I have published my top 5 most influential InfoPreneurs/Bloggers and I realised that there were no women in that list… So from 5 down to 1, here’s my top 5 most influential InfoPreneurs;

5, Arianna Huffington – Co-Founder of HuffingtonPost.com Arianna is a house hold name. Her site focuses on politics, but has a breaking news part to it, which makes it an all in one really. Earnings have not been disclosed but are thought to be comfortably into 7 figures a year. Made number 12 in the Forbes list of most influential women in media. After a career in politics, which included running for governor of California against big Arnie, She has become one of the strongest voices in the US, get her on your side and your golden!

Alexa Ranking; 265

4, Michelle Malkin – Another political InfoPreneur turned author. HotAir.com Focusing on breaking news within the American political society, she has turned a simple passion into an unbelievable career, in which she has 4 books, Contributes to the Fox news channel, and has several columns. Michelle’s site has brought Vlogging (Video Blogging) to the fore front of media. Earnings thought to be high six figures to low seven figures annually.

Alexa Ranking; 4,802

3, Lorelle VanFossen – Public speaker (WordCamp), InfoPreneur, and keen genealogist, She talks about wordpress, Social media and has also written a book called Blogging Tips; What bloggers wont tell you. Her site still running of the free service from wordpress.com is a hub for anyone who is new to being an InfoPreneur/blogging or if you simply have writers block! A fantastic site, which has clearly given her the life she loves.

Alexa Ranking; 13,600

2, Lisa Irby – Started 2CreateAWebsite.com in February 2002 with the sole purpose to help people set up websites and blogs. What I love about Lisa is she openly admits she’s not a HTML coder, she is honest about being happy with a clean simple design for her website,  which is something I connected with straight away. This site is a must whether your a newbie or not, some excellent advice on making money, real money from your site. Top work Lisa

Alexa Ranking; 11,277

1, Heather B Armstrong – Started Dooce.com back in February 2001 with a post about carnation milk, now 5,100 post later, it has become a force to reckon with. I could spend all day reading her site, You could just imagine sitting on a really deep couch in her house listening to her go off at tangents then seamlessly drift back on topic. Heather writes about everything, I mean everything, from a post about being in bed with a guy who sounded like Elmo to family which includes a Husband, 2 daughters and 2 dogs, the revenue earned from ads means they can all enjoy the chaos together! Heather is the most Influential Woman InfoPreneur because she took everything what had happened to her and wrote about it, with no other goal in mind except to tell the world what she was thinking! Fantastic

Alexa Ranking; 12,862

I would also like to mention Karen Clark who runs MyBusinessPresence.com for the polite encouragement to do a article about women InfoPreneurs, and Corey Freeman from WriterSeven.com who at 17 is surging up the rankings with her site.

So what do you think?

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It occurred to me about a minute ago, Their are 5 people who made me decided to set up TheInfoPreneur site. These people have ‘made it’ in my eyes, but from what I can see they never set out to make millions, it just came as a by product. These InfoPreneur’s (Although they will still call themselves bloggers, I like to use the modern term, because that’s what they are true and real InfoPreneurs) inspired me in different ways and all share different levels of success but success they have in bucket loads!

So from 5 down to 1;

5, Pete Cashmore – Started the site Mashable.com in July 2005, Working flat out on it for a year, he then got his first advertising deal for the site. And it never slowed down, top 25 forbes web celebs, top 10 with technorati and at the time of writing has 1.6 million followers on Twitter. What I love about his story, is he had a passion for the internet, a desire to tell people about social media, and he worked tirelessly and it paid off BIG TIME, no official figures, but he is rumoured to be worth millions with a 7 figure turnover.

Alexa Ranking; 475

4, Darren Rowse – These days a top list can’t be published without including the original Problogger. Problogger was the first blog about making money from blogging I read, and it opened up a can of worms in my head, I couldn’t stop reading it and the more I read the more I realised how much of a success he has made and the most interesting thing for me is its not his top performing site in terms of revenue! He has several other sites, and has just launched Problogger.com A paid membership forum with over 3,000 members. This guy is an amazingly nice person with a perfect attitude to everything. Its a shame he lives in Australia otherwise I would be camped out on his doorstep with my laptop and a notepad and pen!

Alexa ranking; 2,456

3, Marko Saric – His site HowToMakeMyBlog.com was the first site I found (and stuck with) that detailed how and what to do when starting out, He writes making no assumptions about his readers, detailing everything in a really easy to read format. I can’t emphasise enough what a difference this guy has made on my life, a great writer, a fantastic honest person, and best of all… He lives in the UK! He only started his site in the back end of 2008, and a year later has already had well over 200,000 unique visitors. Great site, great content, great InfoPreneur!

Alexa Ranking; 30,787

2,David Risley – Confessions of a 6 figure blogger DavidRisley.com is a site, that I use for motivation. I can relate to him because he is clearly a family guy, and quite clearly making an excellent living through his site and is loving the opportunity to help others. Hugely inspirational character and a household name in the Blogging/InfoPreneur world. A massive success and has no objections about telling you how much he made last year (Over $140,000) which is done in such a nice way it motivates rather than alienates!

Alexa Ranking; 37,371

1, Yaro Starak – The most influential site/blog for me at the moment has got to be Entrepreneurs-Journey.com . So whats he about? Ultra laid back approach to it all, but that will be down to the fact he is the king of monetizing. He runs BlogMastermind and a host of other money spinners, but unlike most, he actually gives fantastic information and a hell of a lot of free information, which is why he makes so much money, because, and rightly so, readers then want more to enhance their sites. Great bloke, great site, and massively motivational. I want to be like him…. Except without the curly hair, No offense Yaro!

Alexa Ranking; 9,328

So there you have it my top 5, all amazing people who run fantastic sites.

Who’s your top 5?

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