Cassie: Have you started to monetize your blog yet?
Or maybe you're just not quite sure where to get started or what type of income streams
you want to use on your blog?
Today's review is on a course that just might have been answer to all of your questions
as it is filled with lots of different income stream options and different ways to implement
their techniques to making an income with your blog.
Cassie: Hey guys, and welcome back to Explore Horizons.
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Cassie: What is this course about?
Well, first let's start with the title.
This is The Create and Go, Make Money Blogging for Beginners.
This is the second course that Create and Go came out with.
Actually, I think it might be their third.
It's one of the courses that Create and Go came out with after the Launch Your Blog course,
which I made a video about just before and I will link it down below or in the little
info card above, if you want to go check that out.
And this one is called Make Money Blogging for Beginners.
Cassie: What's taught in this course is things like affiliate marketing, ad Strategies, also
doing sponsorships and just all things, kind of dipping your toes into creating an income
using your blog.
If you've never done it before or if you have thought about doing it, but you're just not
sure what you need to do if you need a big following, how to become an affiliate of different
programs.
So this course is really filled with a lot of beginners' information.
And it's a really good starting point.
I feel for newbies, especially someone like me who has never owned a blog before, never
done online business before and want to make an income with their blog.
So what's inside this course?
Well I'm just going to jump onto my laptop and run through with you just what's inside.
Cassie: They talk about things like using ads, getting sponsors for your posts, basics
of affiliate marketing, marketing techniques, Amazon associates, which is another affiliate
marketing strategy, email marketing basics, setting up sales funnels, blog traffic basics,
using social media for marketing, basics such as Pinterest and YouTube and also Facebook
groups.
Google SEO basics as well, and other blogging matters like taxes, keeping track of revenue,
protecting your blog from hackers, et cetera.
Cassie: The creators of this course, as I have talked about in the first video, which
is the Launch Your Blog course review, this one is ... I'm just gonna quickly skim over
what I said last video and that is that Alex and Lauren are the creators of Create and
Go and they created one, a blog that didn't make any money, failed the first time.
It's called Health and Happy Hour.
Then the second blog that they made was a lot more successful and that made over $17,000
in their first six months and they now have a blog called Create and Go, which is what
this course is all about and they make $10,000 every month.
And that is also passively.
So you kind of get the idea of where I'm coming from as to why I actually want to take this
course.
Cassie: What problems does this course claim to solve?
Well, it says that it is the solution for taking your blog from $0 to $1,000 a month
with free traffic, affiliate marketing, and other awesome source strategies.
So how did it help me?
Well, basically it gave me the tools that I needed to start off with affiliate marketing,
which is one of my favorite ways of making an income because I don't have to make products
for a starters, and two, I also use these products and I know that they work and stuff
like that.
So affiliate marketing comes very easy to me and I can make a bit of an income using
affiliate marketing, which is one of the strategies that they mainly focus on in this course.
Cassie: They do touch on doing sponsorships at which I have another course on which I
might do a review on if you guys are interested in that.
They do talk about ads, but they don't talk about those as much as they talk about affiliate
marketing.
I understand why they do it that way is because affiliate marketing, like I said, it's easy
to get started with and it is faster seeing results.
Sponsorships you need more of like a bit more of a following and a bit more of a loyal following.
So it's not so easy to get started with, especially if you're a small type of blogger or if you're
still really new and you don't have like a big audience.
It is still possible.
It is a lot harder though.
But affiliate marketing, you don't have to have a huge audience to first get started
with and all the other sort of bits and bobs that come with affiliate marketing, it's a
lot more easier to get started with.
Cassie: The course also helps me understand how to start using email funnels and how to
get people into my funnel to then convert into sales.
And you don't have to have a product to get started with this course either.
It teaches you how to do the affiliate marketing side of using the email funnels.
So you can still stop making an income right from the beginning basically.
Cassie: Let's talk about some pros and cons.
So one of the biggest pros that I love about this course is it gives you the actual ... Like
Alex and Lauren put together a sales funnel, like an email sales funnel that goes for seven
days and it is one of the highest email sales funnel that I've ever stood up.
I have used some sales funnels in the past and they haven't been the greatest and I also
didn't really know how to use them.
So once I started taking this course and actually implementing the strategies that they talk
about because they actually really thoroughly explain what's in the funnel and why they
have it there, and then what you have to do to make it your own funnel and to make people,
or to help people trust you in order to buy from you basically.
Cassie: As I have also said before, another pro about this course is they go really in
depth with that affiliate marketing and I have done other affiliate marketing courses
that just solely talk about affiliate marketing and teach you strategies on that.
And I felt this course was a really good building block to understanding how to start monetizing
my blog for one, and two, how to get started with affiliate marketing because affiliate
marketing is a huge topic.
And I feel like I'm always learning new things every single day.
There's never like one course that I've found that has been super, super on point with affiliate
marketing.
I feel like, as with everything actually, I feel like you have to learn from a few different
people to be able to fully understand it, to be able to actually implement it and make
things happen a lot quicker and a lot easier and actually work.
Cassie: The affiliate marketing sort of stuff that they talk about is like using them in
your blog, posts and I'm also using it in your email funnels.
And they also talk a little bit about doing things on YouTube, which I didn't really get
too well into.
But basically this course is about how to start making money on your blog.
This course also talks about Amazon Associates, which I never really got into.
One because I don't really use Amazon and I don't feel comfortable recommending things
to my audience that I wouldn't actually use myself.
So I don't tend to use Amazon Associates as well is because they have a lot of rules and
a lot of regulations that have little holes in them.
And you can sometimes get into a little trouble with it.
So I try to stay away from Amazon Associates.
Cassie: That is just a personal preference.
It's up to you if you want to use that for your blog or if that suits the kind of ... The
audience that you have.
Then of course Amazon Associates is really good to have.
But they do talk about Amazon Associates in there, so I just wanted to add that in just
in case some of you were thinking of monetizing your blog using Amazon Associates.
Cassie: And the third pro is they use a lot of ... They give you a lot of Pinterest strategies,
which is kind of how I sort of started with Pinterest.
With Create and Go, it wasn't with this course.
It will be in the next video, which is the Pinterest Avalanche course review that I'll
do for you.
And they basically teach you in this course, the basics of getting traffic and using Pinterest
to make affiliate sales.
Cassie: One of the cons, I guess if you're not quite into affiliate marketing or it might
not be an income stream that you're very interested in doing, then this course is quite heavily
focused on affiliate marketing.
So that could be a con to you if that is obviously an income stream that you're not too interested
in.
Otherwise, it's not a con.
Like to me, I love affiliate marketing, so it's something that I wanted to bring up anyway.
Cassie: And the second con i guess is I always wish that they got a little bit more in depth
with the email marketing.
They do talk about the basics and they do talk about like the strategies to doing email
marketing, but I wish they went into more strategies on using the email funnel, maybe
a different email funnel, welcome series and stuff like that, to help build trust with
the audience to then convert them into sales.
Cassie: Would I recommend this course?
I totally would.
I have been able to start making an income after using this course.
It wasn't so much as with ads or with sponsorships as I haven't really gotten into those too.
But I feel like marketing obviously, like I say, throughout this whole video, affiliate
marketing is one of my favorites and I do love to do affiliate marketing a lot.
Cassie: If you're an intermediate blogger as well and you haven't started making income.
So if you're about six months in, you haven't started making an income yet or you haven't
even thought about doing monetization and this is your first kind of steps to making
a monetized blog, then by all means, I would recommend this course.
It is a little bit expensive.
I think it's $197 off the top of my head.
But they're basically teaching you how to make money.
So I've already made enough income to pay for that course plus more.
So I think it's a really good investment because you're going to spend money to make money
basically.
Cassie: Like I said, this course is really grate for people who have been blogging for
a little bit and haven't started monetizing their blog or people who just want to start
learning how to market their blogs so they can make affiliate marketing sales, they can
get sponsorships, make ad revenue, which isn't all that great.
But if it's something that you are thinking about, I definitely recommend at least doing
a little bit more research into the course if you're not completely sold on it just yet.
But yeah, that's all I can really say about it.
Cassie: That's the end of today's review, I hope you found it helpful.
If you did, don't forget to give this a thumbs up.
Don't forget to subscribe as well as I will be doing the last review on the Create and
Go sort of series of courses and that is the Pinterest Avalanche course.
So thank you so much for watching guys and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye.
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