Some of you may wonder what I am doing with this post. I need you to trust me, there will be a lesson and case study here. There will be a followup post about a week after this one that will relate back here. For now, check out this guy, The InfoPreneur.
Ok, so I am featuring a guy (I call him the Info Dude) who likes to drive website traffic, James, the InfoPreneur. If you read his posts, you will find that he is a pure blogger, not an internet marketer. He posts often twice per day! He’s very new in the blogging space and loves networking and social media. Most of that is NOT what I do or teach here on this blog. However, James has one thing that is incredibly inspiring to me, and it is something that no matter how hard I try, I can’t teach other people. That thing is DRIVE! James is a bulldog on a piece of meat; he’s stink on shiz, he is pure fire and fired up all at the same time. He will succeed because he won’t quit and I respect that greatly! It’s something that just can’t be taught, but I think some facets of it can be caught! …but you need to be around people like James in order to catch their fire… that is why I comment there often.
Below are some basic questions I asked him. Check it…
1) real name
James http://www.theinfopreneur.net/
2) age
29
3) what do you do in the real world for your job?
Drive Trucks, used to be a physical training instructor in the military for 10 years.
4) when did you start your blog?
October 27th 2009, 3 months ago
5) why did you start it?
Because I was sick of seeing the same information over and over again and had a pure passion for motivating people, PTI in the military I guess.
6) what is your goal? (money, fame, fun, friends) Have you made any money?
I want to start making a full time living from my online activity and achieve a book deal.
7) do you have any other sites/blogs
I have resisted the urge to start a few other sites, I have tons of ideas, but I know the site won’t do as well as it is now if I split my attention.
traffic stats
3,950+ unique visitors, 75,000 page views with 41,700 from spiders.
9) total search engine only visits by month
476 visit via search engines, with firefox being the top used browser.
10) number of posts on your blog
180+ posts with 3000+ comments, the most being 93 on one post.
11) main topic/focus of your blog
I guess it’s motivation and quick ways to drive traffic to your site or business.
12) give me a quote that inspires you
“Your past doesn’t determine your destination, just influences the way you travel.”
– There were times as kid I was homeless and had an abusive upbringing, i have no education and shoulnd’t be where I am, but here i am a dumb ass like me is doing it, that’s my motivation, to make sure my family never have to go through what I did.
13) what motivates you to continue your blog?
I work a 60hr week in my paid job, I want to be able to spend all my time with my family and make the future financially secure, plus I love it when I get great comments on the site, as someone with has no qualifications it’s great to hear people call me a writer.
14) best advice you have for newbies
Write and promote, write and promote.
15) 3 of your favorite posts on your site
The Shocking Truth, Treat Your Website as a Sniper Rifle and are you running too many websites?
16) who is your online mentor, why?
I have a few, I have been likened to Gary V in the way I work in the site etc, I actually quite like ’some’ aspects of David Risley etc. Instead of learning everything from one person I ’save and delete’ what I like from each person I come across and ignore the rest.
17) where do you see yourself in 2 years? 5 years?
Good question, All I know that in a years time I want to be working from home having been able to replace my current wages, with a book deal on the horizon. 2 years time?… retired, 5 years time? buying my first boat!
I would encourage many of you to head over and say “hello” to James and leave him a comment or 4. But before you do that, get my RSS feed so you can see the followup to this post and learn a little something about links. Stay tuned.
