232: Going Big on Medium: How a New Blogger Got His First 6000 Email Subscribers (and Made $10k) in 6 Months

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, Business, How To, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ben Foley started writing about how to use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety at FullyRichLife.com a little over 6 months ago.

Since then, his little side project has generated over 6000 email subscribers and $10,000 in revenue.

His secret sauce?

Tapping into the big audience of readers on Medium.com.

Having overcome stress and anxiety issues himself, he knew this was a niche he could enter and help others. And, with a different approach to using mindfulness in the modern world to help reduce stress working for him, he knew he had a unique angle to blog about.

Before starting his site in December last year Ben had never even written a blog post. However, after finding a passion for writing and encouraged by positive feedback, he “tripled down” on content and started getting huge exposure almost right away -- something new sites often struggle with.

Tune in to hear how you can use Medium to growth hack your new or existing site, and how Ben is turning those readers into subscribers and revenue.

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0:00.0	Side House will show 232, going big on medium.
0:03.0	How a new blogger got his first 6,000 email subscribers
0:06.0	and made $10,000 in six months.
0:08.0	If you want to start a blog of your own,
0:10.0	check out my free video series at blog starter course
0:12.8	dot com. I'll show you step by step how blogs make money
0:15.2	and how to get your site online for less than you might think.
0:20.0	What's up, what's up, Nick?
0:21.2	Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle show because you're worth more than what it says on your paycheck.
0:25.7	I'm working on the lemon ginger tea today trying to get my voice back, but the show must go on.
0:30.9	Today's episode is about how you can accelerate your audience growth
0:34.6	and your influence online with the help of a platform called medium.com.
0:38.8	It's an online magazine of sorts
0:40.9	that seems to focus on thoughtful writing and attracts an educated and
0:44.9	affluent readership of 60 million people per month.
0:48.3	Now because of that, it's a natural place for both new and veteran bloggers and online business builders to reach a wider
0:54.1	audience. Now you might have heard a medium before or even published posts there and
0:57.9	not see much in the way of results and I'm with you. I've published half a posts the her in for the first five months of 2017 I just checked my analytics
1:06.4	I've seen a grand total of 33 visitors and two email sign-ups from medium but like other platform, there's a specific strategy involved
1:14.4	that I was completely missing the boat on. So here to school me on how to
1:18.2	really make Medium work for you is Ben Foley from fully rich life.com. He's taken his brand new site to over 6,000 email
1:26.1	subscribers and $10,000 in revenue in the last six months, largely thanks to
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