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days to overnight

success by chris guillebeau

an unconventional journey to full-time writing
How I Became a Full-Time Writer in 279 Days
The Complete Revenue Estimate for my Personal Site in 2009
The World Domination Strategy for Establishing Your Brand
Avoiding the Vampires Who Want You to Fail
Why Adsense (and most other Web Advertising) Sucks
How to Stay Off the Digg Home Page and Still Get All the Traffic You Need

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© 2009 Chris Guillebeau
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Table of Contents
PART I: How to Become a
ProBlogger in 10 Months

Introduction
What Does Success Look Like?
Show Me the Money
World Domination Strategy
Big Mistakes

PART II: Fire Google and
Hire Yourself

Why Adsense Sucks
How to Get Paid for Meeting the Needs of Your Followers
Listening
Examples
Scaling Up

PART III: Short Notes on
Vampires, Rule-Breaking,
Email Lists, etc.

The Vampire Chronicles
Hard Work and Working for Free
Logistics
Wrap-Up: Go and Be Awesome

www.chrisguillebeau.com/3x5

How to Become
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a Problogger in
10 months introduction what does success look like show me the money world Domination Strategy big mistakes


279 Days to Overnight Success

Introduction
This is the story of how I created a new career in social media for myself in less than one year. More importantly, the personal story is a case study other writers and artists can use to build a community and create a full-time income in approximately the same amount of time — by doing exactly what they like to do.
A funny thing happened the other day. I woke up and discovered that
I am now a full-time writer. Wow — I’ve become a ProBlogger, without putting ads on my site, praying that an article will get ranked highly on
Digg, posting five times a day, or many other conventional blogging
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