Our blogging career started with a big fat failure...
Hey guys! We're Alex and Lauren, co-owners of two blogs: Avocadu.com and Createandgo.co.
While most bloggers would probably not openly talk about this stuff, our first blog failed, HARD.
It's a tough pill to swallow, but it's the truth.
Not every blog starts off the right way or become successful - actually, the majority don't!
We had lots of excitement for our blog and energy for our ideas, but we never felt like we got anywhere. We felt like we we just spinning our wheels and "hoping" it would work.
The worst part - we spent a TON of money on things we didn't need.
Things other bloggers and entrepreneurs told us we had to have...
It's not all doom and gloom though.
It was through these experiences that we learned how to successfully launch a blog the right way.
Fast forward to today, and we have successfully launched not just one blog, but two different blogs in completely different niches + two YouTube Channels!
- By the end of our 1st month, we successfully launched and built our blog from scratch!
- By the end of our 3rd month, we had 300,000+ visitors and readers and had and quit our full-time jobs!
- By the end of our 6th month, we had made $17,163.98 with our blog!
- By the end of our 1st year, we had made $103,467.98 blogging and got to travel the world!
Our third blog,
- By the end of our 1st month, we successfully launched and built our blog from scratch!
- By the end of our 3rd month, we had 30,000+ monthly visitors and had made our first product!
- Currently... We are making over $50,000/month with this blog alone!
We went from $0 blogging to making over $50,000 per month from our blogs… in less than two years…
It might sound insane, but Lauren and I started in the exact same seat as where many of you are sitting in now. We started from $0.
Non. Nada. Zilch. In fact, it was less than $0, because of the money we were spending trying to educate ourselves on blogging.
Yet, despite ourselves and our colossal and constant errors, in our first year, we were able to progress into this…
Stripe Earnings:
Paypal Earnings:
Those are snapshots from our first year blogging. where we made over $103,457.98 with our health and fitness blog.
Note that the above income reports reflect more than the $103,457, because we have our some other sales from our health and fitness Youtube Channel in that mix as well.
Our health and fitness blog, Avocadu.com, was registered on Sep 25, 2015, and a year later on Sep 25, 2016, that’s how much money we had earned! Over 90% of the total sales volume came from sales of our digital products and services.
It was amazing, and we were perfectly content with how it had progressed already… But it didn’t stop there!
Actually, it got wayyyy better over time... These are the monthly reports from our health and fitness blog, Avocadu, for just ONE month (March 2017).
Stripe Earnings:
Paypal Earnings:
We are currently make over $20,000/month with our health and fitness blog, and the income that we make on Create and Go puts us over the $50,000/m mark, which is just mind-boggling to us!
Plus, more importantly than making money is what the money has done for us and the experiences it has allowed us to have! The life it has shown us…
We’ve gotten to travel to Machu Picchu, Bali, and all over the world because of blogging. It has allowed us incredible time and life freedom that we really never dreamed of...
You can accomplish all of this and more with our discounted Beginner Blogger Bundle!
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1. How to Build and Launch Your Blog
2. How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog and Monetize with Affiliate Marketing and Other Strategies
3. How to Drive SERIOUS Traffic to Your Blog with Pinterest
4. How to Earn Six Figures From Your Blog by Creating and Selling Digital Products and Services
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"100k views in less than 4 months! I had zero knowledge of blogging... just a passion for fitness and love writing. I bought the Pro Blogger Bundle Course from Create and Go. It helped me build, launch, and monetize my blog... and start creating my own digital products! This course is GOLD!"
- Ramona, Pro Blogger Bundle Student
Launch Your Blog Course
The Solution to Successfully Build and Launch Your Blog with Wordpress in 1 Month or Less, Without Knowing Any Code or Needing to be a Tech Wizard, Guaranteed!
With this course, you will learn how to...
MASTER WORDPRESS
Comprehensive WordPress training for non-techies. From starting a blog the right way to getting your posts set up to protecting your blog from hackers - it's all covered!
CREATE AMAZING CONTENT
How to produce incredible content with ease. Find your writers voice, what to blog about, and get step-by-step help on your first 10 blog posts
COLLECT EMAILS EFFORTLESSLY
Email marketing and collection - the simple way. Collecting email doesn't have to be spammy or weird. It can be super simple when it's done right!
DESIGN BEAUTIFUL IMAGES
How to create amazing images that give your blog personality while also looking incredibly professional.
NAVIGATE BLOGGING TOOLS
We show you the step-by-step process for accessing and mastering some of the premier blogging tools for beginners
CONQUER SOCIAL MEDIA
Selecting the right social media for YOU, including steps on how to get started and set up the RIGHT way
"I knew nothing about blogging until these guys showed up on my Pinterest. Now, thanks to them, I've got my own domain, I'm in the middle of putting together my own website, and I'm writing my second blog post.
Seriously, Alex and Lauren and Create and Go are amazing, and I have this new, exciting path before me that I never would've found had it not been for them. 10/10 would do it again."
Make Money Blogging for Beginners Course
The Solution for Taking Your Blog From $0 to $1,000/Month with Free Traffic, Affiliate Marketing, and Other Awesomesauce Strategies!
With this course, you will learn how to...
GET LOADS OF FREE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG
Using techniques from Pinterest, Google, and YouTube, we will show you how to get thousands of visitors checking out your blog posts for FREE.
CONVERT THAT TRAFFIC INTO ACTUAL DOLLARS
There are lots of people who get traffic to their blog and never make any money. This is because they usually don’t know how to get the right kind of visitor to their posts who are actually looking to buy. We will teach you how to get visitors who love spending money!
BECOME AN AFFILIATE MARKETING NINJA
Much of this course is about mastering affiliate marketing in a way that has never been taught in any other course on the blogging market. You will learn how to sell thousands of other people’s products consistently and effectively without ever being shady or ruining your relationship with your audience.
LEARN ABOUT ADS, SPONSORED POSTS, AND GUEST POSTS
How to use them, when to use them, and why to use them.
BUILD A LIST OF EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS AN FANS
Part of building a successful blog is building a list of engaged subscribers and fans to send your new content and products to buy. We’ll show you how to do this the right way with little time or involvement.
This is our NEWEST course and it solves that every beginner bloggers faces on whether to start focusing on traffic or monetization after building and launching your blog. Well, this course covers BOTH!
Learn the strategies that took us from our first $172.82/month blogging to over $1,000 and more!
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A Solution for Beginner Bloggers to Drive 10,000 - 100,000+ ORGANIC Monthly Visitors to Your Blog - on Autopilot!
With this course, you will learn how to...
SET UP YOUR PINTEREST PROFILE
Set up your profile for success, including using search engine optimization (SEO) to boost your visibility in Pinterest search. Learn how to organize your boards, your pins, create beautiful board covers, and so much more!
AUTOMATE TRAFFIC WITH PIN SCHEDULING
The thought of keeping up with constant posting on social media is a drag, right? Who has time for that? Scheduling out your content allows you to get continuous traffic while you're sleeping, traveling, etc!
DESIGN YOUR OWN CUSTOMIZED PINS
This is THE name of the game on Pinterest! The best and most beautiful content wins at the end of the day. Learn how to create show-stopping pins that represent your brand and have the best chance of getting viral traffic!
COLLABORATE ON GROUP BOARDS
Driving any amount of traffic can be tough when you're just starting out with no followers. The beautiful thing about Pinterest is that you don't have to have tons of initial followers to start driving traffic to your blog. The ability to collaborate on group boards solves this problem!
TRACK PROGRESS AND ANALYTICS
Learn awesome tools and metrics to track your progress and growth so you always know what's working and what's not! This will help you continue to improve your strategies and increase your blog traffic with Pinterest!
USE PINTEREST FOR EMAIL COLLECTION
It's hard enough getting people to visit your blog, let alone getting them to also sign up for your email list. Learn the strategies that we used to grow our email list like CRAZY by directly pinning our opt-ins on Pinterest!
As you can see, in the first 2 months of running our blog (October and November), we had virtually no traffic. Once we began implementing our Pinterest Avalanche strategies in December, things changed almost overnight...
In July, we had a weight loss pin go MEGA VIRAL and generate us 990,000+ views in ONE month! It was INSANE, and that was when we realized the TRUE untapped potential of Pinterest for our blogs.
As you can see, it's not linear growth. This is due to the nature of Pinterest and the "virality" of content. But if you pin the best content have the right strategies in place, you WILL continue to grow.
P.S. This is ALL Pinterest traffic. No ad spend, no Facebook, and no Google traffic.
Six-Figure Blogger Course
The Formula for Making Six Figures from your Blog with Digital Products and Services, Without Being Scammy or Spending Thousands on Over-Priced Courses!
With this course, you will learn how to...
BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR SIX-FIGURE BLOG
You’ll see the insider framework of our multiple six-figure blogs, learn how to build better relationships with your audience, and discover the real way 99% of six-figure bloggers make their money.
SELL DIGITAL PRODUCTS VIA AFFILIATE MARKETING
Did you know you can sell thousands of digital products and services without having to actually create your own? You will be able to find and discover incredible products to promote on your blog that your readers will LOVE you for recommending.
CREATE DIGITAL PRODUCTS - IDEA FORMING AND PLANNING
From forming the idea, to gathering research, and actual product creation, we break down everything for you. That way you know your product has the best chances of massive success.
CREATE PROFITABLE EBOOKS FROM SCRATCH, STEP-BY-STEP
The exact formula we have used to launch 5+ successful products in a step-by-step process. Everything from creating your products name to outlining your product and finalizing the design is covered for you in this section.
CREATE PROFITABLE ECOURES FROM SCRATCH, STEP-BY-STEP
The exact system we use to launch our courses (including this one) in another step-by-step, virtually impossible to mess up, format.
CREATE HIGH-CONVERTING SALES PAGES
You know the difference between a sales page that coverts at 1% versus a sales page that converts at 3%? – IT’S TRIPLE THE PROFITS. In this lesson, we bring you the lessons we learned while split-testing hundreds of thousands of visitors on our own sales pages.
GET THOUSANDS OF THE RIGHT KIND OF VISITORS TO YOUR SALES PAGES
One of the biggest differences between a blog than makes millions and a blog that make $0, is visitors. You will learn how to get thousands of the right visitors to your blog and to your sales pages by creating sales-centered content.
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE EMAIL TRUST FUNNEL
We show you exactly how to build an automated trust funnel that turns your new subscribers into raving fans and customers in less than a week!
Take a look at our successful eBooks from our popular program, the 21-Day Fat Loss Challenge, that we have created for our health and fitness website:
We have now sold over 2,000 copies of this diet program, which includes 5 eBooks and tons of video content and is designed to help our clients lose 10-21 pounds in just 21 days!
PLUS All of the AWESOME Bonuses that Come with Our Courses:
LAUNCH YOUR BLOG BONUSES ($650 Value)
MAKE MONEY BLOGGING BONUSES ($680+ Value)
PINTEREST AVALANCHE BONUSES ($920+ Value)
SIX-FIGURE BLOGGER BONUSES ($980+ Value)
Plus Access to ALL THREE of our private support groups for each of our courses!
"Of all the courses I've taken (I've taken a lot), Alex and Lauren's Pro Blogger Bundle is hands down the best when it comes to making money blogging. The content they provide is easy to understand, but most importantly, it's easy to put into action and actually create... and go!"
- Stacey, Pro Blogger Bundle Student
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Who are the bloggers that are teaching this madness??
Alex Nerney & Lauren McManus, Co-Founders, Avocadu & Create and Go
Hey there, future blogger! We're Alex and Lauren, and we own a health and wellness blog at Avocadu.com as well as a blog called Createandgo.co, where we teach people just like you how to turn your passion into a profitable business you love.
We absolutely love what we do here at Create and Go, and we've been featured on some major websites for what we do.
In less that 9 months of working online together, we turned our health and wellness blog into a passive income machine that generates over $20,000 per month in blogging income.
We were able to quit our full-time jobs working as a personal trainer (Alex) and a CPA (Lauren) to pursue our dreams of being able to work from home and we now make over $100,000/month with our two blogs. We have even been able to travel to countries like Nicaragua, Peru, Bali, Portugal, and more - all while working on our blogs!
Don't get us wrong... It takes hard work and dedication, but you'll find that working on something you LOVE and that has the ability to majorly impact your future is a million times more rewarding and fun than a job that you hate. Now, it's your turn to experience the fun and success that we've been able to achieve!
Let's do this thing together!