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After Mitch’s interview hit the airwaves recounting how quickly his blog grew to 3,000 daily readers in his niche of college football, another success story emerged in the Blog Mastermind private members forum.
A Simple Change To Leigh’s Blogging Made A Big Difference
Leigh runs a blog called The Fat Loss Troubleshooter, and also joined Blog Mastermind during July 2008. Since then her blog has enjoyed huge growth, getting as many as 5,000 unique visitors per day AND - here’s the really good news - she’s making about $4,500 a month now.
This is one of the screenshots she posted into the Blog Mastermind members forum showing her biggest income source - her Clickbank account. As you can see she’s doing between $500 and $1,000 a week from Clickbank sales.
When I hear success stories like this from my students I have to find out what they are doing right and learn what techniques are working for them. I asked Leigh to join me on a case study interview call to find out how she is getting such amazing results so quickly with her blog.
In this interview you will learn…
- The change she made to her blogging style that made the big difference
- How she is now able to learn what her audience wants, rather than guessing what she thinks they want, which means more sales for her
- The techniques Leigh implemented to build her audience, in particular how she uses interviews to drive traffic to her blog
- What exactly Leigh sells to make money from her blog
- Her opinion of how a coaching program like Blog Mastermind can change your blogging and present a clear path to success
- Leigh’s plans for world domination
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What I found particularly powerful about this interview was the way Leigh explained how her content writing changed.
The formula for a successful blog goes good content = more traffic = more money, so you can see how changes to Leigh’s content style made such a difference to how much money she now makes.
Do You Want To Profit From A Blog Too?
Leigh’s story shows that if you combine hard work, a passion for a topic and you follow a step-by-step process, you can succeed at blogging. If you want to see what system Leigh implemented, consider taking part in my coaching program. You can sign-up here -
Success Is Not Guaranteed, But People Do Get Results
I’m never going to tell you blogging for money is easy. Every person I speak to who’s ever made good money from blogging talks about how much work they do, especially during the early days, however they also look at the work in a different angle - it’s fun.
When a passion is driving your work and you see results coming in, all you want to do is work some more. Positive reinforcement fuels passion and passion fuels work. It’s possible to get into a wonderfully positive cycle, if you are just willing to take the steps to move past the challenges and the naysayers.
Here’s to your blogging success,
Yaro Starak
Blog Coach
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Congrats Leigh! Success stories like this are a great inspiration to millions of other bloggers trying to find success.
This just goes to show how fast someone can make their dreams a reality if they’ll work hard enough for it.
Great interview!
Leigh has had such amazing success. I think often it just a matter of mindset. Once you switch your thinking into a different direction, you can see results very quickly.
-Andrew
good for her. My blog should start doing that soon
Very few people are willing to discuss what they’ve done to become successful in the blogging world. It’s nice to read and to see you are willing to share some of what you both know, much appreciated.
Leigh’s blog is awesome! I love it.
This is a nice interview, hope to get more similar interview, really helpful!
Case method is the best form of learning. I expect more case studies and less advice from you Yaro.
Deepak
That is amazing Yaro! Very inspiring…
I can’t believe how many success stories you have.
I love your blog even more now, for this reason alone!
All credit to Leigh she has obviously worked hard. so don’t get me wrong when I say this: but don’t you think that some topics are more likely to succeed? Everyone is interested in losing weight the same as sport has an enormous following - Mitch is successful because he also works hard - but again he has chosen the right topic. I think it may be less about what tactics have been employed that have worked and more about a savvy niche choice. I say this because I have already had a poll on my site asking what content my readers wanted to see more of, and it hasn’t worked. It hasn’t worked because I’m asking a virtually empty room, the room is empty because I ‘might’ have picked a topic that isn’t very popular.
I think we can all learn from this post if we look at from the successful choice of topic more than the techniques used. I love how Leigh changed her writing style to talk ‘to’ rather than ‘at’ her readers - I will adopt that, so there is plenty to gain from this interview, but as she says herself she is learning from the BMM course which means we will all be exposed to the techniques that are making her successful, but of course not all of us will follow her.
I do hope no one takes my comments the wrong way, I think Leigh is doing a great job and I wish he all the success that I want (and that’s a lot!) And as someone who could do with loosing a few lbs I might head on over and let her blog help me.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. I wish nothing but the same or greater success for all of you.
To the issue of monetization, I think it is an interesting one. Yes, that “weight loss” industry is a good market but it is also LOADED with competition, and bad information. To battle that, to break through dogma’s and try to educated AND sell a product is a tough thing. Networking can be hard when you only want to network with people you believe in and that have a moral fiber. In my business I assure you it isn’t a high rate. That being said, I think my being selective to whom I interact with has served me well, at least I can sleep at night.
I think the key is getting really creative sometimes. Sure I could sell ebooks, but I can also sell training clothes, have ad spots for local fitness clubs, it is endless.
If you right about say, chess, in my opinion you have to think outside the box a little. Isn’t that what makes a good blogger to a degree? You don’t just have to be stick to selling chess board. Do people fly to chess tournaments? Yes, so why not advertise for flight deal. Could you hold a webinar on how to increase your game tactics and charge for the ongoing service? I know nothing about chess, seriously nothing, but I can think of a few way to make some money by blogging on chess.
I do think that something may take more imagination BUT if you nail it the good news for you is this…little to no competition!
2 cents. I think it was a fantastic point though and I personally didn’t take it in a bad manner and think it is a valid issue.
Thanks for asking what to do before you have the traffic. This is often left out - and makes all the good advice useless for the beginner.
This made the interview worthwhile.
Maybe a few more details on how she did the asking would have helped.
Interesting success story about Leigh. I have visited her site and have to admit that it is clean, well structured and easy to navigate. Navigation is one thing I give particular importance when I visit a site and her site is definitely one good site to look at. Keep up the good work
This is really great! An inspiration to those of us that are just starting off…Thank you
Incredible story about Leigh. Congratulation. Sure you have to do hard work to achieve financial results with your blog. But most of all I think it has to do wiith the right mindset (as noticed above). I’m a true believer of “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Low of attraction). Do something that makes you feel successful in your business and use that to motivate you and empower your thoughts. If you can learn to do this your success will be just around the corner.
Way to go
Mark
Great inspiring story. Leigh’s site is everything that one could ask for.
Congratulations to Leigh. I love the topic her blog is tackling, so needed in this day and age. I also like how her blog posts are formated in a vertical and horizontal manner… unique layout.
Thanks for this post Yaro. You’re the best. I wish I would have met up with you in New York but did not know you were in my neck of the woods until two days after you were gone. DOH! Anyway, hope all is well!
Joseph
This case study idea is awesome on so many levels. She had a lot of great information that reminded us of the fundamentals. Give people what they want and the traffic will come.
Very inspiring its great to see a blog succeed
I cannot tell you how much this hit home for me, in two ways -
1) My wife is quitting her desk drone-job in December and doing 2 months of training to become a Personal Trainer. I’ve been saying to her, “start a blog now” as a value-add for future customers. She doesn’t get what this would do for the time investment, and Leigh’s experiences with what she’s done hit right home to her of what’s possible.
2) I’ve just launched my own blog. I know it’s a long slog and the first few months are a quiet journey, publishing content for an absent audience. This is just a really great motivational story go keep me in high gear.
Thanks Yaro & Leigh.
Fantastic interview Leigh and congratulations on all your success!
You are an inspiration to many entrepreneurs out there and achieved so much already…
I wish you even more success for the future!
Hi Yaro!
happy for your success. It’s a pity that…your method doesn’t work in Italy!
Here it seems impossible do money blogging.
So for us - I’m a wine blogger - blog remains only an hobby…
ciao!
Elisabeth,
I can certainly relate to your complain. It’s much harder to market to a non-English speaking population. They are just not that used to taking out their credit cards. And a lot of them are very very suspicious about any kind of marketing. So, yes it’s harder for us who try to market to a small population. I doubt I could make good money just by blogging in Hungary. If it became popular I could sell advertising space, but that would hardly be enough to quit my job.
That’s why I plan to setup a membership site (going where the money is) and back it up with a strong blog. So the money will come from the membership site while the blog will be more like a visitor attractor. That’s the dream anyway. 
Good luck with your wine blog…it looks good although I can’t understand it. But I love wine, and just last night I had a bottle of Frascati along with some pasta. Good stuff!
Yaro,
Good heaven - that’s a lot of revenue from clickbank.
But then again, not a surprising figure, since the traffic is 5000/day (whoa… nice!)
The interview itself is insightful - Cheers for sharing with us!
Leigh is an inspiration, both as a person and a professional. It makes me so happy to hear that she is achieving the success that she deserves and has worked so hard for. I am positive that this is only the beginning.
Great interview.
Sheila
http://www.livewell360.com
I love to hear stories like these. I just wish I could have been in it. Those clickbank earnings looks great and it does take a lot of hard work and passion. Congrats on her success
Very nice! I will definitely take a moment to listen to this and it has inspired me to create a new blog post. Glad to hear such success from the program.
I just loved this story.
I am somewhat older and hoping to take blogging into reirement you young folks are an inspration.
Yaro I agree about your course you material is excellent well organized and presented. You will have to forgive my fumbles with passwords etc
I’m just getting into podcasts myself. I enjoy doing them but I still need to get used to hearing my voice. I want to learn how to put more expression into what I say and make it more natural.
Awesome interview–very inspiring. I need to hire you to help me take my blog to the next level, someday, Yaro.
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Great interview, thanks Yaro.
What I love about these audio interviews is that they are not only educational and inspirational but you can also learn some “secrets” about how to soft market your product. Notice how Yaro two or three times during the interview refered to his blogmastermind program by asking questions like, how did what you learned from the blog mastermind program help you get more traffic, etc. And then the subject of the interview does all the marketing for Yaro when explains how she benefitted from the program. And it’s honest, credible and doesn’t sound like adversizing at all. Everyone gains: the listener gets educated and inspired, the subject gets to promote his/her site to a large audience, and Yaro gets some very effective, free advertizing for his membership program.
I mean, did you feel like signing up to Yaro’s program right away while listening to the interview? I sure did. Alas I can’t afford it.
But this kind of interview method works just beautifully.
Zsolt
wow, that’s a great interview and inspirational for all of us looking to build our blog! Thanks.
I have heard her on thefitcast.com where she is a regular fitness contributor. She swears a lot more in that podcast. Great interview guys.
her alexa rating is not that sexy. so how does her website get 5000 unique visitors per day? i see that her alexa rating jumped to about 93000 for about a week by the end of october. but this interview is before that.
interesting
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Great student!! I like this article! I love blogging but I prefer to hire someone to write articles for my blogs. =)
i doubt she gets 5000 visitors per month.