How-To Turn Your Exotic Pet Hobby Into A Business

How-To Turn Your Exotic Pet Hobby Into A Business

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Publish Date:
27 November, 2025
Category:
Exotic Pets
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Standard License
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Youtube

This week I am talking to Bill Strand who is the host of the Reptile Entrepreneur and Chameleon Academy Podcasts., founder of the Dragon Strand chameleon caging company and headmaster at Chameleonacademy.com. We discuss how you can turn your hobby and passion for exotic pets (like reptiles, tarantulas, etc) into a full time career and how the courses he offers on Instagram, as well as on his website, can help you build a social media following all the way up to launching your online businesses. Whether it is breeding, making enclosures, creating content, or any aspect or niche where you find a need....he can help you and show you how to turn your exotic pet hobby into a business!

This is a repost of the podcast originally recorded a few years ago. YouTube recently launched a podcast section on channel pages. Initially, it was not a good idea to post podcast videos on your main channel as it would hurt the analytics. So I created a 2nd channel called The Exotic Pet Collective where the video version of the podcasts were uploaded. I had also been made aware that many of you did not the podcast existed, so I have been systematically taking the podcast down from the 2nd channel and moving them over to this channel. That way, they can all be under the podcast tab on my channel page, and viewers that had never seen or heard them before would be notified of their existence. I apologize for any confusion.

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