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Not A Pro Blog Acquired By ProBlogger
For Immediate Release:
NEW ALBANY, Indiana. (April 1, 2010) – Not A Pro Blog, the web’s worst blog tips site, today announced that it has been acquired by ProBlogger.net.
This acquisition will be a part of Darren Rowse’s extension of the ‘ProBlogger’ brand and a precursor to his new paid forum for the hopelessly unsuccessful, NotAProBlogger.com – where broke bloggers sabotage each other.
“Blogging continues to grow in popularity, but since no one actually implements my advice – I might as well hedge my bets.” said Rowse on one of his horridly boring UStream chats today. “Not A Pro Blog will put an amazing array of obstacles in front of those copycats wanting to overtake my market dominance.”
“What better brand to align these fundamentally flawed concepts with than Jordan Cooper, a blogger that has consistently taken my advice, yet thoroughly parodied & ridiculed me and my colleagues for just under five months.”
“Some have called me a ‘traitor’ for even considering selling my soul to ProBlogger,” said Cooper, the founder of Not A Pro Blog, “but I’d be a fool not to allow the my brand to seep in, eat away and completely destroy one of the world’s most influential blogs. I’m excited to see how far Darren will fall going backwards.”
The acquisition of Not A Pro Blog will allow Jordan to concentrate on his other projects including his main site – FM-Britain, which peddles worthless digital products about a video game that poor British kids become addicted to quite easily – and an upcoming project – NonScalableBlogging.com with Chris Brogan.
Jordan Cooper will remain a part of Not A Pro Blog where he plans to launch a product with Rowse entitled “31MWWW” – 31 Minutes to Write the Worst Weblog – an alternative to the successful series of a similar name, but geared for those who have no clue and like it that way.
Last minute update:
Upon hearing the news of this merger, Google has immediately voided their purchase of ProBlogger from earlier today.
“Unfortunately, Darren Rowse’s haphazard acquisition of Not A Pro Blog significantly undermines our positioning with his brand”, a representative of the internet giant stated. “Competing against ourselves is not in our business nature, as we already have a firmly planted presence in the ‘fail whale’ marketplace… with Google Buzz and Google Wave.”
What It Takes To Be An Overnight Failure
Chris Brogan has talked a lot on his blog about what it takes to be an overnight success. While I appreciate his candor, I think he’s only speaking to a very small demographic that has the chops to make it happen. What about the rest of us who, despite our pathetic attempts at becoming a super awesome social media uber-guru, will never reach those heights… or even 20 unique visitors to our blog? (fingers crossed!) Has Chris forgotten about the little people who exalt him as their savior while they do the complete opposite of what he says?
Well, I’ll speak for you then! For the tens of thousands of wanna-be blogging ninjas and internet rockstars. For the hundreds upon hundreds of fake experts who regurgitate fast-food content and auto-follow their way up on Twitter to boost their worthless self-esteem.
For you, the affiliate marketer who couldn’t sell a blind man a new pair of eyes. For you, the membership site wizard who sells membership site subscriptions to discuss membership sites with people looking to sell membership sites on membership sites. For you, the teenage “living the life” entrepreneurs who still rely on mom and dad’s allowance to pay hosting costs. For you, Blogspot users.
For everyone out there who still has $98.64 to go before receiving their first Adsense check. For everyone out there who networks so poorly, even Tom on MySpace isn’t your friend. For everyone out there who wants to be an overnight success, but knows deep down in their heart that they’re a failure!
Let’s show all the six-figure entrepreneurs making money online that our job takes a lot of hard work too! It’s difficult putting in 45 minutes a day in between watching every episode of Lost (again!) and working as the Clucky’s Chicken advertising mascot! It’s difficult to write about what you know when your “passion” is dropping roofies at high school house parties! It’s difficult to be an overnight success when you don’t even know that “overnight” is only one word!
I will speak for you, my children. What does it take to be an overnight failure?
An Overly Critical Review of Beyond Blogging
I know what you’re thinking: “another book about making money blogging?” Well, that’s at least what I thought when Nathan Hangen asked me if I wanted to record a video testimonial for his new product. Written with Mike CJ, the book actually surprised my cynical self as I saw it was not just another cookie cutter how-to guide that doesn’t bring anything new to the table. It’s beyond that!
Beyond Blogging examines the story of over a dozen A-List bloggers, thanks to a series of interviews and case studies, to bring you the truth behind what it takes to become a successful blogger. (their awesome copy, not mine.) You’ll see a lot of familiar faces featured inside the 200+ page book coming from many different avenues and perspectives: Chris Brogan, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, David Risley, John Chow as well as my own personal favorite influence, Gary Vaynerchuk.
Be aware though, it’s not just biographical profiles of successful bloggers. Who wants to read more boasts about how much so-and-so made last year? I sure don’t. What I do want is to pick the brain of some of the top online “rockstars” and easily extract the concepts and philosophies they’ve used in building a business out of their passion. Beyond Blogging does just that!
Typically, I’m quite harsh at reviewing most things and will nit-pick it to death, but I’m at a loss when it comes to this book. Hmm, maybe I can find something bad to say about it…. Oh, I know!
After every interview/case study, Nathan and Mike provide a traffic analysis graph of the subject’s blogs so you can get a better measurement of their impact and a track record of their success. The by-product is that you’ll likely feel even worse about your own blog in the process. “150,000 visitors a month? I haven’t even had that many in 8 years combined on 24 different blogs! I guess it’s back on the bottle for me to drink away my sorrows!”
Feel free to check out the video where Nathan Hangen and Mike CJ talk about how they co-authored the book, the process in putting it together and why you need to go Beyond Blogging.
Be aware I rarely recommend anything, but Beyond Blogging is definitely something I have no problem in putting my lack of a reputation on the line. Buy a copy when it comes out and let me know what you think!
Bathroom Readability Rating: 98/100 (since I do almost all of my book reading on the toilet)