This is our space to get real with you and share our best strategies for starting a blog, building an audience, and earning a full-time income online.
When you sell products online, you generally have two different business models to choose from: selling on your own and selling on marketplace platforms like Amazon, Udemy, Etsy, and Skillshare.
Now that everyone and their grandmother can write blog posts about any topic in the world, in a fraction of the time, Google needs to be even better at making sure helpful content stays at the top.
At first, I wasn’t sure about this topic of motivation over discipline. My brain immediately went to “avoiding procrastination” and I think that’s a very high-level and over-discussed topic.
Finding some stability in your online business can be really tough in a get-rich-quick-ai-enhanced world.
I know when you hear "evaluating strengths and weaknesses," your brain probably goes back to learning SWOT analysis in the 7th grade... but hear me out for a sec.
We're back to basics for the moment as we decide what's truly important in this business both for ourselves and especially for our audience.
We are [FINALLYYYYY] back with another episode of the podcast - after a 1 year and 4-month hiatus. Wow!
I had 3 words written down in my notes before I hit the record button: Ads, Redesigns, and Rebrands. This episode is just an honest chat about these topics.
I take a look back at the journey from starting to selling our first blog, and how it changed my life.
Today, I’m sharing my experience with imposter syndrome, and how you can learn to recognize it so you don’t lose momentum on your journey to blog biz success.
I’m speaking with Kate Ahl of Simple Pin Media, whose entire business is focused on driving traffic from Pinterest.
Our student Amira Irfan created a very successful 7-figure blog, and she started making money her first month blogging. She's sharing her secrets to success.
Today, I’m taking a deep dive into the place where growth happens: Outside of your comfort zone.
We finally made it to the end of 2021! It's time to wrap up the year with a recap of our ups and downs, and check our mindset as we head into 2022.
Natalie shares updates and new insights on her growing blog biz, including how and why she switched from selling online courses to an online membership program.
For introvert Mia Brox, blogging seemed like the perfect way to express her creative side and make some extra income, while staying out of the limelight. But she soon realized she would have to step out of her comfort zone to grow her blog to the next level.
Guest blogger Debbie Gartner shares her incredible rags to riches blogging success story, along with her best tips and advice for new bloggers.
In this second part of our 2-part SEO series, Noah Riggs goes into detail with me on the big SEO mistakes when we started Create and Go.
We have a long, dark history with SEO traffic. It was so frustrating, and we were at a loss as to how we would ever fix our SEO--until we brought Noah Riggs onto our team. This is part 1 of a 2-part series on our SEO journey.
I’m sharing my thoughts, strategies, and tips on how to identify and navigate the theory and practice arenas so you can do and achieve more.
Many of you know that Alex and I used to date. Now, it's time to tell the other side of our story, and share our tips for running a blog biz with your ex.
If you want to run a successful online business, at some point, you’re going to need to hire help. But how do you know when you've reached that point?
Last episode, I shared the first half of how we make most of our income: affiliate marketing. Now, I’m sharing the second half: Selling our own digital products.
I’m sharing what did work for us -- specifically, how we make the majority of our income...
As we often do here, we’re first sharing what did NOT work out for us before we share what did...
You can set up your business in a way so that the money that you make is pretty passive.
If you have any kind of online biz, you need an email list and you need to understand how to connect with your audience through email.
The very first step that you need to take to start earning some money from your blog is to get some people in the door.
The kind of content that makes people remember you and want to read, listen, or watch everything you have to say.
You could probably say that Alex and I took that leap a little prematurely and it was definitely based more on feelings and desires rather than serious logic and rational decision-making.
I don’t want to use the term “wasted,” because ultimately everything that we spent and every failed lesson learned led to our successful path today.
Our first blog was born from passion, but we ultimately decided to pivot towards popularity, which then translated into profits
But despite this motivation and willingness to do whatever it took, our first blog still flopped.
I can tell that they think I just take some photos and write some stuff about them and put them on the internet.
The reasons why you are doing this are what will continue to propel you forward through the tough times.
Because podcasts provide a platform for us to really get real with you -- in ways we’ve been unable to before.
