136: How a Part-Time Blog Turned Into an 8-Figure Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Brian Clark has been content marketing since before the term even existed. In fact, he left a miserable corporate job and built several successful businesses using these effective new marketing techniques. Then he started this little side project called Copyblogger to share some his findings, tactics, and ideas with the rest of the world. Fast forward 10 years and Copyblogger is now Rainmaker Digital on track to do more than $10 million in sales this year.

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0:00.0	Side House will show 136 how a part-time blog turned into an eight-figure business.
0:05.3	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn
0:10.8	their side hustle dreams into reality.
0:13.0	Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living,
0:16.0	but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:18.0	And now your host, Nick Loper. Loper. What's happening?
0:25.0	Nick Loper here.
0:27.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle show.
0:28.0	Welcome to October.
0:30.0	Coming to you live from beautiful Livermore, California.
0:32.8	Today's show is how a part-time blog turned
0:35.8	into an eight-figure business.
0:38.4	Stick around to hear how my guest started
0:40.1	one of the world's most popular blogs. His best practices for writing sales copy that
0:45.6	converts in any niche and how you can find problems to solve using the world's best
0:50.0	free market research tool. Yes, I am chatting with Brian Clark from Rainmaker Digital, formerly
0:56.9	copy blogger media and still found at copyblogger.com. Now I've got to confess I'm you know obviously aware of Brian and Coffee blogger but was not super
1:06.1	familiar with his work so I reached out to the Sign Hustle Nation Facebook group to ask their
1:12.3	hell hey what should I ask him?
1:13.7	What should we talk about?
1:14.7	So thank you so much to everyone who responded to that thread.
1:17.2	Patrick, Dave, Kendra, Jim, Brian, Becky, and Tony.
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