Comments on: Podcast: How Leigh Went From Making $20 to $4500+ A Month From Her Blog

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:41:22 +0000

Congrats, Leigh.
Someday I’ll follow your success…

By: Shekhar

Shekhar — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:13:08 +0000

Really inspiring Story. Had downloaded both the version. Will go through it for reaping more of ideas to implement. Thanks for such post.

By: Buy Backlinks

Buy Backlinks — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:28:39 +0000

Congrats, Leigh. Thank you yaro, for posting the interview. I have download the mp3, will listen to it now.

By: John McNally

John McNally — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:53:06 +0000

Very inspiring. Leigh did well to make money in such a competitive market. I have a weight loss blog category, but I find it boring, which explains why I’ve never made a sale.

Enthusiasm and passion for the subject is the key for both enjoying your work AND succeeding at it.
John
Leamington Spa, England

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hmcahyo | obat Herba Mujarab — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:28:24 +0000

Congratulation Leigh…
And Thank Yaro for posting this interview

By: Karen Marrow

Karen Marrow — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:01:36 +0000

Yaro,

Thanks so much for sharing this inspiring interview! I learned some valuable tips including find out what your readers want and give it to them. It makes sense, but to actually take the time to find out and then deliver shows your readers you really care about that which is so important.

This is great information for anyone starting out as it gives people hope that they too can have the same kind of results.

Have an awesome week,

Karen

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:08:52 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I really like your interviews. The text transcript is very usefull for me, because I can read it much faster than the 30 min audio. It’s great to get to know the persons behind the blogs.

At the moment I can’t reach avidityfitness.net, because it says “Error establishing a database connection”. I think Leigh Peel has chosen a new domain name. Like she said in the interview, the old one wasn’t easy to remember. Maybe you could link to leighpeele.com or fatlosstroubleshoot.com?

It would be very interesting to hear what her blogging experiences are almost two years later. Do you think it’s possible to get a (short) update about what she or other former students are doing now?

Best regards
Jan

By: Rob Pene

Rob Pene — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:53:53 +0000

Very cool stuff!

Very encouraging!

$4500 is Very insane!

I like how you leave your posts open ended and allow for conversation to grow!

Well done!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:34:16 +0000

I’ve been participating in Yaro’s course for 15 weeks. I’ve now built my blog from nothing to around 170 visitors per day. And I’ve just started to make a few affiliate sales.

It’s persistance and hard work paying off, and the awesome course content.

Thanks Yaro.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:28:22 +0000

Your Message
I really enjoyed Leigh. She was very honest and helpful. I took notes because I have not suceeded with my blog. I heard a few things that I need to add for any profit.
Thanks Yaro

By: Brigitte Smith

Brigitte Smith — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:59:30 +0000

THANK YOU, THANK YOU! for providing the transcript of the interview. Great content, by the way, but I really wanted to say thank you for the format. I cannot stand to listen or watch all these audios and videos that everyone is posting on their sites these days. Can’t stand them. I just can’t focus my attention on them. If I want to watch something, I’ll go to a movie or switch on the TV. Online, I like to read my material. So thanks again!

By: Dave Soucy

Dave Soucy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:15:26 +0000

Well Beachcomber, with an attitude like that, it’s fairly obvious why you’ve gotten the results you’ve gotten. No course is going to generate success, only your actions can generate your success. Instead of blaming the people whose courses you bought for your failure, you should look in the mirror and realize that success or failure comes from within. Instead of blaming the products you bought, maybe you should consider the possibility that what you’re offering sucks. Sorry to be blunt, but the web site your name links to hasn’t been updated in months, and is a design nightmare. That’s the reason you have no optins or affiliate sales.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:52:59 +0000

Great lessons. Tweaking our websites is a key point in making money

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:03:35 +0000

I agree… thanks Leigh and Yaro – I just started my blog about a month ago and I found this interview to be motivating. It’s always great to hear when other people are doing well. Thanks!

By: SEO Results

SEO Results — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:26:42 +0000

I would love to do for my membership what you did with ClickBank.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:05:48 +0000

Yaro, I want to THANK YOU for providing the transcript to this. I sighhhed when I saw it was audio. As I’m Deaf, I drop a lot of ‘guru’ emails that direct us to audio without any thought for others who may not be able to hear the video.

I AM disappointed to know that the e-mail I got from you today on this was over two years old, though. I can see this from the earlier posts here.

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By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:42:21 +0000

Note especially for Beachcomber:

If I was a retired chef, I could think of all kinds of ways to make money online. I read once about a lady who’s making 6 figures a year and now all she does is post a recipe or two a week. How about little how-to-prepare videos? Find someone who will drop-ship good chef grade cutlery and have a shopping cart offering them.

Then there’s the guy who makes $3-4000 a month with his blog about coffee! It’s all in choosing the niche, something you know and other people want to know about.

I started a drop ship business selling circular saw blades in 2003 (and hey, I’m almost 60 now!) and it’s cleared a consistent $1000 a month. I’m not using PPC anymore because I get top ranking in Google for my best selling lines. I could do more business but honestly, that business is too hands-on and I still work a full time job.

My full time work is in drug and alcohol treatment and I’m just starting a blog about growth in recovery. I bet I’m going to find numerous ways to monetize that, selling self-improvement products. Think outside the box.

Sorry about the ramble, but hey, you CAN change your mindset and run with the young bucks!

Owen

By: Mama Fortuna

Mama Fortuna — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:37:40 +0000

How inspiring! I would love to do for my membership what you did with ClickBank. What a great story! I love it!

By: Kimberley Pledger

Kimberley Pledger — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:50:35 +0000

I have so much respect for Leigh and Yaro (not to mention Gideon, without whom we wouldn’t have those awesome video tutorials). It’s great to hear how someone has implemented the programme, made it work and is now moving into the next level. What makes it “real” to me is to to hear real honesty about the mistakes they’ve made in the pas and how they’ve overcome them. So much of the internet marketing material that’s out there is so aggressively sales-oriented that it really turns me off. Becomeablogger.com doesn’t feel like that at all. I’ve just signed up to the Premium Blogger programme and I couldn’t recommend it more highly. Step-by-step guidelines from the basics – getting a site up and running – to the more sophisticated and important elements – how to market it, get the SEO working etc. I really feel like I’m getting value for money and I hope one day, in the not too distant future, to be one of Yaro’s interviewees (Aim high, I always say!) Meanwhile,well done Leigh, Yaro and Gideon, and thank you for sharing your advice. Best wishes, Kimberley

By: Vio's

Vio's — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:01:26 +0000

I trully want to congratulate this fine young woman for her excelent achievments , and only wish to be a good blogger as she is right now. With a little patience you can reach anything. Good job.

By: toys baby

toys baby — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:11:56 +0000

This just goes to show how fast someone can make their dreams a reality if they’ll work hard enough for it. Congrats Leigh! Success stories like this are a great inspiration to millions of other bloggers trying to find success.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:59:34 +0000

I believe that if you put the efforts in they will pay off. Consistent effort and follow through are the key.
I think beachcomber is on the verge of success, but has not followed through all the way. – Not leaving blog comments, not joining clickbank, etc etc.
You also sound like you are allocating your resources to the wrong things. You will invest in IM courses for $97 a pop, but not pay $50 to join clickbank? It doesnt make sense. You sound ADHD and you need someone to coach you with your focus and follow through.

Yaro – you have inspired me to launch a few blogs of my own and I really want to thank you for the information you give out for free. I am going to take what you have given and work them until I get stuck. Maybe I will be a future mastermind student.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:57:09 +0000

I’ve downloaded several of the podcasts over the last few days, and this one and the ones with Alborz and the college football guy are the best so far. I love these case studies! All three of these people have shown a willingness to work hard (I love that Leigh takes her laptop with her and leverages spare bits of free time to get things done) and be realistic about results. Inspiring!

I’ve got a chunk of my next mid-month paycheck set aside for Blog MasterMind tuition. I’m already getting WordPress installed (I’ve used it for years on my own sites), installing plug-ins and themes, etc., and I’m starting to pull together content from course manuals I wrote about three years ago.

By: Derek Clark

Derek Clark — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:07:50 +0000

Beachcomber,
First off, you have to get out there and make some friends. You cannot succeed on your own on the internet. Just going to your site and hitting publish is not going to make traffic come to your site. You have to go get it and bring it back. Without friends you cannot win on the internet. You have to get links and the only way someone is going to link to you is if they know you exist. Otherwise you have no chance.

There are tons of ways to do this. Leave useful comments on blogs like this, not the whiny this won’t work type comments you’ve left on this thread. I guarantee if you leave a useful comment a the top of a new post on this blog you will get more than 10 visitors. And if you’ve been working hard for 4 years like you say you have plenty of good content to send those readers to.

My blog is certainly not huge by any means, but it is 5 months old and has had 28,000 views. Just a touch more than the 10-20 you say is possible. Haven’t made huge sums of money yet, but last month I crossed the $100 mark for the first time. (That is in the really profitable niche of politics, oh wait it’s not at all.) I have to know, what in the world are you spending $100 a week on? I haven’t spent anywhere close to that in 5 months.

Anyways, I hope you continue to work at it, but you are going to have to change your strategy some. The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. Go out there, meet some new people, and have some fun.

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By: playerthirteen

playerthirteen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:17:22 +0000

It’s like i said, if he’d given up he wouldn’t still be on here listening to these podcasts.

He just needed to release that pent up frustration of his.

I 2nd what Caleb said though… if you’re burning $100 a week, with no results, take a step back and check out what you’re doing wrong.

Over optimism without the facts to back you up is just as bad as all encompassing pessimism. You still need to “do the math” to see if what you’re doing is gonna produce net gain.

And get yourself checked out for ADHD. I have it myself, and you sound like I used to sound like before I started medication for it…

By: beachcomber

beachcomber — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:11:11 +0000

No Way has Beachcomber given up!

Neither is he / she bitter. LOL

Just slightly peeved at losing $30k and continuing to lose about $100 a week.

A sale will be made one day. I’m sure of it.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:09:41 +0000

Unfortunately I think Beachcomber has given up based on his/her attitude demonstrated in the comments.

To everyone else – don’t let it happen to you, stay positive and learn to change when thinks don’t work, rather than just get bitter about it.

By: Caleb - Double Your Gains

Caleb - Double Your Gains — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:41:02 +0000

Beachcomber,

WOW! I’m getting depressed just reading your comments!

I STARTED my fitness blog in July 2008 and I already have 200-300 unique visitors per day. This is just following a very basic pattern of posting one new article each week day (monday through friday) and making sure I’m not targeting REALLY hard to rank for words on google — just search terms that get a decent amount of traffic but not too much.

I know other guys who started their blogs and in one year have built up readerships and unique visitors over 2,000 a day…

I don’t doubt Leigh’s results for a second — she got in, got some good advice and plugged away to make it work.

In fact, after hearing her interview I joined blog mastermind. Why? Because the couple hundred bucks it costs to get in is a drop in the bucket compared to getting results like that… masterminding with other people in my market (like Leigh)… and masterminding with someone like Yaro.

If you spend money on IM courses, but never put them to use, then they are a waste of money yes. But if you:

1. Keep plugging away AND
2. Know when to re-examine your results (like after 4 years and getting none) … THEN…
3. Figure out what you’re doing wrong then changing course…

You’ll have more success.

Heck, I’ll report back here in 3-6 months and let you know how my investment in Blog mastermind has paid off — I guarantee it’ll be huge!

Later
Caleb