Darren Rowse from Problogger.net have just sent me a secret invitation to join his new launch private community forum, he is using his .com domain which is Problogger.com to create this private forum. Darren sent me a secret invitation, it was because I was one of the participants who took part in his “31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge”.
The purpose of Darren creating this private community forum is to focus community of bloggers who come together to learn and work together to grow each others blogs. In the forum, you can share and learn blogging knowledges from other bloggers, you can also build business relationship with anyone else as well. As you know, healthy relationship helps in our online business when it comes to make money online.
When it comes to learning how to make money online, improving your blog is the first step before making money online. You need to improve your blog in term of readership, traffic, and branding, once you have this 3 keys, money will start rolling into your pocket.
Problogger community forum is not free, it’s $1.95 USD per month to join. The reason Darren put a small price to join the community as below :
- He wants it to be moderated and administrated by a paid staff.
- As a small disincentive to spammers and egomaniacs.
- It’s valuable.
- Controlling size.
It makes sense for Darren to do this because it controls the quality of the forum, the bloggers in the forum will be more active to contribute or share ideas and learn something new together.
The best reason to join now is that Darren will be increasing the price in future as he will be adding more features to the forum, if you join now at $1.95 USD per month, the price will be remained the same for you to access to the forum in future. Also, Darren is offering a 50% off discount on the “31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook” on next month for all the registered member.
There is already 1,180 members, 183 threads and 2,015 posts in the forum, so you can now join and be part of the community. Learning from the pro bloggers is great because they will contribute ideas that you’ll never think before, that’s the difference between pro blogger and normal blogger like you and me!
Have you joined the community? If not, are you going to join?
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Problogger community is definitely a best place to hang out for bloggers. It is good to see that he has invited you to join this community. Don’t forget to share your experience with us
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Yeah, I got the email about the launch of the community but I am not 100% sure if I am ready to join a paid community.
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There has been a lot of forum lately which i have come across in the net and they charged for free but then still i also like to join problogger.net as i found them to be resourceful.
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I just joined it..and I do think $1.95 is totally a worth for the qualities of ideas that would be shared …
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The problogger is definitely one we should all be in. One reason id join is nt even for the information being shared but to network and find new friends in the blogging space because people that join here will be serious and committed to blogging.
Darren will and has already made this a success so it’s another great community and resource for us.
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I registered to the forum just after 1 minute when Darren sent out the mail..But I will start my subscription after few days when the forum starts to get highly active.
It’s definitely gonna be a huge success for Darren..
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The forum will be huge for Darren I’m guessing. With his traffic on problogger.net, converted into multiple subscriptions, he’ll be doing really well. I haven’t registered yet, but I probably will do in the near future.
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I also received my email from him. But I don’t think I will subscribe to his forum. Of course, it’s very cheap to subscribe and you can grab th 31DBBB with a 50% off discount, but I already bought this ebook at full price, plus I already applied to many very nice and popular free forums. I think we can find all the informations we want for free. I’m still not sure if I will enter Darren Rowse’s forum, but I once wanted to create a membership forum, as I saw some successful membership forum on the net. I would use 50% to share it with the subscribers into a monthly Contest, and allow people to post about affiliate products if they don’t spam and in a special thread. It’s still under consideration though. I still have a lot of work to do on my blogs.
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@Benjamin,
The best thing in Problogger Community Forum is that he has bunch of pro blogger buddies on the internet, I’m sure most of them will be joining the forum and sharing their knowledge. Yes, you can get all the information online for free, but it saves a lot of your time if all the information have been shared in one forum. Nevertheless, we will need to see the status of Darren’s forum in the coming days and see how’s the performance.
I agree to benjamin but it doesn’t hurt also to put a little money down for investment. As for me, the information is all the same and is scattered through out the internet. We just have to do our part and put some effort.
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Hey Nathan,
You wouldn’t know until you join and test out the community yourself. It could be a better investment and make you money faster than you finding everything yourself…
Hi Kah Hong,
Long time did not come to your site. Your site has change a lot since the last time I drop by. I agree with you that Problogger.com is a great platform for everyone to gather as a community to learn and get together to build better blog. It is a great platform to build relationship. However, it is more towards being a better blogger than an Internet Marketer, which I think is more important when we talk about make money online.
What do you have to say about the following remark made about problogger on MMOFB: Problogger.com is Live and Wants your Money for Doing Nothing.
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@Ong,
Great to see you back here Ong! Everyone knows Darren is a pro blogger who teaches people how to improve their blogs, the best thing is that most of the established blogger (Darren’s friends) would join his community forum and most probably they will share their experiences on the forum, so we will get the full advantages of this.
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Its definitely a great forum although I have some little doubts about it which I have already written in my blog..
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I made my decision not to join the network just now after reading others feedback here. Thanks guy
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I think I’ll stick to thewarriorforum, digitlapoint, bloggeries, blogengage etc… Private forums are really defeating the purpose or marketing creating backlinks as SE’s will not be able to crawl the web.
Too bad he didn’t do it for free he would had done amazing.
I still might sign up to see whats going on eventually.
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I have joined Darren community and must say its good place to learn anything. Since most of people there are bloggers and webmasters, so discussions are very much relative … I will suggest 1.95$ is not a big thing, since you are going to get all your answers there along with free website promotion by your siggy..
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@Harsh Agrawal,
Yea, it’s like a library that keeps all the relevant information, you just need to go in and read the content. I believe that Darren does have a lot of pro blogger buddies who join the forum and share their experience. $1.95 is definitely a killer price, I’ve seen you made a lot of money from your blog and services, well done Harsh!
I got the invitation also..Do you join the forum???
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You don’t have to spend $2 to get related blogging issues JUST GOOGLE IT Then all information related to blogging from A to Z exposed extensively there. This forum is such of a waste time & money.
Darren just wants your money let alone he will increase the monthly membership price after promotion period end up, take it as an advice folks, remember there are uncounted forums spread out throughout the net they are great forums & free!!!
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@Sean,
Darren will not open the forum just for money, the forum has approximately 2000 members, he will get $2000 and you know $2000 is definitely a small figure for him, he will need to use the money to pay the administrator and moderator. If you sign up $2 per month now, the price will be remained as $2 per month even though he increases the price in future.
Yes, you can get all information from the internet for free, but you’ll need to spend time to search all them, I believe that Problogger Community Forum does have a lot of pro bloggers (perhaps Darren’s friends) and all the pro information insides a forum, it saves a lot of your time. But that’s fine if you save the $2, it depends on how you think about it.
Thanks for your comment here Sean, I appreciate it. See you again!
Hey guys I wanted to give an update!
I signed up to the forums and it turns out to be a great community. Check out my latest post!
http://www.seomkt.com/why-i-joined-darren-rowses-pro-blogger-forum-community/
Cheers,
Brian
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@bbrian,
Thanks a lot for sharing the post bbrian, it’s really worth joining since the price is only $1.95 per month right now.
Join now before the price goes up.
Paying such a small fee to to help maintain the forum’s quality is the least we as members can do. Excellent idea.