How To Start A Blog, Grow An Audience & Make Money
with Jessica Festa
A blog can be so much more than an online journal or a place to share your thoughts. In fact, when created with intention, a blog can be a tool that allows you to share your passions with others online and earn an income in the process.
The thing is, it’s not as easy as writing and hitting publish on a post. There are specific steps one should take in order to truly maximize reach, grow an audience, and, if desired, make money.
In this in-depth workshop, full-time travel blogger Jessie Festa will share a step-by-step strategy for creating a blog that grows a community of people who can’t wait to click, read, and share.
Participants in this workshop will receive a discount for Jessie’s “Build Your Blogging Profit Plan Masterclass” after the workshop ends. Participants will also receive a “How To Choose A Profitable Niche You Can Rank For” tutorial.
Learning & Writing Objectives
In this course, you will learn how to plan your brand and move from a content plan to monetization.
More specifically, by the end you’ll understand:
- The biggest mistake new bloggers make and how to avoid it
- The key to creating blog content that grows a community
- How to grow your blog traffic and maximize how many people read your posts
- What it means to craft “engaging content”—and how to do it
- How to choose the right social media platforms to be active on
- A strategy for turning traffic into dedicated community members
- How to warm up your audience for a paid offer so you can set yourself up for profit success from the beginning
By the end of this course, you will have a successful blogging career mapped out step-by-step.
How to Build a Blog: Webinar Schedule
This webinar runs on Zoom from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern time. Approximately 20 minutes will be devoted to each of the following topics:
- Introduction/branding
- Content planning
- Growing blog traffic
- Turning traffic into community (aka email subscribers; people who truly want to hear from you)
- Monetization
The webinar will end with a 45 minute Q&A.
Turn your passion into a successful blogging career. Enroll today!
Student Feedback for Jessica Festa:
Jessica was great! She was willing to give constructive, useful feedback on our blog designs and topics, and I felt like she wanted us to succeed. I was very happy with the lessons and assignments. I feel that they did exactly what I had hoped they would do, which was give me a jump start with social media/blogging. - K R Parkinson
Jessie really knows her stuff and is very generous sharing her tricks of the trade. She did a great job not only sharing the technical aspects of blogging but also sparking ideas for content. Catherine Proppe
The content itself was great and really reached far into new materials I've never read. Jessica was fantastic about responding to posts and emails. - Lisa Dearen
In addition to great class content, Jessie provided thoughtful, helpful and professional feedback delivered in a respectful manner. The class was exactly the push I needed! Look forward to taking another class with Jessie this fall. - Sherri Davis
Jessie was great. She was responsive to the students’ needs and questions. I found her comments useful. Her care for the students came across in her advice and feedbacks. She helped me put together a reasonably good blog site (which I hope to make into a great site during the next stage of her workshop). - James Polk
I just wanted to thank you for all the great, thoughtful, constructive advice and hard work that went into each and every one of your lessons and discussions! I learned so so so much and had a blast doing it! I saved all of the lessons and I will be slowly finishing my business plan and starting a photography class next month which I really need. I am so glad the class was as fast-paced and jam packed with the readings and information as it was. I really thrive that way. It helped kick my butt into high gear and I am very happily blogging away! I could not be as far along as I am without your help 🙂 -Sarah Stewart
Jessica is lovely, very encouraging, with specific suggestions to improve your work. The course content was very impressive - rather a lot in comparison to other courses. - Judith Worrall
Jessie is very well informed about her craft and eager to share it with others. I appreciated her prompt response to all questions. - Bonnie Rose
The class contents was amazingly comprehensive. I loved Jessica. (She) is such a well versed instructor. She answers any and all questions with respect and fabulous information. I will be calling on her in the future to help me out with my blog. - Kim Hanson
I really enjoyed the class. I was really impressed with the teacher’s thoroughness in covering all the aspects of blogging. (Jessica) was great. Plus, she set up a Facebook group for former students, so I really appreciate that I can still check in for advice. I have enjoyed and gotten a lot from all the classes I’ve taken through Writers.com. - Pamela Hunt
This class does have a lot of content but it is all good. Some of the assignments - like creating your categories take some serious thinking time. However, the resources, thoughts, etc were spot on. It wasn't at too low a level -it was challenging and stretched me. Something I prefer. Jessie was always incredibly helpful - responded quickly to questions and gave good insights. I realized I needed either a push or more targeted knowledge to get it off the ground. Jessie gave me both. Kristie Wilson
Loved the class. very informative. The material, both what Jessica provided and created was well thought out. I saved everything to look through at a later time. Like you said, there was a lot of material to cover. Jessica was great. Very personable and approachable. I had no problem asking straight forward questions. And I appreciated the honest answers I got in return. I've taken several classes of yours before. Four I think. I would, and have recommended your classes to other wannabe writers I know. Keep at it. The content, class choices and teachers have all been very good so far. Loring Felix
