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Desert Island Blogger

Posted by Paul B | November 6, 2007 .

So here’s the deal, you’re going to be stuck on a desert island for 1 year with a pro blogger of your choice. After that year you are going to be rescued so that you can use all the knowledge you’ve nagged out of your unfortunate island mate to make your fortune online. The big question is if you could be stuck on an island with any blogger who would it be?

Here’s some of the top contenders:-

1. Darren Rowse AKA ProBlogger - Darren is seen as one of the originals in the blogging for profits niche, I’m positive that he was responsible for the whole professional blogging movement. His ProBlogger.net site has enormous authority across the internet as a whole and by taking a successful recipe and repeating it over and over he has built what is possibly the most powerful blogging network on the web today. Darren has a great reputation for liking to share information so that could be a good thing when you’re stuck together for 12 months, he’s also an Aussie so is bound to be a dab hand at cooking sea food so that’s another bonus. On the down side Australians are very competitive so the endless races from one end of the island to the other might get a bit too much. Oh yeah, and it is only me that finds his video blog posts a bit dull?

2. Jeremy Schoemaker AKA ShoeMoney - Easily one of the best content website marketers around Shoe has become a legend in his own lifetime. Unlike Darren Rowse ShoeMoney makes his money by building “real” content websites and using sponsors, ads (Adsense) and affiliate deals to make his money. From the humble beginnings of being a fat lad working at an IT support desk to one of the webs best known marketers the amount of cool info ShoeMoney could dish out in your year together would be enormous. As well as that he also enjoys the UFC and has a bit of a reputation as being one of the lads so that would be pretty cool (assuming you get stranded with some beer as well).

3. John Chow AKA John Chow - John is most famous for his technology website TTZ (The Tech Zone) which was founded when he started to mess around with over clocking processors and writing about it on the net. Nobody knows for sure how much John is worth but as somebody who survived the first dot com collapse and who has came back stronger than ever it’s bound to be a lot! I might be wrong but I think John has been around on the net longer than the other 2, perhaps even as long as me? John’s latest money making venture is johnchow.com, this was his personal blog but has developed into a case study on how to make money online blogging. In just about 1 year he’s gone from nothing to last month when he pulled in over $20,000+ from his hobby blog. Known as Mr Evil the tactics John would share would no doubt be on the edge of what is acceptable, but then again when it comes to quick results maybe the John Chow way might be the best way? On the down side John is well known for liking his food, thinking about it I wouldn’t actually fancy my chances of lasting 12 months without ending up on a BBQ for the very hungry Mr Chow.

I think of those three I’d choose……………..none of them. I’d go for Angela over at Boston Brat and it’s got nothing to do with her being my first ever commenter. Being stuck on a desert island for 12 months is one thing, but being stuck without any chicks to look at* would be 1 step too many! I might not learn much about making money but I’d sure have fun :)

So who would you choose to be stuck with and why?

* I should probably add that my wife doesn’t blog, otherwise I’d bring her obviously!

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5 Comments so far
  1. Thomas Sinfield AUSTRALIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0  November 6, 2007 4:41 pm

    Either Darren Rowse or Yaro Starak. I consider them to be two of the best!

  2. Koen NETHERLANDS Mac OS X Safari 523.10  November 6, 2007 4:58 pm

    I’d choose Mark. Why? He has so many good ideas, he is a nice friendly guy, who has the brains of Albert Einstein! He sure knows how to survive there…

  3. Adam Taylor UNITED KINGDOM Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8  November 6, 2007 5:05 pm

    Not quite sure if they can’t as pro bloggers but I’d chose some one like Rand from SEOmoz or David Naylor or someone.

  4. Adam Taylor UNITED KINGDOM Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8  November 6, 2007 5:06 pm

    Actually probably Aaron Wall.

  5. jackbravo UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9  November 7, 2007 2:36 am

    hil–friggin–arious…..

    “obviously” you’d choose your wife if she blogged. :D i love it