Blog Of The Week - TylerCruz.com
Tyler Cruz is a well-known blogger with a blog that is much more successful than mine (nearly 500 feedburner subscribers is what I saw). Tyler is a web-entrepreneur, as I’d like to put it. He owns websites, publishes his blog and some other content, and he also flips domains. He averages an average income of $256/day from his websites and what not. That’s pretty decent. That’s more than great, actually.
The world of business simply comes down to that - who is pulling in the dough, and he is - no more questions asked, I will consider him a successful web enterpreneur.
His blog, TylerCruz.com, is a PR5 blog with nearly 500 RSS Feed subscribers (add 1 more for me now), and it includes a great collage of posts regarding online money making, work habits, taxes and finances, and much more. As I said, his figures simply prove his success and his mindset - so his blog content must be worth reading.
Tyler isn’t very far from me - he lives on Vancouver Island (I’m in Vancouver, so that’s a ferry ride away). He’s 23 years old (only 2 years older than me) and obviously well ahead of the game. I wonder if I can be at that stage when I’m his age? Although, I’m pursuing different avenues of business these days, and this blog is becoming more of a hobby that brings in $10/month in Google adsense revenue.
Here are some of the most interesing posts I found on Tyler’s Blog :
- 2006 Income Tax Results - Thats’ right. You need to do it, and I will start on it as soon as I have my paperwork straightened out.
- Deal or No Deal Break Your Legs - A blog post that is more casual, about the famous TV show Deal or No Deal (which I find to be an extremely irritating show)
- Backing up, Better Safe than Sorry - I recently had my ass saved because my web hosting company had backups for me. Back ups are so important, I cannot emphasize it more, and neither can Tyler.
- The 40 Hour Challenge - I guess he’s at an ample enough income bracket that he doesn’t work as much as I have to haha. He challenged himself to work a 40 hour week for once - and here are his results. Check it out.
I found his blog very entertaining overall as I read/skimmed through his posts, and he seems to have quite a lifestyle with his business.
Now, I’m never afraid to speak my mind openly, and I do have one criticism - the top banner design of his websites is simply ugly in my opinion. Maybe Tyler will put me on his blogroll if I design a header for him? We’ll see!

yeah Tyler has said before he wanted a new wordpress theme. He doesn’t like his current one, but doesn’t see the sense in shelling out hundreds of $ when it wouldn’t increase traffic or revenue.
I don;t think he has to shell out much $. Just get a template and modify it a bit himself. Not too difficult. Just throw in a unique banner.
yeah the top banner will makea world of difference.
Huge Tyler Cruz fan. He’s done a great job with his blog.
I agreet . . a new design for tyler is really in order! nice review of his site!
$10 a month aint a bad start. I wonder how Tyler’s contest ever came turned out. He was having a top commentator contest a few months back. Anyone know?
no idea - i just met him through this review opportunity.. he emailed me and I found him.
With the PR update coming soon I am doing a similar review scheme, which is a little easier. All your have to do is make one comment about our website http://www.taxfix.co.uk with the anchor text ‘tax refund’ and we will review your blog for free. Just email blog@taxfix.co.uk once you have done it. Also on my Blog I have written a list of other sites that offer links for reviews (in order of Page Rank). I thought you might be interested in adding yours or using the list to get some links from some high PR blogs. Just link to the post with any anchor text and I will add your site and email me on blog@taxfix.co.uk
http://taxrefunds.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/blogs-from-pr7-that-give-links-for-reviews-update/