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5 min readFrom Solopreneur to Portfolio Builder: How Tim Stoddard Runs Three Businesses Generating $5M+ Per Year
Tim Stoddard runs three main businesses — an SEO agency called Stadz Internet Marketing, a portfolio of addiction treatment lead generation sites under Recovery Local, and Copyblogger — that together will generate roughly $5.2 to $5.5 million in 2024. His path to building this portfolio began not with a business plan but with a blog he started while getting sober, after a mentor gave him a CD featuring Seth Godin saying, "Start a blog, don't tell anybody about it and write in it every day."
The Agency Model as a Starting Point
Stoddard's first business grew organically from his personal blog about recovery. As people found his writing through search, treatment centers started asking how he built his audience. "We generated and still generate a lot of our leads through SEO," he says. His breakthrough came from ranking for a single keyword: "drug rehab marketing." From there, he expanded to "drug rehab SEO" and "drug rehab lead generation."
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- 2 (00:00-02:00) **Episode Introduction & Advertisements** - Host Bat Walls introduces Tim Stoddard, a multipreneur making $5M+/year across three businesses
- 3 (02:01-03:06) **The Multipreneur Thesis** - Tim introduces his portfolio strategy of building self-sustaining business assets
- 4 (03:07-04:50) **Business Breakdown & Portfolio Strategy** - Tim details his $5M+ holdings and the philosophy behind owning multiple companies
- 5 (04:51-06:13) **Origin Story: From Rehab to SEO** - How a drug problem and a Seth Godin CD led to Tim's first business
- 6 (06:14-06:48) **Host Interlude: Workshop Promotion** - Bat Walls pitches his free workshop on turning skills into a business
- 7 (06:49-07:50) **From Blog to Business: The First Client** - How Sober Nation's traffic became a lead generation machine
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I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses
This is the breakdown of how Tim Stoddart makes over $5M/year with 3 businesses.
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