Review of the Niche Blogger Course by Amy Bass

Elizabeth Balarini
Amy Bass created an online blogging course, entitled "The Niche Blogger" in 2008. Intended to help beginner and intermediate bloggers learn basics and tricks of the trade, the course is designed to be followed on a day-to-day basis.

The Niche Blogger course was created when Amy Bass realized that real, legitimate income could be made online. After taking her own blogs from $0 to $5,000 per month, Bass decided to share her knowledge with others.

Current subscription rates for Bass' course are $19.99 per month (presumably to make the reader think that "less than $20 is a bargain"), and the course is released to the subscriber on a month-by-month reveal method. This means that after your initial payment, the entire first month's course is available to you. Although it is broken down into thirty daily lessons (and is intended to be followed as such), subscribers can easily read and study the entire month's lessons in one sitting. No matter how quickly you make your way through the course's first monthly installment, however, you are not permitted to view the following months' lessons until each monthly subscription payment has been made.

The Month 1 lessons walk the subscriber through purchasing a hosting plan, as well as choosing a domain name. While this is golden information for those who know nothing about site building or blogging, those who have been blogging for a month or two (or more) will find the first month's lessons tedious and perhaps a bit useless.

Subsequent months cover more basics with a few golden nuggets of information scattered throughout the course. Bloggers will get tips from Bass regarding how to promote one's blog online, to how to write and promote ebooks. Bass does a good job of making the subscriber want to hold on for "just one more month" at the end of each month. Each month ends with Bass teasing the subscriber with promises and glimpses of what will be covered in the following month.

While the course might be viewed as boring and common sense for an intermediate or professional blogger, the course is indeed beneficial to anyone who is new to the arena of blogging creating websites. Anyone who has the desire to learn how to make money online by blogging from home could definitely learn how to do just that by joining Amy Bass' The Niche Blogger course.

Published by Elizabeth Balarini

Elizabeth Balarini is a freelance writer living and working in South Texas. She enjoys starting her days with yoga and ending her evenings with strolls around her neighborhood. Life is good.  View profile

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  • Bel Marshall11/20/2010

    I actually found $20.00 a month to be a bit too much for a site full of referral links for everything she suggested, homemade videos that could have been made with my cell phone video and just overall a crash course for "dummies".
    The first month showed us how to set up a wordpress blog. It took a whole month to learn how to do that and find your niche.
    The second month is riddled with referral for affiliate programs while "teaching" how to set up things such as adsense, commission junction and selling programs. Anyone who can read an article or find a youtube video can learn these things without paying for them.
    Month one, a waste for me, month two another waste. Won't be hanging around for month 3. I am curious though, which month does the blogger start to make money with this program versus paying it out?

  • Sylvie Mac9/18/2009

    $20.00 a month for information that's widely available on the web -- for free -- isn't exactly what I would call sharing. I also notice that your link (which doesn't work) seems to be a referral link, which is against AC's rules.

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