By Jim Kukral • March 22, 2007 • Blogging, Content, Copyblogger, Copywriting, Gurus, Making Money Online, Online Marketing • 2578 Comments2007-03-22+21%3A59%3A47Jim+Kukral

I’m starting a new feature here on my blog where I’m going to call out some online friends of mine or people that I admire, and ask them to answer questions for me, and you, that we all want to hear. Whether or not they’ll answer I’m not sure, but I’m going to ask. If I do call you out, go ahead and blog about it on your own blog or leave a comment below with your answer.

So for my first victim, I call out the Copyblogger himself, Brian Clark.

Question: Brian, you mentioned here that “you were an unknown a year or so ago”.

Now I look at your blog and see close to 15k rss subscribers and tons of traffic & comments, all in a short year.

How did you do that? It can’t just be about good writing. I know lots of good writers. How did you become so successful so quickly?

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Business Around A Lifestyle

The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.

That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?

Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.

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Tony→
March 22, 2007 at 6:08 pm #

I think he mentioned it somewhere on his blog. He published an ebook or something like that which was given away with, or bundled with a Joe Vitale product that did bongo-bongo business — naturally it had his blog’s URL in there too.

Joint Ventures are awesome ;)
(and if I have the details wrong, perhaps Brian can correct me).

Cheers
t @ dji
Brian Clark→
March 22, 2007 at 7:20 pm #

Yes, that was one thing. :)

Post forthcoming.
ranmax→
June 9, 2007 at 6:16 am #

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Megalol→
June 15, 2007 at 6:35 am #

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liza→
June 15, 2007 at 5:10 pm #

Thanks for quite useful info! :)
howell→
June 15, 2007 at 6:48 pm #

â€œDear CopyBlogger, How Did Your Blog Become So Successful, So Fast?â€

Can u give answer? ;)))
jojo45→
June 16, 2007 at 3:38 pm #

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