Tim Stoddart

Founder & Operator, Tim Stodz Enterprises · 1 appearance on the record.

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Tim Stoddart is an entrepreneur who built and scaled a portfolio of content and marketing businesses, including Sober Nation, Stodzy, and Copyblogger. Based in Denver, Colorado, he focuses on bootstrapping, SEO-driven monetization, and content-led holding company strategies.

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Insight

Stoddart: "Being yourself" is terrible SEO advice compared to solving specific problems

“Being yourself is like terrible SEO advice. What you want to do is you want to know what people are searching for. You can figure that out just by going to trends.google.com, type in a bunch of keywords, see what keywords are available, and then write an artic…”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 5:59 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Insight

Stoddart: Agencies are the best starter businesses because they require no capital

“I still think it's the best business for somebody to start because you just need a client. Once you get your first client, all of a sudden you have a profitable business.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 6:54 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Insight

Stoddart: Address pricing upfront in sales calls to avoid closing stalls

“The second most important thing is to get like the price out of the way in the very beginning. Because what always happens, you go through this whole pitch and then people say, okay, I'll call you back. Let me think about it. And that's the worst thing that ca…”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 7:27 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Insight

Stoddart: Ask "Are you ready to get started?" and remain completely silent

“And then the last and absolutely most important thing is ask for the deal. Here's my line for this is the best line. It's, are you ready to get started? So you got to say, you say, are you ready to get started? And the trick is you shut up. And so what I do is…”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 7:48 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart built his business by hiring staff directly from halfway houses

“I hired them like straight out of halfway houses, and we've all built this together over the last 10 years.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 11:30 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart: I only invest in liked founders, cash flow, and evergreen markets

“There's only three things that I really care about. One, do I like the founder? Because if I don't like the person, it doesn't matter how great the idea is, like life is too short to deal with people that you don't like. Two, is it cash flowing? I personally a…”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 12:14 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

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Stoddart predicts his holding company will generate up to $5.5M in 2024

“This year for Stasi, we'll do probably like two and a half million, but on the side and more and more throughout the day, I find myself running a personal holdings company. My guess is it'll be like 5.2 to five and a half million for 2024.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 1:26 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart reveals he was a founding investor in email platform Sparkloop

“I was one of the founding investors in a company called Sparkloop.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 8:32 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart reveals he acquired legacy content marketing brand Copyblogger

“And then, of course, I bought Copyblogger.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 9:16 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart says persistent anxiety is the hardest part of being an entrepreneur

“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that I worry all the time. Most of my time is just spent like, what's about to go wrong? What's a fire that's about to happen? Like, where can I see something coming so that I'm not blindsided and my life doesn't…”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 13:51 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Disclosure

Stoddart built media company Sober Nation from an anonymous Blogspot account

“Eventually that Blogspot account turned into Sober Nation, and that's how I got my start.”

Tim Stoddart Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 4:01 I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses	Apr 27, 2024	11m

Tim Stoddart

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