Talaat and Tai from His and Her Money have been blogging for about 4 years. They started their blog in August of 2014 and roughly 3 months later they heard that Ruth created a course to help people blog better. They were already followers of Living Well Spending Less and as they read through the course description, it outlined a bunch of things that they had been wondering about on their own. Tai was a little apprehensive about purchasing EBA because of the cost, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Now, she accredits EBA as the driving force that transformed their blog to a business. EBA helped them create a strategy to magnify their message, refine their voice, and define the pillars of content they needed to stick to. It is really the thing that helped them stay focused so they could as impactful in their niche as possible. Talaat and Tai state that EBA “took us from our first year making $6,000 to our 2nd year […where] we had made $30,000.” Those results don’t lie and that’s due to Ruth sharing all the goodness, all the magic, all the gold, sharing absolutely everything she’s learned through her own success. “Most people look at the cost of EBA and think I can’t afford that, but we would tell people you can’t afford not to take it. It’s worth the investment, it taught us what we needed to do. How to take our ideas and turn them into a sustainable business.”

Like many of our students, Amanda started Elite Blog Academy as a total newbie, just setting up her new website as she started the course. At first, because she was so new, the learning curve felt steep, but she also knew from the get-go that she had a clear framework and path to follow, which meant she was starting out on the best possible foot.  

She started her blog, The Frugal Little House, to help inspire women to create a sweet and simple life on a budget—something she was also trying to do in her own life.  

Because she was also still working a very stressful full-time job as a customer service representative, she didn’t always have as much time to work on growing her business as she would’ve liked, but as she completed her course assignments one by one, Amanda slowly and steadily made progress.  

Within a year, she started seeing massive momentum—her traffic began to increase dramatically, she was able to begin monetizing more effectively, and her income just kept growing. Within 18 months, her blog income matched her full-time salary, and she nervously decided to take a leap of faith and quit the job that was making her completely miserable.  

Sharing her own story, Amanda says, “I put in my notice at work with shaking hands, but a strong determination that I was doing the best thing for myself. I knew I could continue to provide for our family, and live the life I dreamed of. I’ve been working at home ever since, and know 100% I made the best decision when I started EBA and my blog. My mental health has never been better, and I wake up everyday to my dream life. We have a mini farm and I get to work in my garden, care for our animals, keep our home, make my husband a great breakfast every morning, and be ready to hang out with him in the evenings. All because I took a leap of faith to start a blog and because I had the BEST leader and framework to be successful.  

Enrolling in EBA is a big investment in yourself. But by investing in yourself, you are bound to take it seriously and put in the work, so that you don’t waste your money. You could take free course after free course, but you wouldn’t value the information or take it as seriously as you would if you invested in a step by step course that you know would get you the results you are looking for. Taking a leap of faith and getting outside your comfort zone is what it takes to see major changes. And I’m so so glad I took that leap and risk. It made me take myself and EBA seriously. I did all the work and committed myself to being successful, so I didn’t waste my time or money. EBA changed my life—no exaggeration.”

When she was in high school, Caroline Vencil had dreams of conquering the world by the time she was 25, including being the youngest-ever CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And then she got pregnant at age 18, and everything changed. Caroline and her husband struggled to make ends meet on his $17,000 a year salary, and she didn’t just shove her career aspirations under the rug, she threw all those big dreams out the window and instead threw herself into being a mom and a wife, and to saving money wherever she could. But after three kids, she suddenly had a moment of revelation that there was something more she should be doing. Ultimately, she realized that she had a story that was worth sharing. That’s when she decided to start a blog to share all her tips and advice, as well as help her earn extra money from home. But as she soon found out, getting people to show up wasn’t quite as easy as she thought it would be. For months, she barely slept as she worked day and night to try to gain traction—to grow her traffic and generate revenue—with very little to show for all the effort she was putting in. But then she discovered Elite Blog Academy®, and, as she puts it, “it was all over from there. I signed up and immediately knew it was the best thing I’ve ever spent money on.” Within just a 3 months of starting EBA®, Caroline was earning more than $1,000 a month, and one year later, she was earning more than $10,000 a month from her blog, a number that felt pretty insane, considering how little her family had lived on before. Speaking of her journey over the past two years, Caroline says this: “I had a story that people wanted to hear, I had something that was worth sharing, that was going to be helpful to people, I just never knew it. I was just over there wallowing in self-pity about ‘oh, I’m just a mom’—but no! There was a reason I went through all of that, and so being able to have my blog and find my voice and share that with people—it gave me so much purpose and meaning. Now I’m a better mom and a better wife because I found something that makes me happy to my core. EBA® has changed everything, and it has taken me from hating my life as a mom to now being a business owner, and I just love every aspect of it. The highlight of my entire life was being able to send in my legal documents to incorporate my business and create an actual company from my blog the day before I turned 25, as the CEO of my company.”

When Tasha started Elite Blog Academy® in 2014, she was a partner in her corporate law firm, where she defended medical professionals in big, multi-million dollar malpractice cases. She was also the mom to three-year old twin girls.To say she was busy and stressed out was an understatement! She started her blog, Kaleidoscope Living, as a creative outlet, but she just didn’t feel like she had time to figure out all the ins and outs of blogging. She was interested in enrolling in EBA® because she thought it might be easier to let someone else do all the research and point her in the right direction, but she was worried about making such big investment into what was little more than a hobby at that point. Of her time spent in EBA®, she says: “I jumped into the course right away when I purchased it in September 2014. I immediately learned about creating awesome content, perfect pins and going back to optimize old content. Truly, I have never worked harder in my life, especially since I was still working full-time as a lawyer! Blogging is HARD WORK. Results do not come for free and Elite Blog Academy® is not magic. It will not do anything for you if you don’t put the work in. But I put in the work in and within a year I had more than tripled my page views and was earning more than $10,000 a month through my blog. On January 1, 2016, 16 months after starting Elite Blog Academy®, I gave up my partnership at my firm to blog full-time. I am now earning MORE than I was as a private practice attorney from my blog. My blog and income continue to grow and I don’t plan to slow down any time soon. And more importantly, I couldn’t be happier! As far as I am concerned, the sky is the limit!”

We love Bridget and Ryan’s story because it shows how EBA can work for you, even if you aren’t a traditional blogger. Bridget and Ryan are brick and mortar store owners, selling tack, saddles and western fashion, and they are SO enthusiastic about their small business. The only downside of being a small business in a small town is the lack of foot traffic, something they’ve been battling with almost since the beginning. So, in order to keep their doors open, they had to travel to trade shows across the country to showcase their products, taking a lot of time away from their family. Fed up with the travel time and the lack of sales, Bridget decided to look into online retail. Every business conference she went to all told her the same thing – she really needed a blog to get her business out there. But there was one problem. She did not know a thing about blogging and never really considered herself a writer. But she knew that in order to reach her goals, she needed to tackle “this blogging thing.” In 2017, she started her both her blog and EBA both. On January 1st of 2018 they decided to go ahead and launch their online shop. They surpassed that their first year’s goal of making $500 a month and sold $33,000 in physical products alone! They credit their success to EBA, which taught them to use their blog to broaden their reach and let more people know about their store and about their family. People are now driving to visit their store BECAUSE of their blog – one drove as far as 12 hours! Even Ryan is on board. He realizes now that blogging is not just writing, posting, and social media. Customer service is a HUGE part of running a blog and a business and now he combines the two, helping people and solving problems, just like he’s been doing for years. Ryan realized, “I don’t have to put my hands on every horse to fix them. I can do it over email or a phone call.” Blogging has single handedly saved this family and their small business from closing it’s doors and has transformed their storefront into a well-trafficked location both in person and online.

Tammy Rotzoll has been a part of the EBA community for several years now. When she first started blogging, it was an outlet, something that she could do to take her mind off of her chronic illness, which presents itself in the form of severe migraines.  

But, Tammy knew she wanted to take her blog from just a hobby and transform it into a business. And, EBA has helped her to do just that, by giving her easy to follow directions and clearly defined goals and milestones. One of her favorite things about EBA is Ruth’s teaching style and her gift for being able to pull confidence out of her students. Tammy acknowledges just how much Ruth’s tough questions and constant encouragement has contributed to her newfound of confidence.  

And now, after EBA, her blog has really grown into her dream business; one that is not only reaching and changing women’s lives from around the world, but also helping to support her family on her terms, and around her chronic illness. That has changed everything for Tammy.

Shelley started blogging in 2009 and for the first 6 years she blogged only for herself and had no intention of blogging for business. But in 2017, when her blog A Family Meeting gained some traction, she changed her mind.  

The thing is, Shelley has always felt a pull to teach and help others. When she recognizes there is a problem, the wheels in her brain immediately start turning and she’ll stop at nothing to solve it. But, for some time, she felt like she was not understood and that this need to solve problems was almost a flaw. Through EBA, Shelley learned to embrace this trait as a gift and essentially learned to accept herself for the first time in her life. She also learned through EBA that by being 100% yourself, people will come.  

Shelly says that, “changing people’s lives through what I have to say, the blog, and my words has been so rewarding.” She realized then that she is always going to be a teacher and is always going to have something to say, and it doesn’t matter if everyone in the world loves her message as long as she resonates with her people. At the end of the day, Shelley says “I am a worker, I don’t want to waste time, I want results, I want a path and I want to know what is going to be right and EBA and Ruth do that.”

After suffering from Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 2012, Monica Froese found blogging as an outlet, a way to find other people who might be going through the same things that she was. She was amazed to find that her story resonated with so many other working moms! After being asked to speak at the White House about working families, Monica knew that she wanted to turn her blog into something even bigger…something to help even more moms who were struggling with the same things that she was.  

In September, she purchased EBA during a secret flash sale. She was nervous about telling her husband at first, and he was pretty skeptical that it could be anything more than a passion project. In January, Monica quit her corporate job and focused solely on completing her EBA coursework. She followed every step, even the ones she thought she already knew because she’d been blogging for a while. By August, she was working as a full-time blogger. “I followed every single step that Ruth told me to do, and my email list exploded to 30,000 in about a year and a half.”  

Of her time at Elite Blog Academy, Monica says, “when I took EBA, it gave me permission to share my story, and I don’t think I would have had the courage to do it if Ruth hadn’t shared her depression story on her blog. When she shared her story about having severe depression, she told it with such confidence. I felt like that was such a huge game changer, because I was ashamed of what I was going through. EBA helped me to tell my story.” And her husband? Once skeptical, he is now an ambassador for EBA. “My husband is actually more outspoken about EBA than I am!” “There is absolutely no doubt that EBA will change your life.”

Sareeta Lopez’s blogging story is a little different than most. She’s not a mom. She’s not working her way out of a mountain of debt. She’s not sharing DIY projects and cool recipes.  

She started her blog anonymously in 2015 as a way to process her experience as a victim of sexual assault.  

By going online with her story, she hoped to reach people like herself who misunderstood sexual assault and issues surrounding it. Her goal was to gain clarity and healing for herself while helping give others hope and inspiration.  

She blogged at her site, Flight & S&arlet, anonymously for nearly a year, but she struggled by spending all her free time on it with no real direction or goal in mind.  

It wasn’t until she discovered Elite Blog Academy® in 2016 that she gained the courage to go public with her identity when one of the course assignments called for it. She calls it a “huge game changer.”  

She was terrified, but she decided to Do It Scared®. Within hours of sharing her story on Facebook along with adding her picture and name to her blog, she began to receive an outpouring of support.  

Many people she knew reached out to her personally to show support, and people she hadn’t spoken to in years shared their own experience of sexual assault, and why they loved what she was doing.  

She took it as a sign that she had to keep going. “It was clear that my blogging was truly helping others,” she says. “While others didn’t want to share their story the way I did, my doing so helped them feel heard and listened to.”  

She kept going, refining her message to talk about taking control of your life, expanding her target audience to millennial women, and launching her first product: The Millennial Life Planner.  

She went from making no income to approximately $1,000 a month a year later, but the most valuable benefits were intangible: “It helped me heal from sexual assault, and it gave me a community of people that are becoming real friends.  

About her experience with Elite Blog Academy®, Sareeta says:  

“I learned that the MOST important thing, above anything else, is knowing your message and who it’s for. Growth and money will only come after those things have been realized.  

The Monetize Your Blog module taught me that not every income stream is made equal. Some income streams are much better than others… specifically, making your own products! In January this year (2018) I launched my very first product: The Millennial Life Planner. And guess what? I made a sale in the first day!  

The Build Your Business module helped me a TON. It basically gave me a step-by-step process for figuring out exactly what I needed a virtual assistant for, how to find one and where, how to set up the actual process for hiring, and how to be a good leader of your team (even if it’s only one other person).  

If you go through the course, you’ll get into a lot of nitty gritty details about what blogging is and how to do it. But something you’ll need to remind yourself is that people need your message. No matter who you are, or where you come from, you really are unique. EBA does teach you this, but it doesn’t give you the fire you need to keep going when it gets tough. You do.  

So even if you think no one will care what you have to say… trust me. You’re probably wrong!  

Blogging is amazing not just for the potential of growth and income, but it will give you a sense of agency you never thought you had. You’ll grow as a person. You’ll learn about yourself and discover a part of who you are that maybe you never thought was there.”

JoAnn Crohn is a full-time blogger at No Guilt Mom who has been featured on The Today Show, among other accomplishments. About her time in EBA®, she says:  

“Like many beginning bloggers, I had no clue how to run a successful business. It was February of 2015, and I had decided to take another year off teaching. I told everyone it was to spend more time with my one-year-old son, but secretly I also wanted to make blogging my career. I started Whimsicle a year prior and thought, “I should be making more money by now.”  

I read article after article, trying to glean some major secret about blogging. I felt like a failure. It seemed as if all these other bloggers had huge audiences and money pouring in. However, nothing I tried worked. To top it off, I felt burnt out and really down on myself.  

When I found EBA®, I immediately enrolled for the waiting list. I knew that Ruth had an extremely successful business and I wanted that! I needed someone to show me how to do this.  

I learned that running a profitable blog isn’t magic – rather it’s consistent practices that build the foundation of a strong business. EBA® taught me how to create eye-catching pins for Pinterest, develop a strong structure, write posts that engaged my audience and how to plan for future growth.  

Now, I no longer search for that magic ingredient to overnight success. After the first month of applying EBA® practices, my blog Whimsicle nearly tripled in pageviews. Two years later, I’m still growing! I attribute that to the solid foundation that Elite Blog Academy® helped me establish. Without it, I’m positive that my blog would still be a hobby and I would be back in the classroom.” 

Of her time in Elite Blog Academy®, Kim Anderson, blogger at Thrifty Little Mom says:  

“When I started learning about blogging from Ruth a fews years back I could have never anticipated how EBA® &&blogging would change my life and my family. When I started, I was just a stay at home mom searching for more in my life. Fast forward 4 years and I now run a successful blog, I’m a published author and I make enough income that my husband was able to quit his terrible commute and his day job to work on his own dreams at home.”

Stephanie is a travel blogger and photographer that focuses on helping her readers discover new destinations. Although, She didn’t know anything about blogging before beginning, she soon realized that it had all of her favorite things rolled into one: writing, marketing, photography, etc. and she realized that she wanted to try and find a way to make it work. It wasn’t until joining EBA that she learned where to even begin blogging.  

EBA gave her a road-map to follow, one that she knew would lead her towards success. When asked if EBA was worth the money, Stephanie tells us that for her it was some of the best money she has ever spent because “you have to spend money to make money.” While we may not always appreciate that phrase, it is true. In blogging, you have to pay for your domain name, your hosting, your email service, etc. – and EBA teaches you how to use each of those tools. Without that direction and clarity it can be all too easy to become frustrated and quit.  

In addition to a solid framework, EBA has given Stephanie a community of support, she knows where to turn if she needs a question answered or just a little encouragement. But, even if she wasn’t making money blogging, Stephanie says that the one of the biggest rewards from blogging is when people stop her on the street in her town and let her know that her writing has made a difference for them.

Being a small business owner can be tough and often leaves you feeling alone. Kristen Millican and her husband, owners of Millican Pecan, struggled with feeling like they were doing a great job, but not having any real systems to back those feelings up.  

That is where Elite Blog Academy stepped in. “Ruth’s approach with EBA is like your best friend coming alongside of you.. or your mentor really.. someone who is like your older sister who wants to come and help you walk through a process,” says Kristen. Kristen loves knowing she has someone who will come along and challenge how she has always done things, in order to learn how to do things right.  

She feels that the EBA community is like no other and has provided more encouragement than any other industry she has been a part of. “Most industries you feel the competitive attitude and the territorialism- and EBA is not like that. It is open, inviting…they are your cheerleaders and want to help you and share what they have learned. That type of community is rare and irreplaceable.” Although, Kristen is still in the early stages of EBA after a re-branding last year, she can still see the positive changes EBA is making in her life both personally and as an entrepreneur.

Aja McClanahan was on the beach in the Caribbean when she signed up for EBA®. Her thinking was if she could get serious about generating income, the life she dreamed of – traveling, homeschooling and being a full-time blogger – could be hers.  

Up to this point, she had been blogging at Principles of Increase but she admittedly lacked focus. Describing her approach as “punching in the dark,” she felt unorganized as she attempted to work on everything at once. She was busy but not productive.  

EBA® gave her the focused framework to take exactly the right steps in the right order. Within eight months of starting EBA®, she was earning approximately $2000 a month. Now that she’s finished the course, she proudly calls herself a full-time blogger and internet entrepreneur – and she’s helping others get out of debt, increase income and build wealth. Oh, and she’s able to pursue her dream of homeschool and traveling now that she enjoys the flexibility of working from anywhere.  

Of her time spent in EBA®, she says:  

“It took me about 8-9 months to finish, but once I was done, things began to fall into place and my income started to reflect the new skills I gained from Elite Blog Academy®.  

I have to warn you: blogging is not easy! Yet, it is incredibly rewarding. As I write this, I am gearing up for a 4th trip to Cuba and am planning to take my kids to Disney World in September. Before this, we went to California for six weeks, spent almost 3 weeks in the Dominican Republic and a few days in San Diego. If I didn’t have the flexible schedule that blogging provides, I could not do any of this!”

Treasure Provost has been with EBA for nearly two years now and what’s amazing is she’s seen results and growth from the very beginning. One of the most significant things that EBA has given her is a roadmap, including specific instructions for how to exactly to build her business. As someone who had not been active in the workforce, this roadmap was HUGE for her. 

Not only did EBA and Ruth tell her HOW to build her business, Ruth’s kindness, her teaching style, and the amazing community we have worked so hard to build, have given her the confidence to be a blogger and think of herself as a business woman. We are thrilled that less than two years into her blogging journey, Treasure is making a full-time income and continuing to grow every day.

Edie Wadsworth is well-known for her fun and eclectic style. She originally started her blog, Life in Grace, in 2008 as a place to share her thoughts and document her life. For Edie, blogging was just a fun hobby, not something she ever intended to do “for real.”  

But after blogging for six years about all the different things she was interested in, she realized that she might be just a wee bit scattered in her approach. Around this time, she also realized that she might be selling herself short by not treating her blog as a business, especially since she had amassed quite a loyal following!  

She enrolled in Elite Blog Academy® in 2014 as a way to get more focus and clarity in her blogging and take a more business-minded approach to her blog. She was able to hone in on exactly who she was talking to, and how to better serve her audience, and began creating products that spoke directly to her avatar.  

As a former physician, Edie also realized that her true passion was in helping people discover health and wellness through essential oils, and she began using her blog platform to grow her Young Living business, where she has achieved the rank of Diamond, and now earns a healthy 6-figure income from her blog and oil business.

Saira Perl spent almost 3 years trying to turn her blog Mom Resource into a business all by herself. Without realizing it, she was spending too much time on activities that weren’t benefiting her readers or her bottom line. In September 2015 she joined Elite Blog Academy® & everything changed.  

What EBA® means to Saira’s family:  

“I started blogging in 2013 when we were living in Paris. I was taking a break from corporate life to stay home with my baby & &as experimenting with blogging as a way to make a living and work from home.  

For almost 3 years I followed other online “experts” without much focus or success. By the end of 2015 I felt burnt out and frustrated. I decided to take the leap and join EBA® as my final attempt to really find out whether blogging could be a career. If EBA® didn’t deliver, I would quit blogging & r&turn to work.  

Well, I’m still blogging today because I saw immediate results with EBA®! It totally changed my focus – instead of obsessing over getting more & mo&e readers, I starting diving deeper into topics my existing readers were already asking for… For me, that was Twitter.  

Ruth helped me figure out how to deliver more value to my audience. She gave me the strategy and confidence to write my own online course, Twitter Legend!  

Before EBA®, $500/month sounded like a dream goal. Within 1 month of joining Elite Blog Academy® I made over $1,000/month, and now I consistently earn $1,000-$3,000/month.  

For my family, earning a real income online means I have the freedom to work around OUR schedule. With little kids at home, I love that I can still put my family first while pursuing my passions part-time, from home.  

I will admit when I joined EBA® it felt like a HUGE financial investment – I barely earned anything from my blog and the EBA® price tag would require everything I made.  

Looking back now, EBA® was easily the BEST investment I ever made in myself, by blog & my care&r. This is a game-changer and I only wish I had taken it sooner to avoid all that wasted time, energy and frustration.  

But I’m not done. EBA® is a massive course and I have taken my time going through each step. There is always more to improve on.  

For example, I wrote my course without understanding how complicated it could be to promote a course. I was THRILLED to read through Ruth’s brand new EBA® Product Launch Playbook where she shares the exact checklists & email seq&ences she uses to promote everything from her planner to her book to EBA®.  

This is the kind of practical detail Ruth shares and if you are really looking to turn your blog into your business, EBA® has everything you need.”

Lena Gott is the blogger behind What Mommy Does and the blogging community Adventures in Blogging. Lena is a CPA turned stay at home mom of three little ones. She started writing online in 2008 and officially started blogging in 2010. She started taking her blog seriously in 2014 when her youngest child turned three.  

She wanted something to call her own once her kids were in school, and she knew blogging was a great way to earn money while being available to her kids on a flexible schedule for field trips, after school activities, and even impromptu vacations!  

When she started Elite Blog Academy® in 2016, she was already earning a full time income blogging but working very hard to do so. She was looking for a way to take her blog from a “job” to a “business.”  

She considered enrolling in Elite Blog Academy® for three years in a row and finally took the plunge after hearing the glowing recommendations from bloggers she admired. Enrolling in EBA® was a turning point in her blog business.  

The trainings in EBA® are designed to help bloggers get into a business mindset and figure out how to serve their readers in a deep way. Once she started applying the principles from EBA® to her existing blog content, the results were tremendous! She now works fewer hours than she ever thought possible to earn six figures blogging because she finally figured out what REALLY matters when it comes to growing an audience and customer base.  

Why Lena wished she would have enrolled in EBA® sooner:  

“Once I started the Elite Blog Academy® lessons, I kicked myself for not investing in EBA® the very first time I heard about it! There are so many valuable lessons for new and experienced bloggers, alike. If you are unsure about anything in your blogging business, from your messaging to your ability to generate consistent revenue, EBA® will help you nail down those things. Above all, I think EBA® helped me figure out EXACTLY who my ideal readers are, determine EXACTLY what to say to them, and know EXACTLY how I would make money doing so. I like knowing what I should be doing on a daily basis to grow my blog as opposed to wishing and hoping what I put out there sticks.”

When Alicia started Elite Blog Academy® in 2017, she had been a freelance translator for over 10 years. She was itching to branch out and do something new with her business, but she had too many ideas and not enough direction. All she knew is she had a deep desire to create. Blogging was never in her plans, but EBA® gave her the path she was missing. She decided to launch a blog called Born to Freelance to help other women start a freelance business. About blogging, she says: “It has everything which someone like me needs: It’s challenging, highly dynamic, never-ever-boring and – most importantly – it requires planning, strategic thinking AND continuous learning. Now I can’t figure out how I haven’t started earlier!” She was interested in enrolling in EBA® because she wanted to “do it right” from the very beginning. She says no one can tell she just started her blog, because it looks so professional, and now she’s enjoying getting emails from women whom her blog is helping. Of her time spent in EBA®, she says: “It was a bit expensive, and I don’t even know how I got to their site, but I was convinced from the very first moment. Looking back, it was so comprehensive and intensive, that you’d think it was overwhelming. But it wasn’t! And that’s EBA®’s magic – you get this awfully huge information in little bites, step by step.”

In the process of raising five children and moving several times, Amylia Coover lost a bit of herself. Through the outlet of blogging, she rediscovered a dream she had from childhood: to be a writer. EBA® gave her a roadmap to go after her dream, and by taking that first step of starting a blog called Quite Contemporary, she began to gain confidence. Now, she’s writing her lifestyle blog posts as well as her first book. And most importantly, she feels empowered to spread inspiration and help motivate others to succeed.  

About joining EBA® in 2017, she says:  

“Time is valuable, and I want to make sure I’m spending my time correctly. When I heard about EBA® last year, I missed the sign up because I didn’t have the money together to do it. So I always regretted that. I was able to earn enough revenue on my own through my website to pay for it, so that’s kind of exciting. Since I’ve earned revenue, I’ve learned that really the the sky’s the limit – for everyone, for you for me. It’s not all about income because I’d want to do this even if I wasn’t making anything. I think that’s where the pure joy comes in; I just felt a burning desire to share my talents with the world around me. I love to teach people how to do things.”  

Arabah Joy is the blogger behind ArabahJoy.com. She signed up for Elite Blog Academy® in 2014 without even knowing for sure what she wanted to accomplish, but just knowing that she was looking for a little guidance along the way.  

About her experience with EBA®, Arabah says:  

“I began blogging as a ministry in 2010. I knew that I had great content but did not know how to gain traction, or what to focus on and when. I needed a plan — a step-by-step process I could implement — from someone who knew what to do. I enrolled in EBA® and doing so was a game-changer for me!  

The course presents assignments in an effective format and Ruth mentored me through the process, providing everything I needed to get the results I was looking for. In the first 10 months, my monthly page views increased from 10,000 to 150,000, which was amazing, but more importantly, I began receiving daily emails from people who are impacted by my message, which was my ultimate goal for blogging.  

I do not have ads or do sponsored posts, which means I rely on affiliate programs and my own products to monetize my site. Through EBA®, I was inspired to launch my first online course and not only earned $3,900 during that first launch, but also gained the confidence that I will be successful going forward”  

These days, Arabah not only inspires thousands of women on a daily basis, but earns a healthy full-time living through her blog, which in turn has made her ministry even stronger. She can afford to spend the time making a difference in people’s lives because that time is also helping to support her family. 

Maureen Campaiola is a blogger at A Debt Free Mess Free Life who enrolled in EBA® in 2014. At the time, she was running a family residential and commercial cleaning business, running her coaching practice and was a full-time caregiver for her sick mother. She was running herself ragged trying to keep up with all demands and desperately wanted to find a better way. She was looking for an end game to the cleaning business, and blogging seemed like a great strategy to make that happen.  

When she started blogging her goals included finding her tribe of loyal readers, driving traffic, email marketing, and monetization strategies. She readily admits her biggest problem – she had no clue what she was doing and needed a step by step plan to help her navigate the waters. She recalls writing blogs posts, posting them on social media and then waiting for “something to happen.” Of course, nothing did, and her frustration level grew in direct proportion to her regular failures. As a 54 -year old single woman, she thought – “if this doesn’t work, what is my alternative?”  

Then she stumbled across EBA®. After reading the information about what was included in the course, she signed up immediately anxious to get started on the modules and how to make her blog successful.  

How signing up for EBA® impacted Maureen’s blog:  

“EBA® gave me the foundation to accomplish my goals by providing me the resources, tools, and strategies to implement my plan and move my business forward.  

I took the time to go through each and every module and applied what I was learning step by step. Anytime I got confused or felt like I needed a refresher, I would head back to the modules and fine tune what I was doing. Each and every time I did, I saw a direct, positive impact on my business. Soon I was starting to see more and more traffic and my income was getting bigger and bigger.  

The course requires you to work diligently – not just skim the surface. Blogging is hard work, and it’s not always easy to put all the pieces together and create something people value and want to support. But because of EBA®, I can say that I learned what it requires to take a blog from mediocre to phenomenal.”