The Best Online Courses For Bloggers Who Want To Make Money

No doubt about it, I am definitely an online course junkie! I’ve taken many online courses for blogging and today I want to share with you the BEST online courses for bloggers who want to make money!

Because let’s be honest, unless this is just a hobby blog you’re starting, part of the idea here is to make money! And you don’t have to feel ANY shame about that. You’re creating useful content for your ideal audience that is going to help them and you don’t have to feel bad about making money by working hard and providing VALUE. It’s 2021 and online content creation and marketing is not new! If this is something that interests you as a side hustle or career, consider yourself totally normal and well-deserving of staking your claim on the Internet! GET THAT MONEY HUNNY.

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Why Online Courses?

Ok now that’s out of the way, I cannot stress enough how much of a GAME CHANGER taking an online course can be in the blogging space. People who create these courses do so from a place of expertise! They’ve already been there, done that and succeeded at exactly what you are trying to succeed at. These courses give you an exact blueprint to follow so that you’re not just left guessing and wasting time! And I hate to be cliché but TIME IS MONEY. The more time you waste, the more money you’re missing out on! It may be free to just try and figure it all out on your own, but it could take you much longer than you anticipated! In the long run it could actually be losing you money you could be gaining from just knowing what to do and what actually works! For me, when I have a clear idea of what I should be focusing on and what is a waste of time, I tend to waste a lot less time. It’s hard to decipher all of that, especially in the beginning or if your progress is stalled. We tend to just try anything and see what sticks and while that can work eventually, it’s not the most efficient way to go about things.

And I know, I know, some of these courses can be expensive! But I gotta say, any course that I am recommending below I have more than made back my investment in the course by applying what I learned! Because these courses are designed to teach you how to MAKE MONEY BLOGGING. I’m telling you as long as you take the course seriously, and are willing to do the work, there’s no reason why you should fail!

I also just love that all of these courses can be taken in the comfort of your own home, totally at your own pace, AND you always get lifetime access to them! So you can always refer back! These course creators are also awesome and will include any updates to the course that they end up making in the future for free! So it’s not just a one-and-done learning experience. You can always refer back and always check back for updates on the topic!

My Favorite Online Courses

Below I will be listing out my all-time favorite online courses that have made a serious impact on my income and blogging success! DISCLAIMER: I am an affiliate for some of these courses. So if you decided to go ahead and purchase the course through my link I will make a small commission (at no additional cost to you!). I would not recommend these courses if they DIDN’T WORK! I’m a hardcore believer and stand by these courses 100% which is why I feel confident recommending them and being an affiliate for them!

For the blogger who wants to make more money by pitching brands:

I took Pitch it Perfect and absolutely LOVED IT. It’s the priciest course on my little list here but it’s for sure made me the most money! So it evens itself out REAL quick. Julie Solomon is a former PR specialist who took her skills and applied it to help influencers negotiate and land high paying brand deals! This course is SO incredibly detailed and filled with so many great tips, bonuses, and ways to monetize your influence! She deep dives on more than just pitching brands and she truly helps to give your personal brand a total facelift and helps you really focus in on what matter most so you can get to creating and connecting with brands that will be dying to pay you to promote them!

For more information on Pitch It Perfect click here!

For the blogger who wants to make more money with affiliate links:

My FAVORITE course I have ever taken because I love me some PASSIVE INCOME. Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers has helped me feel beyond confident in my ability to scale my business and grow my passive income revenue stream! Kimi Kinsey teaches the course and she is a full blown genius when it comes to affiliate marketing and optimizing your blog to make sales in your sleep!

My biggest thing is that influencers often downplay or just don’t feel confident in affiliate links as a reliable and lucrative income source. I see so many people saying things to their followers like “I only make a few cents or dollars when I share links, so don’t think I’m doing this for money”. First of all, I like getting paid for my work, personally! And second of all there are sooo many easy things you can implement to start making way more than just pennies from your affiliate links! Highly recommend this course and mindset shift for any blogger who really wants to monetize their influence!

For more information on Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers click here!

For the blogger who wants more traffic to their website:

This is hands down the best Pinterest course in the GAME. I have taken other courses, read books on the subject, and nothing compares. Pinterest Traffic Avalanche is IT if you want to get a leg up on your competition on Pinterest and drive tons of traffic to your blog! This course was created by Alex and Lauren of CreateAndGo and they legit make over $100,000 per month from blogging. YES I SAID PER MONTH. So I would say they DEF know what they’re talking about.

The key to their success? Traffic driven to their website from Pinterest! Mastering Pinterest = getting tons of traffic to your blog = tons of money in your pocket! And yes that again would be PASSIVE income, my fav kind.

Long story, but I had to basically START MY PINTEREST OVER (my boards all got taken down, it was devastating). And my monthly views on Pinterest decreased insane amounts. I knew I wanted a solid strategy in place in order to get my numbers back up quickly, and so I decided to purchase this course. This is all VERY recent. I only took the course one month ago, BUT I have already DOUBLED my clicks-through to my website from Pinterest (which is the only Pinterest metric I really care about)!! I’m so pumped and SO excited about what that means for my traffic the rest of the year as I continue to utilize what I learned in this course!

For more information on Pinterest Traffic Avalanche click here!

So that’s it! I’m embarrassed to even tell you how many courses I’ve taken from free ones, to paid, because it’s a ton. And these three are the ones that actually made a HUGE difference in my income and success online. These are the only three courses I feel comfortable enough promoting and recommending, so you can trust that they are actually great investments! If you’re wondering about a course that isn’t on this list, let me know! I may have taken it and can give you my honest feedback on it (seriously I am way too obsessed with learning all I can about blogging!).

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