10: How to Earn $3000 a Month Blogging in Your Spare Time, with Robert Farrington

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Robert Farrington is more successful than 99% of all bloggers on the planet. He routinely earns between $3000 and $5000 a month from his blogs. And the kicker? Yeah, he still has a full-time job completely unrelated to this amazing side hustle! His sites: TheCollegeInvestor.com KidsAintCheap.com EntrepreneurshipLife.com MyMultipleIncomes.com (inactive) BeatThe9to5.com. He shares his tips for blogging success as well has his plan to leave the corporate world behind in the next two years. Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on iTunes! Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on Stitcher! In this episode, you'll learn: Why other bloggers in your niche are NOT your competition. Why content-rich sites like blogs will outlast and out-earn thin niche sites. The smart strategy that got his content tweeted out by the Shark Tank hosts The importance of building a real brand around your blog. The unique monetization strategy that blows Adsense out of the water. One savvy way to identify sites that might be for sale. The important action most bloggers overlook. Mentioned during the interview: Derek Halpern - "Newsjacking" or "drafting" SmartPassiveIncome | NicheSiteDuel 2.0 Spencer Haws - NichePursuits.com Help a Reporter (HARO) Yakezie Financial Bloggers Conference What do you think? Is blogging a good side hustle? Hey just a quick favor to ask -- if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to drop in a quick review in iTunes. It's a huge help, thank you so much! Transcript Download the transcript here.

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0:00.0	This is The Side Hustle Show with Nick Loper, episode 10, double digits baby.
0:04.3	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn
0:10.5	their side hustle dreams into reality.
0:13.4	Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living,
0:15.8	but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:18.4	And now your host, Nick Loper Loper to have made it to episode 10. It's been a ton of fun so far and hopefully you're
0:36.4	enjoying it as much as I am. So how's it going? Good? Great. Well even if it's not so good,
0:41.7	your day is about to get a whole lot better once my guest, Robert Farrington drops some blogging knowledge bombs in your earbuds.
0:49.0	Now, Robert is an amazing side hustler, still working full time, but pulling in three to five thousand
0:54.7	a month from a small portfolio of different blogs he runs in his spare time
0:58.7	nights and weekends. It's an amazing story. So the flagship site is the college investor.
1:04.0	So you can go check that out.
1:05.0	But you can also find Robert at kids a cheap.com,
1:09.0	Entrepreneurship life.com, my multiple incomes.com, which I love, and beat the 9 to 5.com, which is also awesome.
1:18.3	So, excuse me, in this episode he shares some really great advice for starting and growing and
1:24.9	managing and monetizing your blog and in addition to those if you stick around to the
1:29.6	end of the episode I'll share my top five tips for new bloggers and with that we'll get right into it and here's
1:35.7	Robert.
1:36.7	All right Robert welcome to the Side Hustle show.
1:40.5	Hey thanks for having me Nick I really appreciate it. So take me back to you got this portfolio of sites now, but take me back to the beginning with the college investor. Is that the kind of your flagship site?
1:53.8	Yeah you know that's that's my main site that's the site I started
1:57.3	like really blogging with I didn't even really know what blogging was but
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