27. Teach Online Courses. How to Use Online

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27. Teach Online Courses.
How to Use Online Courses as a Traffic Driving Strategy (Example)
It may seem a bit overwhelming to think about teaching an online course if you’ve never done it before, but you can boil this down to one simple question: what does your audience already want to know? Tackle it from the same angle as any of your articles, comments, or blog content by providing useful and in-depth content that your audience wants in the form of videos, written lectures, and interviews with thought leaders in the space.

What problems do your readers have? Teach them how to solve them, and as a result of launching an online course, you’ll likely drive traffic to your blog and you could even begin to field offers for other types of work-from-home jobs like coaching, consulting, and advising as your audience as your authority grows.

Plus, this can evolve into a phenomenal way to make money blogging in a much more passive capacity as your traffic grows. Just be sure you’re following best practices around taxes for bloggers as your income increases.

28. Launch a Creative Side Project.
Using a Creative Side Project to Generate Press for Your Blog (Screenshot)
Now, as much as I’d like to, I can’t exactly come up with a creative side project idea for you. You still have to do the work on that one. But a witty, funny, weird, or out-there idea can generate some great buzz and drive traffic to your blog (yes, actual new engaged readers for your regularly scheduled programming).

Back in 2016, I posted a public challenge for my readers to choose ANY random business idea for me, and I had to validate it live in front of them. In 30 days. For less than $500. Out there? Yes. Effective, relevant, and creative for the audience I had? Yes, yes, yes.

I already knew that a lot of my readers came to my blog because they were algeria phone number resource advice on starting a business. I also know what a scary process that can be.

The whole challenge was an exercise in connecting with my community and showing that it can be simple to build the foundation of a business, no matter what that business is (they chose a hiking guide for California—which eventually became my side project, Hike with Ryan where I write about topics like the best Yosemite hikes to do), but it also served to generate interest and drive traffic to my blog, to see how the heck I was going to pull that off. Plus as an added bonus, I began fielding offers for both freelance and remote jobs as a result.

To give you some more inspiration, here are a few other side projects I’m involved in:

Vegan Anj: My girlfriend Anjelica’s vegan food blog
SmartWP: WordPress tutorials and instructional guides
WordFinderPro: A more modern Scrabble word finder tool
VeganTable: A blog documenting my own journey to becoming vegan
When considering a side project, lean into your creativity and find an idea that meets the intersection of your interests & clear demand out there in the real world. If you can create a new space where you’re able to share something meaningful with a (growing) audience of people searching for answers like what you have to offer, that’s a foundation for a solid future business.