David Risley

Confession: Blogs suck at converting visitors into money. Say what?! In this video, I explain what I mean and what you can do to get maximum benefit from the visitors who come to your blog. NOTE: If you want to view the video much bigger, just click the full screen button on the player...

I asked this question on Twitter yesterday and here are some of the answers I got… @miklb said: Absolutely, because I dig not wearing long pants and shoes. ...

There has absolutely been a rapid increase in spam on Twitter lately. It was a problem beforehand. But, then some celebrities brought more attention to Twitter and, all of a sudden, the rest of the world is catching onto Twitter. And where the people are, marketers follow. Is it a bad thing...

Banner advertising is usually the first monetization option explored by any blogger looking to make some money. Within this method are two ways of going about it: (1) Using ad networks like Adsense and, (2) selling it yourself. Some may get confused on the basics of how to sell your own ad space...

Back in March, I did a post entitled 25 Random Things You Probably Didn’t Know About David Risley. It was a lot of fun to write and people seemed to enjoy it. Since I like to take occasional turns into other topics (plus, its Friday :)), I’d thought I’d extend that list of 25...

Some news I wanted to pass on this morning… The Action Comments plug-in for Wordpress has been updated with a bunch of new features. In short, Action Comments allows you to capture the name and email address of people who post a comment on your blog and add them to your mailing list...

Yesterday, I talked about this idea of lifestyle design. I walked you (and myself, quite frankly) through an exercise of determining what one would need to produce online in order to live the tropical island life...

One of the most powerful overall concepts which came out of Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week was the idea of lifestyle design. The concept might have existed previously (I really don’t know), but it was Tim’s book which first brought the concept into my own world...

When I ask bloggers about their chief issue they need help with, traffic usually ends up at or near the top of the list. And it seems obvious. After all, you can’t make any money if you don’t have anybody looking at your blog, right...

If you’re going to consider yourself a PROblogger, it won’t take long for you to realize that sometimes the blog isn’t the best place to make an offer. Inevitably, you’re going to find yourself using a landing page...

One of the most common traits of people who make little to no money online, almost across the board, is lack of action. It is a disease rampant among people who’d like to make some money with their blogs. But, while it is a disease, the cure is so simplistic...

This is a guest post by Michael Alex Wasylik, a Florida lawyer and blogger. Look around you. You’re neck-deep in other people’s companies. The computer you’re using to read this? Made by a company. The software that runs your computer...

This is a guest post by Tom Babinszki, the director of Even Grounds, an accessibility consulting company. In the United States, in average one out of every six people live with some kind of a disability. This ratio is even higher in some other countries...

On Monday, I released a free report and I’d like to have YOU check it out and let me know what you think. It is called the Blogging Wealth Gap. In this report, I reveal the most important ingredient to why most bloggers make little to no money with their blogs...

Late last week, I got word from the Better Business Bureau that I am now officially accredited by them. I paid them about $600 and had them go over my business to make sure I’m legitimate. It took a couple of weeks, but it is now done. The question, though, is WHY did I bother...

Something went wrong. There are simply too many bloggers out there who are struggling to get good traffic numbers and/or make any money with their blogs. And there are some people who would probably look at those bloggers and LAUGH...

This is a guest post by Lisa Morosky, whom many of my readers probably know as my virtual assistant. A few weeks ago, I spoke to some of the senior staff at a company where I used to work (I only work for myself and my clients nowadays, with much thanks to Dave for the push to follow my dreams!)...

As of today, I am 31 years old. Yes, it is my birthday. I thought I’d take a break from “make money online” posts and just get personal. As I write this post, I’m at home with my little girl, Elyana. I’m sitting on the MacBook Pro and Elyana is playing all over me...

I have been a user of Ustream for some time in order to put together a live broadcast online. Have you ever thought about doing it yourself? Did you know that you can use it to make some money? Here’s how...

Follow lots of people. Seriously. Oh, you want more? Ok… Twitter Makes It Easy We all know that simply having high follower counts on Twitter doesn’t matter one iota. You can have 10,000 followers, but if those people are completely untargeted, it doesn’t matter AT ALL...

This last Friday, I decided to take a breather from normal production in my business. I took the laptop to Panera Bread (a local coffee place with free wifi) and sat down to do a little strategic planning. Do you ever stop and simply reflect? Do you stop and look at the big picture...

Yesterday afternoon, I took the family over to the Florida Aquarium for the Tampa Tweetup. It went extremely well. Estimates are that we had around 250 people attend the event – which leaves me speculating on whether this is perhaps the largest in-person tweetup that has occurred anywhere so far...

Blogging is, by nature, the business of giving away free content. And it cannot be any other way. However, in order to make money, you’ve got to charge people for something. So, where is the cut off? There are two main points I want to convey to you today on this subject...

Banner ads and affiliate offers are only going to take your quest for income from your blog so far. Before long, you’ll realize that selling things and making your own offers is where the real money is at. When you sell things, you need a way to process orders...

When I was both in Las Vegas and here in Tampa recently, I had an opportunity to meet and talk to Warren Whitlock. Warren is an author and speaker. He is also a player in the social media space. He and Deborah Micek (also known as CoachDeb) cowrote Twitter Revolution...

The Twitter footprint into our society has been growing like crazy. Celebrities and news organizations are now parading the word “Twitter” around as part of our normal lexicon. Of course, this means Twitter is a huge communication platform now…for everybody….not just for the early adopters...

It has been said that you never want to upset your customers. However, I’m here to tell you that sometimes there is a place for it. IF you do it strategically… The simple truth of human nature is that controversy works...

Personally, I don’t own a Kindle. I might get one at some point. And I’m not sure what was just announced is going to do anything at all to make the device more attractive, but here it is. You can now submit your blog to Amazon for inclusion on the Kindle...

We all know that it is super important to spend time writing when you are a blogger. After all, everything we talk about (traffic, monetization, etc.) hinges on the fact that you actually have content on your blog that people will want to read, right...

I did a post about how to maximize your video quality. I also did a video showing the exact equipment I use to make videos. But, what happens after that? What happens once I get the footage over to my computer...

This video was filmed way back in January when my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean aboard the Crown Princess, a ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines. In fact, when I talk about how I made over $12,000 from my blog while on a cruise, THIS was the cruise I was on when that happened...