Courtney Tuttle. The Man, The Myth, The Legend

In the spotlight this week is one of my favorite bloggers and internet marketers, Courtney Tuttle.

Don’t worry, this isn’t your typical ass kissing interview, this is a look at Court from a different angle.

I am doing a series within a series with Court where we will be creating an ongoing interview, if you will.

The point of this is to find a benchmark and follow along in an unorthodox way. By follow along I mean

just that, I will follow along and pry out of him the “what” and “how” he builds his business. Now don’t get me

wrong, Courtney discloses so much on his blog Courtneytuttle.com that you can literally start an online

endeavor his advice and not looking for it elsewhere.

However, I like to figure out what goes on behind the scenes how a “project” came together from idea

conception through to a via business.

So here is where we start - I should warn you that I have been

reading his blog for a long time and know more than I should because I read between the lines.

This will undoubtedly be one hell of a series.

This is one of his man Projects that he partners with Vic on.

BloggingZoom

Lets get to it. Court started his blog “CourtneyTuttle.com” in February 2007. If you don’t know much about

him go to his site and grab his feed, if you have read this far into this post I assume you are interested in

utilizing the internet to further your business. If that’s the case you will need what he has to offer.

Interview Time.

Landon

1. With all of the projects you have going how much time do you work on

courtneytuttle.com during a regular week?

Court

That actually varies wildly week to week. I would say that I probably spend about 15 hours per week

working on the site, but some weeks I spend a lot more and some weeks I spend a lot less.

Landon

2. What is your favorite aspect of internet marketing? Is it the teaching?

The actual marketing, site building etc?

Court

My favorite aspect is conversion. I really like tweaking my sites to get better conversion on Adsense,

affiliate links, and also conversion to RSS in the case of CourtneyTuttle.com.

Landon

3. How many “partners” do you have projects going with?

Court

I have Vic who is my partner on BloggingZoom, and then two other partners who are helping me

with another project.

Landon

4. What is your goal for 2008? Any big things coming out this year?

Court

I have some very big things coming out this year, but I’m not ready to release that information yet.

Watch for some products that will better help people to understand the overall process on making

money with the internet.

Landon

5. When you approach someone for the first time like you did with Vic, how do

you get them to partner with you? What is the first thing you do?
Court

Actually I didn’t approach Vic, Vic approached me. In the case of BloggingZoom, there were two

things that made me want to work with Vic. First, Vic knew what he was doing on his own. He is

an expert himself at making money online. Second, Vic had a great idea that I wanted to be a part of.

Usually when people approach me, they want to rehash an idea, which is why I have to turn most

of them down.
With my other partners, we knew each other in real life because we lived in the same city.

We figured out one day that we could do something amazing if we all got together. We all

have very unique skill sets that combine to make an incredible team. I don’t think it was really

a tough decision for any of us.

Landon

6. How much time do you spend with BloggingZoom as far as managing it if any?

Court

I spend a lot of time marketing BloggingZoom but it’s hard to say exactly how much.

Vic manages the site – he’s more proficient as a programmer than I am.
Landon

7. Who do you see making a big splash in the blog/IM arena for 2008? Who do you have your eyes on?

Court

Right now I see 2008 as the year that some of the mid-level bloggers will get bigger and better

projects going. I think you’re going to see people like Andy Beard, Caroline Middlebrook, and Mark

from 45n5 get more popular.

Landon

8. Who are the top 3 bloggers you follow? It seems that you reference Steve

Pavlina regularly but who how else do you follow?

Court

I regularly read DoshDosh.com, Problogger.net, and CopyBlogger.com. While I think Steve Pavlina

has a great site, he isn’t a daily or even weekly read for me.
Landon

9. What would an unknown need to do to get the chance of partnering with you

on a project?

Court

He/she would have to have a really good idea for a project, one that I haven’t already thought of

myself. Also, I would need to see evidence that they have already accomplished things on their

own. I get approached by quite a few people who are only asking me because they don’t have

the skill set and/or confidence to do the project on their own. I’m interested in partnering on projects

that I think will make it with or without me.
Landon

10. What is your ficus on when you first sit down at the computer for the day?

Court

My first focus is to plan out my priorities for the day. I usually have quite a bit to do so I have to

decide which items are the most important.
Landon

11. Thats a good one, do you have a set outline of things to go through every

day and can you share that?

Court

Yes…

Gotta love that, set up for the next interview. Courtney Tuttle. The Man, The Myth, The Legend.

I have a few other great interviews coming, Did you read my interview The Blog Entrepreneur?

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