Launch Your Blog Biz

In this episode, I'm sharing some brand NEW content -- straight from our updates on our Six-Figure Course Creator course that I'm working on right now. It's all about the pros and cons of   selling products on marketplace platforms like Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare, Udemy, etc. We're big proponents of selling your products on your own platforms like   Teachable ,   Clickfunnels ,  ...

We have something exciting to share with you today - our first ever VIDEO podcast! You can watch the video on YouTube here.  As many of y'all know, we've been spending the last couple of months updating our blogging courses - from scratch.  These updates feature us fully on camera for the first time. In honor of these content upgrades, I think it's only fitting that we finally record one...

Today’s topic is actually one that was requested by Greg. In the last episode, I mentioned at the end that if anyone had any topic suggestions that they wanted to share, please do so. You can comment below on this episode page and share your thoughts or suggestions! At first, I wasn’t sure about this topic of motivation over discipline. My brain immediately went to “avoiding procrastination” and I...

Finding some stability in your online business can be really tough in a get-rich-quick-ai-enhanced world. It seems like there are 5 billion side hustles out there and every 5 minutes, you're getting an ad or a post from someone making $5,000 doing something online. But what does this mean for business sustainability? A lot of these side hustles and platforms provide income and traffic that come in...

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses and what you bring to the table in your business is so important. Identifying the characteristics in your personality that make you really great at a particular task and also what makes you not so great at other tasks can help you remove blockers to your growth. Sometimes and for some people, this can be really easy. But in some cases, people have huge b...

Since Noah bought out half of Create and Go, we have been super hard at work on new content - YouTube, podcast, and course updates. It's all very exciting but not always easy. Noah has definitely felt a huge responsibility stepping into an already-established business and learning where he fits in as a new owner. We've been cutting costs and taking on the responsibility for almost all of the work...

We are [FINALLYYYYY] back with another episode of the podcast – after a 1 year and 4-month hiatus. Wow! This hiatus wasn’t necessarily planned, although, at some point, there was a conscious decision to drop the podcast from our priorities. I never recorded anything to let y’all know that we were going to stop recording episodes. Actually, I did record an episode and then I deleted it. I’ll explai...

029. Hey, y’all! This episode is a little different from my usually-at-least-somewhat-planned-out content. Sometimes I actually script out entire episodes because I have a lot to say on the topic and I want to make sure I say it right or say everything I want to say. But this time, it’s the opposite. I had 3 words written down in my notes before I hit the record button: Ads, Redesigns, and Rebrand...

028. I have some exciting news to share today: I sold a website! Well, okay–Alex and I sold our first website together. (Technically it’s our second website, but we don’t count our first failed website for obvious reasons.) If you’ve been following us at Create and Go for very long, or if you’ve taken any of our courses, then you’ve definitely heard us mention the blog we’re talking about today– A...

027. If you’ve ever found yourself hesitating at the starting line…  Or suddenly feeling unqualified to present your content… Or deciding you just need to do x, y, and z, and then you’ll get started… You’re probably struggling with imposter syndrome. Almost all of us experience imposter syndrome at some point or another, whether you want to give it that label or not.  It’s that little vo...

026. Ok, y’all–it’s time to talk about the big, red elephant in the room: Pinterest. The platform we all love to hate. All the changes to the algorithm, video pins, idea pins, pins without links…it’s all so frustrating and enough to make you think about dropping Pinterest altogether.  Most content creators (including us), have been negatively impacted by Pinterest’s many changes–especially ov...

025. Making money from a new blog can take quite some time.  It took us months before we finally turned a profit on our health and wellness blog, and y’all already know about how our first blog failed miserably.  But just because it can take a while to start making money blogging, doesn’t mean it has to.  Our student, Amira Irfan–business lawyer, blogger, and coach at ASelfGuru.com,...

024. Happy New Year, y’all, and welcome to 2022! It’s that time of year again… Lots of people are making resolutions, setting goals, and planning for the brand new year ahead.  So today, I’m taking a deep dive into the place where growth happens: Outside of your comfort zone.  Getting out of my comfort zone is something I’ve always struggled with, both personally and professionally.&nbsp...

023. Well, y’all, we finally made it to the end of 2021! And what a year it was…  Everyone said 2020 was really rough, and it was in some ways. But financially speaking, it was a great year for us. So, naturally, we went into 2021 expecting more great things.  And we definitely created some awesome things: our podcast and new SEO course . But we’ve also hit a few speed bumps this year. O...

022. Do you ever wonder about the sustainability of a business like this? The evolution and growth that you need to make this work in the long-term? I certainly wonder about it pretty often… If you do too, you’ll want to stick around for a minute today. Many of you that have followed us for a while are familiar with Natalie Bacon’s story: $206,000 in student loan debt to very successful blog (500k...

021. The beauty of running an online business is that you can do so in the comfort of your own home. In your pajamas, yoga pants, whatever your jam is... You can create your own schedule and really just do you every day. If that sounds like an introvert paradise to you, you’re not alone! For introvert Mia Brox of She Dreams All Day blog, blogging seemed like the perfect way to express her creative...

020. Earning six figures is a pretty big motivator, but you know what’s even more compelling? Needing to pay off six figures worth of debt... That’s exactly what Debbie Gartner of The Flooring Girl blog was facing back in 2016, when she lost her flooring company, and suddenly found herself staring down the barrel of impending financial doom.  Debbie actually started her first blog to help her...

019. We’ve probably said this a thousand times now, but we made some big mistakes with SEO when we first started Create and Go that still haunt us to this day. In our last episode , we talked about our dark history with SEO, and how Noah and Alex managed to dig us out of the hole we accidentally made for ourselves.  Y’all, I can’t tell you how much it hurts me to think of all the time, effort...

018. You know what they say… Ignorance is bliss. We made a lot of SEO mistakes when we started Create and Go.  But for a while, we were blissfully unaware of those mistakes.  For a long time, we didn’t even care about SEO. Pinterest and YouTube traffic were enough for us. But when we did start caring… yikes, that was a tough road to go down. It became apparent pretty quickly that some th...

017. When you’re thinking about starting a new blog--or a new business, diet, lifestyle change, or a new anything, really--it’s pretty easy to get started.  Most people love starting new things--I know I do.  You get the instant dopamine hit of learning all the new information: taking a new course, discovering a new podcast, finding a new YouTube channel…  It makes us feel motivated...

016. It’s finally time for us to tell the other side of our story.  Many of you know from following us -- or from creeping on old photos of us on Instagram (you know who you are) -- that Alex and I used to date. It was amazing, because blogging can feel pretty isolating at times. Your family and friends probably don’t understand what you’re doing, or what you’re going through, and they might...

015. When it comes to running and managing my business, I’m the first person to admit that I would prefer to do everything myself, at all times.  Not that I want to do all that work, I’m just very particular about how I want things done.  But there just aren’t enough hours in my day, and I don’t want to spend all of my hours on my computer. If you want to run a successful online business...

014. Welcome to the third and final episode of our 3-part series on how to make money blogging!  In our last episode, I shared the first half of how we make most of our income: affiliate marketing. Give it a listen , if you haven’t already, because that was the very first and very important step that we took to start selling products.. Next, I’m sharing the second half of that equation: Selli...

013. Welcome to the second episode of our 3-part series on how to make money blogging. This is where things get exciting! In past episodes I’ve taken you through how to build a foundation for your blogging biz, how to build an engaged audience, and in our last episode I even shared what not to do when it comes to making money blogging. Give it a listen , if you haven’t already, because knowing wha...

012. The next saga in our fast and furious failures is here… (and we’ve had many more than these movies, I can assure you). This episode is Part 1 of 3 in a series on making money with your blog.  And as we often do here, we’re first sharing what did NOT work out for us before we share what did. Including our first attempt at webinars, which I consider our real rock-bottom, most cringe-worthy...