Ep 29: How One Entrepreneur Is Monetizing Her Food Blog (Check-In with Meiko And the Dish)
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we are welcoming back Meiko Drew, the Side Hustle Pro Entrepreneur-in-Residence. We’re following Meiko for an entire year to chronicle her journey from Corporate America retiree to the Founder of Food and Lifestyle brand MeikoAndTheDish. For those of you who don’t know, Meiko walked away from a six-figure salary at Target to focus on MeikoAndTheDish full time. Though it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, her brand is steadily rising and so it’s time to check in with her again to see how it’s all going.
On this episode Meiko shares:
- How she’s partnering with brands and getting paid for it
- How she’s monetizing her blog through different income streams
- Her radical move from one city to the next and how it’s helped her hit her stride
- Her vision and goals for 2017
Find out how Meiko is making it work despite the twists and turns life throws at her.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:07.6 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews. |
| 0:13.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:14.8 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:20.1 | Nikla here, and today I am welcoming back our entrepreneur in residence |
| 0:25.0 | Mikko Drew for our last check-in for 2016. But before we get into the show, |
| 0:30.5 | I have a special announcement and those of you who have listened to the last episode |
| 0:35.8 | follow me on the gram follow me on Facebook already know this but I want to make sure everybody |
| 0:40.8 | knows I'm doing a free Instagram training today, Wednesday, December 21st at 8 PM |
| 0:48.0 | Eastern and if you've ever wondered how to use Instagram to build your business because yes you can build a |
| 0:55.3 | business on the gram then this is the training for you I have used it to grow an |
| 1:00.5 | active and engaged community I've gained over 70,000 downloads on iTunes because of my |
| 1:08.1 | Instagram following. And finally, finally, also landed in the Black Voices in Business section on iTunes and overall have skyrocketed from 600 to 18,000 followers in addition to finding my true loyal fans so I'm going to break it all down in this training today |
| 1:26.7 | If you want to register it's side hustlepro.co. |
| 1:31.5 | forward slash get the gram. |
| 1:33.0 | Head on over there to register. |
| 1:34.8 | I want to share it with everyone, |
| 1:36.0 | because honestly, I think anyone can do it. |
| 1:38.1 | It's not as hard as you think. |
| 1:39.6 | And if you're starting a business in the year 2017 you need to be leveraging |
| 1:44.0 | Instagram so again head on over to side hustle pro that seat that's the |
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