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How ManvsDebt grew to over 4000 Subscribers in less than a Year



Adam Baker has been around since 2009 and in less than a year he has grown his blog to well over 4000 RSS readers. He shared some amazing tips in this interview that really made me rethink my own blogging strategy and some amazing ideas that can can really reduce the amount of trial and error involved in the typical journey of becoming a well known blogger:

  • How he built relationships with many A-list bloggers and leveraged it as a catalyst for rapid growth
  • A fundamental shift in content strategy that took his blog up the next level in subscriber growth
  • Why you need to spend 50% of your time building relationships with bloggers
  • A great story of a blogger who went from 80 to 980 subscribers in one week
  • How used relationships to get paid writing gigs for some of the A-list blogs in his niche
  • A step by step process for how to build relationships with well known bloggers
  • How to use product purchases to connect with bloggers
  • Why should abandon the monetization strategy for 6 months
  • His new  project launched with the support of Leo from Zen Habits


Adam Baker, or just Baker, blogs over at Man Vs. Debt, where the discussion centers around “getting out of debt” & “getting into life”! Follow him on Twitter at @ManVsDebt.

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  • Where does he get all the energy? It's an impressive rise and I think a well-deserved one. Adam had a plan, he stuck to it, he's sa genuine guy and he writes from the heart and that's a winning combination. Thanks for grilling him for us. Ouch, my ears hurt from wearing the headphones for so long now but apart from that it was great:)
  • Adam is a really great guy and you can learn a lot from him. He is really easy and enjoyable to talk with.

    Kudos on the excellent questions Srinivas and kudos to Baker once again for delivering gems to the blogging community.
  • Srinivas Rao
    @Jen: Agreed. I feel the same way. Every person I talk to teaches me something that I didn't know already.
  • Jen
    Great interview - thanks all. What I love about these podcasts is that I learn something different each time. Keep up the great work!