I introduced the blog mentoring program Become A Blogger by publishing The Roadmap To Become A Blogger post early in December 2008. This week I have been informed by Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak that they are closing their doors to this course because so far 850 people signed up and the course is becoming too popular.

They say they want to focus their energies on their existing members, and getting too many members may negatively affect the quality of the course .  If you still want to get in before they shut the doors indefinitely on Friday, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:59pm USA EST, you better head on over to the following page before it is too late:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=merkal2005&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

Become A Problogger

I quit my job last July, and become a problogger. Many readers are still asking me how I managed to quit my full time marketing job after 10 years, while still paying a serious monthly mortgage debt. In this post I would like to share the key turning points in my blogging career.

• Joined Blog Mastermind: I joined Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind blog mentoring program in August 2008. It was a paid program, and I nearly paid $400 for 6 months. Now I see that it was a wise decision to enroll the program. I learned a lot from Yaro’s course. He gave me a very solid road map to blogging success.

Quite often I receive Congratulations messages from beginner level bloggers. It seems like an amazing achievement what I have done so far with my blog within 6 months from their point of view. Actually it was 5% luck, and 95% hardworking.

Yeah, I was just another blogger from Dec 2006 till Sep 2007. I was using Blogger.com. Look at my blog with the boring blogspot extension : Meeting-Continents. I used to write paid reviews from PayPerPost, Reviewme, Smorty etc with that blog. I was making $20-30 per day with paid reviews. On the other hand I was writing about my lovely city Istanbul.

Even though I was making good money, I realized that writing paid reviews was taking so much time. I had no time left for social life, because i was working for a full time job, and then at nights i was chasing for paid review opportunities to write. I started to think about smarter ways to make money online.

I was so lucky that i somehow got an invitation from Yaro Starak for his Blog Mastermind blog mentoring program. At that time i knew little about Yaro. I started reading his blog before giving the final decision.

I found what Yaro wrote on his blog very valuable and remarkable. His English was clear, and his posts was very instructive. I decided to write him an email to get familiar with him.

He responded very quickly, and told me more about his program via an email exchange. Well, i found him very honest and trusted him. I decided to sign up with Blog Mastermind in August 2007.

I finished Blog Mastermind in Jan 2008. It totally changed my point of view to blogging. I learned the blogging concepts from A to Z, improved my blog writing and online marketing skills, developed very good relationships with other bloggers. I found my role in the blogosphere.

As a Blog Mastermind graduate, now I know that it is not impossible to become a problogger if you follow a very well written road map. All you need is dedication, hardworking, and a mentor to guide you.

However, the mentoring programs in the blogosphere are not affordable by many bloggers. So what should we do to help you ?

I said we, because i talked with my partner Yagiz Nizipli on how to help a small blogger find his/her way to become a problogger. If you don’t remember Yagiz, please read this New Kid On the Search For Blogging

Finally, we agreed with Yagiz on providing problogging mentoring up to 5 bloggers per quarter. We name this coaching program as Problog Mentoring.

If you followed my blog since the beginning, you will easily remember that i did not put money on the first place since the beginning. I will provide Problog Mentoring completely for free.

The only requirement is buying the hosting service from us so that we earn $70 affiliate commission from Voda Host or $105 affiliate commission from GoDaddy per hosting package. Fair enough, isn’t it?

I use Voda Host for Search For Blogging since the beginning. Until today i am very satisfied with their service quality. For only $7,95 per month you get 600 Gb space and 6000 Gb Bandwidth. One free domain name is also included in their hosting package. So you don’t need to pay for your first registered domain name. They have 24/7 support service as well. For more details please check Voda Host

GoDaddy is the most popular hosting service provider, and i am sure you all know it very well.

We mainly target small/beginner bloggers who are willing to earn their living by blogging, yet do not know how to switch to WordPress, the most popular problogging platform in the blogosphere.

Here is what you will get in return for buying just an annual hosting package:

Problog Mentoring – Package 1

• Mentoring on deciding the right domain name for your targeted niche
• WordPress installation, help on importing your previous posts into your WordPress blog
• Mentoring on how to use your WordPress blog effectively
• Mentoring on finding the best WordPress theme for your blog
• Installation of necessary WordPress plugins for your blog
• Weekly tailor made blogging lessons for you
• Promotion of you and your blog in Bloghology
• Free Access to private membership sections(coming soon!) of Search For Blogging Forum
• Rewiew and promotion of your blog on Search For Blogging

Problog Mentoring – Package 2

In addition to the features in Package 1, we will provide below services as Package 2 for bloggers with low budget in return for an annual hosting package:

• Additional tables in your WordPress design including useful/popular posts, recent posts. etc only for $15.
• Discussion forum installation into your blog for $15.
• Custom WordPress theme design $50.

You are still free to ask for additional tables only and pay us $15. Or you may consult us to customize your WordPress theme and pay $50. You don’t need to buy an annual hosting package if you only need the services provided in Package 2 seperately. But we suggest you to take full advantage of Problog Mentoring.

If you are interested in Problog Mentoring, please sign up using the form below:

After signing up, please introduce yourself and your blog in Search For Blogging Forum

We want to work with passionate bloggers who are willing to work hard for their problogging dream to come true. We will pick the bloggers based on their introduction message in Search For Blogging Forum

Our seats are limited to 5 bloggers for the next 3 months. So please hurry up if you are interested in Problog Mentoring. We will launch problogmentoring.com soon!