The Side Hustle Show: The Blogging Mixtape

May 14 2020 20 ep. 39 mins 315
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A binge-worthy series of episodes all about blogging pulled from the main Side Hustle Show archives, featuring some of the most successful bloggers in the business. Stay tuned to learn how to create content that readers and search engines love, how to grow your traffic, audience, and email list, and ultimately how these successful bloggers make money.

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19: Profitable Affiliate Marketing, Even in an Insanely Competitive Niche

May 14 2020 43 mins  
Just because a niche is insanely competitive, it doesn’t mean you can’t start an affiliate site and claim a slice of the revenue. At least, that’s what Sa El of SimplyInsurance.com has done, and the way he lays out how he’s done it will pique the interest of affiliate marketers out there. Sa was a door-to-door insurance salesman in Atlanta. He wanted to get into the online

18: The Raw Truth About Blogging - How a "Dog Mom" Built her Online Business on the Side

Jan 05 2020 36 mins  
Kimberly Gauthier has been running KeepTheTailWagging.com since 2011, but things really started to take off when she niched down her focus to raw feeding for dogs. Raw feeding is basically the paleo diet for dogs -- attempting to mimic their ancestral diet. Her blog had than 2 million page views last year -- almost entirely from organic search in Google, and she’s monetized the t

17: YouTube for Bloggers: How One Mom Turned Her “Accidental” YouTube Channel into A Full-Time Income

Jun 05 2019 59 mins  
Meredith Marsh is a “total introvert with over 3 million views on YouTube.” When Meredith started VidProMom.com she didn’t set out to be a “YouTuber”. She started a blog and YouTube channel because she wanted to help families better capture those classic, picture-perfect family moments. What she discovered was “a pretty big gap in the whole video creation side of things

16: The $5k a Month Part-Time Girl Scout Blog

Oct 24 2018 39 mins  
Jodi Carlson has been running her blog LeaderConnectingLeaders.com part-time since 2014 and has slowly built it up to $5-6k a month in revenue. The earnings come from a combination of mostly digital product sales, as well as advertising, and affiliate relationships. Click here to download Jodi’s top tips for growing a blog and creating digital products from this episode. The surp

15: Blogging for Multiple Income Streams – How a Part-Time Blog Became a Diverse Revenue Engine

Oct 24 2018 36 mins  
“I feel like this is the most important project I’ve ever worked on,” Mike said about his blog YoungArchitect.com. Mike Riscica runs a blog, podcast, and has built a thriving community for young professionals in the architecture field. The idea for the blog came from a pain point in Mike’s life, and for many others – passing the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). A

14: How to Build a $60k a Year Part-Time Blog

Oct 24 2018 45 mins  
FoodTruckEmpire.com generates $60k a year on the side from Brett Lindenberg's marketing consulting job. Why'd he start a blog about the food truck industry? “I started the blog at a time in my life when I was looking at just a whole bunch of different business ideas,” Brett said. Originally, Brett wanted to start his own food truck. While researching how to start a food truck b

13: SEO for Bloggers: The Simple Way to Get More Free Traffic From Google

Oct 24 2018 50 mins  
“Go big or go home, that’s kinda my whole philosophy with SEO,” Matt said. And his results speak for themselves. Note: Click here to download Matt’s top SEO tips for writing and ranking epic content from this episode. It’s been more than 200 episodes since we last heard from Matt Giovanisci. Back then, Matt was explaining how he was growing his authority site SwimUniversi

12: Blogging ROI: From $18 to $100k a Month in 2.5 Years

Oct 24 2018 52 mins  
Could a part-time blog really bring in that kind of cash? Rosemarie swears she only works 20 hours a week! Yes, The Busy Budgeter is back for her 3rd round on The Side Hustle Show, and it's a good one. If you missed the first two: In episode 142, Rosemarie Groner's blog was about a year old and earning $5k a month. She shared a step-by-step system for generating massive traffic fr

11: The Most Common Website Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

Oct 24 2018 47 mins  
Is your website guilty of these common sins? How secure is your site, really? WordPress is like the new toy you unwrap on Christmas morning -- you know it's going to be awesome, but there's some assembly required. To break down some of the most common website mistakes, I invited my friend Anthony Tran on the show. Anthony runs MarketingAccessPass.com, a web design and development a

10: Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People's Products

Oct 24 2018 38 mins  
You might know Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from her super-popular blog MakingSenseofCents.com where she gets hundreds of thousands of readers and makes 6-figures a month. Around $50k of that monthly revenue (or more) comes from affiliate marketing. Note: Click here to download Michelle’s top tips for maximizing affiliate revenue from this episode. Michelle’s online journey start