Yaro Starak of Blog Mastermind has just released a revealing interview with one of his previous students,  Alborz Fallah, who runs CarAdvice.com.au, a blog recently valued at $5 million.

Alborz's story shows you can start a blog from nothing, focus on a passion and turn it into a multi-million-dollar business.

In the interview Yaro and Alborz talk about how he grew his blog. It was started in May 2006. Just over a year later it was averaging 16,000 visitors a day, earning 10 cents from each - PLUS other revenue. That's $1,600 a day, plus...

If this doesn't convince you of the power of blogging, nothing will.

You can listen to the interview or download the free transcript.

Associate Programs Newsletter #381

If you want to double your website's income in a week or maybe even as quickly as a day, read on...

CONTENTS:

1. Little tweaks - spectacular results
2. One little PPC tweak - BIG results
3. COMING SOON: The article that grew
4. Thought for today: Becoming remarkable

Doubling or tripling your website income isn't too hard. Let me share with you a lesson that was driven home to me recently. It made me change the way I think about making money online.

Yaro Starak, who makes $10,000 to $35,000 a month from blogging, working only a few hours a day, doesn't just "blog for money". His blog is part of a carefully planned business strategy.

Over the past 7 weeks I've been outlining the plan of attack for making your first $1000 a month online. Completely from scratch. Part 8 of this series helps you push through the difficult times to see your site reach its potential.

As I get older and my friends start having kids, I've been getting more and more questions about how to make a little money online to help out with a tight household budget. Things aren't as simple as most people think. Thankfully there are a few fairly easy ways to do it. In this guide I break down the key components to make it happen. This will be an 8-part series.

Associate Programs Newsletter #380

Three good things today... A free teleconference on how to do article marketing so that it actually WORKS...
      
And an interview/case study from a 20/20 Challenge skeptic... and dynamic landing pages.

CONTENTS:

1. How to ramp up your affiliate marketing with article marketing
2. $20k in 20 days case study
3. Dynamic landing pages increase conversion rates
4. COMING SOON... 21 ways affiliates do stuff
5. Thought for today: Innovation

Associate Programs Newsletter #379

You can turn a blog into a serious business, if you know how.
      
Also... When times are tough, sharpen your skills - and teach other people how to sharpen their skills.

CONTENTS:

1. Take your blog to the next level
2. Are you scared of a recession?
3. Are you still scared?
4. A Knol traffic experiment which failed - so far
5. Thought for today: Recessions

Associate Programs Newsletter #378

Joanna and I took her parents and a couple of other visiting relatives to a local surf club for a Lamb Shanks, Jazz and Shiraz night this week. My in-laws loved it. At 89 and 90, they didn't look much older than the old musicians on stage...

CONTENTS:

1. Lamb shanks, jazz, shiraz and a blank newsletter
2. How to make $1000 a month online - Part 8
3. Student's view of Dan's affiliate training
4. Thought for today: Love what you do

Associate Programs Newsletter #377

This is a quick alert about something new... Yaro Starak, who says most bloggers work "way too hard" instead of working smart, has just released a new free video describing what he does - "Conversion Blogging".

A student's inside view of Dan Ho's affiliate training program. How Dan spoonfeeds his students.