Sid here.

Question: Would you like to get your blog off to a great start in 2011?

Yeah! Got Any Ideas?

How about kicking it off with a free one hour blog strategy consulting session with Srini?

Topics Srini can help you with include

• Defining Your Personal Brand
• Formulating a Strategic Plan For Your Blog
• Treating Your Blog as A Business
• Growing Traffic To Your Blog
• Putting Together and Launching Your First Product
• Building Relationships Through Twitter

(And hey, you can get advice on whatever you want. This is the guy who interviews all the successful bloggers for BlogcastFM and probably has gotten over $10,000 in consulting advice from the experts we bring on.)

Cool! How Do I Enter?

You can get multiple entries – just do any (or all) of the following

• Attend BlogcastFM Live today at 6 p.m. PST where Srini will be discussing “How To Set Blogging Goals For 2011″
• Tweet This Post -> Click here to Retweet
• Leave a comment on this post. Tell us what you want to do, tell us your plan, what you want help with – tell us anything you like!

The deadline is 9 p.m. PST Friday January 7th, so get your entries in today

When Will I Know?

We’ll randomly pick a winner and contact you via Twitter/email/smoke signal by January 8th. If Srini is feeling generous and you leave a particularly insightful comment, at our discretion we might give away some more sessions too.

What If I Don’t Win? ( a.k.a. How You Can Still Get a Strategy Session Free)

Don’t worry – even if you don’t win, here’s how you can get your own strategy session for free:

As you may have heard, the Blog Master’s Club has opened this week.  David Risley is the man – I (Sid) cornered him at Blogworld at the Problogger party and picked his brain for some solid advice and this guy knows what he is doing. Multiple 6 figure businesses, and the bulk of his income is in a very competitive, difficult to monetize market. His “blog about blogging” is actually his personal blog, a side project that has turned into an authority on the subject of six figure blogging.

Anyway, we’ve got a special offer where we’ve teamed up with David Risley over at Blog Master’s Club. If you buy through our affiliate link (that’s this one, right over here -> Blog Master’s Club Affiliate Link) anytime before January 10, 2011, we’ll give you:

• A Free 1 Hour Blog Strategy Consulting Session
• Complimentary Access To The BlogcastFM Green Room for 3 Months (a $29.95 value per month).  In the Green Room you’ll gain access to valuable members only content, including 4 killer webinars:
  • 7 Pillars of Blog Traffic – Just as the name implies, we give you powerful principles, strategies and techniques that you can use to increase your traffic today, as well as long term.
  • How To Attract Subscribers by Defining Your Audience – A powerful set of strategies to help you get inside your audience’s head so you can effectively grow your subscriber base with content they’ll love.
  • 3 Killer Blog Post Template – Stop wasting your time trying to figure out how to organize your blog post – use the these killer blog post templates that are proven to help you connect with your audience, increase your chance of going viral on social media – and of course, provide value to your subscribers.
  • Applying The Science Of Influence To Blogging – An in depth, advanced webinar where we dig into the science of influence, and provided you very specific, powerful techniques you can use to attract readers to your blog, and eventually sell them products, services if you desire (while providing them tremendous value).

(Oh, and if you enter and win, AND pick up a copy of Blog Master’s Club you can choose to use the session you win, or donate it to another blogger)

Get Your Entry In Today!

Go ahead – drop us a comment, stop by for today’s webinar and don’t forget -> Click here to Retweet This Post

Many of you have been wondering about  Sid and his involvement in BlogcastFM. He does actually exist and he does actually do stuff for BlogcastFM. So we decided to record this episode to introduce you to Sid and give you behind the scenes look at BlogcastFM.  We’ve been up to some pretty interesting stuff and we wanted to let you guys in on all of it and get your feedback so we can keep making this as a valuable a resource as a possible for you. Here’s a brief summary of what we discussed:

• How small ideas turn into big things
• A look back at my first year of Blogging
• The Backstory behind BlogcastFM
• Mentions of some New Bloggers on our radar
• Some new things that are coming from BlogcastFM
• Come Meet us at Blogworld
• and More..

If you haven’t had a look, I’ve recently released two of my own products: Time Management For Bloggers With Short Attention Spans and How to Grow Your Blog With Interviews.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 31:42 — 14.5MB)

David Crandall from Heroic Destiny and I connected about 6 weeks ago when he first interviewed me. Over that 6 weeks we have kept in touch and started working on some projects together. We decided to put this 1 hour tele-class together for you guys. We spent a good amount of time talking about exactly how to use podcasting and interviews to accomplish your blogging goals. Here’s some of the highlights

• Why Interviewing People Will Enable you to Develop All of the Skills You Need to Grow your blog
• How to Use Interviews to Develop a Personal Archive/Blogging Course that You can Refer to
• The rapid rate at which things have happen for David by using these concepts (If you want a testimonial, I’ve been blogging for a year and David is getting more traffic than I am because of all this. This is his 5th month of blogging)
• Why Your Growth Will Probably Come from The People Who Are at Your Same Level
• The Competitive Advantage that Starting Your Podcast Will Give You
• Why a Podcast Makes You Stand Out From Other Blogs
• The Overwhelming Growth David Has Experienced in 6 weeks
• The Numerous Unexpected Benefits of Podcasting

In order to help you implement everything we’ve talked about, David has put together a 6 page supplemental worksheet so that you can put our plan into action right away. The cost of this teleclass is only $12.00 and we believe it’s packed full of value. If you are not happy with your purchase for any reason at all, we’ll issue you a refund. No hassles, no nonsense. Just send us a refund request and it’s done. I’m confident you will get a ton of value out of this.

Hey guys,

Some of you had asked about possibly doing a case study on a new blog and featuring int on BlogcastFM.

Sid and I really loved that idea and agree that it would make some great content.

So we’ve decided to do something that we hope you guys will find great value in.

Here’s The Deal

• I’m going to choose 2 of our listeners and give away 1 hour of free consulting
• We’ll talk about ways to help you grow your blog and push things to the next level.
• Some specifics we’ll discuss are: how to grow your traffic, how to form important relationships and some potential monetization ideas

What You’ll Get

I’ll provide you with:

• An mp3 of the call
• I’ll work with you to come up with an action plan to start implementing those ideas.
• We’ll also setup a schedule to feature you on on BlogcastFM and have you talk about your growing pains, challenges and successes
• We’ll wrap it up by featuring your case study in the newsletter.

Here’s How You Can Win

1. Leave a comment in the post telling us what you would like to get from this consulting session and include a link to your blog
2. Click here to Share this post on Twitter (that’s where we’ll pick the other winner from)

I look forward to helping you guys take YOUR blog to the next level.
-Srinivas