• Blog,  Blogging,  Reviews

    How to Make a Living Blogging

    It seems like everyone is a blogger these days.  How to do you take your blog and turn it into a full-time job? Well, Alex and Lauren from Create and Go are here to help.  They have created this amazing course that teaches you all the tricks that they used to make themselves Six-Figure Bloggers. What This Course Will Teach You This course covers the strategies that a six-figure blogger should follow to have a successful blog. Affiliate Marketing, you will learn what it is and how to best use it to have a successful blog. Creating Digital Products – they will teach you that this is the most effective…

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    3 Reasons Your Blog Isn’t Getting Traffic

    Starting a blog can be a slow and tedious process.  You spend hours and hours creating and the visitors don’t just instantly come.  It really can be a trial in patience and perseverance. But, if you’ve been blogging for a while and you’re still not seeing a boost in traffic, here are three things you could be doing wrong. You’re Not Utilizing Social Media Social media can be exhausting.  But, if you are not putting your brand out there and getting followers, people will never see your articles. In order to be getting a constant flow of traffic to your blog, one of the things you need to make sure that…

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    How to Make Money From Blogging

    As a blogger, we all start because we have something that we want to share.  But typically we all have the same ultimate goal, to make our blogs profitable.  I have compiled a list of ways that you can take your blog and make it profitable. Affiliate Marketing The most common way that I have come across to make money blogging is through affiliate marketing.  Affiliate marketing is when you are paid a commission to sell a product for another company.  Common affiliate marketing websites are Amazon Affiliates and Share a Sale. These two websites, among others, provide you with links to different companies and products.  The link they provide…

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    How to Turn a Blog into a Side Hustle!

    Starting a blog was something I didn’t put much thought into… at first.  I used an already existing Gmail account and just activated a Blogger account.  I put together a few posts, tried to set up Google ads, sat back, and waited… and waited… and waited… It was quickly evident that this half-baked attempt to start a blog was not going to be the key to my financial freedom. So at this point, I was faced with a decision… do I throw in the towel?  Or so I invest some money, a lot of time, and figure out how to do it the right way.  Fortunately, I chose the latter.…

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    Courses Every Blogger Needs to Take!

    Blogging is difficult.  It requires a huge time commitment, dedication, and a LOT of patience.  When I first started my blog, I had no idea what I was doing.  I had been selling on Teacherpayteachers.com and felt like starting a blog was the next step.  For the rest of the story, check out My Blogging Journey. I changed my whole technique of starting a blog when I found the courses on Create and Go’s website. Pinterest Traffic Avalanche The first course that I took from them was Pinterest Traffic Avalanche. This class taught me everything that I know about Pinterest, other than what I knew from using it for recipes and…

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    Blogging: Dealing with Writer’s Block

    Trying to have something to write about constantly can be tough.  I always stare at my computer, waiting for the words to put themselves on the screen.  But when you are trying to create and run a successful blog, the most important thing that you can do is be putting out new content regularly.  Finding what you are going to be writing about is the biggest struggle. When I started blogging, I was putting out a new post twice per week.  I just really wanted to get as much content out there as fast as possible.  But after a few months of this, with my full-time job and other responsibilities,…

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    How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog!

    The biggest struggle with running a blog is getting people to read it!  It seems so basic, but if you are not driving readers to your blog, how do you expect anyone to find it!? I’ve done a ton of research, I’ve taken courses, I’ve read blogs, and I’ve tried everything under the sun.  After all of this, I’ve come to one conclusion. The best way to get people to your blog is through… Pinterest! Why Pinterest? You may think that sounds nuts; that website that people use to find recipes is going to drive people to my travel blog, or my teaching blog? Yes! It really is.  Pinterest is the…

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    How to Make Money Blogging!

    Is this for you? Is your blog stuck in a rut?  Are you up and running but the money isn’t coming quite as you expected?  Have you had an idea for a blog, but you’re not sure to go about launching it and making it profitable? I found an amazing course to help you make money blogging. You have to check out Launch Your Blog Biz!   This course is seriously amazing!  It takes the difficult task of making a profitable blog and teaches you step-by-step how to start making money. Who are these people and why should I listen to them? Alex and Lauren at Create and Go have…

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    Building, Promoting, and Monetizing for Blogging

    Build Your Blog 1. Bluehost Web Hosting Bluehost is the company I use to host my website.  They are affordable, and they have 24/7 support.  I did once have an issue where my site went down, and after contacting them, it was fixed in under an hour.  They were professional and courteous.  Great company to look into if you are planning on beginning blogging. Bluehost also works seamlessly with WordPress.org which makes it easy and pretty intuitive.   2. Build and Launch Your Blog This is a course from Create and Go Launch Your Blog Business is a course that teaches you how to set up your blog as well as…

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    Launch Your Blog Business Review

    Are you thinking of starting a blog?  Or have you recently started a blog and you’re just not sure what to do to get to up and running?  If you have an interest in blogging, check out Create and Go they have amazing courses for bloggers of all kinds.   When I first started this blog I did everything wrong.  I tried to create a profitable blog without doing my research or having a plan.  That’s where Alex and Lauren come in.   Alex and Lauren, who are behind Create and Go created a course just for people like me.   Their course Launch Your Blog Business is designed for beginner bloggers. …