163: How to Build a 6-Figure Blog in Less Than a Year, with Jon Dykstra

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Do you know Jon Dykstra from FatStacksBlog.com? I've been following his work since last summer and have been really impressed.

Jon is a former attorney turned full-time entrepreneur, and he’s the master of building high quality niche blogs and monetizing them to $10k-20k per month in record time.

(Sixty days to $10k in one case.)

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Build a 6-Figure Blog Fast

On the call, we use the example of a snow sports site, which in years past may have been considered too broad. Niche down to something like “powder ski reviews,” experts might have said.

Jon takes the opposite approach: broader appeal means more visitors and more ad revenue.

Inspired to start a blog of your own? My free video course will show you how.

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0:00.0	Side Also show 163 how to build a six-figure blog in under a year.
0:04.5	If you want to start a blog of your own, check out my free video series at blogstartercourse.com.
0:08.9	I'll show you step by step how blogs make money and how to get your site online for less than you might think.
0:14.3	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their
0:19.8	side hustle dreams into reality. Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living but your 5 to 9 makes you alive and now your host Nick Loper
0:37.6	What's up? What's up? What's up? Miss Loper here. Welcome to the Sign Hustle show. We're about I need and action and results in building job-free income streams. Today I want to play some
0:42.3	ideas in your head about just
0:44.0	what's possible with an ad monetized blog site. Now conventional wisdom
0:49.2	says these types of niche sites may take months or years to build and worry about Google rankings
0:54.3	and all this stuff, but my guest has managed to fast track that growth curve with some pretty
0:59.7	unique strategies. So I'm excited to introduce John Dykstra who writes the excellent marketing blog,
1:05.5	Fat Stax blog, one of my go-to sites for learning about the stuff and he's actually earning
1:12.0	tens of thousands of dollars each month from his niche sites, which, as we'll get into on the call, are really more of kind of branded authority lifestyle blogs around broad verticals.
1:24.8	Pretty different from the traditional niche site model we've covered in the past.
1:28.4	Now we're about to dive into his niche selection rules, his content strategies, his monetization methods, and his the free PDF highlight reel with all of John's top tips from this call at
1:43.7	side hustle nation dot com slash fat stacks or through the link in the episode
1:48.8	description of your podcast player app but without further ado
1:52.0	let's just time right to do.
1:54.0	Hey, John, welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
1:56.0	Hey, Nick, thanks for having me.
1:58.0	All right, everybody, John is a former attorney-turned-full-time entrepreneur.
2:02.0	He runs the excellent site Fat Stacks blog.com.
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