2009 Planning Guide - My Gift To You!Big Blog Beginnings - Courtney Tuttle
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Wooo, we’ve hit the jackpot this week with a couple of quick emails to some of the big names of blogging. Not only are we going to provide you boys and girls with some entertaining stories, we’re also gonna take it easy because we managed to trick those A-listers to write their posts for us 
Make sure you keep track of this here little blog of ours, and not miss the series of articles that reveal how the big bloggers started out in the blogosphere. Sure beats having to listen to us eh Israel?
Some of the names that will pass through here are Jim Kukral, John Chow (If he ever stops counting his money and gets off his lazy ass to write that article he promised!), Kumiko, DoshDosh and today we’re starting out with Courtney Tuttle, the only other blogger we know who has a parody site in his honor!
Camera’s rolling aaaaaand action!
Who could resist participating in a project on the infamous John Cow’s site? When Mr. Cow asked me if I would share how I got started with blogging I agreed instantly. So, I’m here to tell you all how I got started.
A Lucky Break Started It All
While at a barbecue with some friends, I was approached about an internet marketing job. I wasn’t really looking for a job, but decided to go in for an interview just to check it out. I didn’t have any experience at the time but have always been above average on anything to do with computers. Prior to that day, I had started digging into the industry on my own - I just didn’t have any direction. Being referred by a friend, confidence, ability on a computer, and a lot of interest in the industry helped me to get a job that I really wasn’t qualified for at the time.
I worked at the internet marketing company for a while and before long was trained as an internet marketing consultant. Before leaving I personally helped over 200 companies and individuals to learn the business and developed some of my own successful web properties. Those properties are what eventually freed me from the corporate life.
Blogging Was The Next Evolutionary Step
Those of you that have made static websites know what a huge pain they are. You have to make each page individually and create a link structure that ties them all together. Most bloggers have no idea how good they have it. Blogging is 1000 times easier than making static sites. I turned to blogging to fill some huge gaps in my out-dated business model. Blogging allowed me to quickly and easily:
- Manage content without designing each individual page.
- Syndicate using RSS.
- Build a search engine efficient link structure.
- Save drafts to be used at a later date.
- Time-stamp content for future use.
Once I started looking into blogging, I realized that they have enormous advantages over traditional sites and are spectacular for getting repeat visitors. I started making the transition and started my first blog in February, 2007. That blog has since become known as Court’s Internet Marketing School, which is ranked right below JohnCow.com (#9) as the #10 ‘make money online’ site in the world.
My talent is helping others to learn internet marketing, so the blog’s topic was an obvious choice for me. I have focused on teaching key concepts in an easy to understand format, and I believe that focusing on making things easy has contributed to the success I’ve had so far. Some people would consider me to be a cheater, since I already had my online marketing education before I started my blog. 
Current Blogging Focus
Right now I’m working on taking my blog to that next level. In order to do that, I’m working on a few really important projects, including the expansion of my search engine optimized WordPress themes section, and BloggingZoom, which is a site I co-founded to help bloggers to get their names out there. The site is really catching on, so the value to bloggers is growing every day.
Focusing on helping bloggers to succeed has served be well, so I’m going to stick to it!
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Great scoop Cow, well done… looking forward to the rest of the posts in this series.
Courtney, well written and interesting post, will be watching your other projects…good luck with them.
wow, two mentions in two days, thx bob. i think i love you now.
Mooooooooo. Hey Israel go lose some weight and leave the mighty mad cow alone!! keep up the good work yall!
What a great series idea Cow Man! I’ll keep reading if you keep writing.
http://www.notjohnchow.com
I am also Not John Cow!
NotJohnChow.com? What’s next?! Parody ShoeMoney sites? lol
I’ve seen a few scruffy attempts at copying shoe Chris. Not worth mentioning here though.
Congrats MilkMan. Seems like there are haters out there with your posts, but it didn’t stop subscribers from coming in. You’ve hit the 800 mark now! WAY TO GO!
-Mike
Wow Cow, great way of not having to write blog posts for a few days! Nice to see Court here
Am I the only one that is sat banging his head against the wall for not blogging earlier? Most of the top make money bloggers seem to have only been around a year or 2.
The “Courtney Turtle” parody site died a quick death. It’s been “403 Forbidden” for about a month now. Sustaining good parody is apparently rather tricky.
Happy Thanksgiving…hmmm I wonder if Irish cows celebrate Thanksgiving or some other variation?
-Raymond
really an interesting story…
As a past (and occasionally present) contrubiter, it’s nice to see pligg powered sites like bloggingzoom starting to gain some traction. Nice article in general too.
Cool cow, I’ll waiting those new sections SEO wordpress theme…
Another great interview cow keep them coming!
Waiting for another interview
Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. That\’s definitely something to think about! I am subscribing to your feed so I don?t miss the next post!
Courtney Turtle’s website can’t be accessed for weeks already. What happened to him? Was the site hacked? I googled about his site, but no one is talking about its disappearance.
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