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

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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 business he discovered there wasn’t enough quality information online. So, he did what all good entrepreneurs do – capitalized on this gap in the market and started his own blog. Brett creates the bulk of his content interviewing food truck owners and influencers in the industry. He’s grown his blog to $60k a year in just 4 years through building an academy course, securing paid advertising, running AdSense, and selling ebooks. And spoiler alert: he never ended up starting that food truck! Tune in to hear Brett's content strategy, the different ways he monetizes his business, and how you can apply these methods to your own blog. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Build a $60k a Year Part-Time Blog

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0:00.0	Side Also Show 282, this is the $60,000 a year part-time blog.
0:05.0	If you want to start a blog of your own, check out my free video series at blog starter
0:09.8	course.
0:11.0	I'll show you step by step how blogs make money and how to get your site online for less than you might think.
0:18.0	What's up, what's up Nick Loper here?
0:20.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because every expert was once a beginner.
0:24.9	This is Brett Lindenburg who works full-time as a marketing consultant describing how he
0:29.6	landed on his profitable blog idea.
0:32.1	I was looking at just a whole bunch of different business ideas.
0:35.0	Really it was like across the board like should I start a blog, should I start a website,
0:40.0	looking for things that I could start part time, maybe start doing it on weekends,
0:45.0	but that also didn't require like tons and tons of investment.
0:49.6	And I started kicking around the idea of, oh, maybe I could do one of these food trucks,
0:55.0	you know, that seems like something that you could operate on the side.
0:58.0	So I kind of just started exploring that idea and when I did, realized you know back in 2013 there was literally
1:06.9	almost no information about starting a food truck business online.
1:11.4	So thinking he might want to start a food truck business online. So thinking he might want to start a food truck
1:14.1	himself, Brett set out to learn all he could about the food truck business and
1:17.7	fill the void of information he found online by interviewing other food truck
1:22.1	owners and possibly documenting his own journey as a food truck startup.
1:26.2	Today food truck empire.com that's Brett's site is a $60,000 a year side hustle.
1:32.0	Stick around to hear how Brett got the blog and
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