Have you got what it takes to be one of the Top Blog Top Dogs
These bloggers have shown that writing about your daily thoughts can lead to big bucks and make you an huge player in your area of interest!
Pete Cashmore, www.
mashable.com Mashable which focuses on digital media is a digital media marvel in itself getting
millions of monthly page views and hundreds of thousands of followers and fans on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. Rumours are circulating that Cashmore is in talks with CNN to sell his baby for a reported $200m. Not bad for a blog Cashmore began from his home in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2005.
Perez Hilton, perezhilton.com Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr, aka Perez Hilton, started his bitchy blogging about
celebrities as a hobby in the early 2000s. But the blog that brought Hilton fame now gets a very professional 300million hits a month and has seen the blogger himself become a star in his own right, including appearance in The Sopranos and Glee.
Timothy Sykes,
timothysykes.com Timothy Sykes is a stock market wunderkind, who is now a crusader against financial
scams. He began blogging in 2007 and if his recent post, "Suck On This John Chow, My Blog Made $45,000 Last Month", is anything to go by – he does pretty well at it. He also features in his own TV reality series, Wall Street Warriors.
John Chow receives 200,000 users to his blog each day. He says he only ever worked at a job for a total of six month
in his life and decided that work sucks. He is best known for showing the world how you can take a blog from earning zero to over US$40,000 a month in merely two years and only work two hours a day.
Ariana Huffington,
The Huffington Post Ariana Huffington was already a high-profile journalist when she launched her news blog in
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2005, But she has shown that blogging can take on traditional media and win. Win in a big way – in 2011, AOL bought the Huffington Post for a reported US$315 million!
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■ There are 31% more bloggers today than there were three years ago.
■ Most people read blogs more than once/day.
■ Most people read 5-10 blogs.
■ Nearly 40% of US companies use blogs for marketing purposes.
■ Companies that blog have 55% more website visitors.
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