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It All Started With A Blog
If you opted in after watching my Conversion Blogging video you would have received an email from me talking about a podcast interview with a student of mine running a million dollar blog.
My friend’s name is Alborz Fallah and he was one of my very first students and certainly is the most successful. His blog, CarAdvice.com.au is one of the top blogs in all of Australia in any category and competes right along with some of the biggest media companies in the world for the car enthusiast market in the land down under.
His blog gets phenomenal traffic, brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue each year and Alborz has traveled to Europe to drive some of the most prestigious sports cars ever created. His blog became a true business and Alborz has to be one of the luckiest people in the world, living out a passion every single day and earning big money along the way.
What’s really great about this story though, is that Alborz started out just like you and me. He wasn’t sure what topic to write about, so he created three blogs at once to see which one would stick. The car blog got the traffic so he dropped the other two and slowly built up his site off the back of his own content.
I convinced Alborz to test AdSense on his blog after much pestering and he immediately made around $10 per day. Over the next few months his income grew, AdSense reached about $100 a day and he started branching out and testing other forms of advertising.
I don’t know how much his blog generates today, but 12 months ago it was making $30,000 a month, so I expect the site generates at least half a million dollars a year now. I do know the site was professionally audited (necessary when you take on capital investors) and valued at 5 million dollars!
Did I mention during this entire time he was still working a full time job?
It wasn’t until Alborz sold some of his blog to investors and his blog became a real serious business that he finally left his job to focus 100% on growing his project.
Since then Alborz and CarAdvice have gone from strength to strength. He’s knocked back a million dollar buy-out (actually I think he knocked back a couple of offers), he’s had more people join his team contributing articles and he recently told me about a deal just made with one of the major online media companies to supply car related content to their network in Australia. There’s also new branches of the blog opening up in other countries.
It’s truly become a massive enterprise, which all started as an after-hours experiment to see if he could build a popular blog.
There’s A Lot To Learn From This Interview
The interview is very practical, and if you pay close attention you will learn a lot about the specific techniques Alborz implemented early on to grow his traffic. You will also hear the story of how he brought on investors to back his blog and help grow it to the next level.
Here’s some of the most important points to take away from the podcast -
- You can start a blog and choose top level categories in very competitive markets, if you niche it down based on geographical location. In other words, you can start a car blog and target just your country to differentiate it. There’s big bucks to be made as the leading blog in just one country for mainstream subjects.
- When you don’t know what topic to blog about, pick what you think might work and just put something out there and see what happens.
- You can build a significant blog based only on part time labor, if you are dedicated and get things done during the time you have available to work on the project.
- Sometimes, being controversial can do wonderful things for your traffic. Strong opinions will always stick out and grab attention.
- Search engine traffic is very powerful if you just do a few things right, like blog post titles in Alborz’s case.
- Think BIG with your blog, it doesn’t have to be just a small publication - consider taking things to the next level with the help of financial investors.
This is one of the most inspiring blog case studies I know of. I don’t expect everyone to do as well as Alborz, but it’s VERY realistic for you to enjoy even just 10% of Alborz’s success with your blog and make a good living as a result, if you can just commit yourself to the goal for long enough to give yourself a chance of success.
Here are the links to the Interview again -
- Download the MP3 [ 49 Minutes - 22 MB ]
- Download Text Transcript [ 18 Pages - PDF ]
Follow In Alborz’s Footsteps
Join Blog Mastermind
If you have decided to commit yourself to the blogging journey and attempt to replicate the Alborz’s and my own success with blogs, please consider working with me just like Alborz did, and join the Blog Mastermind coaching program. You can sign-up here -
I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did creating it. If you like this style of interview there’s another 10+ interviews with professional bloggers inside Blog Mastermind, which you can download and listen to any time after you join the program.
That’s it from me. I’ll speak to you again soon.
Yaro Starak
Blog Coach
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What a remarkable interview. Job well done Yaro.
I got a ton of ideas from this podcast and I’m out to implement them in my business, on all my blogs - at once!
Thank you Yaro.
I’m looking forward to your mastermind opening.
.. Best!
Yes, and I have even been holding my breath when reading this post. Just downloaded the .pdf, i am going to read it now. ewh.. so inspiring. please someone help me breathing
thank you Yaro for sharing us this success story. even i don’t take your class, i am a big lurker of this site. and i am ready to apply your tips on my blog.
thank you thank you, u’re the best.
your student have proven it!
Thank you very, very much for making a transcript available. As a non-native English speaker, I usually have a hard time trying to understand what native speakers say in podcasts and videos. So, written material is what I always look for.
Now I’m going to download the PDF file.
Hey Yaro
Just listening to the interview now…
I’m about 18 minutes through, and what’s really struck me so far about Al’s success is that he focussed on writing in his in own voice and writing about stuff that he was really interested in.
Sounds like a neat recipe for success!
Gideon Shalwick
I am looking forward to listening to the podcast later today. My Beijing blog is just starting to take off the past week and its getting some mentions in the media. You can compete in competitive niches if you provide a slightly different angle. Social media has also been great to promote the blog.
I wasn’t expecting to see my face on the front page of Yaro’s blog today…!
A big thanks to Yaro for pushing me in the right direction when I needed it the most.
Thank you Yaro, great podcast, very informative. I personally didn’t have much success until I started using Glyphius.
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What an inspiring post. I hope to one day achieve even a fraction of that kind of success. Listening to his story and yours makes blogging for a living seem like a very possible and doable concept. I’m not quite clear on how he built his traffic initially, but I did get some good ideas from the podcast.
Kim
What an informative interview.
Every time I don’t feel like posting or working on my blog, I think of people like Alborz Fallah.
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Still fighting with my blogs and looking for the right content but testimonies like these give me confidence that soon my blogs will see the light!
Thanks Yaro!
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Hey, I have a blog that makes $100 a day from Adsense… those millions must be right around the corner, hah!
Thanks for the interview, Yaro (and Alborz). I have a roadtrip Saturday and have downloaded it to listen to then (more interesting than the two stations I can get driving across the state :P).
Great to see there is an MP3 download.
I have trouble viewing the podcasts and the vodcasts online; they usually stop after say 5 minutes. I have a 1.5 MBit ADSL link so I think there is a bottleneck some place up the line.
Please provide downloads as an option for all future content.
I enjoy listening and watching your material.
thanks
Barry
A very impressive story. We ar still fighting with our blogs . It seem’s to be easier to manage a blog well in Australia or USA than in Germany. But we try try to improve our blog daily.
What a great story, these are the types of stories that we need to hear to propell us forward to success, and remind us that anything is possible!
Thanks,
JR
Hey Yaro
Just listening to the interview, Yach this is recipe for success, Thank you so much
Hi Yaro / Alborz
Great interview, great tips, great passion.
What struck me the most was Alborz’s dedication in the face of adversity (i.e. Google ban). I like the way he just kept going - that is the main thing I’ll be taking away from this interview.
Thanks to you both
Yaro
Thank you for the podcast with Alborz, very interesting and informative. Yaro, you too can do the same just to a different level, bring it up for listing in the stock exchange. GOOD LUCK !!! from Singapore’s fengshui expert.
Wow Yaro what a great interview !
Thank’s for sharing it with us
I thought it was very inspiring and motivating reading what Al’s blog went through. Also thanks for providing it as a downloadable pdf file, as Karen noticed it is easier for non english native speakers to read it.
Greetings Benjamin
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I will definitely be listening to this…thanks for posting it, I will post my thoughts after I listen.
Great Stuff. This is what inspires new bloggers like me to keep up their spirits.
It’s great to see someone succeed in such a big way. Thanks and good luck to both of you.
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Great Interview. I loved it. Full of ideas and very motivating.
Great success story! Really gets you motivated !
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent interview Yaro. You really are “the bloggers blogger” in case you haven’t heard.
I’ve implemented several of the ideas from the interview already.
Keep up the great work.
Luke
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Very informative podcast. I have to listen to it again.
A remarkable and inspiring story and interview.
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There are so many sites out there about making money blogging that it is difficult to truly know if it is for real. From examples like this it all seems to be real after all.
Wow, Yaro, that guy is truly inspiring.
So much benefit from good hard work.
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wow, quite an inspiring and motivating article. I believe everyone is not that lucky, but at least everyone give it a try.. hereby i too would like to try to become the next Alborz Fallah ..
Wow… that is an amazing story and a true inspiration. It helps to read success stories as it motivates me to continue my passion to build a nice blog.
Thanks for the post and review!
wow it’s very interesting article…keep a good job..thx
A excellent interview. Thanks alot for sharing.
Great article and very inspirational for newer bloggers trying to go “pro”.
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The power of the blogs in recent years is truly outstanding. I guess no one could ever imagine this in 1998 and that was only 10 years ago. I’m eager to see what we’ll have in 2018?
Congrats Alborz Fallah!
I’m grateful for all I learned from you today. It was the avenue I was searching for during the past couple of years jousting with the internet. Thanks!
I’m a senior and my niche is seniors. I’ll study your material carefully.
If it’s any interest…I live in a small town in the mountains of Arizona.
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