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Pain & Numbness Led Her to a $30K/Month Business
How To Monetize Your Travel Content
Google Shutting Down 25 Million Websites = Business Opportunity
Designer Earns $520,366 In 1 Year
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Pain & Numbness Led Her to a $30K/Month Business
Addison LaBonte runs the food blog Organically Addison, where she shares āeasy healthy gluten-free and paleo recipesā š„
Addison started the site in 2018, but earned very little money from it the first few years.
š¬ She revealed in an interview a few months backā¦
In March 2021, my website made about $300.
By December 2021, it made over $7K just from advertisements.
Since then, it has continued to climb into the mid 5 figures per month.
Let's be conservative and assume "mid 5 figures per month" = $30,000 per month š°
How Addison got startedā¦
In 2016, I was diagnosed with Compartment Syndrome. Essentially, I was experiencing debilitating pain and numbness while runningā¦
Thankfully, my aunt is a fellow marathon runner and gluten free eater. She recommended becoming gluten free to feel better.
I quit cold turkey. Within 7 days, my life was changed.
I had no more pain or numbness. I didnāt get weekly headaches or daily brain fog. I knew right then and there that I wanted to share my story.
Butā¦
I knew nothing about websites, coding, SEO, or how to monetize an online business. Itās been incredibly rewarding to learn everything.
š Addison was slow to monetizeā¦
I didnāt start making money from my website until late 2020, early 2021.
Leading up to this, I had posted every single day on Instagram and Facebook to build an audience.
Finallyā¦
My website exploded in 2020 when everyone was home cooking and looking for wholesome options. At the same time, I went from working 40 hours in finance to working from home.
That's when she decided to treat her website like a business rather than a hobby šŖ
Thenā¦
I listened to a podcast about buying websites. I was skeptical but intrigued. In 2023 thus far, I have purchased 3 websites. This has forced me to outsource and build a team.
Today, I have a virtual assistant, two food photographers, and a content writer.
Sounds like that investment helped her get to $30,000 per month.
š But then came a setbackā¦
In September 2023, three of my sites [out of 4] were negatively impacted by the Google Helpful Content Update (HCU).
Overnight, two of my sites lost 50% of organic traffic and one of my sites lost 30%.
It is very unsettling to lose that much revenue overnight. Seeing my revenue and page views go down so dramatically was sickening.
It reminded me that I need to diversify my income streams and not solely rely on traffic from Google.
So I'm guessing her revenue dropped to around $15,000 per month after that.
Which is still awesome, and I expect her traffic and revenue will grow again given time š
A good takeaway from Addison's story: you don't need to be super-knowledgeable starting out ā you can pick up the necessary skills and experience as you go.
She saysā¦
Starting a blog has taught me many, many things that I never thought Iād be doing.
Food photography is one of them! I had never picked up a DSLR camera before 2020, but I taught myself how to use one. One of my favorite parts about being a business owner is the constant and continuous learning.
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How To Monetize Your Travel Content
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I have been working with Travelpayouts for 6 months and Iām already earning more than with any other affiliate company. Iām really happy with the affiliate tools and the help from the team. Theyāre speedy to reply, offer personalized suggestions and help me boost my income even further!
If you're ready to monetize your travel content, check out Travelpayouts š
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Google Shutting Down 25 Million Websites = Business Opportunity
š¬ Fery Kaszoni tweetsā¦
Google is shutting down tens of millions of small business sites from March.
All subdomains hosted on their . business . site domain will be removed next month.
If youāre not aware, this is Googleās free service used by over 25M sites (from search results).
š Official announcement about the shutdown.
Fery lays down a āmultimillion dollar idea,ā based on the assumption that these businesses will be eager for a new website solutionā¦
Use scrapers to extract all [.business.site] websites from Google search resultsā¦
Now use new scraper rules to visit each website, and create a perfect clone of the current website on your serverā¦
Now buy a domain name such as business . inc or something genericā¦
Rent this clone under a subdomain for $5 a monthā¦
He addsā¦
If you sell this to 20K website owners, youāll make $100,000 per month just by hosting their website.
Remember, there will be 20 million desperate website owners next month with their website shut down, who will need a solution.
Fery's idea is ambitious šŖ
But you could also do something on a much smaller scale here and earn good money.
For example, you could find .business.site websites in an industry you're familiar with and reach out to those site owners š§
Start by putting this in Google searchā¦
site:*.business.site [industry or keyword]
I see more than 30,000 results when I use this searchā¦
Try that for a niche or industry you're interested in, then check out the sites and find their contact info.
Next: reach out and ask them if they need help moving their site elsewhere. If yes, you could build it on a service like Carrd, which costs only ~$50/year to host 25 sites š
Charge nothing for the setup but then a few $$ per month/year for hosting and maintenance.
With that, you could have a thriving business on your hands š
Another idea here: scrape the contact info for these sites and sell access to local agencies or web developers.
Let me know if you give any of those ideas a try. I'd love to hear how it turns out.
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š Designer Earns $520,366 In 1 Year
From the archive, published June 2022ā¦
Rich Webster shares on Instagram that he earned a cool half mil as a designer in 2021 š
He offers six tips that āmatter more than design if you want to make money.ā
One I hadnāt heard beforeā¦
Brand yourself as an agency.
The day you stop calling yourself a freelancer is the day youāll double your rates. The term freelancer implies commodity pricing. Agencies can charge 2-5x rates of freelancers for the same work.
The only difference? Positioning.
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