Celebrity Blogger Murray Newlands Join Famous Bloggers Club
Famous Bloggers today is honored by having Murray Newlands on our Famous Bloggers club, Murray is a very interesting guy, he is one of the Famous guys on the blogosphere and has an awesome fan club and it’s very active for you people if you would like to join. I am actually amazed by the success Murray have done is a very short time since he started blogging, so let’s enjoy the moment and say hi to our new friend!
Q. Tell the world something about yourself and what you do in life?
Murray: I have been working in online marketing for over 10 years much of that in affiliate marketing. I started out as a lawyer and hated it, but I love online marketing. I started my first blog in spring 2009, couple of posts went nowhere. I then started my blog MurrayNewlands.com late spring 2009 and it has really taken off beyond my expectations. I still have what I think of as a day job running my own affiliate network but blogging is catching up. I have just been short listed to the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards for blogger of the year, not bad for my first year as a blogger. Shawn Collins and Missy Ward are wonderful people. I am up against two very well known blogger who have been blogging for years Geno Prussakov and Shoemoney.com, I am honored to be listed beside them.
I love connecting with people, please do connect with me @murraynewlands or at my Facebook fan page.
Q. What was the story behind your Blog?
Murray: I only found out what a blog was in 2009! I was asked to do some social media outreach for an affiliate marketing client. I asked a friend of mine at Affiliate Summit about blogging, Steve Hall, he runs Adrants.com . When he told me he gets 15,000 people a day and makes a living out of it I was shocked. I also meet Heather Smith, she is a review blogger, Izea insider and blog mistress at Affiliate Summit, Heather has been a inspiration (and co conspirator) ever since. Late October 2009 Eric Schechter from blog.clickbooth.com noticed my blog, Clickbooth coming on as an advertiser and the interaction we have had have been great. I have learned a lot from him and that relationship. Recently I took on Connie Roberts from BrainFoggles as a writer on my blog, she has been wonderful.
Q. Have you earned any money from been a Blogger?
Murray: Firstly I started blogging as a means of communications, not for the money but. I love blogging. The possibility of making money from my blog only came latter. I am grateful to those who have supported my blog taking banner space and more recently get consulting from my blog. What I have learned if that you need to alight your audience and conversation with that of potential advertisers. Simultaneously you want to engage your potential advertisers and their competitors. Advertisers are attracted to join conversations with their audiences. It is all about the conversation.
Q. Would you tell us about ONE of your famous posts?
Murray: I rank well for both famous blogger and celebrity blogger LOL. I also have a Blog Fan Club, I think it is important to enable fans to express themselves, I wrote a post about it here Blog Fan Club. One of my highest traffic posts is Top 10 Social Media Monitoring Tools it is a buzz topic and a very interactive crowed.
Q. If I asked you to suggest ONE Blogger friend to send him/her a Famous Blogger Club invitation, who you will suggest?
Murray: Only one, just one does not seem fair, I know so many great bloggers, many of who are famous in their own niche. Anyone of the bloggers I have mentioned above would easily fit. One of the bloggers who inspired me early on was Arial Adams of ABlogToRead, he also writes for several other blogs. He is the Gary Vaynerchuk of the watch world. This spring he became a full time blogger. People send him watches worth $$$$$$$$ for free, to review. He is a geek and collects them I was saying ebay ebay ebay. He told me that this year things have taken off for him. Seiko flew him from San Fransisco to Japan to see them! He has started a podcast HourTimeShow with John Biggs of CrunchGear fame.
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It is a very nice and informative post.Thanks for sharing your knowledge on creating wealth.You well explained the post.
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A colleague of mine asked me to check out your site 2 weeks ago, since we both enjoy exactly the same stuff (yeah we’re close friends, clone heads, been more than 18 yearz) and I seriously got to say that Im greatly stunned. My friend and I were considering to start a similar blog just like yours, however, we have had some problems. First, neither of us both is a tech-savvy person, secondly, we dont actually know where to start from. I know loads of people managed to get their dotcoms on the web just recently (due to cheap prices, etc.) but we are still having struggles. I would honestly appreciate it if you recommend us a place to start from, because we don’t have a clue LOL. Honestly it sucks being 31 year old internet-literate. or should I say DOTCOM literates?
Hi! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my good old room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Many thanks for sharing!
Murray has been a true inspiration for me too. Thanks Murray. Keep up the good work.
One of the best things that’s happened to me in the world of blogging is writing with Murray. He’s an inspiration. He’s one of the hardest workers I know yet he still knows how to have a good time, a really good time! He truly is about connecting with and working with people to help them grow their blogs and businesses.
Thanks for this brilliant interview from a great blogger i just want to say Welcome aboard the club had a sneak peep at your blog before finishing this comment great blog great blogger welcome again
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Murray Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
@lawmacs, Thank you
Murray´s last blog ..Cashflow Club at Affiliate Summit
Murray has been a true inspiration for me. He is always striving to learn more about the blogging world and to teach others. Need an idea or help with promotion? Murray is the man!
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admin Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Hello @Heather in BC, Murray has oepned the doors for me to get to know great people like you!
I love coming here and discovering bloggers I hadn’t read before. Just followed Murray on Twitter (@kbloemendaal) and am headed over to his blog now, thanks.
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admin Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hey @Keith, Thank for the visit buddy! I want to engage with you more.. I just have tons of things to day but I will very soon have some time to enjoy the read of your awesome blog!
Murray Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
@Keith, Thank you
Murray´s last blog ..Cashflow Club at Affiliate Summit
Thank you for the opportunity to do this interview
Murray´s last blog ..Affiliate Window Sentiment who is talking about you