This isn’t your typical Who’s-Who list of the most popular web entrepreneurs. We wanted to create a list of people who would inspire you and, in many cases, assist you with your dreams of online entrepreneurship.
There are thousands of people operating many sorts of online businesses around the world, but we couldn’t tell you about them all. So we’ve narrowed it down to fifty.
The “hubs”
These are the thought leaders in their niche. They have succeeded in their netsetting goals and are now helping the next generation of bloggers succeed. Watch the hub leaders and those they choose to mentor.
1. Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
Elizabeth inspires and empowers entrepreneurs to live their truth in her blog ElizabethPW.com. She has built her brand around teaching others to create a business that is a natural expression of who they are. Netsetters can learn more by participating in her weekly Twitter chats and embarking on their own “live your truth” adventure.
2. Sonia Simone
Sonia Simone is a copywriter who created her netsetting business around helping people who hate marketing to promote themselves. She has created a community of remarkables at the Remarkable Marketing Blueprint and is the senior editor at Copyblogger.
3. Chris Guillebeau
Chris Guillebeau has created a movement around his non-conformist lifestyle. His netsetter business revolves around his unconventional guides, which he has started to co-create with other netsetters. He has inspired a new generation of business owners to consider how they can change the world in unconventional ways.
4. Johnny B Truant
Johnny B truant makes five figures a month from a website that he admits is unprofessional. He has leveraged traffic from high profile entrepreneurial sites to create a business that supports other businesses to get online. He specializes in personality-based marketing and affordable blog setups, and has shown how your netsetter business can evolve as you figure out your target audience and clients.
5. Adam Baker
Adam Baker has created a netsetter business around his blog, Man Vs. Debt. He focuses on the intersection between personal finance, lifestyle design, and travel, and demonstrates how to tastefully monetize your community. He has done so much for the personal finance community and I credit him for inspiring the next generation of personal finance writers.
6. Danielle Laporte
Danielle empowers entrepreneurs to fire up their business at White Hot Truth. She is a strategic and intuitive business advisor who has inspired a new generation of netsetters to write authentically and passionately. You can learn so much by seeing how she turns everything on her site into a digital experience.
7. Jonathan Fields
Jonathan Fields is a serial-entrepreneur-turned-career-renegade. He created multiple offline businesses in the health industry before selling them to create a boutique marketing group. That has evolved into Jonathan’s current business, which incorporates his book, Tribal Author project, and small business marketing activities.
8. Pat Flynn
Pat Flynn has become quite prominent in the netsetter niche in 2010. He originally made the bulk of his income selling his ebook guiding people through the leeds exam but has since moved to iPhone applications and affiliate income. His success lies in his transparency and willingness to admit the hard work and patience required to consistently earn smart, passive income. You can watch his progress via his monthly income reports.
9. Scott Stratten
Scott Stratten has become a leading advocate of what he calls “Un-Marketing.” He has successfully started bridging the divide between corporate and social marketing, and in doing so become highly influential. His strength lies in his experience and understanding of both worlds. His first book is due for release in the fall.
10. Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro is a product launch coach who has helped industry leaders earn five and six figures from their products without using sleazy marketing tactics. His workshops and blog helps aspiring netsetters get their products released and to attract loyal, repeat buyers. You can learn more from his free workbooks.
The support team
These are the people you see supporting many of the industry’s elite. They are netsetters themselves and are available to help you improve your online presence and simplify your worklife.
11. Naomi Niles
Naomi Niles has co-owned and worked in online businesses since 2001. She currently runs Intuitive Designs, a small studio that specializes in delivering uncomplicated and straightforward websites. She can help you translate your passion for business into a site that meets your netsetting goals.
12. Lisa Morosky
Lisa Morosky is the virtual assistant for bloggers. She has created her netsetter business by supporting fellow bloggers, such as David Risley and Nathan Hangen, and has a range of services to help online business owners. You can hire her for a free WordPress install, consulting, or her retainer packages.
13. Amy Harrison
Amy Harrison is a copywriter who provides content for business entrepreneurs and business owners. She is very hardworking and writes great copy that will grab your audience’s attention. Netsetters can hire her to help with sales pages, blog content, and website copy.
14. Catherine Caine
Catherine Caine helps delightful weirdos be awesome online. She was able to leverage the success of her blog to quit her day job, launch a product, and develop a strong community around her brand. Netsetters can visit her site to learn how to build sites that run on emotions, not technology.
15. Rachael Acklin
Rachael is a creative entrepreneur who offers designing, hosting, and coaching services. She has transformed her business into a design studio that specializes in WordPress and Thesis. Aspiring netsetters can take advantage of her affordable design services.
16. Dawn Martinello
Dawn Martinello runs a hybrid multi-VA business at Monday Morning VA. She built her netsetting business by leveraging a team of high-level professionals to help business owners with their online and offline tasks. You can learn a lot by observing her business model or by working with her to enhance your online visibility.
17. Marissa Bracke
Marissa is a can-do-ologist who helps creative entrepreneurs build structures and systems around their projects so they can be more efficient. This is a fascinating example of a netsetter business because she combines consultancy, services, and outsourcing to her team in a solution tailored to her clients’ needs. She has created her business by helping others improve theirs.
18. Megan Morris
Megan Morris is a professional catalyst who turned her popular blog into a mini network of offerings. She offers multiple services at IdeaSchema solutions, including the popular creative team in a box. She aspires to make her business even more remarkable by providing as much information and hands-on assistance as possible without needing reciprocation.
19. Kathleen Jaffe
Kathleen Jaffe cures and prevents Business Transmitted Diseases (BTDs). She helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and small business owners become more efficient during the unsexy middle phase between launching and making a profit. She can help you take the tools that big businesses created and use them to improve your own business.
20. Kelly Diels
Kelly Diels writes about sex, money, and meaning at Cleavage. She gives great copy and has built a reputation writing copy with an engaging and human voice. Netsetters can hire her or just watch how she is leveraging her brand to create massive success.
Resources
A good netsetter knows the tools at their disposal on their adventure. These sites are great resources to build up your toolbox.
21. Srinivas Rao
Srinivas Rao is the host and co-founder of BlogcastFM: The podcast for bloggers. He interviews A-Listers, rising stars, and interesting people to provide a balanced mix of inside stories and immediate actional tips to improve your blog. You can subscribe to the podcast to receive 3 interviews each week or nominate yourself to be interviewed.
22. Thom Chambers
Thom Chambers is the person behind In Treehouses, a free online magazine that shows you how to build valuable and profitable niche communities. The magazine can teach you both how to create a vibrant community AND monetize that community by providing members with genuine value. You can subscribe to receive each monthly issue or offer to contribute.
23. Stanford Smith
Stanford Smith runs Pushing Social. He writes about blog strategies that create engaged and loyal communities, and gives you tips on uncovering, celebrating, and profiting from your authenticity. Netsetters can join the community to learn how to turn their brand into a superstar.
24. Kelly Kingman
Kelly Kingman helps you create ridiculously creative ebooks. She shot to fame with the launch of The Sticky Ebook Formula and is currently focusing on empowering others to create their first paid information product. Netsetters can hire her, buy her products to create your own sticky ebooks, or read her blog.
25. Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham has been building websites since 1999. He is a talented writer and is very knowledgeable about WordPress. He has become a regular contributor to the blogger community, most notably on the Problogger.com forums where he serves as a moderator. He is on the cusp of success and has developed a comprehensive resource at Blogging Teacher.
26. Thursday Bram
Thursday runs a freelance location-independent business. She writes regularly for a number of Envato properties and specializes in helping freelancers understand the business of their craft. She has created additional income streams with her consultant services and information products.
27. Ali Hale
Ali Hale writes at Aliventures. She is a paid staff writer who supports several large blogs and she has turned that experience into a self-study course. She has also inspired a new generation of netsetters to become paid bloggers and to explore their own mini business plans.
28. Mars Dorian
Mars Dorian helps netsetters spread their digital influence. He has demonstrated his expertise and become a prominent fixture in the new wave of blogging success stories. He can help you improve your online presence to make the world a more creative place.
29. Heather Allard
Heather Allard helps mom entrepreneurs live and work happier, healthier, smarter, and wealthier. She has revamped her personal blog into a resource site for other moms running businesses. She has proven how you can make your personal blog into a resource that serves a significantly larger community.
30. Reese Spykerman
Reese shows that you don’t need an elaborate web presence to build a successful netsetter business. She has accumulated an impressive portfolio of clients for her design and branding services. You can follow her work at Design by Reese or on twitter.
The entrepreneurs
These are the people who are enjoying huge success outside of the make-money-online niche. They can teach you how to apply outside knowledge to empower others to become digital entrepreneurs.
31. Andy Hayes
Andy has built a network of businesses connecting people in the world of travel. He is a travel entrepreneur who has leveraged his social media success to create a brand that targets all key markets in his niche. Andy demonstrates that you can create a compelling netsetter business around your passion.
32. Clare Lancaster
Clare Lancaster is probably most famously known for creating Women In Business, which is a niche community that is focused on supporting Australian business women. She has leveraged her profile to launch a consultancy and several information products.
33. Yvonne Adele
Yvonne Adele is the founder of the site Ideas Culture. She works with a team of ideas agents from all around the world to produce great new ideas overnight, literally while you are sleeping. She demonstrates how you can leverage other netsetters to expand your business.
34. Lee Stranahan
Lee Stranahan is an American writer, filmmaker, photographer, multimedia artist, and teacher. He has built a very exciting type of netsetter business around helping his fellow creatives learn how to question the rules and to take control of their creative destiny in managing their own careers.
35. Alexis Neely
Alexis Neely is the lawyer you love. She works with entrepreneurial business clients. She has built several six- and seven-figure businesses and created a number of information products and courses. She demonstrates how you can build a netsetter business that compliments your offline business(es).
36. Melani Ward
Melani Ward helps creative and driven people find their mojo through spirit, sport, and service. She runs The Mojo Retreat for spiritually minded and highly motivated women, Good Fun Marketing for entrepreneurs who hate marketing, and worked with Chris Garrett on the Mojo Marketing Action Plan. She teaches you how to build an online presence focused around your core strengths.
37. Nathan Hangen
Nathan helps people build digital empires. He has developed a solid assortment of web properties, which includes the Beyond Blogging Project, Blogger Beats, and his information products. His goal is to continue to grow his netsetter business and help others do the same.
38. Pamela Slim
Pamela Slim is a coach who helps entrepreneurs break away and start their own business. Not only does she help netsetters realize their dreams, she’s a great example of the netsetter philosophy herself. She helps people escape the confines of the corporate world with her book, and blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation.
39. Erica Douglass
Erica Douglass has a solid background in web entrepreneurship. She sold her web hosting company for over a million dollars at age 26 and turned her efforts into teaching others through her blog. She has successfully leveraged her site to reach her goal of five figures per month. She covers topics that are normally taboo for entrepreneurs who blog, such as outsourcing, and is a fascinating read for any aspiring netsetter.
40. Josh Hanagarne
Josh Hanagarne has built his business around being a nerdy librarian with Tourettes syndrome. His unreserved writing style and humility have helped him avoid the limitations of being confined to one niche. His work has gotten the attention of Seth Godin’s literary agent.
Lifestyle
These people are living the netsetter lifestyle. They are challenging authority by building businesses around their passion and are focusing on teaching their readers how to do the same.
41. Henri Junttila
Henri blogs about the art of living a passionate life at Wake Up Cloud. He has raised awareness of his business through his guest posting and article marketing efforts and was able to rapidly increase his readership. He has shown how to monetize a lifestyle design blog via services and paid products.
42. Corbett Barr
Corbett Barr has been a netsetter since 2003 when he created his first custom search engine. He has created several web-based projects including Free Pursuits, a lifestyle design site that attracts over 100k monthly visitors. He n0w provides audience-building advice for startups, lifestyle businesses, and side jobs at Think Traffic.
43. Everett Bogue
Everett quit his job at The New York Times to pursue a minimalist, location-independent life. He empowers his readers to simplify their lives and pursue a minimalist business. He is a fascinating example of someone who is enjoying massive success by going against the typical blogging and monetization conventions.
44. Jonathan Mead
Jonathan Mead empowers people to reclaim their freedom and live on their own terms at his blog Illuminated Mind. He has created a netsetter business helping people escape the mundane and get paid for being himself. You can learn more by stealing his free workbook.
45. Karol Gajda
Karol has set the goal to help 100 people achieve ridiculously extraordinary freedom. He escaped his traditional life with the house and car to travel the world. He focuses on inspiring people to create their own freedom business, which will allow them to live anywhere.
46. Fabeku
Fabaku has built a successful online business around sound healing. His site is a fantastic example of how you can develop a strong fan base via building your business around your personal brand. By breaking the conventions of his niche, he has gained exposure to a whole new audience, many of whom are willing to spread his message thanks to his vibrant social media presence.
47. Jeffrey Tang
Jeffrey recently left his regular day job to pursue his blogging career at The Art of Great Things. He got the entrepreneurial bug while managing the content division of a start-up business. His site shows how you can combine passion and simplicity to draw new readers into your blog.
48. Fabian Kruse
Fabian Kruse is a location-independent writer who blogs at the Friendly Anarchist. He writes about creative lifestyle, (un)productively pursuing a life full of arts, deliberate dilettantism, and the combination of idleness and activity. He can help netsetters reject unfriendly domination and pursue their own dreams and passions.
49. Sharon Hurley Hall
Sharon is a skilled freelancer who has created a location-independent business around her core strengths as a writer and blogger. She regularly contributes to a number of leading blogs and has built up a solid reputation in the industry.You can learn more about how she built her successful freelancing business at Get Paid To Write Online.
50. Annabel Candy
Annabel Candy’s mission is to help people achieve their dream lifestyle, their ”hot spot,” through entrepreneurship. She provides netsetters with help to realize their dreams, whatever they are, and appeals to a broad interest base through her blog.
Hi Jade,
Thanks so much for the mention, I really appreciate it. You’ve put together a great list here, plenty of interesting new names and sites to check out!
I’ll be in touch very soon, thanks again,
Thom
http://www.intreehouses.com
Glad you liked it
I was very, very impressed with your second issue on In Treehouses and your attitude. I hope that others enjoy it as much as I did.
- Jade
Thom is doing a pretty impressive and priceless work.
Go on his site and read it.
Thanks Thom !
I really appreciate the mention and I’m enjoying the new Netsetter.
Now I’m off to follow and visit the other awesome folks on this list.
Thanks for pulling together such a great resource.
Stanford
PushingSocial.com
Honestly it was your lady gaga post that won me over. I’m glad you liked it though. Feel free to touch base with me if there is anything I can do to help you.
- Jade
Wow, what a wonderful list of netsetters, and I’m honored that you included me on it.
I’ve got a lot of reading to do now, and new websites to explore. Thanks so much for putting this together. You have no idea how helpful this is.
Thank you!
That was my goal. Not to create a who’s who, but to create something that people will refer back to. Because of my work, I see a lot of cool stuff that’s going on but no-one really knows about it. This was my chance to highlight the cool stuff, and people, that should have their work and ideas spread.
Let me know if I can help you with anything,
Jade
Hi Jade and the Netsetter Team, thanks so much for including me on this list. I’m totally stoked to be included, you’ve made my day and what a fabulous team to be associated with. Many of my favourite well know, not so well known and soon to be well known bloggers are here but there are also a few new ones I’m dying to chcek out.
I like that you included me in the Lifestyle list. Blogging has been quite a journey for me. I started off on the topic of moving overseas via personal development and finally my blog evolved into entrepreneurship. I still write a lot about empowerment and want everyone to live their dream life but since so many people dream of working for themselves and making a living online it makes sense for me to write about that. I’ve been doing it for 14 years and have been lucky enough to travel all over the world too. I guess it does all add up to lifestyle and I’m definitely living my dream.
I’m delighted to be one of the netsetter and as far as I can tell there’s only one person missing from this list ~ you, Jade. Thank you!
Haha, people said that when I wrote the problogger list
I’m impossible to be place on such lists because what I do isn’t publicly available, nor really tangible. I just do stuff and people are really, really appreciative.
If you want, you can apply to be listed in the netsetter directory and there is even a badge. I only got to see the final product today when it launched and I’m impressed with what they did. It was all them, too.
I’m glad you liked where I placed you. You empower people to aspire for a better life. Then corrupt them with thoughts of queensland ice cream.
- Jade
Hey Jade,
Thanks for including me.
It’s always fun reading these kinds of lists because I always find a few people I didn’t previously know about. Thanks!
Karol
Anytime! One of my friends, either Ali or Henri, recommended you last week and I had to keep your inclusion a secret
I hope you find several cool people because I tried to provide a balance.
I love your work by the way. What you do is really inspirational.
- Jade
The recommendation wasn’t me, I’m afraid (I was away last week and hadn’t come across you before, Karol, but glad to have done so now!) so the kudos here go to Henri
It was this Ali
@Jade woohoo! That’s awesome. Thank you again.
@Ali Hale woohoo #2!
@Ali Dark woohoo #3! thanks for spreading the love Ali!
and a special woohoo #4 to Henri because he rules!
Thank you for the mention Jade!
It’s amazing to be listed alongside many of the names I look up to as mentors and inspiring peers.
I know there are a ton more out there not on the list but I just love that so many people are determined to live a life outside of the “norm” and succeed through hard work and just by being “us.”
Exciting times.
I tried to include as many diverse people as possible so that people could find that inspiration. There were a lot more people I wanted to include but didn’t because I didn’t want to show a bias.
I agree though. I’ve built a career out of just being me. I somehow ended up working so social media and have been fortunate enough to get work where I’m not forced to ‘spam’. I mean, both my clients hired me because what I do is so different to the norm.
And it’s a fantastic feeling. That’s why I jumped on board when I heard of the relaunch. There is an established make money community but they are targeted towards industries or lifestyles which means that the information is scattered. Just writing this post made me feel so awesome that there is a community, even if it is currently spread across multiple sites.
Thanks so much for being a netsetting inspiration xx
- Jade
Jade!
Thanks so much for the mention, especially among some of my “idols”.
Wow – what a wonderful thing to see when you wake up.
This is a great list (not just because *I’m* on it, either…) and I look forward to reading more about the other peeps I haven’t discovered yet.
Thanks again!
Heather
Anytime
Let me know if there are cool mom netsetters I should know about. I don’t hang in that community much because, well, I’m a 23 year old aunt.
I’m stoked though. Seriously. I tried to include a wide variety of useful people and it has been awesome to see how happy it has made people.
Wow, what a great list! An honor to be on it, so thanks a lot for including The Friendly Anarchist!
As the other commentators already wrote, there are a lot of inspiring people on this list, and I will certainly check out the sites of the ones I don’t know yet! As Harrisonamy said, it’s always good to find more people working authentically on their own rules.
Totally!
Jonathan Fields reaffirmed that for me the other day. I attended a meetup he was at and felt so confident and inspired about just building a business around my authentic, yet extraordinarily, geeky self.
Thank Jonathan Mead though. He tweeted about you recently and I went ‘yep. he’s on there’.
Keep in touch and lemme know if I can help you.
- Jade
I’ve been patient for days, wondering what this epic post was that you were working on, and as I read down the list I was nodding my head in agreement with every name I saw. I surely didn’t expect to see my name there! What a lovely surprise to get at 4:00 AM. If I’d known, I would’ve give you a better picture to use. I mean, really – could I look more corpse-y?
“Wow” just about sums it up. I’m positively humbled to be included in this incredible group of people, and I can’t wait to get to know the folks I haven’t already met. Thanks for all you do, Jade.
Hehe. I tried so hard not to talk about it online but epic posts are hard to do and impossible not to talk about.
And, I’m glad it was a surprise. That was my goal. I wanted people to get congratulated on twitter and not know what they were being congratulated for, and to be reading the post and go ‘oh! thats me!’. It was worth it on my end and it makes me feel fuzzy that you got something out of it.
Thank you. Feel free to email me. I get overwhelmed on twitter sometimes but generally live in my inbox.
- Jade
I really love your lists Jade. I always find at least 2 people that I didn’t know about before. Thanks for including me in your top 50 netsetters.
You were one of the first that came to mind because you are such a pleasure to talk to
Glad I could help
- Jade
Jade,
I’m honored to be included among such an elite group of bloggers. Thank you so much for this. Really excited to connect with all of these people. I guess now I kno where I’ll be looking next for people to interview
And, now that I’ve done this post, other new people will introduce themselves so I’ll be able to keep my eye on a new group of bloggers
I love my work sometimes.
One day…….
WOOHOO! I got in a list by Jade!
What a sweetheart you are. Thank you! This will be open in a tab for days now, while I meet the other awesome people here that I don’t already know. Great job.
Glad you liked at and let me know if I can ever send people your way, or expand on the people on this list. I’d also be interested to hear about cool up and comers that deserve a bit of attention.
Jade! I’m so flattered that you included me in this list of amazing people. Some are friends and some I’ve yet to “meet,” so many interesting people doing interesting things.
Let me know if I can help you ‘meet’ other cool people, especially in the field of information product creation. For instance, if you want someone who has a beautifully designed product then check out Danielle Laportes firestarter sessions. Oooh does that product feel like a guilty indulgence.
Lemme know if any of your clients look like they will stand out
- Jade
What a great list to be included on, thanks!
Thanks very much for the kind mention. Looking around. Yes yes, I’m in great company.
Thanks for the mention, Jade. What’s great about you is how you create important resources like this for people to come back to, as well as shining some light on some folks who might otherwise not get it, like us support team folks.
Glad you liked and let me know if I can help with anything.
Wow!!! What an incredible list! I already knew about some of these great people and have been following them for some time. Thanks for compiling this. It has opened me up to some great people whose blogs and content I am perusing now. I have about 25 tabs open on my browser right now. Ill be on a wild link tangent for weeks because of this post! Looking forward to the journey!
Awesome list, Jade. I know how much effort these lists can take to put together (and how hard it is to decide who to include). I’m really honored to be a part of it. Thanks so much for sharing. There are quite a few new people I need to check out. Cheers!
Thanks!
I remember the problogger one I did where I got criticism for not including niche bloggers, but no-one really acknowledged the sheer amount of work that goes into them. This was harder than most because I intentionally tried to include people from so many different communities.
I’m glad you like it. And, as I’m telling everyone, let me know if you think theres anyone worth watching out for. I wont be able to watch for people as much if I wanna earn enough to get to Blog World.
Awesome list, I’ve worked with a lot of these guys and indeed you should know about them, their work is stellar.
Oh my goodness, how lovely to be included, thank you!
You’ve got some of my favorite folks on this list.
I know
I had to work hard NOT to include more of the remarkables because I wanted a diverse group of people. You’ve inspired me so much with that community and it was a no brainer to include you. You’re one of the rare people I really enjoy watching and learning from.
(ack, now have to catch up with months of blueprint lessons. Why did I have to move
)
Jade, you know I love you! Do we get to hang out at BlogWorld? (aka are you paying $$$$$ for airfare?)
Seriously, though. Appreciate the kind words and the inclusion! Keep rockin’!
Well I am doing everything in my power to get to blogworld. Seriously. I so badly want to go. Moving house kinda blew the budget but I figure I have a bit over two months to earn 3k. I can so do it. I hope
Glad you liked the list. Seriously, it means so much to put so much work into it and not have people yell at me this time.
Big thanks for the mention! And for bringing some awesome new folks to my attention … this is definitely a post I need to dig through in some detail. You’ve got some firm friends of mine here (like Andy Hayes, hi, Andy!) and some people who’re on the fringes of my radar, and a few names I don’t know.
Thanks for your work on putting this together, too; it must’ve taken quite a while!
Technically, it took a week
That week included going to Melbourne to see a classical performance, doctors, house stuff and biz meetings. So, er, didn’t take that long but I was stressing towards the end and got Bill to help.
Lemme know if I can expand on why I chose the people or even talk about the people I couldn’t include. And, thanks again for introducing my to Srini. He got a couple of good interviews from other people out of that
I’ve yet to do mine but I’m looking forward to it.
Hi Jade, I was reading this post, thinking what a great list it was and mentally adding new people to my reading list and literally jumped when I saw my name in at No. 49. I’m honored to be in this great company.
Seriously though, it was easy to put you on. I’m so jealous of what you do. Let me know if you find any cool freelancers or location independent peeps.
Jade, I don’t love you anymore
Haha. Seriously though, great list and must have taken ages to put together!
Dude
Seriously, there was lots of people like you, Diggy, Naomi and Gillkey that I love but I didn’t want it to be a list of people my friends. That, and like you really need a list to tell you you’re awesome. It goes without saying.
- Jade
Great list, Jade! It was so nice to see so many people I both know and don’t know included on it.
Just wanted to say that if you see anyone worth recommending, shoot me a line. I get so many emails asking for help. And, thanks for the recommendation to Marie Pierre! I sent her a few names and helped a bit and she was so appreciative. I can get back to her now this post is done
- Jade
Hey Jade!
As a busy mama I have no time to scout around the blogosphere looking for great people to follow and I really appreciate that you compiled this list to make things easier for me!
Thanks so much! Stacey
Glad you liked it!
Feel free to email or tweet me if you need any other recommendations. Most people come to me telling me of great people so it’s getting easier to recommend them.
However I totally get it. I spent a lot of time helping out with my nephew last year and I struggled to keep track of what was going on. Even in the past month I got really stressed out because I was moving and didn’t know what was happening. That influenced the people on this list, I wanted to create a resource that people would look at and go ‘I love you’ for making it easy for them.
Jade,
Wow! Thank you so much for including me on this list of Netsetters. Huge surprise for the day and I so appreciate being included with this group of people.
Thanks for introducing me to some NEW people as well – it’s harder than ever to dig through the wealth of people and resources online so I’m glad you did it for me:)
Thanks Jade!
Melani
Anytime!
You can thank Andrea Vahl. Apparantly, you and Chris recommended her to me at the same time and that got me looking at your work.
Too many awesomely designed sites and not enough time.
I agree it’s harder then ever. That has someone become my business model and even I’m having trouble doing it. I usually just see who comes to me via word of mouth because that way I know they are trustworthy and cool.
Glad you liked and keep in touch
Great list, Jade! I’m looking forward to getting to “know” a few new faces! Thanks!
Brenda
Holy schmoly! I’m on a list with my heroes and inspirations!
WOW.
Thanks for this, Jade. All I can say to anyone who isn’t on this list and wants to be is, “Keep showing up, dearest. It seems to work out.”
Well several people on this list I only got in touch with this past month, or they got in touch with me via my work with Dave. And they were considerate, professional and didn’t brag about the quality of their work.
It was a no brainer to include people like that because seriously, the main reason I include people is because I trust them. I like highlighting the cool, respectful and helpful people.
(the other tip is to have a photo and comprehensive about page so that people can promote you easily. Ack, the work that went into some of these hehe)
Hi Jade,
Thanks so much for including me on this list! What great company, too
-Erica
Anytime!
As an aside, I know you guest post a lot (hence guest post secrets). The pay for submissions here and I think you have so many unique stories you could offer, considering how much you rocked before starting your blog.
This is an amazing list, so many people I already follow and admire as well as some fantastic new ones I had never heard of before. Thanks for including me, humbling and exciting at the same time.
Nice Nice list full of awesome Digital Crusaders ( have to use my own words here).
I luv the fact that you included a lot of people who kick-ass, but aren’t quite established (and over-promoted) yet – this really helps the soon-to-be-mavericks dive about the water.
I know 90% of those people, and it’s an honor to be among them.
No. 28 ? Looks like I have to spread my influence….even more
keep rocking girrl !
Dude, it wasn’t done by numbers
10 categories and each person was in the order I wrote them out in my first brainstorm. It was that simple.
Thanks heaps tho – it was hard to exclude some people because they were already successful, but I really wanted to shine the light on those that have been working hard over the past year or so.
Keep in touch dude.
Wow, am honoured to be listed with such an amazing group of people. Thanks so much Jade.
Nice on Jade. Great to see Karol, Nathan, Mars, Johnathan, Shrini and and Danielle, my personal faves in your list. There’s a lot to discover in the others too.
I would love to add one for you – Raam Dev (http://raamrev.com). Raam is travelling the world and writing about the changes he sees needed as does. His blog has really hit a sweet spot with many people since he’s opened his heart to the world. He should definitely be in your Lifestyle section so check him out!!! I should have mentioned him when you asked on Twitter.
Sorry the links Raam Dev… and that link goes straight to the ebook just released today: Small Ways to Make a Big Different – authored by 40 bloggers.
Wow, what a killer list of awesome people – thanks for the inclusion. I love the categories – as I know most of these peeps, this list really brings to life to me the idea of a ‘netsetter’ and hopefully the groups give readers some focus on people they might want to connect with that can help them be awesome too.
What’s the common factor amongst all these people? They work hard!
(on a separate note… Hi Ali! *waves back*)
What a great discovery to make while doing my morning browsing. Thanks a lot for the mention. This is an excellent list and I’m in some very good company.
Keep the rock up!
@Jade – Yes, I know it wasn’t a ranking.
More and more location independent types are coming out of the woodwork – I’ll keep you posted.
What a great list! It’s very inspiring to see so many successful and vibrant people leading businesses and efforts that are helping others. I started up my own business less than a year ago and am enjoying the freedom it brings as well as the tears and sweat it takes to make it happen
Good luck to all fellow business owners and entrepreneurs!
Thanks so much for including me among this amazing list (and a few of these people are new to me, so awesome!).
(what a great thing to read as I’m recovering from this yucky sinus infection…sigh)
~ ElizabethPW
Thanks for the mention Jade. Totally appreciated. And nice to be in such good company.
Also thanks for turning me on to some new faces. Lots to explore here!
You are the awesome. Big thanks.
Wow, great list! Just opened about 15 of these in new tabs to read.
WOW! Those are some great resources and “influencers”. I, luckily, have followed and personally know a few of these people. Thanks for sharing some great new people to watch for. I appreciate it.
I am pursuing my own passive income strategy through a few of my sites and have hit the average of $1,000 thanks to people like Everett and Pat Flynn. I definitely suggest following those two guys if you are a commenter and are reading this.
Have a great day….
David Damron
The Minimalist Path
Hi David!
Thank you for commenting
I’ve been intrigued by minimalism since finding Everett and it’s an honor you checked this list out, dude. (Especially since you’ve travelled through Australia – did you explore Victoria much?).
I’ve now hit about 2k a month and it’s such a great feeling. It is also awesome to be able to have people to aspire to, again like Everett, that make you feel happy with your marketing.
Feel free to contact me if there is anything I can do for you.
- Jade
What a great post. I have no idea about many of those great people and their websites. I would add Seth Godin to that list.
Thanks for sharing the list.
Wicked.
Thanks
Great company of others to be included with.
Thanks for this list Jade. Just increased the number of blogs in my reader by about three times.
Hey Jade,
We have exchanged emails before…Great list! Some I have heard of and even follow. Remember as my name and site refer to I am a bit wee bit older. However, your content is always top notch. And the way I feel, age does not matter.
I have added several of the list above to my rss feed to keep an eye on and to learn from. Even being an older guy, I still like to learn and then contribute to my niche.
The over riding theme of the list seemed to be: doing it on their terms, breaking the rules, quitting the day job, making a difference and following their passion. This is exactly what we boomers, some in the past and now today, aspire to do.
Boomers feeling their mortality, now want to leave a legacy and make a contribution to the world, and break the cliche as the “me” generation. This list provides an excellent platform to learn from (even if they are younger) people who have been lucky enough to find their passion and make money at the same time.
Thanks for the hard work putting the list together.
My suggestion for other netsetters:
Problogger.net
Copyblogger.com
Viperchill.com
Mark
Where is Steve Pavlina?
Megan Elizabeth Morris totally rocks! I’ve had the pleasure of working with her (and meeting her in person) and she’s amazing. She sings too. Opera. In Welsh. (You can listen at her website meganmakesmusic.com). Hope it’s OK to post that link.
Do not hesitate to contact Megan, she’s a wonderful human and will surely build a great connection between you and your public.
Is this the list of “50 Netsetters Under Age 40″? I don’t see anybody with a grey hair on this list…
I second the Seth Godin nomination (how did you manage to leave him out? Oh, right, he’s probably over 40…).
For the list of the next 50 netsetters, I also nominate Joe Vitale (Hypnotic Writing, Spiritual Marketing, etc) , Pat O’Bryan (Your Portable Empire), Chris Farrell (Create Your Website by 3:45 this Afternoon), Ali Brown, Liz Tomey, Lynn Terry, Suzanne Falter-Barnes, Ellen Violette (the Ebook Coach), Dan Kennedy (duh), and the FLYLady (who else do you know could build a mailing list of over 500K around household chores? I am now in the habit of polishing my sink, so her stuff works at any rate…)
Great list … oh…and #18 … Megan Morris ROCKS!