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The Side Hustle Show

333: The Raw Truth About Blogging - How a "Dog Mom" Built her Online Business on the Side

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly Gauthier has been running KeepTheTailWagging.com since 2011, but things really started to take off when she niched down her focus to raw feeding for dogs. Raw feeding is basically the paleo diet for dogs -- attempting to mimic their ancestral diet. Her blog had than 2 million page views last year -- almost entirely from organic search in Google, and she’s monetized the traffic with a few different income streams. Tune in to hear how Kimberly arrived at his niche, what drives content and marketing today, and how the business makes money -- all on the side from her day job. Full Show Notes: The Raw Truth About Blogging - How a "Dog Mom" Built her Online Business on the Side

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Side Hustle Show 333, the raw truth about blogging. How one side hustler's dogs help

0:08.7

their build a significant online income stream.

0:16.0

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Side Hustle show because where there's an itch, there's a niche.

0:21.0

Excited to dive into this one

0:22.9

and introduce you to Kimberly Gotea

0:25.2

from Keep the Tail Wagging.com.

0:28.5

It's a dog blog.

0:30.2

She's been running since 2011, but things really started to take off when she narrowed her focus to raw feeding for dogs, which is basically the paleo diet for dogs, attempting to mimic their ancestral diet.

0:44.7

I met Kimberly at a side hustle nation meet up in Washington a few months ago and was impressed

0:50.1

with her persistence, her story, and really the community she's built around this topic.

0:55.4

Stick around to hear how she arrived at this niche, what drives content and

1:00.2

marketing today and how the business makes money all on the side from her day job.

1:05.0

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1:09.6

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