A 30-Day Step-By-Step Plan for Building the Blog of Your Dreams
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Introducing an all-inclusive, proven roadmap for going from an “idea”… to building a blog that lets you control your income, choose your schedule, and help provide for your family — while enjoying more time with them.
Best part: it’s the perfect way to build a blog EVEN IF …
You’ll read all about my plan just a bit further down this page … but let me introduce myself first!
For over 14 years now, we’ve made a VERY comfortable living from blogging. (In fact, we built it to the point where we earned $30,000 per MONTH from blogging alone for over 2 years — yes you read that right!)
But we’re not just bloggers: we’re blogging teachers too. Pete and I have used our experiences to teach over 200,000+ aspiring bloggers how to build the life of their dreams with a successful blog.
Today, I want to tell you about how I started from scratch and built up a blog that lets me live my life how I want, and pays me to do it.
And then I want to show you how you can do the same — by giving you our tried-and-tested, step-by-step system for going from just a dream in your head…to building a successful, sustainable, and FUN blogging business of your own.
Some of this is stuff I have never shared publicly before…and I am SO excited about this!
But first…I want to give you an example of what it is that makes blogging so great … and what’s possible when you really apply yourself.
Ready? Okay, picture this ...
As you get dressed, you scroll through some of the new blog comments you’ve had. You’re feeling good, so you decide to head out for an early workout. You’re feeling great and it’s only 7 am! You shower, make a cup of coffee and get started with your day.
It’s one you’ve been planning in your head for a while, so you’re excited to work on it. As you sit there typing away on your laptop, you slip into ‘the zone’ — you’re feeling productive and busy, yet not stressed out. Just the way you like it!
A few hours slip by, and before you know it it’s lunchtime. It’s nice out, so you eat outside (why not?), taking the time to read a few pages of that new book you’re into.
Feeling refreshed, you head back in for another session on the blog. After checking a few new comments that have come in, your phone buzzes with a new email — you’ve just been offered a new sponsored post opportunity!
This is a brand you have been wanting to work with for ages — and now you’ll have the chance!
Your blog is your business and you’re focused on making it work for you.
You check your watch; it’s 2:57 pm. You head out to do whatever you want for a couple of hours since you have no boss to answer to (aside from yourself).
Once you’re home that evening, you have a nice dinner, and enjoy some leisurely, uninterrupted family time. And then, before you get in bed, you spend a few minutes making plans for tomorrow’s work.
As you wind down and get ready for bed, you smile — it’s been another good day. And best of all, you got to spend more time with your family… and you were in total control of your own schedule!
How did that sound? Pretty good, right?
Well… what if I told you that you could do that?
It’s true. When you have your own blogging business, days like this really happen!
But that’s not all. Because sure, a blog lets you enjoy these great “every day” experiences…
But...they’re nothing compared to some of the awesome perks you can enjoy from being a blogger!
Private events at Disneyland and Disney World - New Attractions and Events:
A project with OxiClean, when an entire film crew came out to our house to shoot a video:
A trip to the Justice headquarters to see their new clothing line and view a fashion show (all expenses paid for the whole family):
Meeting and working with Kelly Ripa and Motrin on an NYC shoot (all expenses paid for the whole family):
And on top of all the experiences, we’ve received some amazing products to feature…everything from laptops, drones, camera equipment, vacuums, appliances, a swing set, a year-long new vehicle loaner, and more!
And all of this has been 100% because of our blog!
But perhaps the best perk of all is the what it can do for your life after you get your blogging business established:
You call the shots about when you work.
You can decide whether to work hard for more income…or take it easy that month.
Most importantly, you can be there for your family all of the time…and you’ll never have to miss a game, a school event, or stress about missing work when your family needs you. Creating a successful blogging business means you are you own boss, and get to decide everything about you business.
Now, you’re probably looking at some of the things I’ve done with my blog, and thinking that there’s no way YOU could get to this level.
But that’s simply not true.
In fact, there is NOTHING special about what I did that someone else (like you) couldn’t do also.
But I want to prove it to you. So let me quickly show you how I got from where you are now…to where I am today.
But let me tell you something surprising:
When I started blogging in 2006, it was actually HARDER to succeed as a blogger than it is today!
See, nowadays you can start a blog in literally a few hours, for just a few dollars … and with social media, you can have your first traffic just as fast.
There’s also plenty of content online that can shortcut your way to success (like I’m about to show you a bit further down this article).
And the amount of readers and traffic you have access to has EXPLODED with the rise of social media platforms.
But when I started, it was not like that at all!
Blogging was really a fringe thing … and there weren’t that many people who were doing well at it.
It’s A Lovely Life started out around 2006 as a little website (back then it was called "No Excuse Budget") where I shared tips on budgeting and saving money, in my spare time.
(Don't laugh...this was a cutting edge design for 2007! 😂)
I didn’t really know how to make it into a business. All I really knew was that I had some goals for myself:
Our real estate business was not MY passion… and wanted to do something that I was passionate about instead.
I wanted to have full control over my income and work where and when I chose.
I wanted to stop having so much “mom guilt” about how little time I was spending with my kids…and be able to enjoy life with them.
And I knew my husband Pete was working hard at our business…and I really wanted to take some of the stress off him, and help provide for our family.
I had this vague dream that blogging could do all of that…but when I faced reality, it didn’t seem possible.
See, I knew I had some ideas I wanted to share, and I thought blogging would be a good way to do it.
But in the real world, I kept running into the same problems:
But I stuck with it…and slowly, I started to see some successes here and there. Every now and then, I’d get accepted for a new post network…or I’d land a guest post…or I’d discover a new way to bring in more followers from Pinterest.
And over time, I began to realize that there was a hidden secret to blogging which I’d been overlooking.
In fact, this secret held the key to possibly finally breaking through to that success I dreamed of…
But my experience showed me it wasn’t like that at all.
When I’d just focused on creating good content, sure, I had good stuff to say — but there was nobody reading it, and I wasn’t making any money!
Instead, I discovered that successful blogs have these things in common:
It became crystal clear to me that if I focused on these 3 things, I could be really successful.
What happened next, changed our lives forever
I began to put everything I had into figuring these 3 things out.
Things like...
A funny thing happened when I got clarity on the 3 things I needed to focus on…
My blogging business took off!
This clarity and focus was all I needed to go from being pulled in million different directions to figuring it all out.
I started researching and reading EVERYTHING I could find on content creation, traffic strategies and techniques, and monetization.
I networked with lots of other bloggers that were starting to figure this all out too.
I invested in training in all 3 of these areas.
I took everything I learned from thousands (I’m not exaggerating) of hours of research, added what I knew, and came up with a system that worked perfectly for my blog.
The end result was a blogging business that made our family an AMAZING income, gave us the freedom to live/travel/work as we chose, and provided many opportunities that were so unique that money couldn’t even buy.
I spent years and years learning it all by trial and error…and making a LOT of mistakes along the way!!!
I mean, it’s not like I really had a choice. There just weren’t any blogging specific resources out there that put all of the pieces together.
So, all those things I talked about above? Yep…I was basically forced to figure them all out myself!
Now here’s what you might be thinking...“Well it worked for you Heather, so maybe that’s what I should do too?”
No!!! Don’t do that.
In fact, there are three huge problems with this approach which almost derailed me completely…and they happen to be the reason that most bloggers never “make it” in blogging.
Take a look at these quickly, and then decide for yourself if you think that “figuring it out yourself” is worth it …
(Or, 3 Reasons Most Bloggers Fail)
This one’s obvious: figuring it all out on your own is expensive…and slow.
In my case, it took me over a decade to get to where I am now!
Besides, I could afford to do “trial and error” because Pete and I had enough money from our real estate business to support us (even though we had to work very hard for it).
But I’m guessing you don’t really want to spend over a decade building up your blog, spending a lot of money, and making a lot of mistakes like I did.
You might think that once you know how to write a post, get more traffic, and puts some ads on your blog, you’ll be set.
But in reality, I learned that there are so many things I never knew that I didn’t know:
I don’t know about you, but I had no idea about any of that stuff when I started out … but I came to realize it was all very, very important!
And that’s the danger with figuring it out yourself: you just don’t know what you don’t know.
(Good news: I have an answer for every one of those things … info on where to find them is a little further down this post!)
Finally, the reason that “going at it alone” is hard is that when you don’t have a plan, you can feel like you’re just spinning your wheels and getting nowhere.
Like I said, when I started out, the blogging world wasn’t like it is now. There weren’t many successful bloggers. There wasn’t quality training on how to do it. And many of the revenue strategies used now didn’t even exist back then!
In short, it was very demotivating, putting in all that work…and not knowing if it was going to pay off, or if I was even doing the right things.
Many of the people who started blogs at the same time as me — in fact, most people who start them even now — gave up for that reason.
Now when I started getting successful with my blogging business, I was excited!
And I also knew there were plenty of people like me who wanted to build a successful blog, but they didn’t know HOW to make that happen.
And I Wanted to do Something to Help Them.
So...Pete and I Decided to Change Our Long-Term Policy and Started Telling People How Much We Were Making.
But when I thought about what it felt like for me ten years ago, I would have loved to have something like that to aim for.
Also, I had personally been motivated in the past few years by seeing other blogs that shared their incomes.
So we started publishing “Blog Income Reports” on our blog, to show people how we were doing, and encourage other bloggers.
(This was our first income report that we published in March 2017)
To be honest, I wasn’t sure how people would react. Would our readers think we were bragging?
But we found something surprising...
People LOVED the income reports and we started getting great comments!
In fact, I was surprised — there was a LOT more interest than I’d expected!
At about the same time we started a Facebook group to help bloggers get their own blogs started.
This took on a life of its own!
It felt so good to help others get their blogs started.
But, our students wanted more!
They wanted to know much more than how to start a blog…
They wanted to know HOW to make their blogs successful (making money and impacting lives).
So I had an idea...I turned to Pete one day and asked him:
“Why don’t we put everything we’ve learned into a course?”
I realized I had the chance to save other aspiring bloggers from having to figure it all out themselves like I did.
I could put all the best of what I’d learned into the course … and leave out all the mistakes and methods that didn’t work. So it’d be just one huge shortcut for anyone who wanted to build their own successful blog.
Unlike any other resources out there, it would cover ALL THREE of the keys of successful blogging:
It would be designed for people in the same situation I was: busy, with only 1-2 hours a night to work on it, a family, a demanding job, or all of the above.
It would give a step-by-step, actionable plan…complete with small assignments that would kick you into gear and almost force you to make progress.
And all taught by two bloggers who didn’t just blog for a year or two in the past and then get into teaching. Bloggers that were actively blogging RIGHT NOW.
Well…I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you what we decided to do.
Pete and I got started right away on that course…and we spent months planning, designing, and polishing it off.
And I’m excited to say … it was a MASSIVE SUCCESS.
Since 2017, over 4500 bloggers took the original version of the course which we called Blogging Blastoff!
This program became the catalyst for so many positively changed lives and blogging businesses that were created.
But, things change quickly these days!
Over the past few years, we’ve learned a lot ourselves and we’ve developed and discovered some new strategies that are producing massive results.
We decided it was time to create a new and improved version of the original extremely popular course and we decided to name it Blogging Blastoff 2.0!
Blogging Blastoff 2.0 is an updated training program with a new format designed to teach our blogging system as efficiently as possible.
Our goal with Blogging Blastoff 2.0 is to cut out all the unimportant distractions and provide REAL FOCUS on the areas that you need in order to create a successful blogging business.
We’re so excited because we know that just like the original Blogging Blastoff did, Blogging Blastoff 2.0 will change the game.
Here’s What You’ll Learn in Blogging Blastoff 2.0:
Blogging Blastoff is the ONLY blogging program to focus on all three keys of building a successful blog — content creation, traffic, and monetization — and teach you everything we know about building and running a profitable, popular blog.
In just thirty days (divided into 4 weeks of content) — spending as little as half an hour a day on the course — you’ll go from ZERO knowledge or experience…to a savvy blogger with ALL the tools to build the blog (and lifestyle) of your dreams.
With our STEP-BY-STEP roadmap, you’ll master getting more followers...
monetizing your blog … and hundreds more secrets to handling the ‘business of blogging’ like a pro!
Best of all, everything in this course is TIME-TESTED and PROVEN to work — based on years of experience from two veteran, active bloggers, and thousands of delighted students!
“I made my class fee back the following month”
“I’ve gotten my blog up and running quicker than I had ever thought!”
WE'RE REVEALING EVERYTHING WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BLOG
With this course, we aren’t holding anything back from you! The amount of information in this course is OVER THE TOP — and our students are always blown away by how much value they get.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll discover when you join the course:
The course starts on the 1st day of the month. Each day you’ll get a new module “unlocked” to focus on, broken into several bite-size chunks that take you on average 5 minutes each to go through. (We do it this way so you don’t get overwhelmed by the massive amount of information you’ll be learning!)
But — this isn’t just “information” that you’ll skim and forget.
At the end of each day, you get a mini-assignment — so you know exactly what you need to do to put the material into practice, and start building a successful blog!
The course works hand in hand with the VIP Blogging Blastoff Facebook Group (see below), which provides you with new friends and a support network to encourage and help you through each day’s coursework.
All in all, with a time investment of around half an hour a day on the course, if you do the work … you’ll start seeing some amazing results.
The 5-Day “Start A Blogging Business” Crash Course
And best of all? Pete and I will be hanging out there too!
BONUS #3
BONUS #4
This is a really extensive course (which we actually offer for sale for $197, and it’s a great bargain at that price!). But when you join Blogging Blastoff 2.0, we’ll throw in complimentary access to WP Fast Launch as well!
The 5-Day “Start A Blogging Business” Crash Course
And best of all? Pete and I will be hanging out there too!
This is a really extensive course (which we actually offer for sale for $197, and it’s a great bargain at that price!). But when you join Blogging Blastoff 2.0, we’ll throw in complimentary access to WP Fast Launch as well!
We designed Blogging Blastoff 2.0 with two specific types of people in mind:
You don’t have a blog yet (or it's new) and you want to get it going the right way. Blogging Blastoff 2.0 contains everything we know about building a successful blog from the ground up — so it’s perfect if you’re looking for a course to get you started in the world of blogging. And best of all, thanks to the bonus 5-Day Crash Course and WP Fast Launch courses, you’ll have all the steps you need to get up and running, even if you hate technology!
You have a blog already, but you want to monetize it, get more traffic, or master the business side of your blog. If that’s you, this is the PERFECT course for you. (If you don’t believe me, go back and read through the course material above again!
As long as you fall into one of those two groups, Blogging Blastoff will help you. Just like it did for all these students:
But If That Still Doesn't Convince You, There's Still A Way You Can Try the Course For Yourself With NO Risk...
Our Zero-Risk Satisfaction Guarantee:
14-Day Money Back Guarantee
We know it can be a tough decision to invest in yourself sometimes. That’s why we want to give you the chance to try the course at our risk!
We’re offering a 14-day, 100% money-back guarantee on the course.
You get 14 days from the date you join to use the course as much as you want, risk-free. So if you can’t decide now… you don’t have to! Try the course risk free.
If you aren’t COMPLETELY satisfied that it was worth every cent … just email one of us, and we’ll give you all your money back ASAP.
(But to be honest… I think you’ll be so delighted with what you’ve learned, you’ll be emailing us to THANK us for putting so much awesome stuff in the course!)
Think about it this way: a college degree costs hundreds of times what Blogging Blastoff 2.0 does — but it takes years of your life, and arguably teaches you LESS about success in the real world. And unlike Blogging Blastoff 2.0, if you don’t like the course, you won’t get your money back!
Simply put, Blogging Blastoff 2.0 is the lowest-risk investment you could EVER make in yourself!
I feel you! Remember, I designed this course so that even the busiest of moms could do it. Each module of Blogging Blastoff is divided into bite-sized pieces that each take a short amount of time to do — meaning you can squeeze them in easily throughout your day!
If you’re spreading out the coursework over a week, you don’t need to go over half an hour a day. Compared to a college degree, where you’re studying for several hours per day for years, it’s not a bad time investment for the chance to build a blog that could end up earning money for you even when you’re not working!
“I like that it’s self-paced, as I’m trying to accomplish this in lieu of school and work (not to mention two toddler boys)”
No — we don’t assume any knowledge about how a blog works. So even if you don’t have a blog and know nothing about setting one up, you’ll get access to the bonus 5-Day Start Your Blog Crash Course and WP Fast Launch courses, which walk you through everything you need to know. And if you want to just take the 30 days of coursework first before you get started, that’s totally okay too!
“How is this course different from the Travel Blogging Blastoff?”
Blogging Blastoff and the Travel Blogging Blastoff are entirely different courses that complement one another.
The Travel Blogging Blastoff is entirely specific to travel blogging — pitching, taking trips, producing content, and more. A lot of this info will only be useful to bloggers that want to include travel content.
Blogging Blastoff 2.0 focuses on blogging in general, and sets the foundation to building a profitable blog from the ground up — no matter what niche you’re in.
If you’ve taken the Travel Blogging Blastoff, you’ll find a lot of new and valuable material in Blogging Blastoff 2.0. Unless you’re specifically interested in adding travel content to your blog, Blogging Blastoff is all you’ll need.
Ultimately, your success with Blogging Blastoff 2.0 depends on the work you put into it. So if you’re planning from the outset not to do the work, it’s probably not right for you now.
However, Pete and I went to great lengths to make it an easy course to finish. The modules are easy to complete. There’s a community to support and encourage you. And you get a mini-assignments to keep moving forward with the work. In short, as long as you have just a little motivation, I think you’ll find it’s a very easy course to finish.
Sure, you could. After all — that’s how I built my blog, remember?
But as I told you above, figuring it out on my own was slow and difficult — and it ended up costing me WAY more than just $497. In fact, if you’d told me I could have all this knowledge for so little back then, I would have taken it in a heartbeat!!!
Plus, how will you know if the information you find on the internet is correct? I’m constantly amazed at the inaccuracies of some of the information I read from “blogging experts”!
If you’re really considering just doing it yourself, we won’t stop you. But I do encourage you to go back again and read my story above — and ask yourself, what is your time worth? Is it worth spending 10+ years figuring it out … or spending a little bit ONCE (risk-free) to get my entire career’s worth of learnings, distilled into a proven roadmap?
The choice is yours … but I know which I’d rather choose.
I feel you! Remember, I designed this course so that even the busiest people could do it. Each week of Blogging Blastoff 2.0 is divided into bite-sized modules that each take just a short amount of time to do — meaning you can squeeze them in easily through your day!
If you break up the coursework throughout your week, you don’t need to go over half an hour a day. Compared to a college degree, where you’re studying for several hours per day for years, it’s not a bad time investment for the chance to build a blog that could end up earning money for you even when you’re not working!
All of the course content is hosted on our professional learning platform, and you’ll be able to access it on any device. As soon as you enroll you’ll be given access to the platform. You’ll also get VIP access to our communities.
No problem at all! You’ll get at least 2 years from the day you enroll to complete Blogging Blastoff 2.0. That means you’ll have plenty of time to complete all the coursework. Take it at YOUR own pace. Then you can come back and reference the course any time you need it.
As soon as you enroll in the course you’ll have immediate access to all of the bonus content. However, to make sure you have a group of classmates working through at the same time as you, the coursework for everyone will officially start on the 1st of the month.
Sure. When you purchase the course you’ll be able to create login information for one person. You’ll need to contact us (and pay an extra fee) if you want group access for another person, but your spouse is welcome to use your login info.
If you’ve read this far, I KNOW you’re serious about building your blog … but something’s keeping you on the fence. So before you make up your mind today, let me share with you a message I received from a recent student.
I asked one of our recent classes why everybody had joined. Of course, the answers were pretty standard: they wanted the freedom to work where and when they wanted … more time with their families … to quit a job they didn’t like … to control their income.
But one person gave a different answer.
Here’s what she said:
“I realized that if I’d joined your course a year ago… I would have had a profitable blog by now.”
That one really stood out to me.
Because I realized … it was true!
Stop and think about that for a moment:
If you’d joined this course a year ago … you could probably already be making money with your blog by now.
But what’s done is done. The real question to ask is: will you take action NOW … to give yourself a shot at the lifestyle you want in a year?
OK, maybe you think the course is too expensive.
But like I’ve said — I don’t think it is.
After all, when you consider that it represents the sum total of over a decade of my experience, mistakes, and failures…
When you consider that it teaches you MORE about making money in the real world than even a college degree, yet it’s 1/100th of the cost…
When you consider that you’re also getting an insanely useful course, WP Fast Launch — a course which we are selling RIGHT NOW online for $197 — for completely free…
When you consider that referring just three friends will repay you the entire cost of the course through our affiliate program…
And when you consider that it teaches you every way we know to build a ridiculously successful blog that will repay your investment for years to come…
…I don’t think it’s expensive.
Actually, I think that the most expensive thing you could do is NOT to join…and to spend years trying to figure it out yourself, like I did.
And finally, I want to remind you of our guarantee:
If you’re not impressed with the program 14 days from your purchase date, you can email us for a full refund of your course fee.
What’s the worst that could happen? You spend some time learning all our best secrets … and you decide it’s not for you, and get your money back.
Yet if it works out … you could have the life you’ve always dreamed about.
Don’t you owe it to yourself to find out?
A year from today, you could look back on this as the day when it all changed…
Or you could find yourself the person who messaged me above, joining the course only after realizing you could have been successful by now.
Which will it be?
Only you can decide.
But Pete and I truly hope you’ll join us…and start your journey to becoming a successful blogger today.
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