The first phase of creating a successful, profitable blog is to refine your message --not just what you say, but how you want your readers to feel when they come to your site. We'll show you exactly how to refine this message of yours, until every single person who comes across your blog can tell at a glance what you are all about, and, more importantly, what they have to gain by being there.

• Overcome your limiting beliefs about what is actually possible when it comes to creating a successful, profitable blogging business. 
• Laser focus on your avatar and his or her unique needs and get the insight you need to create content that resonates. 
• Master the art of writing content that resonates with one simple technique.

The second phase in our EBA framework is to grow your audience. Finding people to actually read your blog can sometimes feel like a daunting prospect, but it doesn’t have to be. At ACTIVATE we’ll provide you with an armory of proven, detailed strategies for how to get your message heard and shared. You’ll never feel unsure of how to get more traffic again.

• Effectively grow your traffic and expand your reach by narrowing your focus to the 3 activities that will make the biggest impact. 
• Learn the secret to effectively managing multiple social media channels.

The third phase in our EBA framework is to monetize your platform. This is where blogging starts to get really fun, because it is where all the hard work you have put in starts to really pay off and multiply. But believe it or not, not all income streams are created equal, and at ACTIVATE you’ll learn exactly where to focus your efforts in order to maximize your bottom line and skyrocket your profits.

• Dramatically increase your income overnight with one painless tweak. 
• Better leverage your platform by focusing on more powerful monetization strategies that require fewer page views
• Destroy your fear of sales and marketing and instead learn how to confidently share your message and your products with the world. 

The fourth and final phase of creating a successful, profitable blog is to build your business. This is the point where you realize that you are not just a blogger, but an entrepreneur, and this is also the point at which you can really take off and begin to find massive success. ACTIVATE will show you how to work smarter, not harder, and how to build momentum that keeps you going long after you’ve completed your course work.

• Learn how to do less but earn more, so that you can actually ENJOY your time blogging (and still have a life) 
• Securely protect your intellectual property and trademarks in order to keep your business safe.
• Turn your weaknesses into strengths by building a stellar support team to take your business to the next level.

Get access to all the amazing content from this game-changing event....without leaving home!

• Includes access to all presentations from the main Activate event.
• Includes a PDF of your Activate Workbook, which you will use to create your personalized action plan.
• All videos hosted on a password-protected website.
• Option to upgrade later for $250.

• Includes access to all presentations and Q&A sessions from our exclusive pre-conference workshop, "Blog to Business."
• Includes access to all presentations from the main Activate event.
• Includes a PDF of your Activate Workbook, which you will use to create your personalized action plan.
• All videos hosted on a password-protected website.

Here is just a small taste of what you'll learn:

• Find out how to make the mindset shift that will take your business to the next level.
• Create a big picture strategy for your business that allows you to work in your genius zone along with powerful quarterly plans that keep you and your team on track. 
• Learn how to bring your idea to life quickly and easily, even when it feels overwhelming.
• Find out how to create systems in your business that allow you to grow and manage an effective team.
• Discover why you need products at every price point….and how to figure out which products will work best for your audience.
• Learn how to convert your prospects into paying customers through proven sales strategies that won’t get the job done while maintaining your authenticity.
• How to grow your list, turn your readers into fans, and build a money-making machine that earns while you sleep.
• Explore how to get more leads, sales, and referrals using a book.

Ruth Soukup is a blogger, entrepreneur, product creator, and the successful founder of the wildly successful blog, Living Well Spending Less. Since first launching in 2010, LWSL has become one of the most popular and profitable lifestyle blogs on the net, receiving more than a million visitors a month. Her blog has grown to include it's own online retail shop, which is now recognized as a Shopify top performer, generating over 7-figures in sales in its very first year.

In 2014, Ruth founded Elite Blog Academy™ to teach professional bloggers--or those who aspired to be--her simple, step-by-step framework for creating a successful and profitable blogging business. She has since led more than 5,000 students to create their own successful blogs.

Ruth is also a New York Times bestselling author and the the creator of the Living Well Planner®. For more information about Ruth and her team, please read about our company HERE.

Kate is the owner and founder of Simple Pin Media, a Pinterest Management company. They help bloggers/content creators and small business owners grow their business using Pinterest. She also teaches Pinterest marketing at conferences and through her podcast, The Simple Pin podcast. She aims to teach simple, actionable tips that help business owners move forward successfully instead of feeling overwhelmed. 

Chandler is the host of the Self Publishing School podcast & the author of 6 bestselling books including his most recent book titled “ Published. ”. He’s also the founder & CEO of Self-Publishing School , the #1 online resource for writing your first book. Through his books, podcast, training videos, and Self-Publishing School, he’s helped thousands of people on their journey to writing their book. 

Tasha is the owner and founder of the top-ranked DIY and home decor blog, Designer Trapped in a Lawyer's Body. She is also the creator of Designer in a Binder and Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: Master Course. Though her blog and Designer in a Binder, Tasha is on a mission is to inspire everyone to design a home and life they love. She has happily retired from the private practice of law to blog full-time and lives in North Carolina with Joe, her firefighter husband, and their young twin daughters.

Michael is an Intellectual Property attorney who knows his way around the blogging world. Counseling, troubleshooting, and resolving matters regarding protection, registration and infringement of trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, domain names, and computer software are just some of the ways he helps his clients.

Kim was as stay at home mom who found her passion in online content creation. Her thrifty lifestyle blog led Harvest House to publish her book: Live, Save, Spend, Repeat: The Life You Want with the Money You Have. She thrives at breaking down complex steps and helping bloggers focus, plan and understand in her weekly podcast Just Keep Blogging. Kim's a Carolina girl, married to a Maker with a spunky 6-year-old boy and adorable identical twin 2-year-old girls. 

Janel is a successful entrepreneur and food blogger, with a reach of over 4 million a month, who motivates people to get in their kitchen making and baking at home, sharing meals with family and friends, and connecting over the table. She’s also worked with hundreds of brands, mostly national food brands, product companies, start-ups, and restaurants, developing recipes and content to feature their products. Her work has generated her clients’ hundreds of thousands of product views, page views, revenue, and visibility.

JoAnn is the founder of NoGuiltMom.com where she helps moms feel less guilty about all things parenting. After spending time in both the television industry and as a 5th grade teacher, she now uses her skills from both worlds to help women feel good about themselves and keep their cool while parenting. She's also the creator of Outfit Mastery - the course that proves "it's not you, it's always the clothes." She lives in Chandler, AZ with her husband and two kids.

Brian knows that the path to profitable purpose starts with people. He's here to help you clarify your message, develop your product, and increase your sales. He is the founder of Amplify Courses and author of the forthcoming book, Start with Your People. You can learn more about Brian at briandixon.com

Niki is a wild word wrangler, urban explorer, and overall nerd living and working in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has written and edited thousands of blog posts, articles, whitepapers, eBooks (and more) on a wide variety of topics, published all over the web and in print. As President of the growing team of talented content creators at Posts By Ghost, her passions have shifted toward content strategy, SEO/data analysis, and practical applications for artificial intelligence. 

Rosemarie is a formerly stressed, overworked and exhausted mom who loves blogging almost as much as she loves brownies. She writes at The Busy Budgeter about how she used the free 90 Day Budget Boot Camp to reduce their spending enough to be able to quit her job, stay home with her kids and then grew a new blog into a full time income within 10 months. She's been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and Business Insider. 

Abby is a professional speaker, published author, and former teacher who now helps bloggers hone their public speaking skills. She believes everyone has a story to tell, and she aims to help bloggers craft theirs in such a way they authentically connect with their audience. She has had the opportunity to share her story on Ellen, the Today Show, and as a contestant on The Biggest Loser. When she’s not traveling for a speaking event, feeding her fainting goats, or eating Mexican food with her husband.

Amanda is owner of The Ad Strategist and the creator of The StrADedy System. Entrepreneur Magazine calls her a “Facebook advertising genius” due to her unique mix of creativity and her vast analytical experience—from analyzing hundreds of millions of client ad impressions. A fiery personality, Bond mixes education and entertainment in a straight shooting way to show people the right way to do Facebook advertising. She's the official Facebook advertising news correspondent for Social Media Examiner and a HubSpot Academy instructor.

This is a question that comes up a lot, but part of being in business is learning to live with the feeling of uncertainty. Everyone of our ACTIVATE attendees, whether they were established bloggers or just getting started, were able to take away from the conference a personalized action plan that they could begin applying to their blogs immediately. 

All that to say, no matter where you are at in your blog or your business right now, ACTIVATE will be a game-changer . 

If your blog is still an idea in your head, ACTIVATE will help you gain clarity and insight, get you motivated and excited, and give you a working plan to finally get started. If you’ve been blogging for a while but struggling to gain momentum, ACTIVATE will show you exactly where you are getting stuck and exactly what you need to do next to get un-stuck. If you are already killing it with your blog, ACTIVATE will show you new possibilities you’ve probably never even considered before, and help catapult you to a whole new level of success. 

No matter where you are at right now, whether you have a blog or online business, or are just thinking about starting one, you will leave ACTIVATE completely fired up, excited about the future, and with a plan in hand for how to make it happen. If you didn’t feel ready before you experience ACTIVATE, you will feel more than ready by the time you are done. 

Our Pre-Conference Workshop took a deep dive into the biggest secrets of transforming your blog into a thriving, profitable and sustainable business. If you feel like you understand the basics of blogging and are now ready to focus on monetization in BIG way, this workshop is right for you.

There is nothing worse than attending a conference--whether live or virtually--and feeling like you haven’t actually gathered any practical takeaways that you can apply to your blog and business right away. Either the material covered was so basic you didn’t learn anything, or you left with so many different ideas that you felt paralyzed with what to do first. 

At ACTIVATE, we were determined not to let that happen. The entire event is designed to be cohesive, practical, and—most importantly—actionable from start to finish. And every single session included at least one “ring the bell” takeaway, where you say “THAT was worth watching.” Our goal was not to give you MORE information, but to give you the RIGHT information. No fluff, no filler, just the golden nuggets you need to know to create massive success for your blog or online business. 

We took all the concepts we teach at Elite Blog Academy a step deeper, so that you can have more clarity in your blogging journey, and a clear plan for moving forward. You’ll not only understand what you need to do, but also what you need to STOP doing so that every action you take is purposeful and worthwhile. Best of all, your action plan will be recorded in your very own downloadable ACTIVATE Workbook. Every single session will help you work your way through the workbook and show you how to apply what you are learning on stage to your own blogging business. 

If you’d like to see the entire schedule for the main event, as well as who presented each session, you can check out our conference agenda HERE. 

Following your purchase you will be emailed your video access information including your username and password. Emails will come directly from Ruth Soukup. Please check your spam and promotions folders. If you don’t see it, or there is a problem with your order, please feel free to reach out to us at support@ruthsoukup.com. 

No. ACTIVATE is open to all bloggers, authors, and online business owners (or those who aspire to be), regardless of whether you are currently an active EBA student. If you are currently waiting to enroll in Elite Blog Academy, this is an amazing opportunity to get a jump start.

Unfortunately, we don’t currently have plans to hold ACTIVATE in 2019. Stay tuned for other live events in the future. 

All sales of the ACTIVATE conference videos are final.