From JOB to Buying and Selling Blogs with Chris Myles

In today’s episode, Jeff interviews Chris Myles of Blogger Evolution. Chris started 4 years ago when he and his wife were working full-time jobs and his wife got pregnant. His wife wanted to stay home after their son was born and so Chris had to figure out how to replace her income. After searching online for ideas Chris came across blogging and Affiliate Marketing. After several failed attempts Chris made it work and his wife was able to quit her job within 18 months and Chris was able to quit his job 2 years later. Today Chris is getting back to blogging, he also has a podcast as well as a YouTube channel.

Chris and Jeff discuss:

1. In the very beginning it was just him and his wife and they had jobs that were paying the bills.
2. After his wife got pregnant, she wanted to quit her job.
3. Motivated to help his wife stay home, Chris did an online google search of how to make money online.
4. Eventually he stumbled upon blogging and Affiliate Marketing.
5. After several failed attempts he was finally able to get his blog to work.
6. Within 18 months, his wife was able to quit her job and 2 years later he quit his job. That was about 4 years ago.
7. The first site that actually worked was a marketing blog that was doing pretty well.
8. Blogs are like digital Real Estate and you can buy and sell them.
9. Early on Chris created all of the content for his blogs, but now he contracts most of the work out.
10. Your motivation for why you are building the blog is very important.
11. There is tons of free content out there but paying a mentor or for training will save you time.
12. There are so many different ways to monetize a blog, you just have to figure out what your audience would be interested in.
13. There are passive as well as active ways to earn an income; Chris focuses on Display Ads and Affiliate Marketing.
14. Chris talks a little bit about what drives the traffic to his blog site.
15. Anything New in your world? Yes, a training program to show other people how to do it.

Fast Five Questions

1. If you woke up and your business was gone, you have $500, a laptop, a place to live, and food, what would you do first? “Basically having a skill to be able to teach other people, a valuable skill and also building your own passive income streams.”
2. What is the biggest mistake that you have made in business? “My first website got taken out of the google index because I was borrowing content from someone as the other guy had suggested.”
3. What is a book that you would recommend? “100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No by Alex Hormozi.”
4. What is a tool that you use everyday that you would recommend? “Keyword Chef.”
5. What is your definition of freedom? “Being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it where you want to do it if you want to do it.”
6. What is the best way to contact you? “Podcast - Blogger Evolution ; Website - https://bloggerevolution.com/ .”

Jeff spent the early part of his career working for others. Jeff had started 5 businesses that failed before he had his first success. Since that time he has learned the principles of a successful business and has been able to build and grow multiple seven-figure businesses. Jeff lives in the Austin area and is actively working in his community and supporting the growth of small businesses. He is a board member of the Incubator.Edu program at Vista Ridge High School and is on the board of directors of the Leander Educational Excellence Foundation

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