by cameron | Jul 28, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
I had breakfast this morning with Mr Problogger himself, Darren Rowse. Darren is one of the highest earning professional bloggers out there. In May 2005 he made $10,000 from Google Adsense in a single month (and, yes, he shouted breakfast!!!)! He’s also the guy behind the following blogs:
ProBlogger
Digital Photography Blog
LivingRoom
As you’ll hear in the interview, Darren’s a former Baptist minister and a really nice bloke. And I’m not just saying that because he bought brekky! It’s great to see a Melbourne boy showing the rest of the world that you can make a living out of blogging and still be a nice guy!
UPDATE: Darren tells me he actually made $14500 in May!
by cameron | Jul 15, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
Hey Folks! I’m very excited about this show, even more excited than usual. This week I’ve got an interview with my good mate Anthony Joseph! Now, Anthony, or AJ as he’s known by his many friends, was a colleague of mine at Microsoft. He worked there 15 years in all and was highly respected by everyone – especially by his customers. AJ was one of the most experienced account managers at Microsoft and had a string of “firsts” to his name – not just with Microsoft in Australia, but with Microsoft worldwide. For example, the very first “Enterprise Agreement” Microsoft ever sold was one AJ structured with our largest telco in Australia. He was also the first person in Australia to take the entire Board of Directors of a leading Aussie company (our largest retailer) over to Redmond for a sit-down with the bosses. Now, when you realize it’s a 24 hour journey from Melbourne to Redmond, you may appreciate what kind of an event that is.
Anyway, in his last couple of years at Microsoft, AJ lead the development of a consultative sales program called the ‘i360″ which was a world first and has had a significant impact on the way Microsoft account teams can add value to their enterprise customers. AJ has since retired from Microsoft and is in the process of writing a book on his sales process.
He is also – get this – one of the co-founders and a director of a Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Melbourne which was opened by the Dalai Lama a couple of years ago, a long-term practicioner of yoga, and attended an experimental secondary school in Melbourne called “ERA” where he practically NEVER attended class.
These stories and more on this show.
by cameron | Jun 21, 2005 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Patron #8 is Matt Trentini! I met Matt for the first time at the Melbourne Bloggers Catch-up last week! Matt expressed his concerns about our business model on his blog recently which I appreciated. I love it when smart people like Matt help out testing our thinking. At Microsoft we referred to it as “Precision Questioning”. I love it. So I know Matt’s contribution is mostly because he figures we’re going to end up on the street and he doesn’t want that on his conscience!
Thanks Matt, that’s very generous of you dude!
by cameron | Feb 1, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:20 The Australian National Anthem 02:00 What we did for Australia Day 04:45 Mick’s judging the Business Blogging Awards 09:00 Cameron’s infamous IM conversation 17:30 One of us is going to DEMO@15 20:15 The sponsorship auction 25:15 Rant about The Blog Business Summit in Seattle 30:00 Come to G’day World if you have a “scoop” 32:00 Our thoughts on running Google AdSense on your blog 41:30 What to do if you want to be on the show while Cam is in the USA 43:30 Bill Gates’ Teen Beats photos and the Ballmer Windows 1.0 video 46:00 Our current thoughts on Firefox vs IE 56:00 Our current thoughts on iTunes vs Windows Media Player 01:03:30 Amazon referral fees 01:04:45 XDCC Catcher 01:09:00 A quick review of podcasts we’ve done recemtly and upcoming shows 01:09:00 An impromptue rendition of “Waltzing Matilda”
Note from Mick: its the start of a new month…and you know what that means don’t you???…thats right, the bandwidth counter has been reset..yah….sooo….the podcasts will start coming out fast and strong ppl so you better hold onto your iPods… 😉
by cameron | Jan 18, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:30 Xmas: One of us went to the Gold Coast 02:30 The Religion podcast idea 05:00 Xmas: One of us went to Melbourne 06:00 Micks home office set-up 08:00 The MYOB scam 08:30 Micks new VOIP phone from Engin 13:30 Micks trying to come up with a new business name 18:30 The new Gday World competition for our International listeners – Prize image 1 & 2 24:00 Carl Walker sends an email review 28:00 Micks birthday wishes from the blogosphere 30:00 Jeremy Wright gets fired for blogging 33:00 Is Bill Gates listening to this podcast? 33:20 Brad & Jen Is the concept of marriage officially defunct?? 35:00 Micks experience with Microsofts Anti-Spyware beta 37:00 Gday World gets nominated for some Australian awards thing 40:30 Australias response to the tsunami 41:30 Bill Brysons book The Short History of Nearly Everything & natural disasters 46:00 Aussie slang lesson 51:00 Triple J has started a podcast 52:00 So has Chris Pirillo 53:00 Camerons rant about re-building his PC and Microsofts stupid error messages 58:00 Bill Gates keynote at CES 01:03:15 Our bandwidth hosting problems & prodigm 01:07:00 Upcoming Gday World interviews 01:09:15 Outtro
Note from Mick: Sorry for the delay in getting this show up guys and gals….trying to catch up on a back-log of shows without dumping to many podcasts on you all at once… 🙂
by cameron | Dec 24, 2004 | Melbourne, Podcast
00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:20 Mick and Cam ramble on about a little known Australian animal, ice cream, Mick’s last days at work, On the Pod and a few other things 09:00 The winners of the Dendy free passes 10:30 How to speak Aussie 13:30 Cam’s shrink has heard about podcasting 16:00 Update on Aussie companies blogging (or lack thereof) 20:00 Cam channels Elvis 20:30 Our thoughts on MSN Desktop Search 27:00 One of us makes the switch to Firefox! 30:00 Mindmanager X5 Pro review 35:30 The Right-Click Generation 38:00 The Gday World TV Show??? 39:00 What’s on Google Zeitgeist 44:00 File sharing: eDonkey vs WinMX 45:00 An announcement about a world first. The Gday-a-thon 49:00 New versions of Doppler and Skype 51:30 Skypecasting 59:00 Update on the 2005 Australian Blogging Conference 1:01:00 Walmarts $498 laptop 1:20:00 A quick On the Pod ambush with Marc from mindcaster blog
