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Black Friday Deals for Bloggers to Achieve Your Biz Goals for 2023

The best Black Friday Deals for Bloggers 2022 so you can start and grow your blog business for 2023. More blogging tips and tricks for new and veteran bloggers here.

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Do you dream of your blog paying for a nice trip to the beach? or contributing to your retirement fund so you can get a beach house? or being able to work from anywhere, anytime?

That’s my dream for my blog business, what’s yours?

I only like to promote blogging products I’ve used and found value in myself. I know how overwhelming blogging can be and growing it into a sustainable business that doesn’t require 60 hour workweeks is a challenge.

But I want to help you succeed at both doing something you love for less hours than a corporate job. It’s my mission and journey too. So I wanted to cut down on the noise and overwhelm and give you the very best blogging courses, planners and tools you need to grow a successful blog business in 2023.

Here’s who made the short list:

Best blog and business planners

1. Free Blog Planner

Free is good but my free blog planner is pretty comprehensive for a freebie, especially for new bloggers. It’s a google drive planner (make a copy before you save it) so you can use it in Google, import it into excel or download to print a copy for yourself.

2. Full Focus Planner

If you prefer a printed planner and focused on growing your blog business, I highly recommend the Full Focus Planner. It helps you:

  • break down your goals,
  • develop 4 daily routines (they call them “rituals”) to automate tasks and have your best workday
  • map out your ideal week
  • review and plan out your week both personally and professionally (the “weekly preview” pages are gold to me and my favorite review and reflection process in any planner)
  • keep up with your tasks so nothing falls through the cracks
  • stay focused on achieving your goals

Read my Full Focus Planner Review here.

If the Full Focus Planner doesn’t work for you, check out my other Black Friday Deals on Planners, you’re sure to find something you love at a great deal!

Best Blogging Courses

3. Becoming Boss Mastermind Black Friday Deal

If you’re really serious about growing your blog business in the next year and need to overcome mindset issues with a supportive community, I recommend the Becoming Boss Mastermind. I was in the free Facebook group, then the monthly membership since October and just upgraded to the year long membership because Faith is running a fantastic Black Friday deal.

Mindset and business coach Faith Mariah gives no nonsense, down to earth advice. I’ve followed lots of different blogging experts in the past and I’ve developed a lot of “i can’t do this” issues when I can’t stick with things to completion or don’t get the same results while I watch others succeed.

I am realizing a lot of it is my own fault. I carry a lot of emotional baggage.

So what I can say is different about Faith’s Mastermind is that she deals with how to overcome those negative thoughts and feelings so I can get out of my own way and make money doing something I love and can truly make a difference in people’s lives.

Her coaching calls and videos have helped me both personally and professionally. My youngest son and I were listening to her and it helped him reframe some of his negative thoughts about himself too. I told my oldest son about her perspective on goals and what drives us to succeed and it was a light bulb moment for both of us.

I will warn you that she uses profanity sometimes, so if that’s a deal breaker for you, then she won’t be the right life coach for you. For me, in this season of my life, she’s been the right coach for me.

The Becoming Boss Mastermind will help you:

  • create and nail down a 90 day plan and learn how to commit to it!!!! (the committing to it part is the game changer for me)
  • learn and implement a self-coaching framework (this has been the game changer for me!)
  • get live group coaching to address your concerns, questions, bounce ideas off of
  • deep dive into weekly retreat and coaching topics
  • be encouraged by their supportive community of bosses, weekly co working sessions
  • challenge yourself

Here’s the Black Friday deal for Becoming Boss Mastermind:

  • Big Dream Incubator – 2 week mindset experience starting Dec 1 (a $297 value)
  • Bonus Notion templates for Genius Ideas and Self Coaching
  • 6 month payment plan on the Vault Membership (1 year)
  • Exclusive mug
  • a year of business coaching in the mastermind – weekly coaching on zoom, weekly facebook live Q&A, weekly co working
  • the replay vault with all previous coaching calls and guest workshops
  • exclusive community challenges
  • monthly critique zoom call
  • 100% money back guarantee within first 2 weeks of joining

Expires around 11/30/22 (there’s a countdown timer on the sales page to tell you exactly when it ends).

Join me in there and let’s achieve our biz goals together! Faith really does provide a ton of value for the price.

If you can’t do the year on the payment plan, I do still recommend the monthly membership (3 month commitment)!

Best Email Service Providers

I’ve used both Convertkit and Mailerlite over the past few years. They are both great tools for starting and growing your email subscriber list. I’ve signed up for a free trial of Convertkit so I can see if I want to take advantage of the Black Friday sale at least for part of my email list. And so I can do a detailed comparison again of CK vs. Mailerlite (subscribe to my blogging tips and tricks newsletter if you want to see the results)

4. Convertkit Black Friday Sale

Convertkit is having a Black Friday Sale for their creator plan, get it for $100 off a full year ($199 instead of $299). The Creator plan gives you up to 1,000 subscribers so it’s great for people just starting out their list. Black Friday is the best time to try Convertkit. It’s pricier than Mailerlite, but every Black Friday I contemplate switching back.

I am going to move part of my list to Convertkit so I can compare how deliverability, open and click rates compare in real time with Mailerlite. My goal for emailing my subscribers is to make the process more frictionless and effortless. I love connecting with my readers through eamil.

Ideally, I want to have forms and landing pages that integrate well with my blog theme, be able to draft weekly campaigns from my phone, attach pdfs to emails so I don’t have to worry about the extra step of hosting them somewhere else and improve open and click rates.

5. Mailerlite Black Friday Sale

Mailerlite does have a black friday sale going on for their Classic users (like me) but it’s not public so I can’t say anything about it. They do have a new platform which seems to make it more competitive with Convertkit in terms of features. I have used Mailerlite since 2018 without any problems. It can do much of what you can do with Convertkit for a smaller price tag (their Growing Business plan is for up to 1,000 subscribers and is $108/year).

The only problems I have with Mailerlite is I can’t attach pdfs directly to emails (so you have to host the pdf somewhere else that you can link to) and the opt in forms don’t have much design capability but they do convert really well so maybe simple is better. Its been working well for me so I do still recommend it.

Online Shops

6. Shopify Black Friday Deal

I was excited to find that Shopify currently has a 3 month trial for $1/month! I’ve been trying to grow my Etsy shop and I was hoping that Etsy search would help me find more customers. However, my Etsy stats show that I am driving 80% of the traffic to my shop and their fees keep increasing. So it’s not going as well as I hoped.

I am going to give Shopify a try and see how it goes. If you want to see how it goes with ease of setup, pros and cons, be sure to subscribe to my blogging tips and tricks newsletter and i’ll be sure to share!

Best Hosting

7. New Blog Hosting Black Friday Deal

I have been with New Blog Hosting since Black Friday of 2015 and have nothing but love for this small business host. I have both my domain and hosting with them and love the personalized customer service. I feel like they have become my trusted advisors for everything tech related for my blog. They respond to my tickets within minutes usually and I deal directly with the owners. They give me solid advice whether it’s a hosting issue or not and if it’s not their job, they point me in the right direction to get answers. In these past 7 years, I have maybe had my blog go down once or twice and they’ve resolved it quickly.

New Blog Hosting is having a 50% off sale of their yearly plans using the code HOLIDAY2022. I have the premium plan and have been super happy with it since the upgrade since I know my plugins are being managed and they don’t cause conflict with one another. They even helped me with what plugins are necessary. Anyway I can’t say enough good things about David and Michael and New Blog Hosting.

Best Themes

8. Restored 316 Black Friday Deal

I have had Restored 316 WordPress themes since Black Friday 2019. Their designs are so classic and elegant with subtle hints of color. Their themes are customizable but give you a beautiful premade template to start with. The designs are easy to customize to make it unique for your needs. I had the Captivating on Genesis theme and then changed to Willow on Kadence, which is what you currently see.

They also have Canva graphic templates, business organization products, email marketing courses and Kadence funnel builder pages — I’m getting one of these I think!

For Restored 316‘s Black Friday deal, they have 25% off:

  • WordPress themes
  • Graphic templates
  • Business Anchor printable planner
  • Kadence Block collections
  • Funnel Bundles

Sale ends Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:59pm CST.

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