How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it. Whether you are interested in creating an additional income stream or building a fully-fledged business, this is an essential read for web entrepreneurs and online publishers. Collis is a web veteran with a wealth of experience and an easy to read style. He has founded sites such as the Tuts+ network, the Envato Marketplaces, FreelanceSwitch and AppStorm which combined serve up over 50 million pageviews a month. In How to Build a Successful Blog Business Collis shares tips from his years of operating kick ass blogs, and reveals stats, graphs, revenue figures and inside details from three real world case studies. Nowhere else will you be able to find information like this. Step behind the scenes of Envato's wildly successful sites and find out how you build blogs that are both profitable and popular. This is the must-read book on blogging business.

Ranked in the Top 1000 sites by Alexa, Tuts+ is a network of nine tutorial blogs teaching everything from Photoshop to Photography.

With over 250,000 RSS subscribers and reaching over 4 million visits a month, the Tuts+ network is without doubt the market leader in its niche.

In How to Build a Successful Blog Business you will learn how the network grew from the original Psdtuts blog into a multi-million dollar blog business that is both respected and loved around the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Co-founder of Envato, Collis has been designing and building websites for many years for small sites and large, mom and pop businesses, multinational corporations and governmental organisations.

His work has been featured on numerous design and CSS galleries including BestWebGallery, WebCreme, CSSRemix, CSSMania, TheBestDesigns, and many more.

Collis has an easy to read style of writing, and his tutorials at Psdtuts+ and Nettuts+ have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of Photoshop and Web Design enthusiasts.

Collis is also co-author of several Rockable Press books and is passionate about teaching and training others