A few months ago, I had a chance to review Blogging to the Bank 2.0, and I was very impressed by it. Most experts who reviewed that product agreed with me that it was a decent product that showed newbie bloggers how to get the most out of their blogs. The course has now been updated to account for the latest developments in the Internet industry. Blogging To the Bank 3.0 still aims to teach bloggers how to take their blogs to the next level, but the techniques have been updated to give you the best possible chance to succeed online as a full-time blogger. If you are a beginner and want to get started with blogging fast, Blogging To the Bank is a serious training course to consider.

Here is what you get with Blogging To The Bank:

• Content: I found the content to be very useful to beginner and intermediate bloggers. If you have never owned a blog or you have an under-performing blog, you are gonig to learn how to push your blog to the next level and monetize it properly. I also was impressed with the fact that you learn how to treat your blog as a business. Unfortunately, too many of us treat our blogs as a hobby. If that is you, then you should rethink your strategy. You can’t expect to make a full-time living with a hobby unless you treat it all as a business. This course teaches you how to install your blog, keep them up to date at all times, and make decisions like a true CEO.
• Tips: the tips in this course are great for beginners who are just getting started with blogging. You’ll learn what kind of hosting you need to create a killer blog. You also learn all about services available to you on the market. If you are stuck and don’t know what to blog about, this course will teach you how to research niches and find goldmines in them. You’ll learn how to do keyword research properly and get ranked for more keywords. One thing that I like about this course is that it doesn’t try to sugarcoat the realities of the blogging business. If you want to make a decent living off of your blog, you need advertising, affiliate marketing, and some sort of sponsorship. If you are blessed with a rich wife or an even richer dad, you may not need all that, but if you are a mere mortal like the rest of us, you need to make money to keep your blog going. I have always said that there is no shame in getting paid for your blogging efforts. If you run out of money, your blog dies, and I am sure many readers understand where you are coming from. The key is to be honest and go about making money the right away, and this course touches on these issues.
• Promotion: driving traffic to a blog is a necessity if you want to have any chance of making a living off of your blog. But not everyone knows how to properly drive traffic to a blog. You’ve got paid search. You’ve got SEO, and then you’ve got Web 2.0. There are literally thousands of ways you can drive traffic to your blog. I like the fact that this course focuses on the most important ones. Finally, I was impressed with the coverage of outsourcing.

The Bad

I have worked in the online marketing industry. I know what it takes to write a landing page to increase sales. But I just hate pages that come with too many paychecks all over them. Everybody does that these days, and they simply don’t mean anything. I have no doubt the author is making a lot of money, but I rather see less sale copy and more useful information. How about a sample video? I also believe that not everyone can get this blogging right. You’ve got to have patience and dedication to work hard. You can buy this course and read it from cover to back, but if you are not ready to work hard, it’s all a waste.

The Verdict: B+

Whether you are a newbie or have been in this business for a while, you can learn something from Blogging To The Bank 3.0. You learn how to create blogs, develop your lists, promote your sites, outsource tasks, and sell your blogs. This shouldn’t be the only blogging material that you read, but it is a very good start. And best of all, you won’t have to do research on all these topics as the author has done it for you already. Once you graduate from this course, and if you are willing to work hard, you’ll be ready to take your blog to the next level and have much more success with it.