Branding David

Over the last few months, I have been working on some documents that distill various things I have learned over the last few years regarding blogging. In the end, I have come up with three e-books, two of which will be exclusive to Branding David Members, and one that I will be giving to members, but also to those outside of the community.

Building a Basic Blog

Building a Basic Blog – From Nothing to Profitable, is a twenty-one page e-book focusing on giving the broad strokes of what to consider when creating a blog. From hosting and domains to advertising and new sources. This book is aimed at those that are considering adding a blog to their business or marketing plan. If you have an idea, and don’t know how to proceed, Building a Basic Blog should help.

Social Media Promotion

Dedicated to promoting content, Social Media Promotion covers the various popular sites that people submit their content to, what type of users interact there, and what kind of traffic you can expect. It also makes sure to point out monetization strategies related to traffic coming from social media sites. This book comes in at nineteen pages and will help those that don’t understand Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and other great sites.

Sacred Secrets of Blog Monetization

My favourite of the three e-books, Sacred Secrets of Blog Monetization – The Often Missing Information is a twenty-four page e-book that covers everything I’ve learned about monetization on the web.

If you want to make money from your blog, this is the e-book to read. It covers information that I have never seen other people push out publicly, as well as my own inspirational stories of selling advertising. I feel like this e-book alone is worth joining Branding David Members.

What is Branding David Members?

I wanted to be able to work with people, consult for them on various things, but my hourly rates were just too high for the type of clients that needed help, and so rather than lower my rates to work furiously for a number of great clients, and still be without a home, I decided to create a forum where I could consult with people in a public manner, and share tips, tricks and information with a close knit group of people.

There is also information that would be quickly diluted by the masses if thousands or tens of thousands of bloggers took advantage of it, and so limiting the community was a way to keep every tip and idea created within the community as powerful and useful as possible.

Branding David Members is a private forum of no more than 50 active participants that costs only $25 per month or $250 per year. For those registering for a year in advance, you also get an hour of my consulting time, where I will help you with your blogs, websites, or online marketing strategies. You will want to register soon though as on July 2nd, 2009, the price will go up, and only those that get in before then will be able to continue at their grandfathered rate.

This also means that by signing up, you’ll be one of the few that will have access to these great e-books.

Free E-Book

As I said in the start of this post, one of these three e-books will be made available free from a variety of different blogs, and is free for you to give away to your own readers, and that is my second e-book, Social Media Promotion (right click and select save as…).

While I, personally, consider this the weakest of the three books, I also know that it will be the most useful to newer bloggers that are looking to improve their traffic and monetization strategies.

Notes: For those on Mac’s, please install Adobe Acrobat Reader or download the lower-quality version as Preview had issues with the original version compiled. The Social Media Promotion e-book is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Kudos: A big thanks goes to Tom Leroux, Blue Rain Creative, and my friends and family.