Within 15 days, you are taught all the building blocks of creating a money making blog. From “What is a blog?”, to “How to attract traffic?” and “How to make money blogging?” The information is focused and simplified, and chopped up into 15 swallowable pieces. The question remains: Is it enough? Will this very condensed information be all you need to have a successful blog?

The Trouble with Mindsets

Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been nagging all my freelance friends to get a blog, or an online presence, at the very least. With some of them, I’ve even sat to help set up a blog. Some of you contact me via email and ask for advise. One thing is certain, in all these cases: I could set up their blog for them, do all the technical gritty work (not even if they payed me ), but I can’t explain mindset from one day to the next.

Let me clear that up. I could explain the mindsets needed for business, for online business, for blogging, for writing, for creating content, for the social marketing involved… All this needs to be explained and can be explained quite simply, in about 5 minutes a day of Simpleology Blogging. But in order for you to really soak in the mindsets, and naturally act upon them (or not- you may decide you don’t agree), you must experience them.

In the defense of the Simpleology courses, they thrive on repetition. You complete the course and do it again. Instead of a 15-day experience, you get a 30-day experience. Possibly enough time to get a blog up and running and even follow the suggestions, the Simpleology Blogging course makes. Even in that 30-day period, however, I doubt you’ll have enough time to really let the mindsets sink in.

The Problem with Concision

I thought Simpleology 101 was genius. Not only the content, but the method and the love-match between them. I think in the case of Simpleology Blogging, Joyner mismatched or at least miss-timed. Blogging is a very varied and very specific subject. You can strip it of complication and give the kind of check-list style course, as Joyner did, but you’ll only be getting part of the information, you really need.

Simpleology 101 was a time-management life-hack that could be applied to almost any aspect of your life (maybe all, I’ve yet to check ). Blogging just can’t be reapplied. I know this, because every time I try to talk about it, with someone who doesn’t do it, the glazed look on their face tells me so.

My dad is an Anesthesiologist. If he started talking in medical tongues, I’d probably not comprehend any of it. When daddy dearest does speak with me about he’s work, he uses layman’s terms. Sure I understand the situation, but I hardly think that qualifies me to put people to sleep.

Point is this: You can’t talk about blogging without getting into the nitty-gritty buzz words professional terminology, such as content, authority, Adsense, social marketing, Digg… And all the rest.


Simpleology Blogging is not enough for a beginner, but may be enough to get you started on your right path. It’s a great product, but if you want something to cover all the angles, for your money’s worth, I’d wait out for something else. If Joyner's free offer still stands, I highly recommend it.

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