Earning money through blogging is every blogger’s dream. Too bad you can’t make money from your own blog – unless you’re Darren Rowse aka blogger extraordinaire.

Now that I’ve depressed you, I’ll tell you about an alternate way where you can make money… just not from your own blog. I’m talking about Ali Hale’s Staff Blogging Course.

I bought Ali’s Staff Blogging Course last month when I read her interview at Daily Blog Tips for three reasons.

1. Her story is mine – and very possibly yours. [*cough* blog failure *cough*]
2. Ali’s way of earning money from blogging is believable, doable and involves no shortcuts.
3. The price of the course. $19!

So I bought the course, poured through it, learned countless things and started implementing it.

As I go through the course and do the tasks, I’ll be reviewing it at The Base unit by unit.

Unit One:

The Staff Blogging Course is divided into five units. In the first unit, ‘The Basics of Blogging’, Ali tells us about her own blogging failure and answers the following questions related to staff blogging.

• What exactly is staff blogging?
• How much can I expect to earn?
• Do I need to have my own blog?
• Do I have to be a good writer?
• How do I know if staff blogging is for me?

Question two was the one I was most interested in, but Ali had excellent information and advice in all of the answers which I couldn’t skip or ignore.

Resources, Handout and Exercises

Not only does Ali explains everything, she lists examples and resources. She also provides handouts and exercises to carry out.

The Goals Sheet in Unit One was an eye opener. She tells you exactly what to do with the handout and urges the reader to ‘be brutally honest’ with the answers. Remember, no one else is going to see them so you might as well do as she’s saying. After all, Ali knows her stuff.

My view of Unit One

Filling out that goals sheet suddenly made my blogging goals tangible. Achievable.

It gave me a clear sense of direction and I now know where to go and what to do to reach my goals.

I printed out the resources Ali linked to and pined up my goals sheet. It reminds me of what I have to work towards as I sit down to work on my desk every day.

The act of filling out the sheet gives a clear sense of direction and accomplishment. I got the tough work done, now I just need to connect the dots as I proceed with the course. Remeber, the Staff Blogging Course offers no short cuts. Instead it shows you a way that is guaranteed to work if you put the required effort into it.

Stay tuned for my review of Unit II of the Staff Blogging Course next week!

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