The Food Blogger Pro Podcast 293: A $100k Side Hustle - How to Balance a Full-Time Job and a Profitable Side Hustle with Brett Lindenberg
Keyword research and content types and the decisions that helped increase Food Truck Empire's income with Brett Lindenberg.
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Welcome to episode 293 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Brett Lindenberg about growing his site, Food Truck Empire, alongside working a full-time job.
A $100k Side HustleIt can be tough building and growing a side hustle like a blog alongside working a 9–5 full-time job. So when we heard that Food Blogger Pro Member, Brett from the site Food Truck Empire, was making $100k a year with his blog while continuing to work at his full-time job, we knew we needed to invite him on the podcast to talk about how he did it.
This interview is jam-packed with keyword research guidance, tips about working with contractors, stories about buying other sites, and advice surrounding content creation. Enjoy!
In this episode, you’ll learn:- When he realized a website could make money
- How he decided to build a site around the topic of food trucks
- Why he works full-time and balances a blog
- What it looks like to work with contractors
- Why he bought other sites
- How switching ad companies helped his site’s bottom line
- The decisions that were most impactful to his blog’s income
- How he build and sold a course
- How he does keyword research and thinks in “content types”
Resources:
- Food Truck Empire
- 053: Pat Flynn’s Tips for Building Online Businesses That Fly
- Baremetrics
- Buffer
- ConvertKit
- OnlineJobs.ph
- Food Truck Empire’s Marketplace
- AdSense
- AdThrive
- Mediavine
- WP Tasty
- 097: How to Create a Full-Time Income from Blogging Using The Egg Carton Method with Bjork Ostrom
- Ahrefs
- Semrush
- Mr. Beast
- Connect with Brett via email
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