573: How I Grew My Hobby Travel Blogs to $50K Months in Just 3 Years

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What if your passion project could transform into a full-time income source in just a few short years? Turning a blog into a lucrative business takes time, effort, and know-how. But by consistently publishing high-quality content, building backlinks, and monetizing through ads and affiliate offers, you can tap into income streams in your niche. That's exactly what Shelley Marmor did when she started her travel blog on a whim. The former corporate worker and travel magazine editor turned her websites, Travel Mexico Solo and Travel Blogging 101, into a thriving online business. Today, Shelley's ventures generate over $50k monthly in revenue. She now manages a team to handle the day-to-day operations of the sites. Tune in to this Side Hustle Show interview to learn: Step-by-step process for building authority and ranking your content How to monetize through affiliate links, ads, email marketing, and digital products Tips for outsourcing writing and editing tasks to scale the business Why you should niche down and "cut the line" with micro-sites Full Show Notes: How I Grew My Hobby Travel Blogs to $50K Months in Just 3 Years Get your personalized money-making playlist here!

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0:00.0	From a hobby travel blog to $50,000 months in just three years, what's up, what's up, Nick?
0:10.4	A little over here.
0:11.4	Welcome to the side hustle show.
0:12.6	Now a proud member of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, because your 9-5 may make you
0:17.2	a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive.
0:20.7	In a credible story for you today on the power of consistent and intentional effort, I guess
0:26.3	it started her primary site as a hobby three years ago, but along the way flipped the switch
0:31.8	and turned it into a super profitable online business now consistently posting $50,000
0:38.0	months from travelmexico solo.com and travel blogging 101.com, Shelley Marmer.
0:45.8	Welcome to the side hustle show.
0:47.3	Oh, thank you.
0:48.3	I'm so excited to be here.
0:49.9	Me too, because you're going to want to stick around in this one to learn what's driving
0:53.7	traffic for Shelley.
0:54.7	Today, how she monetizes her sites and how she's been able to scale up so quickly so you
1:00.5	can apply some of those same strategies to your own business if you're new to the show
1:04.4	or even if you've been tuning in for a while.
1:07.2	First of all, thank you.
1:08.2	That's awesome that you would spend a little bit of time with us in your earbuds.
1:11.9	But second, I want to invite you to grab your personalized playlist at hustle.show.
1:17.1	I get it.
1:18.1	Look, there's over 10 years, over 550 episodes in the archives.
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