353: Small Blog, Big Income: Recurring Revenue from a Low-Traffic Site

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A small blog doesn't have to mean a small income. By helping a specific group of people solve their problems, Carol Tice has attracted more than 1500 members -- at $25 a month -- to join her community. Carol went from working as a freelance writer, to coaching others how to become freelance writers, to building one of the largest online membership sites for freelance writers. (I found Carol while doing keyword research for terms like “get paid to write” and “make money writing” – and Carol OWNS this space.) The best part is that the paid membership model is an awesome way to build an online business, and it’s a model that can be applied to just about any niche. It didn’t come without sacrifice for Carol, who was working full-time and had two preschoolers when she started her blog. “I didn’t see a TV show, I didn’t go out to a movie, I didn’t go to dinner parties,” Carol explained. But with hard work, a laser-focused attitude towards her goals, and good communication with her audience, Carol has built something special for freelance writers. Tune in to hear how Carol built her membership site from the ground up. She explains how she uses funnels to constantly bring in new members, and how she keeps members engaged (any paying) for the long-haul. You’ll learn loads of actionable stuff, and how you can also apply the same tactics to develop a recurring revenue business of your own. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Small Blog, Big Income: Recurring Revenue from a Low-Traffic Site

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0:00.0	A small blog doesn't have to mean a small income.
0:05.0	Here's one way you can build a six-figure online business without relying on obscene
0:09.7	traffic numbers or a huge email list.
0:17.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle show because revenue is cool,
0:21.0	but recurring revenue is ice cold. I discovered it today's guest while I was doing some keyword
0:26.9	research of my own for terms like get paid to write, make money writing, stuff
0:31.8	like that and this one site kept coming up over and over again.
0:36.8	It was Make a Living Writing.com by Carol Tice.
0:41.6	And as I went down the rabbit hole on Carol's content I discovered a couple things I discovered she'd built a successful freelance writing career before starting her blog and I discovered that she had a separate paid membership program for freelance
0:55.3	writers called the freelance writers den and then I discovered that the den has
1:00.3	over a thousand members at 25 bucks a month, recurring revenue.
1:06.1	So I reached out to Carol to learn more about her unique blog monetization strategy.
1:11.3	Affiliate revenue, ad revenue, those are great, but Carol argues that if you serve an audience
1:15.8	with complex ongoing problems, a membership model allows you to serve them better and
1:21.6	make you more money and more predictable money than
1:24.5	ads or affiliate revenue ever could. Stick around to hear how she built this thing
1:28.4	from the ground up, the sales funnels that constantly bring in new members and what's on the inside that
1:35.0	keeps people paying. Notes and links for this one plus the free PDF highlight reel
1:39.0	with all of Carol's top tips from the call are at side hustle nation
1:42.6	dot com slash Carol C a r o L
1:46.3	now as a journalist and a freelance writer by trade
1:50.3	Carol had a lot to learn when it came to running an online business.
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