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The Blogger Genius Podcast

The Blogger Genius Podcast

By: Jillian Leslie | MiloTree.com
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 I'm Jillian Leslie, host of Blogger Genius and founder of MiloTree (https://milotree.com/) —the simple, all-in-one platform that helps bloggers and creators SELL digital products, GROW their email lists, and BUILD their social media followings. I'm also an online business strategist and Stanford MBA. 🚀 Start for FREE: Sell a digital product, offer a freebie or lead magnet, and grow your social media followers today—FREE! No credit card required. 👉 Sign up here: https://milotree.com/join/free Each week on Blogger Genius, I interview successful bloggers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts to uncover what's working right now in the digital space—so you can monetize smarter, grow faster, and build a sustainable online business. 💡 If you're a blogger or online entrepreneur looking to turn your audience into income, this podcast is for you! I dive deep into real-world strategies, ask tough questions, and leave you with actionable takeaways in every episode. Let's grow your business together! Got questions or feedback? I'd love to hear from you—email me at jillian@milotree.com. 🎧 Listen now and start building your online business today!MiloTree 2025 Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales
Episodes
  • The 5 Digital Products Creators Will Use to Make $10K–$50K/Month in 2026

    The 5 Digital Products Creators Will Use to Make $10K–$50K/Month in 2026
    Jan 7 2026
    ✨Sell your first digital product free forever! Start here! Watch the episode on YouTube! If you're a creator, blogger, coach, or online entrepreneur, you've probably felt it already: AI has changed everything. The old playbook—creating an ebook, checklist, or guide filled with information—just isn't enough anymore. When someone can ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer in 30 seconds, why would they pay $27 for a static PDF? That's the uncomfortable truth most creators are avoiding. But here's the good news: this shift is actually opening the door to more income, not less. In my newest video, I break down the five products creators will rely on to make $10,000, $20,000, even $50,000 per month in 2026—and why these offers work because of AI, not in spite of it. Let's dig in. Show Notes: MiloTree Free Plan2026 Product Selector AI PromptGoldmine Product AI PromptJoin The Blogger Genius Newsletter Subscribe to the Blogger Genius Podcast: iTunesYouTubeSpotify The Big Shift: Information Is Free — You Are the Product AI can generate content. AI can summarize ideas. AI can outline frameworks. What AI can't do? Look at someone's specific situationGive personalized guidanceCreate accountabilityBuild communityDeliver transformation That's why the creators winning in 2026 aren't selling information. They're selling access, guidance, experience, and connection. And AI? It becomes your accelerator—helping you create faster while you deliver the value. The 5 Products Dominating Creator Income in 2026 1. One-on-One Coaching Coaching is the fastest path to cash for creators right now. Why? Because people don't want generic advice—they want someone to look at their situation and tell them exactly what to do. One productivity coach charging $300 per session and booking just 12 sessions a month is already making $3,600/month. No ads. No massive audience. Just expertise and trust. You don't need a complicated setup either: PaymentsA scheduling linkZoom That's it. 2. Live Workshops Workshops let you scale your time without losing the human element. One MiloTree customer ran a 90-minute live workshop for $97. 45 people showed up. That's $4,365 in under two hours. Same expertise as coaching—just delivered to more people at once. Plus, live workshops create urgency and energy that pre-recorded content never can. 3. Mini Courses with Live Q&A This is where things get really smart. Creators are taking workshops they already ran and turning them into: Short, focused mini coursesBroken into simple modulesPaired with weekly live Q&A calls One nutrition coach sold 38 copies at $147—over $5,500 from content she had already created. Evergreen content + live access = the best of both worlds. 4. Group Coaching Programs Group coaching hits the sweet spot between leverage and connection. Think: A defined outcomeA clear timeline (8–12 weeks)Weekly group callsA private community One business coach runs a 12-week program at $497 and enrolls 18 people at a time—nearly $9,000 per cohort, twice a year. Same expertise. Same calls. Way more impact. 5. Memberships (The Real Long-Term Play) If you want predictable, recurring revenue, memberships are where creators are building real wealth. One creator helping Etsy sellers launched a $67/month membership and grew it to 227 members—over $15,000/month recurring. Why memberships work so well: Community is the valueMembers support each otherYou're the guide, not the bottleneckIncome stacks month after month AI can give advice. It can't create belonging. Why MiloTree Is Built for This New Era Here's the part most creators don't realize: you don't need five different tools to sell these products. With MiloTree, you can sell: Coaching sessionsWorkshopsMini courses with live callsGroup programsMembershipsDigital downloads All in one place. No Kajabi. No Teachable. No ThriveCart. No bloated platforms that take hours (or weeks) to figure out. MiloTree handles: PaymentsDigital deliverySchedulingAI-generated sales pages And yes—you can start for free, no credit card required, to test which product your audience actually wants. Not Sure Which Product to Start With? I Made This for You To make this even easier, I created a free AI prompt called: The 2026 Product Selector AI Prompt You tell it: Your nicheYour expertiseYour audience sizeHow much time you have And it tells you: Which of the five products to launch firstWhy it fits your situationFive clear action steps to get moving immediately No overthinking. No endless planning. Just momentum. 👉 Grab the free prompt and sign up for your free MiloTree account. Final Takeaway Here's the truth creators need to hear: AI didn't kill creator businesses. It killed generic content. The creators thriving in 2026 are the ones who: Lean into their personalityShare their lived experienceGuide people through real transformation Use AI to build faster. Use MiloTree...
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    7 mins
  • How to Automate Your Digital Product Sales and Make Money While You Sleep

    How to Automate Your Digital Product Sales and Make Money While You Sleep
    Dec 23 2025
    Start selling digital products and services with MiloTree for FREE! If you're an online coach, course creator, or digital product seller, you've probably experienced this: You're working 35-45 hours a week managing sales, manually sending products, and personally following up with every customer. You're making some money, but you're completely burnt out. Sound familiar? In my newest episode, I shared the exact automation strategy that helped our MiloTree customer Ava transform her business. She went from making $1,800 a month while working 45 hours a week to earning over $11,000 a month working just 9 hours a week. The secret? She automated three key parts of her sales process using MiloTree. And in this post, I'm going to show you exactly what she automated and how you can set up the same system to sell digital products on autopilot. Show Notes: MiloTree Free PlanMailerLite (recommended email service provider)Goldmine Product AI PromptJoin The Blogger Genius NewsletterBecome a Blogger Genius Facebook Group Subscribe to the Blogger Genius Podcast: iTunesYouTubeSpotify The Problem: Manual Sales Are Killing Your Business Growth Here's what's happening to most digital product creators. You've built amazing products—courses, coaching packages, memberships, digital downloads. You're getting some sales, but you're stuck in a manual sales cycle that looks like this: Someone downloads your freebie → You manually add them to your email list → You manually send follow-up emails → You manually process orders → You manually deliver products → Repeat. This manual process has three major problems: Time Drain: You're spending hours every week on tasks that could be automatedRevenue Cap: You can only make as much money as the hours you can physically workBurnout Risk: Eventually, managing everything manually becomes unsustainable The good news? You can automate your entire sales process so your business runs without you working harder—you just work smarter. The Solution: Three Types of Sales Automation That Actually Work There are three powerful ways to automate your digital product sales: tripwires, order bumps and upsells, and email sequences. Let me break down each one and show you exactly how they work together to create a sales system that runs on autopilot. 1. Tripwires: Turn Freebie Seekers Into Buyers Instantly A tripwire is a low-cost product (usually $7-$27) that you offer immediately after someone opts in to get your free lead magnet. Here's how it works: Someone sees your content on social media → They click to download your free cheat sheet → They enter their email on your opt-in page → They land on the thank you page → Right there, they see an offer for your complete toolkit for just $17 → They click, they buy → MiloTree delivers the product automatically. You do nothing. It all happens automatically. The beauty of tripwires is that they convert freebie seekers into paying customers right away. Once someone has bought from you once, they're 9 times more likely to buy from you again. 2. Order Bumps and Upsells: Increase Average Order Value Without More Traffic Here's where things get really powerful. Someone's already buying your $47 course. At checkout, you offer a $12 complimentary workbook with one simple checkbox. They tick the box—boom, they've added it to their order. After they complete the purchase, they land on your thank you page. Now you offer them your $97 "done-for-you" premium version. With another click, they've purchased that as well. You just turned a $47 sale into a $156 sale without getting a single additional customer. Order bumps and upsells can increase your revenue by 30-50% without any additional marketing. You're simply maximizing the value of customers you're already getting. 3. Email Sequences: Build Relationships and Sell While You Sleep This is the foundation that makes everything else work. An email sequence is a series of automated emails you set up once that go out to new subscribers automatically. One of our MiloTree customers, Amanda, set up her main email sequence six months ago. That one sequence generates over $1,500 a month for her business, and she hasn't touched those emails since she initially created them. Here's what a good email automation does: Builds Relationships: Your subscribers get to know, like, and trust you through consistent communicationDelivers Value: You're providing helpful content that solves their problemsSells Naturally: You're making offers that feel like helpful solutions, not pushy sales pitches Email is one of the best channels for sales. For every $1 you spend on email marketing, you typically make about $36 in return. That's a 3,600% ROI. Why You Can't Do Email Marketing Through Gmail (And What You Need Instead) Here's something crucial to understand: You cannot do email marketing through Gmail, Yahoo, or any regular email account. You need what's called an email service provider ...
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    8 mins
  • How to Double Your Revenue with Order Bumps and Upsells (Without Getting New Customers)

    How to Double Your Revenue with Order Bumps and Upsells (Without Getting New Customers)
    Dec 10 2025

    🚀 [MAKE MONEY ONLINE] 🚀 Sell digital products, grow your list, and boost your social media with ease—all for FREE! Start now! ➡️ https://milotree.com/

    Are you selling digital products but struggling to increase your revenue? You're not alone. Most online creators, coaches, and bloggers focus all their energy on finding new customers, but here's a secret: the real money is with the people who are already buying from you.

    What if I told you that one simple strategy could increase your monthly revenue by 30-50% without running a single new ad or creating more content? That's exactly what order bumps and upsells can do for your business.

    In this newest episode of The Blogger Genius Podcast, I'm breaking down the exact strategies that helped one of my customers, Karen, go from making $500 a month to $1,200 a month—without getting a single new customer. She simply added an order bump and an upsell to her existing sales funnel.

    In this post, I'll show you how to create a simple sales funnel that maximizes every sale, what order bumps and upsells are (and why they're not complicated), and how to set them up in under an hour using MiloTree.

    Show Notes:

    • Sign Up for MiloTree
    • Funnel Builder (AI Prompt)
    • Product Goldmine (AI Prompt)
    • 6 Purchasing Triggers Test
    • Join The Blogger Genius Newsletter
    • Become a Blogger Genius Facebook Group

    Subscribe to the Blogger Genius Podcast:

    • YouTube
    • Spotify
    • iTunes

    Your Next Steps:

    1. Download the AI Funnel Design Prompt and use ChatGPT to map out your funnel
    2. Sign up for MiloTree's Grow Plan to start building your foundation—no credit card required
    3. Create your order bump and upsell products using the strategies I've shared

    With MiloTree and ChatGPT, setting up a profitable sales funnel is easier than you ever imagined. Your future self (and your bank account) will thank you.

    Ready to multiply your revenue? Sign up for MiloTree and start creating your profitable funnel today.

    Other Related Blogger Genius Podcast Episodes You'll Enjoy:

    • The Product Goldmine AI Prompt: The Fastest Way to Find Profitable Digital Product Ideas (and Launch Them Tonight)
    • Why Your Email List Prints Money (And Exactly How to Build One Fast)
    • How to Build a Digital Product Ladder That Turns $7 Customers into $2,000 Customers (Complete AI System Revealed)
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    9 mins
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