Art Of Manliness: Making A Hobby Profitable – with Brett McKay

Brett McKay, The Art of Manliness, Bootstrapping, Brand (branding), Content, Hiring, Lifestyle Business, Mental Game, Traffic

How does a hobby turn into a profitable business that teaches men how to be men?

Brett McKay is the founder of the Art of Manliness, a blog that teaches men how to tie a tie, shave like their grandpas and how to change the oil in their car. I invited him here talk about how he built up his business.

Brett McKay

The Art of Manliness

Brett McKay is the founder of The Art of Manliness, a men’s interest and lifestyle site dedicated to reviving the lost art of manliness.

 

Andrew: Coming up: have you ever wanted to write on a topic that you felt you just didn’t know enough? And maybe you were starting to feel like a fraud because of it? Well, check out what today’s guest does to write on topics that he doesn’t know everything about. Check out the section where we talk about oil changes. Also, what do you think this is? I got it as a gift, I open it up in the interview; we’ll talk about it. Right here. Finally, inner doubt. Privately, I’ve been talking to several of you in the audience about that doubt that you have when you’re about to publish something, when you’re about to release code, when you’re about to show the world something that you’ve been working on in private. Well, that doubt that I’m no good, or this is not good enough, or maybe people are going to laugh at me is something that we’ve talked about in private. I don’t think we’ve ever gotten as deep into it...

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