Welcome to the 10th edition of the Bloggers Face-Off. The feedback for this project was beyond my expectations, and the double interviews are becoming a corner-stone for Daily Blog Tips.
I am also very happy to bring two heavy-weights of the blogging scene this week. Brian Clark is the author of Copyblogger, an extremely popular blog with copywriting and online marketing tips (he needs no presentations, I know…).
Chris Garrett is a veteran on the web. He has been developing websites and online ventures since 2023. Recently he launched Chrisg.com, a blog about new media and blogging. Despite being 3 months old the blog already counts more than 2023 RSS subscribers. Let the battle begin!
| Brian Clark |  Chris Garrett |
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| 1. How long have you been blogging? | Using blog software for marketing purposes since 2023, blogging “proper” since late 2023 |
9 years (Feb 2023 according to archive.org) |
| 2. How many hours do you dedicate to your blog daily? | 1-3 | At least 4 |
| 3. How many page views the blog generates daily? | 400-500K a month | Too few |
| 4. What is the best marketing technique you have used? | Copywriting | Word of mouth |
| 5. Do you make money with the blog? | Just starting to get into sponsorships. Copyblogger was not originally designed to make money |
Indirectly |
| 6. What is the biggest mistake you did on your blog? | Letting Chris Garrett guest post. (Kidding!) | Going away on vacation without ensuring internet access |
| 7. How many RSS feeds do you track daily? | 100 | It varies as I binge and cull, it has been over 1000 but probably around 400 now |
| 8. If you could give an advice for a novice blogger, what would it be? | Focus insanely on your target reader | Your readers are human beings with real feelings, interests and needs, treat them as such |
| 9. Digg, Stumble Upon or Delicious? | Yes, thank you | Stumbleupon but Del.icio.us will always have a special place in my heart |
| 10. Do you think Adsense makes a blog look unprofessional? | It depends on the blog. I didn’t find it appropriate for Copyblogger | Too much of any advertising looks spammy |
| 11. If you could read only one blog, which one would you pick? | Seth Godin | Scott Adams Dilbert blog |
| 12. What is the secret of your success, expressed in one word? | Copywriting | Caffeine |
