One thing I wanted to know is how we’re doing now. I’m happy to report that a full 100% of respondents rated the quality of our content as either good or great. Specifically, 34% rated it as good while 66% rated it as great. That is, well, great! Also, 84.6% of our members rated our speed of new content as good or great (48.7% good, 35.9% great). (more…)

This is the first of 12 lessons available to students of the Blogging Formula Using Wordpress course. Sign up now to see the remaining 11 lessons (which are longer than this one, I might add).

Blogging Formula Using Wordpress

This new course is an ALL VIDEO course, consisting of 12 lessons and over 2 hours of video footage. In this course, I will walk you from the question of “Why start a blog?”, through installation and use of Wordpress, then into how to actually promote your new website and drive new readers to your blog.

My Crazy Offer

I am opening up memberships today for this new course. Anybody who signs up using the All Access Pass at PCMech University, and does so before the deadline, you’re going to get me at your disposal to personally install Wordpress to your web server for you.

Now, I am available to all students of PCMU to answer questions. But, I have NEVER before offered to individually DO THE WORK for you.

So here it goes… the course will always be available at PCMU. However, I will only be offering this bonus to buyers of the All Access Pass who purchase before midnight on April 17th. That’s Thursday night.

The All Access Pass will give you access to every course available at PCMU, including the members-only forums and members-only downloads.

OK, now what exactly am I going to do for you if you subscribe before Thursday night?

1. I will personally answer your questions regarding finding a web host.
2. I will install Wordpress to your server (once you have a host)
3. I will set up my recommended plug-ins and activate them for you.
4. I will set up the theme of your choice (no customization).

This, along with my course, will give you a full launch point for running your own blog.

To take advantage of this offer, you must sign up for the All Access Pass before midnight on April 17th. Click here to sign up.

To give you a sneak peak at the content of this course, I am releasing the first of 12 lessons right here, for free. Click here to watch the video.

I am now in the process of launching a brand new design and renaming PCMech EDU to PCMech University. The domain www.pcmechuniversity.com should begin propagating around the Internet and be working for everybody within the next few hours. The new design will shortly carry over into the private members area and the forums.

For all existing EDU members, you will notice no change in your membership. The only thing changing is the name and the design.

If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment on this post.

Chances are you have come to PCMech EDU because you found us through our main PCMech website. You are interested in computers and technology and you visited our site. Perhaps you even subscribe to our weekly newsletter and you got my invites onto our early notification list for PCMech EDU.

However you came to us, welcome. And now, give me just a minute of your time. (more…)

My name is David Risley and I am the founder of PCMech and PCMech EDU. I started in the field of internet business back in 1997 with the formation of PC Mechanic. It started out as a hobby for me. See, computers were a HUGE hobby for me and I was having a hard time getting good information about how to do things on my PC. Much of the information out there assumed I already knew things that I didn’t know. So, PC Mechanic (now referred to as PCMech) was born. By 1998 or so, I decided to make a side business out of it. I transferred the site to a web host which allowed me to run advertising on the site.

From that day, I have been making money with PCMech. Sure, it started out small. By simply writing good content for the site and participating in a few free promotional opportunities, people were noticing PC Mechanic and visiting the site. This provides EYEBALLS - a key component to anything you ever want to do for money on the Internet. Soon, PCMech was getting mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and being featured on TechTV. It was getting mentioned in PC World, PC Magazine, even Playboy! Of course, it’s not like I had paparazzi or anything, but just the idea that I was getting ANY print in the traditional media for a site I was essentially running from a bedroom was…well, cool. (more…)