About Us
We launched our business in 2015 and haven’t looked back. We started our first blog in the health and wellness space. Later, we launched Create and Go after people kept asking us how we became such successful bloggers. Since then, more than 10,000 students have gone through our courses.
Our Official Titles
Alex Nerney
Professional blogger and co-founder of Create and Go
Lauren McManus
Professional blogger and co-founder of Create and Go
Milestones
- More than 10,000 students have gone through our course
- Our monthly average income reached 100k.
- Our audience is primarily women and men looking to start their own blogs and earn a recurring income.
Featured Articles
Create and Go has been featured on numerous podcasts and websites, and Lauren and Alex have been highlighted in various media outlets for their blogging expertise. Below are a few places they’ve been featured online.
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Podcasts
Products
5-Day Blogging Bootcamp for Beginners
Our free 5-day Challenge is a great way to get your feet wet in the wild world of blogging. You can sign up for it for free here.
Six-Figure Blog Builder
This is a comprehensive course that contains all of the strategies that we used to start our first successful blog, get hundreds of thousands of views with Pinterest, get tens of thousands of email subscribers, and sell affiliate products and our own to make six figures and beyond. You can check out the course here.
Our number one goal with every course we sell is to break things down into actionable tasks regardless of what level a blogger is currently at so that they can achieve the same success we have in the right way. We’ve made all the mistakes, and we want to ensure that our students don’t have to do the same. We even use our own advice from our courses when we need to get back to basics and uplevel our own blogging game.
Posts
How to Start a Blog in 2024 + 6 Ways to Start Earning Money - Facebook Pinterest Twitter LinkedIn Are you interested in learning how to start a blog? Blogging is an incredible way to build a creative space of your own that can also have a big payoff. Starting a blog was the best decision we ever made. It launched us into a new life full of freedom and adventure […]- 9 Amazing Blog Topics and Ideas to Be Successful in 2024 - It used to be that you could just vomit out your thoughts to paper (or keyboard) and people cared about you (or your thoughts) enough to read it. Those were blogging pioneers and those days are over… Social media and the mass consumption of information online in our society today has changed everything. It’s probably […]
- How to Make Money Blogging in 2024: From $0 to $100K - Despite the fact that there are so many ways to make money blogging and so many people doing it, it can be a lot harder than it looks. It takes most people months (at the very least) of trial and error to start figuring it out. Some bloggers never make more than a few hundred […]
- 11 Best Blogging Platforms to Make Money (Free and Paid Sites) - Some blogging sites may feel better on your wallet, but many aren’t ideal if you plan to monetize your website. The best blogging platforms to make money are going to differ greatly from the free options. When you’re just starting a blog, it’s very easy to get overwhelmed by the options that you have to […]
- How to Get More Traffic to Your Blog in 7 Steps - Most articles on how to get more traffic to your blog are about shortcuts and short-term strategies. We’re going to tell you some of our best strategies that will get you sustainable, long-term results. We have now started two successful blogs in two different niches that we drive traffic to using Pinterest, Google, YouTube, and Facebook. […]
- 17 Best Blogging Tips to Grow and Scale Your Blog in 2024 - If you’re looking for a cutesy article that’s going to give you a high-level and vague overview of some blogging tips for beginners, this isn’t it. This is going to be a deep dive that both beginners and blogging pros can gain some massive insights from. Growing and monetizing can be… But the thing is… […]
Interview Resources
Professional Blogger Lauren McManus is available for interviews and quotes regarding blog monetization, driving website traffic with Pinterest, running a business online, and various other topics related to blogging. She is also actively pursuing guest post opportunities. You can reach her at laurenmac@createandgo.com should you like to interview her, ask for a quote, or offer her a guest post opportunity for your website.
- About Create and Go.
- Alex Nerney and Lauren McManus are professional bloggers that launched their company from nothing. They now earn more than six figures per month with their websites combined.
- Their first blog that they took to six figures was in the health and wellness space.
- In a time where people are starting to doubt the age of the influencer, Alex and Lauren built their websites up without a million Facebook likes, hardly any Instagram followers, and virtually no presence on Twitter.
Sample Questions & Topic Suggestions
Alex Nerney: Cold brew fueled, Texas native
What did you do before you became a professional blogger?
Before launching our first health and wellness blog, I was a personal trainer trading time for money. I worked incredibly hard, getting up at 4:30 a.m. and servicing my clients all day. I barely had a social life and felt poor in my job because I had no health insurance, my vacations were unpaid, and even though I was working as hard as I was, I had nothing to show for it. I knew this way of life was not sustainable, and certainly wouldn’t allow for a comfortable living that would yield a decent retirement.
It was my passion for health and wellness that lead to my first attempt at blogging. I launched a website in that space but unfortunately made so many mistakes with it that it failed miserably. My worst mistake with the website was focusing on my desire for internet riches and fame rather than what my ideal readers actually wanted.
Other than blogging, what do you do for fun?
I’m an avid adventure traveler. I also love sports, travel videography, and entrepreneurship. I also still have a passion for fitness. You can read more about me, and other projects I’m working on here.
How did you and Lauren become business partners?
You can read more about this here, but the simple answer is we met through a dating app, and while our romantic relationship didn’t work out, we created an amazing business together and maintain a fantastic business relationship.
Lauren McManus: Digital nomad, world traveler, Harry Potter nerd
What did you do before you became a professional blogger?
Before teaming up with Alex to launch our health and wellness blog and eventually Create and Go, I was working more than 80 hours a week as an accountant. I had an MBA in accounting and had just gotten my CPA license when I threw caution to the wind and quit my job, sold my belongings and moved in with Alex and his parents to go full time with this blogging thing. I knew I would have my degree and license as a backup plan if it didn’t work out, but it was still scary jumping in with both feet for something I wasn’t 100% sure of.
Thankfully, in our first year as full-time bloggers, we managed to figure out how to actually monetize and earn a decent income of more than $100,000. I’ve honestly never looked back. These days I’m so grateful I took the leap because what I do for a living certainly beats a soul-sucking day job.
Other than blogging, what do you do for fun?
Right now I’m traveling the world with a group called the WiFi Tribe. I’ve been to more than two dozen countries, and have no current plans to call it quits. WiFi Tribe has been fabulous for nurturing my love of travel while also keeping me grounded and focused on my full-time job as a blogger.
Within our group, we travel the world together while working remotely. About every month or so we go to a different country, and when we’re not working we explore the country we’re in. We work hard, but we play hard too! You can see more of my travels on my Instagram.
Create and Go FAQs
How much does Create and Go earn?
Create and Go earns an average of $100,000 per month between its websites, course and book sales, and other projects.
What exactly is Create and Go?
Create and Go is the go-to place for bloggers that want to learn how to launch a money-making blog the right way.
What is the mission of Create and Go?
Our mission is to help 10,000 people to make a part-time or full-time income with a blogging business of their own so that they can live a more full and happy life.
Can people still make money blogging? Isn’t blogging dying?
We get this question a lot, and the answer is yes, people can still make tons of money. No, blogging is not dead. Far from it. While the platform of blogging is evolving, it’s still a viable business model. The trick is to make sure you launch the right way, and that you keep up with the demands of your ideal visitors.
What is your favorite thing about blogging?
The time and financial freedom it affords us, and the potential freedom for anyone who wants to launch a blog. Blogging is by far the best thing we’ve ever done, and we can’t imagine not being professional bloggers at this point. That’s why we’re so passionate about sharing what we’ve learned with the people who want to learn how to become pro bloggers themselves.
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