How Do I Double the Revenue on My Blogs?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business, Small Business, Getting Started, Passive Income, Business Advice, Business Strategy, Marketing, Podcasting, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Tom Drake, from MapleMoney.com, RetireHappy.ca and TomDrake.net: a financial blogger who I've known through the years from FinCon—the financial media conference. Tom has been running his online business for nine years now and he's looking to take it to the next level: His goal this year is to double his revenue. He wants to monetize better, reduce expenses, and get to a point where he can quit his day job comfortably. What advice and strategies can I offer him? If you want to be considered for a coaching session, apply via the form at AskPat.com . Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks, who make the best financial management software out there. It’s ridiculously easy to use and their interface is highly-visual and super-intuitive. You can actually get an unrestricted, thirty-day trial for free; just go to FreshBooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:02.8	AskPat.com.
0:08.5	What's up, everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 1016 of Aspat 2.0.
0:14.1	This is the show where I go through people's problemos, and I help.
0:19.5	I'm trying to rhyme and it's not working very well so I
0:21.3	apologize but hey guys this is what we do we do a coaching call live about a half hour and you're
0:26.4	there sitting in listening learning as we go and today we're talking with tom Drake from maple
0:31.6	money.com a very popular personal finance blog known as the canadian source for personal finance, and I've actually
0:38.7	known Tom for quite a while and met him a number of times at FinCon, which is one of my favorite
0:43.4	conferences, the financial blogger conference. Fun fact, the first conference I ever spoke on stage
0:48.7	at, and I pretty much threw up right before that happened because it was the most nerve-wracking
0:53.3	thing I've ever done, but one of the most fulfilling things I've done and now I've gone on to speak several
0:57.2	times. So I have an affinity and I love for the personal finance space and we're here today to
1:01.9	help Tom and all of you who are going through trouble with, okay, well, how do I double my
1:06.6	revenue? You know, I might still have a job and I want to increase my income, but I have all
1:10.8	these other ideas. And I'm trying to redesign my website. And there's all these tasks and to-do lists
1:15.9	that I need to complete. Where's my money going to come from? Well, that's what we're talking about
1:21.1	today. All right. Thanks again and enjoy this show. Make sure you subscribe if you haven't already.
1:25.7	Now here's tom from maple money
1:28.0	dot com hey tom what's up thanks for joining me here on aspat 2.0 welcome thanks for having me
1:34.4	so tom what is your business and kind of how to like in the one minute uh rundown kind of how'd you
1:42.7	get started in all this?
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