How to Build a Remarkable Blog is an amazing collaboration between successful blogger, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned health expert, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD (aka The Paleo Mom), and marketing technology expert and founder of BizBudding Inc., David Schmeltzle.
David and Sarah thoughtfully crafted 90,000+ words and 55+ videos into 13 lessons with 44 topics—distilling them into a series of best practices on what it takes to build a remarkable blog, to build an engaging social media following, and to monetize successfully.
How to Build a Remarkable Blog might be the only blogging course to expertly combine methodologies and best practices from two different points of view—those from a leading WordPress development business and those from a successful blogger.
All of the information you need to build a successful, monetized blog with a huge audience.
This course will service your blogging goals whether you are looking to blog as a hobby or you want to make your blog into a multi-million dollar business. The basic how-tos and the advanced techniques are all in this course.
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David: Hi and welcome. I’m David Schmeltzle the founder of BizBudding
Sarah: And I’m Dr. Sarah Ballantyne the founder of the PaleoMom.com.
David: We are so excited that you can join us for this course How to Build a Remarkable Blog. We’ve spent many a time talking to bloggers about how to grow their business and we’ve met with both aspiring bloggers, new bloggers, and everybody in between, to our professional bloggers that we work with at BizBudding and we’ve kind of put together a new set of knowledge. A lot of the courses that are out there today, we find very very frustrating because when they talk about how to build a blog the first thing that they do is tell you to go sign up for some host where they get affiliate commission and then the second thing they tell you to do is write your blog and we look at that and we say God that’s got to be really overwhelming. So Sarah and I really focused on creating a course that guides you through every step.
Sarah: One of the things that we’ve done with this course is really try to share with you our entire knowledge base from both sides of creating a remarkable blog. So I’m going to be able to share with you my knowledge in terms of building a brand a lot of the forward-facing aspects of blogging like building a social media following, like content creation, like advanced audience expansion techniques and monetization. Whereas David is able to handle a lot of the technological sides of building a blog because you really need both things to be in place for an audience to grow organically and rapidly to successfully monetize and to build that remarkable blog that you want.
David: You do need all those pieces and in our first lesson, which we’re sharing with you for free, we talked about three cornerstone components to a remarkable website and one is making remarkable content. The second is having infrastructure and pagespeed that are important and then the third is schema and describing your contents so the search engines know what it’s all about. So in this course we talk about web page design and layout, how your call to action should look, how your infrastructure should be set up so that you can have a remarkable blog and we feel that as you go through this if you are an aspiring blogger, there’s so many tips and tricks in here that will help you grow your business and grow your blog and if you’re already an existing blogger the amount of wealth of information in how to design your blog, how to do your call to actions, how to do your social media marketing, its invaluable and it will help you go back and refresh your blog the way that you need to in order to rank better.
Sarah: We’ve put so much effort into making sure that this course will service your blogging goals no matter where they are on a spectrum. Whether you’re looking to blog as a hobby or you want to make this into a multimillion-dollar business, the basic how to’s and the advanced techniques are all in this course.
David: So we look forward to seeing you inside. We’ve recorded 60-plus videos inside this course in addition to the content that we created. So it’s a small novel but it’s a wealth of information and I’m sure you’ll really benefit from it. Thanks for being here.
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How to Build a Remarkable Blog: Course Features
Regardless of what brings you to the world of blogging, this course will teach you both the behind-the-scenes skills needed to build a highly-trafficked blog as well as best practices for forward-facing content, including how to get started, set up a website to fit your needs, build a brand, organically grow your audience, and monetize your blog to make money.
Check out the free lesson Building the Best Website for great info about:
- Steps to Building Your Remarkable Blog
- Quality Content is EVERYTHING
- Page Speed Matters
- Schema Markup Makes the Difference
Whether it’s your first time blogging or you are a pro blogger, How to Build a Remarkable Blog guides you step-by-step through your blogging journey.
The chapters in this blogging course teach you:
- the three foundations required to grow the best website
- how to build a brand before you ever write your first blog post
- the steps required to protect your domain
- strategies for content creation
- the fundamentals of website design using WordPress as your blogging platform
- tracking: engagement, page views, bounce rate, audience demographics, and more
- best practices for website development
- how to grow your social media audience
- how to build an engaged email list
- organic audience building and advanced audience expansion techniques
- how to make money online with your brand
- how to use funnels to drive monetization
- how to transition from blog to business
This comprehensive blogging course teaches you everything you need to know so you can build a successful blog, brand, freelancing endeavor, or small business!
Meet Your Teachers
Dr. Sarah Ballantyne PhD is the creator of the award-winning ThePaleoMom.com, a New York Times bestselling author, a popular keynote speaker, and a world-renowned health expert. Dr. Sarah launched her blog and associated social media presence in November 2011 using a free platform. With absolutely zero upfront investment into her website, she was able to rapidly rise to become one of the most recognized thought leaders within the Paleo and alternative health communities with one of the highest-trafficked websites among her peers. Her audience, now in the millions, was grown 100% organically using the strategies you’ll learn in this course. Dr. Sarah successfully monetized her website, while staying true to her brand, which now supports six employees.
David Schmeltzle has helped hundreds of BizBudding customers both launch and make money from their blogs. David started his career in software development in 1993 and quickly learned the importance of integrating technology with business process and marketing. Combined with an analytical focus, this results-oriented approach became the foundation for BizBudding’s professional services and it’s software and hosting platforms.