Learn what steps are involved in setting up a blog network, what pitfalls to avoid, & put together a plan of action!

Taught by Wendy Piersall & Easton Ellsworth

Ever thought about starting a blog network? You wouldn’t be alone; blog networks are rapidly emerging as one of the best ways to take your blogging career to the next level.

Learn how to put a plan of action together to start a blog network from Wendy Piersall, founder of the Sparkplugging Blog Network and Easton Ellsworth, Editor with the Know More Media Blog Network.

Course Details

In this Course We Cover

Planning and Design
How to define and differentiate your blog network from the competition

Traffic building strategies
Go beyond social media traffic or search engine optimization

Building a healthy network
Strategies to increase page views and ’stickiness’

Put together a strong business model
Income diversification methods for blog networks

Creating an advertising strategy
How to work with ad networks and sell your own inventory

Hiring and management of writers
How to find the right bloggers and keep them motivated

Technology considerations
Building a solid foundation for future scalability

Who Should Take This Course

This course is for experienced bloggers – while people new to blogging may want to learn about networks, we will not be discussing the basics of blog promotion.

What Do Our Students Have to Say About
Introduction to Starting a Blog Network?

Course Fee Includes

• Information-packed 90 minutes of audio
• In-depth workbook to walk you through the material, enabling you to take the information and put it into a specific plan of action to start a blog network.

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3 Full Audio Sessions and
Detailed Course Workbook
$49.95

Learn income diversification strategies to ensure that your business makes money in every kind of economy!

Taught by Wendy Piersall & Marla Tabaka

Are you finding that your business grows and shrinks with the number of clients you can get? It’s a pretty vulnerable place to be, especially when your business relies on factors out of your control, like the economy.

If your only income is from billing projects or hours, then you are leaving yourself defenseless with all of your eggs in one basket. And you can only grow your business to the level of the amount of hours you can work in a week. Finding more clients isn’t the answer – diversifying how your business earns money is.

Course Details

In this Course We Cover

What is Passive, Leveraged and Residual income?

Why you need a mailing list

The difference between RSS Subscribers and Email subscribers

Using Autoresponders to create revenue that earns on autopilot

The inside scoop on dealing with Ad Networks

How to incorporate non-competitive advertising
even when you have a small audience

How to build a sales funnel for maximum revenue potential

An innovative approach to developing products

Create a structure and workflow that gives you
more time to spend on income generation

Who Should Take This Course

• You should have an existing service-based business (consultants, freelancers, coaches, etc.)
• OR You should be a blogger/web publisher that desires to start monetizing your traffic or increase your earnings

• It is strongly recommended that all participants have an existing web site, because the strategies we  teach are primarily geared toward internet-based promotion

What Do Our Students Have to Say About
our Diversify Your Income Workshop?

Course Fee Includes

• Three sessions of audio recordings with nearly 2 hours of solid information – no pitches or upsells, just 110 minutes of pure insights and advice.
• Detailed Course Workbook to walk you through the material, enabling you to take the information and put it into a specific plan of action
• Special Appendix with professional speaking resources and links for all products and services mentioned in the course

Learn how to start and run a podcast that helps your business grow

Starts September 8

Taught by Kelly McCausey

I’ve often told business owners that they’ll be podcasting sooner or later and I believe that for two reasons. First, your target market wants to have a choice about how they consume your information and second, podcasting helps you to reach whole groups of people you may never have made contact with otherwise.

In this course you’ll be prepared for the creation of a podcast that helps you achieve your unique business goals. We’ll cover target market, purpose, content creation, finding guests and the development of a money strategy. Before you record one minute of content, you’ll know exactly what to do and why you’re doing it.

Course Details

In this Course We Will Cover

In the Strategy & Planning Section

• Week 1 – Target Market Development and Goals
• Weeks 2 & 3 – Content Development
• Week 4 – Income Strategies

In the Technology & Implementation Section

• Week 1 – Podcasting Tools
• Week 2 – Hosting Skills
• Week 3 – Production Skills
• Week 4 – Troubleshooting Q & A

Prerequisites

• It is strongly recommended (but not required) that all participants have an existing web site, because the strategies we will be teaching are primarily geared toward internet-based promotion
• It is recommended but not required that you have a high-speed internet connection to access and view the visual presentation in our web conference room

Course Fee

$39.95 Per 4-Week Session – Limited to 100 Participants

Course Workbook is included in this registration fee

Dates & Times

This is a four hour course, classes meet for one hour, once a week via a web conference room.

Podcasting Bootcamp – Technology & Implementation
September 8 – 29 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Central
Register for the Podcasting Bootcamp – Technology & Implementation – $39.95 | 4 hours

Podcasting Bootcamp – Strategy & Planning
July 21 – Aug 11 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Central
Podcasting Bootcamp – Strategy & Planning – Currently Running

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