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Let’s give it up for side hustles. They’re having a moment right now.
There are side hustle books. Podcasts. Pop sockets.
There are also big lists of side hustles!
Here’s a look at how the search term “side hustle” has changed over time in Google Trends.
One survey showed that nearly half of Millennial workers have a side hustle, and some predictions say that by 2020, 40% of all work will be done by remote contractors.
But there are also a lot of misconceptions.
Blogging is still one of the best ways to make a steady income online, even in 2019.
But starting a website from scratch takes time, and it’s one of the most common sources of failure for most bloggers.
They start a blog, add some content and wait for traffic and revenue to roll in.
When it doesn’t happen right away, they get frustrated and move to the next thing.
The problem is: blogging is a slow-moving train, and it can take months and years to get things going.
A lot of people don’t want to wait around that long for something that may or may not work.
Unfortunately, that waiting period is just part of the journey of starting a site.
But there is a way to speed things up and jump ahead, and that’s by buying an existing site instead of starting from scratch.
Buying, selling and flipping websites is a great way to cut your waiting time, make money sooner and learn the ins and outs of what a successful blog looks like.
Best of all, it’s not difficult to do – it just takes a different strategy than starting with a fresh website.
In this guide, I’ll go over my strategy to buying, selling and flipping websites so you can avoid the frustrating waiting period of starting a site and go directly to owning a profitable blog.
In the past few years, I’ve bought, sold and flipped many websites, from small blogs that sold for a few thousand dollars to larger sites generating 100,000+ monthly pageviews that sold for six figures.
No matter how big or small you start, there are smart ways to flip sites – and things you’ll want to avoid like the plague.
Let’s get started.
One of the most important steps to growing a successful blog is choosing the right niche, or topic, for your site.
I’ve made just about all the mistakes you can in this area, from going too specific to starting too broad.
In general, here’s my advice:
Making your passion into a blog doesn’t guarantee success, and neither does following the money just to make money.
You need to choose a niche that has a lot of questions and problems so that you can answer those problems with your content.
What you should focus on: providing value to readers by solving even the smallest of problems.
What problems do you want to solve?
Whose questions do you want to answer?
That’s the best way to pick your niche.
