Call me Mother Teresa — Unless you’ve been living under a non-Medium rock — like me — you’re likely familiar with the Friend of Medium membership. TL;DR: It’s an upgraded Medium membership for $15/month that allows me to show my support for the Medium community. At least, that’s what I understood about the Friend of…

Will YouTube be my new side hustle? — I started a YouTube video for fun nearly two months ago. My plan was not to monetize it or even grow it. It’s just a platform to house videos of my dog so they don’t take up cloud storage on my phone. I started a YouTube channel that earned nearly 4,000 views in 2 days For my dog…medium.com I’ve tried to garner traction on YouTube on…

My conspiracy theory about the future of SEO — Personal anecdotes can oftentimes be just as informational as expert opinions. For example, meteorologists are paid to predict the weather in your area, but you’re never 100% sure you need a rain jacket until you step outside. The same parallel applies to Google searches. How does Google decide the perfect…

A new delivery side gig for drivers — Delivery side hustles pay well and can be worth the time and effort if executed correctly. Common delivery gigs like DoorDash, Uber Eats and even Amazon Flex are well-known in the side hustle community. But I recently learned about a new delivery service — new to me, at least —…

Here are our top-performing articles! — Hope you're staying warm as cold weather starts to roll in for certain parts of the world. The Side Hustle Club is anything but cold — we are on fire! Temperature-check puns aside, we have some great writers contributing amazing, helpful stories each day. Remember, if you enjoy reading our…

Here’s how to decide which newsletter provider to use — For years, newsletters have been an invaluable resource to connect with readers. It’s one of my favorite avenues to disseminate my writing because of its scalability. You can send the newsletter and no matter how many subscribers you gain, the same email will go to all of them. In addition…

Google’s latest update(s) completely killed SEO and blogging is dead, forever. That’s something you might’ve recently read on Reddit, X, or heard on your favorite blogging podcast. People have been forecasting the death of niche blogs and SEO for over a decade. And while Google’s recent update has put a…

Monetizing my newsletter was great — until it wasn’t — Here to break the news late — as always — last month, Swapstack announced it was acquired by beehiiv. For more than a year, I’ve been using Swapstack to monetize my newsletter and just like that, it’s going away. …

Big G strikes again — Google recently did a Google. Big G, which is what I like to call the company, released an update in mid-September that crippled many niche blogs, mine included. My blog’s traffic dropped severely. It went from hundreds of daily visitors to less than 50 basically overnight. At first, I thought…