From Blog to Book to Online Empire: How Jenny Blake Turned “Life After College” into a Business

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Jenny Blake, creator of Life After College, is in the house to talk about (in extreme detail) her rise as an author, entrepreneur, blogger, and online brand builder. And for some extra fun, Jenny and I both reveal the exact terms of our book deals with our respective publishers to let you know a little more about the book industry.

You should definitely tune in, because you’ll learn:

• How Jenny came up with her brand and got started.
• How she built her audience/fans.
• How she went from blog to book (all the juicy details).
• The results, how she got burned out, and what she did next.
• How she is shifting her business model and what is working now.
• …and much more!

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Links Mentioned:

Life After College
Geek Yoga NYC
Make Shit Happen
The templates Jenny talks about during the interview.

Create Awesome Interviews Update:

In case you missed the memo, I’ve opened back up my most popular training product – Create Awesome Interviews – which is my complete system for creating, promoting and profiting from online interviews. What it really is about is teaching you how to build your credibility, relationships, traffic, list, etc by interviewing the influencers/thought leaders and rock stars in your niche. Listen to what one of my students, Jeff Hicks, had to say:

“I coulda saved my money, slogged through the process of building an interview show and made a bunch of mistakes in order to learn what David shares in Create Awesome Interviews. I probably would never have got the first interview up. I am still making mistakes. But I have a frigging INTERVIEW SHOW. I am making better mistakes, learning from them and growing my show, rather than struggling with the basics and wishing I had a show. Create Awesome Interviews showed me (sing along) This is how we do it… I’ve done it and am getting better every day. Get the program, you can do it too.”

Jeff’s show can be found at SparksToFire.com.

If you want to get in and this sounds up your alley, head over to www.createawesomeinterviews.com/letsdoit to find out all the juicy details.

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categories: Badass Blogger, Forward-Thinking Author, Interesting Entrepreneur, Interviews & Guests