How I Make a Full-Time Income with Elite Blog Academy

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Hello! If you’ve landed on this article, it’s probably because you’ve heard a lot of amazing things about Elite Blog Academy and you’re interested in hearing how it’s helped others grow their blogs into businesses.

Affiliate links are included below. This means I get a commission, at no additional cost to you, if you purchase Elite Blog Academy. I have taken this course myself and highly recommend it! Read on to find out why 🙂

JUNE 2017 UPDATE:

Elite Blog Academy only opens its doors once a year (in February) but this year, there is something special brewing! It’s called the Product Launch Playbook and it’s only available for 5 days starting MONDAY, JUNE 19th!

EBA Product Launch Playbook helped me launch Pin Practical Masterclass and ConvertKit Masterclass, both courses earning well over $10,000 each. That’s right, over $10,000!!

The EBA Product Launch Playbook is an 185-page comprehensive guide that lays out the exact formula for how to launch a successful product. Written by EBA founder, Ruth Soukup, who has successfully launched more than $5 MILLION dollars in products over the last few years!

As I was reading one of the bonuses that come with Product Launch Playbook, Ruth called out a study she did about 4 years ago that I feel really speaks to why it’s so important to create and launch your own products.

In her book, How to Blog for Profit Without Selling Your Soul, she interviewed dozens of bloggers to show how page views have a direct correlation to the amount of money a blogger made. For the most part, her hypothesis turned out to be true. She found that the more page views a blogger had, the more money they made.

Seems logical right?

Except she found a few outliers and the outliers interested her enough that she decided to dig deeper.

One blogger was making over $200,000 a year and had less than 100,000 page views and another was making $100,000 a year with 50,000 page views.

The outliers had one thing in common… they had their own products for sale!

Now, this was back in 2013 before launching was really a “thing” but Ruth knew it was going to be the “thing” that would make or break her business. So, she figured out how to master launching. Luckily for the rest of us, she has decided to share all her secrets in Product Launch Playbook!

Product Launch Playbook will only be available for 5 days starting today! That means that if you are ready to finally take your business to the next level by launching your own product, you need to act ASAP!

YES! I’m ready to launch my own successful product!

Product Launch Playbook comes with 3 amazing bonuses… Create Your Perfect Product, The Launch Team Handbook, and the EBA Product Launch Facebook Group!

Okay, so I bet you’ve got a few questions about what exactly this Product Launch Playbook is…let’s cover some of those burning questions….

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT EBA PRODUCT LAUNCH PLAYBOOK

#1 I am not an Elite Blog Academy student, should I or can I still purchase the EBA Product Launch Playbook?

Yes and yes! Even if you are not an Elite Blog Academy student, you can still purchase Product Launch Playbook.

Product Launch Playbook is a standalone product which means it’s valuable whether or not you’ve gone through the EBA course framework or not.

The purpose of the playbook is to help you plan and execute your product launch. Ruth lays out the exact process you need to take to prepare and execute a successful launch of your own. She even includes her exact launch plans for both physical and digital products including lessons learned from each of her launches.

You ready? Awesome! Click here to purchase Product Launch Playbook

#2 I purchased EBA 3.0 earlier this year, didn’t this come as a bonus?

For some people, yes. Product Launch Playbook was available during the February 2017 launch as a flash bonus for the first two days of the launch and the last day of the launch. It depends, when in February 2017 you purchased EBA. If you’re unsure, search your inbox for Product Launch Playbook. It came via a separate email from EBA once you checked out.

#3 Do I really need to launch my own product?

YES, YES, and YES again! Oh my gosh, I cannot speak enough to this point. Think of some of the most successful bloggers you know. Do they have a physical or digital product?

Creating and selling your own products allows you to differentiate yourself and build a loyal customer base. In most cases, it’s also very profitable!

Click here to purchase Product Launch Playbook

#4 I’ve launched my own product before, why do I need Product Launch Playbook?

Great question! I’ve launched my own products before too and I’ve seen a dramatic difference between my success before and after reading the playbook.

In my first launch, I was throwing a lot of crap against the wall and hoping it would stick. In my second launch, I implemented only a few steps in Product Launch Playbook and made over $10,000 in product sales!

I’m slowly building my next product launch following the steps of Product Launch Playbook and it’s made my life so much easier. I’ve even hired someone to help me with various parts of my next launch, something that Ruth talks extensively about in the bonus guide, The Launch Team Handbook.

Here’s the deal: Ruth has made over $5,000,000 in product launches. She knows what she’s talking about! If you’re going to take advice from someone, make sure it’s someone who has proven they know what they are talking about. That person is Ruth!

Convinced? I hope so! Click here to purchase Product Launch Playbook

#5 Does Product Launch Playbook talk about physical AND digital product launches?

Yes, it sure does! Ruth shares her exact launch plans for launching a digital product, physical product, and a New York Times Best-Selling book!

#6 But seriously, is it worth the $297 price tag?

$297 is definitely an investment and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. The playbook is no doubt worth the price. The real question, I think, is whether you are willing to take the time to invest applying what you learn in the playbook.

If you plan on purchasing Product Launch Playbook and putting it on the shelf like “all those other courses and eBooks” you’ve purchased, then no, it’s not worth the price tag. If you’re serious about treating your blog as a business, there’s no other framework that has been as effective for me as the materials Elite Blog Academy has put out–and I’ve spent OVER $10,000 in online courses in the last 12-18 months so I have a pretty good idea what’s out there. You can’t go wrong with Ruth’s advice. She knows what she is talking about!

OKAY! I’m ready to purchase Product Launch Playbook!

Reminder: EBA Product Launch Playbook is only available Monday, June 19th-Friday, June 23rd!

UPDATED FEB 2017:

Depending on how you found this article, you may have seen the original title “Small Bloggers Benefit from Elite Blog Academy Too.” I wrote this when my blog was much smaller than it is today.

Now I make a full-time income in my online business and I want to tell you exactly how Elite Blog Academy helped me.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2016-EARLY 2017:

In August 2016, I quit my corporate job and turned my blog into a full-time online business.
I launched my first product, the Easy Budget and Financial Planning Spreadsheet <– this spreadsheet, which I drive traffic to primarily from Pinterest, has made me over $4,000 and has truly been “passive”
I launched my first eBook, Busy Moms Building
I ran my first group coaching program and began offering 1:1 coaching
I turned my eBook into a course by the same name –> Busy Moms Building Course
In late October 2016, I launched my Facebook group that has over ~~850~~ 1,350+ women entrepreneurs as of ~~Feb 2017~~ June 2017
June 2017 update: I launched two more wildly successful courses using the EBA Product Launch Playbook, making over $10k! Pin Practical Masterclass and ConvertKit Masterclass

…and these are just the highlights. NONE of this would have been possible without first investing in myself and gaining the knowledge I needed to succeed at online business.

I say this all the time, but in case you are new here, I want to make sure I repeat. I am an affiliate of Elite Blog Academy (which means I will make a commission if you purchase using my link with no additional cost to you) and it is the ONLY online course that I’ve taken from start to finish. It took me eight months to complete the whole course and do all of the assignments, correctly.

Coincidently, finishing the course coincides with when I finally pulled the plug on my almost 11-year old career in tech. <– YES, this is a pretty big deal. I made a very comfortable salary at my day job.

Let’s begin by looking at the cold hard facts. Statistics. Everyone wants to know how Elite Blog Academy influenced my blog stats. But first, I want to make something very clear. My monetization strategy is NOT to chase pageviews. I make money primarily through affiliate marketing, email marketing, and my own products. However, none of this would have been possible if I did not have a platform to communicate with people– that platform is my blog. My strategy is to pull people in from Pinterest (primarily) and get them on my email list. Once they are on my email list, I nurture them with email sequences and eventually upsell to an affiliate product or my own products. Elite Blog Academy helps you set up the foundations of using your website as a tool in your business.

My Blog Statistics Jan 2016 vs. Feb 2017

Jan 2016

Monthly pageviews: 7,119
Unique visitors: 1,788
Email subscribers: 52
Pinterest: 878
Twitter: 1,622
Facebook: 1,247
Instagram: 52

INCOME: $0

Feb 2017

Monthly pageviews: 64,095
Unique visitors: 29,226
Email subscribers: 10,000+
Pinterest: 12,261
Twitter: 5,189
Facebook: 2,192
Instagram: 1,970

INCOME: Feb 2017 was my first $10k+ month!!!

Why I Started Blogging

I started blogging in July 2013 when my daughter was 7 months old. I knew nothing about how to blog, I didn’t even know what WordPress was little alone self-hosting and how to buy a domain name. What I did know was that I had something to say and I wanted a platform to say it on. I wanted to connect with other working moms who were going through the same struggles as I was and needed a place to feel like it’s okay. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed, stressed out or lonely in your journey. It’s okay to admit you can’t do it all. It’s okay.

Blogging turned out to be a lot of work, a lot more work than I could have ever managed. As I got to know more about it, I realized that a lot of women have turned their blog into real profitable businesses. Wait, what? People made money writing about topics they were passionate about? I could do that! If I could survive corporate America, I could do this. Or so I thought.

It turns out, I really had no idea what I was doing.

The Reason I Purchased Elite Blog Academy

I found Elite Blog Academy because I followed the creator, Ruth Soukup, since she started her couponing blog, Living Well Spending Less, back when Extreme Couponing was on TLC and it was the hottest topic around. I was on her mailing list from years ago and kept seeing enrollment emails for this course and started to dig a little bit more into what it was.

It was the best investment I have made since starting in 2013. The course is intense, but it is the best comprehensive course I’ve found on blogging and I’ve spent a lot of money on courses because I am what they call a “course junkie.”

I purchased in September 2015 and I started taking the course serious in January 2016. I finished the course in August 2016, right when I quit my corporate job and was about to launch my eBook.

I learn best when content is laid out in a logical manner and there is a way to see progress being made. I loved the format of Elite Blog Academy so much that I modeled my own course after the foundation of following 12 steps with homework assignments. Each step builds on each other.

This is not meant to be completed in one month.

Running an online business or blog is A LOT of work! You have to be in it for the long haul if you want to be successful.

Ruth shows you how to do that in this program.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Elite Blog Academy

#1 I am completely new to blogging and feel extremely overwhelmed by all of the information out there. Will EBA help me?

I have two answers to this questions.

First, EBA does not show you how to set up the backend of your blog. Ruth begins her teaching by walking you through the strategy behind starting a successful blog. If you don’t have a website set up yet and you’re worried you won’t be able to figure it out once you buy EBA–I’ve got you covered! Check out my bonuses below, one of them shows you exactly how to set up the backend of your blog! I personally don’t want the tech side of blogging to stop you from starting. I’ve got ya there!

Second, what I love most about EBA is that Ruth built it as building blocks. Instead of throwing a bunch of advanced strategies at you and sending you on your way, she builds each concept off of the last one. EBA will lead you through 12 different units and 36 assignments. EBA teaches you how to be intentional with your blog so that you don’t waste time spinning your wheels.

Because EBA was built to be taken in 12 unique steps, it stops you from getting overwhelmed with too much information coming at you all at once!

You ready? Awesome! Click here to enroll in Elite Blog Academy

#2 I’ve been blogging for a while and feel like I’ve got the basics (and maybe some advanced strategies) figured out. Will EBA help me move forward?

YES, YES, and YES again! Oh my gosh, I cannot speak enough to this point. When I bought EBA, I had been blogging for 2 years and my corporate career was in marketing. I understood all of the strategies and techniques, the problem was implementing them in a way that actually made me money.

EBA is designed to help beginners, intermediate, and advanced bloggers because it teaches you how to think differently about your blog. When I first opened EBA, I wanted to skip the first 4 units because I felt like I had already built the foundation that I needed. Luckily, I followed Ruth’s advice and forced myself to do every single unit and assignment. I am so glad that I did! I ended up completely rebranding my blog based on the exercises I did in the first 4 units!

It took me eight months to complete the entire course and at the end, I quit my corporate job. EBA is absolutely valuable even if you’ve been blogging for a while.

Click here to enroll in Elite Blog Academy

#3 But seriously, is it worth the $797 price tag?

$797 is definitely an investment and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. The course material is no doubt worth the price. The real question, I think, is whether you are willing to take the time to invest applying what you learn in EBA.

If you plan on purchasing EBA and putting it on the shelf like “all those other courses” you’ve purchased, then no, it’s not worth the price tag. If you’re serious about turning your blog into a business, there’s no other course that has been as effective for me as EBA–and I’ve spent OVER $5,000 in online courses in 2016 alone!

#4 Will EBA make me money?

YES, EBA can totally make you money, IF you are willing to invest the time into completing all of the assignments. In fact, I’m so committed to showing you how you can be successful with EBA that I’m including my Pin Practical Masterclass and ConvertKit Masterclass as bonuses. These two masterclasses take a deep dive into how I applied EBA’s social media and email marketing strategies to turn my blog into a full-time income.

Everyone’s journey to making money with EBA will be different. EBA provides you the framework to build a successful business. The way you choose to implement the framework will be unique to you.

#5 I’m ready to purchase but my spouse thinks it’s not a good idea. Any advice on how to change their mind?

This is a great question because my husband also did not think EBA was a good idea at first. Let me give you a little bit of background about my experience.

When I invested in EBA, blogging was a hobby for me. I had a feeling that it could be more and I desperately wanted to get out of my 10-year corporate tech career.

Look at it like this: what do you spend on your current hobbies a year?

I confess that I didn’t tell my husband until AFTER I made the purchase. When he gave me the side-eye about it, I asked him how much beer league hockey cost and the hundreds of records he seems to buy each year.

Now, here’s the crazy part, my husband’s hobbies have never repaid us a dime, but EBA sure has repaid us 100000x over!

Technically, I didn’t negotiate with him on EBA. After I purchased EBA, I now use the hobby logic on him all the time!

Here’s what the worst and best case scenarios were for me:

WORST: You invest in EBA and find out you just want to keep blogging as a hobby. Cool, you would have spent more than that on your hobby throughout the year anyways.

BEST: You make a full-time income blogging after taking EBA and it turns out to be the best investment in a hobby EVER!

This is how I break it down in my head. Does it help you at all?

#6 How long will EBA take me to complete? How long will I have access to EBA?

It took me eight months to complete EBA from start to finish. The amount of time it will take you to complete EBA is largely based on how much time you dedicate towards working through the course materials. I spent about 10 hours a week on building my blog during those eight months.

You’ll have access to EBA forever! PLUS, Ruth offers a return policy for the first 120 days!

OKAY! I’m ready to enroll in Elite Blog Academy!

How Do I Get Started?

Enrollment for Elite Blog Academy only opens ONCE each year and is currently closed right now. Make sure to sign up for the waiting list to be notified when the doors open again!

JUNE 2017 UPDATE!

The EBA Product Launch Playbook will be available for sale for only 5 days, starting on June 19th, 2017!

Until the cart opens, make sure to sign up for the awesome free video series, Product Launching Made Simple.