I’m not a "problogger". I don’t do the whole "how to make money online by blogging" thing. My focus is business blogging in order to attract clients to my blog consulting services. But I know that many of you who read my blog are taking the monetized blog route, rather than the business marketing route. You find that my posts are helpful for monetized blogging, too, even though I’m not writing specifically for you. I want you to know that I appreciate that. To show my appreciation, I want to go a little bit off-trail to tell you about an opportunity just for you, the problogger.

Before I tell you what it is, I have to tell you a little story.

Do you know what is one of the best books I have ever read on blogging? You might be surprised to know that it is Yaro Starak’s Blog Profits Blueprint. If you’ve already read it (there’s no charge) then you know how seriously good it is. When I first read it, I had already been blogging for a while, but not for money or a business. His take on "Pillar Articles" was the first of its kind I ever read. Since then, I’ve read versions of the idea from other great bloggers, and they all give their own names to the concept.

But since Yaro’s ideas were the first ones I read, they have really "imprinted" on my mind. The other versions of the same idea seem like copies to me. Long story short, I learned a lot from Yaro’s book. The knowledge I’ve put into practice from it has made me a better blogger and has contributed to my success. I have since shifted my focus to consulting and to running a business, but when I first decided to get serious about my blog a little over one year ago, Blog Profits Blueprint helped me plan my launch.

I learned not just from the information in the book, but by Yaro’s example in how he used it and marketed it. Here’s what I mean:

• The book was free, and yet it was high quality. That drove home for me how the bar has been raised. I saw how free content marketing really works. It inspired my to make my free ebook offering as high-quality as I could make it (which was a very successful strategy).
• The book was in exchange for my email address. This method has built Yaro an impressive mailing list. I learned from this and used my free ebook as a way to increase RSS subscribers for Remarkablogger. It worked better than I had hoped, and my subscriber count is now nearing 2,500.

I wanted to relate my own personal experience so you can understand why I feel that Yaro is the real deal. He’s definitely one of the good guys. Not too long ago, he launched a training program called Blog Mastermind, and it has been very successful. Hundreds of bloggers have been through the program and have had their blogs boosted by it. One graduate of Blog Mastermind just had his blog valued at 5 million dollars. I don’t want to seem all hyper and add a bunch of exclamation points, but damn, that’s pretty insane for a blog.

Yaro could only help so many people at once effectively, so Blog Mastermind had to close its doors after filling up. It would’ve been easy to let greed get the best of them and trade poor service and high student-to-teacher ratios for more money, but Yaro didn’t do that. Yaro thinks for the long haul. So do I, and that’s one thing I like about him.

Well, a bunch of people have now graduated from Blog Mastermind, and Yaro has reopened it. But Yaro has taken this opportunity to do more than just reopen the doors. He’s improving Blog Mastermind, and not just with token tweaks here and there. Check out what’s going to be in the program:

• A step-by-step coaching course delivered in weekly lessons in text and audio format 
• Private members-only forum community and access to regular live training calls with Yaro (you can ask him anything you want about your blog)
• Video case studies of blogs and a ten-part series of audios from Yaro covering the core aspects about what it takes to earn big dollars from a blog
• Access to the social traffic club, a special community of members who help each other drive traffic to their blogs from social media sites
• 5 unique interviews with professional bloggers like Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Andy Wibbels
• Plus loads more.

You can take a behind the scenes tour and hear Yaro talk about his coaching program if you watch the short video.

So, again, to all of you who aren’t really my intended audience, but who read anyway, I want to say thank you by giving you something that is just for you. Yaro is a laid-back and easy-to-understand guy. He’s a make-money-blogging success story in real life. If anyone can teach you how to do it, I know he can. I’ve been teaching for years. I know a good teacher when I see one, and Yaro is a good teacher.

If you want to learn more and get the new version of Blog Profits Blueprint at no charge, check out this video on conversion blogging (something I’ve been stressing lately, maybe Yaro has been reading my blog!)

P.S. – The reason why Blog Mastermind closed before was because all the spaces were filled, so don’t wait. Remember a few days ago I told you Teaching Sells was going to close? Well, it did, so if you missed that, you are too late. Don’t miss this one, too! Check it out now.