I’d have to say that “if you have selected your audience properly then writing for yourself is one in the same” is the key to it all. Thanks for sharing your experience all the way through and congratulations for not quitting when you were down.
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Weekend Reading: The Late Edition | Feint — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:28:36 +0000

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By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:07:12 +0000

I’d much rather have a “tribe of 1,000″ over the digg crowd any day of the week. There’s no trust or interest built in with the digg crowd, only people looking for a one hit wonder article.

Glad to see proof that I’m not wasting my time chasing after hitting the front page.
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By: Reza Winandar

Reza Winandar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:33:02 +0000

Well, a lot of subscribers doesn’t mean you will get money or a lot of comments. Take a look at problogger where Darren got more than 130k readers but comments less than 2k.
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