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.

Why should I buy into your Third Tribe paid forum when you don’t even take time to be social on your own blog; your home that bares your given name? As part of the “baby jesus” clan, you should practice what you preach no?

You admit your failure as a social media expert when you say: (see post here)

Now, given that 45,000 people get this blog sent to them daily, and that another 170,000 people swing by the site at least once every month, and given that I’m good for usually 20 or so comments a post…

You basically begged the lurkers to post comments in this post recently, and you got 750+ comments which is great considering your average is less than 20. But you did not take the time to even respond to one comment that I could see!

Wouldn’t this have been one of those rare moments when your social side could have been used to really pull in the loyalty of these lurkers who took time to heed your call and comment?

But you were too busy with other things I guess. Too busy to be social. Being social is just about you and your wants isn’t it?

This is the impression you have been giving off for quite some time dude.

Sorry, no Third Tribe for me, not from what I see. Chris Brogan = FAIL!

To my regular readers, this is a DO Follow blog and interaction is encouraged. Pretty simple: this blog is for you and about you and designed to help you! (just no more beer and f-bombs LOL) 

More interesting reading…

Third Tribe Review

Third Tribe Marketing Information

Hyper Aggressive Marketing Andy Beard Style

Third Tribe Is Useless

Online Marketing, Make Money Online, Third Tribe Marketing?

Splork’s Take On Alpha Bloggers

1) Darren Rowse On Sea Turtles: a wonderful and inspiring post on how we bloggers can learn how to better improve our content and reader engagement by studying the super kewel and majestic sea turtle.

2) Gary Vaynerchuk samples Mexican Tap Water: Gary hit a homerun here by displaying the balls to sniffy sniff, whirl and comment on the wonderful water in Mexico. ..a must see Thunder Show.

Today, however, we bring in Courtney Tuttle to reveal to us some of his upcoming plans. In case you don’t know, he is a founding partner in The Keyword Academy and has written some very helpful posts on 100 HubPages In 30 Days and also 100 Blog Posts In 30 days.  In those posts, he shows you how to make money by just posting ass-loads of good content, but it hinges on KEYWORDS. Now watch the vid and see what Court has in store for us in the near future…

Stay tuned, because our next interview is gonna be with Griz!!!

I promised you some links so you could learn more so here goes.
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Learn about HyperLocal Blogging and Citizen Journalism on Steve’s blog.

I mentioned that Steve also made up a cool intro for my blog. I will get that posted later this week once I get some info about my video editing software that seems to be not working. (long story)