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The Side Hustle Show

510: The 6-Figure Bird Watching Blog

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest, Scott Keller, left his high-paying but not super satisfying career in insurance to run a bird blog full-time. Scott started BirdWatchingHQ.com as a side hustle back in 2016 and has since turned it into a full-time income with half a million monthly pageviews and more than 1 million monthly YouTube views. But like all businesses, it’s been an evolution to get to that point. Scott started out chasing high-ticket affiliate commissions but pivoted into creating one of the best bird watching resources online with multiple revenue streams. Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: what’s driving traffic for Scott today the creative ways Scott has grown his email list to over 50,000 subscribers how you can borrow some of the same tactics for your business Full Show Notes: The 6-Figure Bird Watching Blog Download Your Free Bonus: 20 Hobbies to Monetize with an Online Business Ready to Start Your Own Site? Here's My Free Video Series on How to Get Your Site Online Quickly and Affordably New to the Show? Get Your Personalized Playlist!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, what's up Nick, Loper here.

0:02.6

Welcome to the Science Hustle Show because you are in the CEO of your own life.

0:06.6

I've got a great story for you today.

0:08.6

Today's guest left his high paying, but not super satisfying career in insurance to

0:13.8

run a bird blog full time.

0:16.2

Yes, Scott Keller started birdwatching HQ.com as a Science Hustle back in 2016.

0:22.2

And he since turned into a full time income with up to a million monthly page views.

0:26.9

But like all businesses, it's been an evolution to get to that point.

0:30.3

Stick around to learn what's driving traffic and revenue today.

0:33.2

The creative way Scott's grown his email list to over 50,000 subscribers and how you

0:37.8

can borrow some of the same tactics in your own business.

0:40.8

If you don't have a website of your own yet, fear not, blog startercourse.com is my free

0:45.4

video series on how to get your website up and running quickly and affordably.

0:49.4

And if you need some niche inspiration, check the show notes for this episode to download

0:54.0

your free bonus on 20 hobby niche ideas that you can start an online business around

0:58.6

today.

0:59.6

That's at sidehustle-nation.com slash birds or through the link in the episode description

1:04.2

of your podcast app.

1:05.6

Ready?

1:06.6

Let's do it.

1:08.6

I tried to think of an expensive product you could sell online, but Amazon has those

1:16.2

going if you make at the time it was, I think, 8%.

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