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Side Hustle School

#2614 - “Balancing ads and membership models…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A caller with a wellness blog wants to get paid two ways: both from advertising AND a membership model. Can she do this without alienating her longtime followers?

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


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account exclude some accounts such as the HSPC Basic Bank account for mobile banking

0:28.0

app users only non-HSPC fees may apply. Thank you. Chris Gullibow, your host here. We recently had a question from a listener who had a blog or

0:45.5

website on sustainable living. They were trying to figure out how to introduce ads like

0:50.5

advertising, you know, to that blog. Today we've got a similar

0:53.7

question similar situation but this person has a membership model. Wait a second it's

0:58.9

the other way around the blog currently relies on ad revenue but she's contemplating introducing a

1:04.2

membership model for exclusive content. So this is Hannah from Missoula.

1:08.0

Hannah's concern is how do you do both or can you in fact do both like can you have ads and a paid subscription model without alienating the audience you know your audience is like hey I'm paying for this subscription why are their ads here

1:20.4

But as I'm going to explain, lots of businesses do this. Lots of content companies, very large

1:26.2

content companies that you probably have subscribed to, or at least you have consumed content from,

1:31.1

they do this. So you just have to think about what is the overall strategy.

1:34.5

You can in fact manage these dual revenue streams effectively. And of course, getting paid twice

1:39.0

is better than getting paid once, right? That's what I want to help you with this year, growing your business,

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