497: How I Doubled My Salary During the Pandemic
Anita Smith saw the writing on the wall when she was furloughed and ultimately laid off in 2020. The hospitality industry was among the hardest hit when travel ground to a halt. So she decided to use the time to level up her skills and launch a new career, piggybacking on the popularity of the Salesforce software. In just a few months, she landed a new job making twice as much as her old salar...
16m Apr 25, 2022
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496: From Imposter Syndrome to $1500 Recurring Clients: Building a 6-Figure Agency
“There is no plan B, I’m going to make this work.” That’s the kind of determination that is often the difference between success and failure, and this week’s guest is a perfect example of that. In this episode, you’ll meet Brien Gearin, a side hustler who battled through 11 months of not getting a single client. However, during those 11 months, Brien was learning new skills and growing as an...
49m Apr 21, 2022
49m
495: The Multi-Million Dollar Pivot
The cocktail content business wasn't paying the bills, but a slight pivot changed everything. Chris and Julia Tunstall from ABarAbove.com (https://abarabove.com) were disappointed with the quality of existing barware on the market. So they placed a big bet that they could do better—and sold out in 3 weeks. This is a story about the power of being a part of your community and listening to what...
23m Apr 18, 2022
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494: Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS — White Label Someone Else’s Instead
From working 40-50 hours a week in an engineering job to working 5-10 hours a week in a “lifestyle business”. That’s the lifestyle and business shift Chris Lollini created for himself by white labeling someone else’s software tools. White labeling is a super interesting business model. It’s basically putting your brand, your sales and marketing, and your frontline customer support on top of ...
41m Apr 14, 2022
41m
493: The $5K Side Hustle Spinoff
Rob's side hustle was crushed by the pandemic, but he found a winning spinoff buried deep in his YouTube stats and Google Analytics.  This one will definitely have you thinking about the simple long-tail search questions you can answer — and monetize — for your own audience. Full show notes (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/market-a-local-business-on-youtube/)
17m Apr 11, 2022
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492: $17k in 30 Days: Building a Reselling Business
There’s profit out there, you just have to learn how to find it. On this week’s show, I’m joined by a pair of Side Hustle Show listeners who’ve been learning that skill and have translated it into tens of thousands of dollars in sales over the last 16 months. Jack and Joan Ferrell of SecondTimeSellers.com (https://secondtimesellers.com/) are resellers. They find used items at flea markets, ya...
1hr 1m Apr 07, 2022
1hr 1m
491: My Latest Online Business Experiments (Q1 2022 Progress Report)
Here are the projects I've been working on lately and how they're shaping up, my favorite business and lifestyle upgrades of the quarter, a few things that sucked, and what books made my reading list. Full show notes (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/quarterly-progress-report-q1-2022)
34m Apr 04, 2022
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490: $10k a Month Helping Babies and Toddlers Sleep Through the Night
From being a “bored stay at home mom” to running a multi 6-figure business in just a few short years. That’s the story for this week’s guest, Jayne Havens of TheSnoozeFest.com (https://thesnoozefest.com/) who decided to take a sleep certification course “on a whim.” This is a 2-for-1 episode where we’re going to learn about starting a service business from scratch — in Jayne’s case that’s coa...
1hr 4m Mar 31, 2022
1hr 4m
489: How I Bootstrapped 6-Figure E-commerce Brand in Year 1 Business With Zero Ad Spend
“How I bootstrapped a 6-figure e-commerce brand in its first year with zero ad spend.” That was the subject line that Side Hustle Show Connor Meakin sent me that grabbed my attention and earned him a spot on this week’s show. The brand Connor is talking about is BluebirdProvisions.co (https://bluebirdprovisions.co/) , an organic bone broth, and bone broth powder company. Connor started Blueb...
1hr 2m Mar 24, 2022
1hr 2m
488: 16 Free and Low-Cost Marketing Ideas to Grow Your Side Hustle
Today we’re geeking out on the awareness problem — how to spread the word about your business. And how to do it in a way that aligns with your style and your budget. To help me out with this is long-time Side Hustle Show listener, Larry Towner. He’s a real estate investor, a handyman, and co-host of the Handyman Pros Radio Show (https://handymanprosradioshow.com/podcasts/) podcast. Larry run...
59m Mar 17, 2022
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487: From $17/hr to 6-Figure Side Hustle
"Changing the world with chess" and making $100,000 per year on the side. That’s the story of today’s guest, Jeff DiOrio from EliteChess.net (https://www.elitechess.net/) . Jeff went from working in summer camp chess programs teaching kids how to play chess, to running his own summer camps and earning five times as much. He then transitioned to an online recurring membership model, in part d...
50m Mar 10, 2022
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486: Get Paid to Sell Other People's Stuff: Building a Successful Consignment Business
How does risk-free profit sound? That’s the promise and of the consignment business — getting paid to sell other people’s stuff. To help school me on how it all works I’ve invited Megan Church from PineappleConsignment.com (https://pineappleconsignment.com/) onto this week’s show. Megan experimented with her first popup consignment event in October 2018 with the goal of breaking even and to ...
55m Mar 03, 2022
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485: The $90k Niche Daily Deals Blog
What’s one thing people want? They want to get great deals on great products, and for you as a side hustler, that spells a business opportunity to curate and spread the word about those deals. This is exactly what Side Hustle Show listener Camron Stover from HuntingGearDeals.com (https://www.huntinggeardeals.com/) is doing. Camron stumbled into the business, starting with his hunting hobby a...
57m Feb 24, 2022
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484: Turning a Service Business into a Passive Income Stream - Part 3
Today’s guest, Matt Bochnak of HowToMotorcycleRepair.com (https://howtomotorcyclerepair.com/) , is one of my favorite examples of how you can dedicate part of your week to generating time-leveraged income. This is Matt’s third time on The Side Hustle Show, and every time we speak he’s made huge leaps forward with his business. Matt first appeared on the show back in 2016 (https://www.sidehust...
47m Feb 17, 2022
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483: 6 Figures in 12 Months: Pivoting from Low-Ticket Products to a Productized Service
When the pandemic hit, Timmy Bauer from DinosaurHouse.com (https://dinosaurhouse.com/) pivoted his business from being a traveling children’s book author to running a children’s book production company. Timmy was enjoying working as a traveling children’s book author, but he was forced to change directions when schools started locking down and not allowing guests. His story is the perfect exa...
41m Feb 10, 2022
41m
482: From 6-Figure Blog to 7-Figure Online Business: Catching Up with Robert Farrington
From a $10,000 a month “blog” to a 7-figure “Media Company” — a lot can happen in six years. Today’s guest is one of my most important real and virtual online business mentors — I’m always trying to pay attention and keep an eye on what Robert Farrington from TheCollegeInvestor.com (https://thecollegeinvestor.com/) is up to. Fun fact: Robert was one of the very first guests on The Side Hustle...
1hr 4m Feb 03, 2022
1hr 4m
481: 6 Months to 6 Figures … Helping People with Excel
There are a million and one ways to make money online, but they almost always come down to helping other people. Today’s guest, Kat Norton aka Miss.Excel (https://www.tiktok.com/@miss.excel) , has been doing plenty of that. She’s reaching hundreds of thousands of followers as a spreadsheet influencer — you didn’t know there was such a thing, did you? Kat started on TikTok in June 2020 and alr...
42m Jan 27, 2022
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480: Building a $60k a Month Business as a Full-Time College Student
While he was a full-time student, Johnny Robinson built OrangeWindowCleaning.com (https://orangewindowcleaning.com/) into a $700k a year operation. If you want to start your own business, it doesn’t necessarily take a never-before-seen business idea to have a never-before-seen impact on your life. Johnny's a long-time Side Hustle Show listener, and we actually recorded this on his last day of...
28m Jan 20, 2022
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479: $90k a Month on Fiverr: From Freelancer to Agency
People out there will pay for your skills, you just have to find them. One person who’s done an excellent job of finding them over the last 9 months or so is Georgia Austin from WizardOfContent.com (https://wizardofcontent.com/) . Georgia took her skill of writing, and despite a crowded world of other writers out there, did over $500k worth of work through the Fiverr platform last year, inclu...
47m Jan 13, 2022
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Bonus: 9 Business "Wins" From 2021: My Annual Review and Q3/Q4 Progress Report
Inside my biggest wins, best purchases, favorite books, most popular episodes, and most important projects. Full show notes (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/2021-annual-review-and-q3-q4-progress-report/)
51m Jan 07, 2022
51m
33 Life Hacks to Experiment With in 2022
Happy New Year! May this be a year of stacking up incremental improvements and optimizations — getting 1% better every day — that’s the idea. To help out with that goal, I’m excited to introduce Chris Hutchins. He's a serial entrepreneur, a new dad, a professional life optimizer, and host of the new AllTheHa (https://www.allthehacks.com/) cks (https://www.allthehacks.com/) podcast. The stated...
1hr 6m Jan 06, 2022
1hr 6m
Trailer: The Business Podcast You Can Actually Apply
The Side Hustle Show is a top-rated podcast featuring the ideas, actions, and results you need to start and grow a successful business. Put a little hustle in your earbuds as I extract the actionable tips and business strategies from successful entrepreneurs. Each week you’ll get new business ideas, side hustle (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/ideas/)  opportunities, and high-value content t...
1m Jan 01, 2022
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477: How to Make Money with NFTs: Opportunities for Side Hustlers and Creators
Selling JPEGs and other digital collectibles - do NFTs present some of the hottest investment opportunities right now? You could hardly open your laptop or unlock your phone this year without reading about NFTs or non-fungible tokens. When you start to see jpegs selling for tens of thousands of dollars, you can’t help but ask, wait, what’s going on here? And as is often the case when these n...
1hr 2m Dec 30, 2021
1hr 2m
476: $500 a Day Selling Other People’s Products with Facebook Marketplace Dropshipping
Smart side hustlers go where the cash is already flowing… One place it’s been flowing at a rapidly increasing pace is Facebook Marketplace. What started as a Craigslist competitor — a place to buy and sell secondhand stuff — has morphed into an e-commerce powerhouse in its own right. How Facebook Marketplace works will not be new to most reading this. But how today’s guest, Andrey Kozlov is ...
49m Dec 23, 2021
49m
475: How One Football Fan Turned Tailgating into an Online Business
How does turning a passion into a profitable side hustle sound? That’s exactly what this week’s guest, Luke Lorick of Tailgating-Challenge.com (https://tailgating-challenge.com/) has done. Luke took his passion for tailgating — the pre-game parking lot party variety, not the annoying driving habit variety, and turned that into a long-running and profitable online side hustle. It wasn’t an ov...
43m Dec 16, 2021
43m
474: The 6-Figure Belly Dancing Course
Turning a passion into a 6-figure business is the goal of many entrepreneurs, and that’s what this week’s guest, Jennifer Sobel has done. Jennifer has combined her lifelong passion for belly dancing with her skills in digital marketing to create TheBellyDanceSolution.com (https://www.thebellydancesolution.com/) , one part of what’s become a 6-figure online business. There are 3 big ideas in t...
49m Dec 09, 2021
49m
Bonus: $1K 100 Ways Case Studies
100 members of the Side Hustle Nation community shared their path to $1000 and beyond in my latest book, $1,000 100 Ways. I just got approval for the audiobook edition, narrated by yours truly. Here's a sneak peak of the stories inside. Learn more: http://1k100ways.com Get the audiobook free with an Audible trial (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/1kaudiobook)
31m Dec 03, 2021
31m
473: 9 Quick Ways to Optimize Your Sleep and Feel Super Human
Struggling to perform at your best from the moment you wake till you go to sleep at night? In today’s episode, we’re talking about a key component of your physical and mental foundation to be a high-performing human, and one that we probably don’t give a lot of thought to. Still, it’s something you spend roughly a third of your life doing, so it’s a huge lever to pull in terms of optimizing y...
47m Dec 02, 2021
47m
472: 10 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money - Part 4
This week — in what has become a Thanksgiving tradition on the show — we’re diving into 10 creative side hustles that make real money. This is the 4th installment of the series, so I encourage you to go check out the other episodes if you like this format -- those are episodes 310, 363, and 420. Tune in to learn about how real people are making real money from everything from tarantulas to lu...
36m Nov 25, 2021
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471: 6 Figures in 18 Months: Building a Photo Booth Rental Business
From hating photo booths to seeing an opportunity in the market and taking her photo booth side hustle to 6-figures in 18 months… That’s the story of today’s guest, Cat Bloch. Cat told me you would never “catch me dead” using a photo booth at a party. That was until she came across a modern photo booth, and it completely changed how she looked at this popular wedding venue and Gala attractio...
59m Nov 18, 2021
59m
470: $1K/Week: How to Flip Phones for Profit
Can you really make money flipping phones? To find out, I sat down with pro cell phone flipper Jeff Duhon from the Smart Flippers Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/627004321574545) . In a typical week, Jeff resells 20-30 used iPhones with a target profit of $100 per flip. If if you did half that volume, you could be earning $1000 a week. Flipping phones for profit can be a lucr...
51m Nov 11, 2021
51m
469: 16 Business Ideas You're Free to Run With: The Business Idea Giveaway Show
Struggling to come up with a side hustle or business idea? To help get the creative idea juices flowing, I’ve invited Joel Hansen, a member of the founding team of Kern.al (https://kern.al/) on the show. Kern.al is kind of like Reddit or Product Hunt, but for business ideas that don’t exist yet. Just a few minutes on the site definitely sparked some creativity for me so I encourage you to ch...
58m Nov 04, 2021
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468: 16 Marketing Ideas from Side Hustle Nation to Grow Your Business
Like it or not, we’re all marketers. Whether we’re selling ourselves in a job interview, pitching our product or service, or trying to get people to pay attention to our content — we’re all marketers. And you should know this is one of my all-time favorite topics. So, how do we solve the awareness problem? How do we position ourselves so the right people can find us — and the wrong ones lea...
42m Oct 28, 2021
42m
467: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs Part 8
At the end of nearly every episode of The Side Hustle Show, I ask my guests for their “#1 tip for Side Hustle Nation.” There’s always a great variety of responses, and I wanted to take some time today to go through some of my favorites from the past 50-ish interviews. This has become an annual tradition on the show, which is now almost 8.5 years old and recently passed 17 million lifetime dow...
37m Oct 21, 2021
37m
466: Online Drop Servicing - Building a $10k/mo Niche Productized Service Agency
Where there’s pain, there might also be profit… That was the case for today’s guest, Pete Mockaitis. Pete was seeing some traction with his podcast, the HowToBeAwesomeAtYourJob (https://awesomeatyourjob.com/) Podcast, but was struggling to keep up all the off-air tasks — the show notes, the editing, the social media. For Pete Mockaitis, that pain turned into AwesomePros.co (https://www.awesom...
49m Oct 14, 2021
49m
465: 6-Figure Growth Hack: Partner Workshops
One challenge that most new businesses face is the awareness problem – nobody knows you exist. To help erase this problem, I’ve invited Dustin Lien from JumpXmarketing.com (https://www.jumpxmarketing.com/) back on the show. Dustin first appeared on episode 251 (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/when-a-side-hustle-fails/) back in 2017. Back then, he was just ramping up JumpX after shutting down...
49m Oct 07, 2021
49m
464: The $8k a Month Curly Hair Blog
Ever thought about turning your expertise in an everyday subject or topic into an online business? For Delilah Orpi, her expertise was on taking care of her curly hair — and starting as a side hustle, she turned that into an online business earning around $8k a month at HolisticEnchilada.com (https://holisticenchilada.com/) . Delilah has some interesting strategies she used to grow her audien...
49m Sep 30, 2021
49m
463: Memberships vs. Online Courses: Which Business Model is Right for You?
There are tons of ways to make money online — the root of all of them comes down to helping people. Two common ways entrepreneurs help a wide audience is by packaging up their knowledge and experience into an online training course or a membership program/community. But which model makes the most sense for your business? To find out, it’s time for another Side Hustle Showdown. For the debat...
56m Sep 23, 2021
56m
462: Zero to 50,000 Followers in 12 Months: How to Build and Monetize an Audience on Facebook
We’ve been on a bit of an audience building kick lately in our conversations with Dickie Bush about Twitter (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/building-a-6-figure-side-hustle-on-twitter/) , with Tori Dunlap about TikTok (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/tiktok-marketing/) . Today you’ll meet a long-time listener of the show who built her audience on Facebook. Chantal Lavergne is the founder of...
55m Sep 16, 2021
55m
461: How to Grow and Monetize a TikTok audience: 1.6M Followers in 13 Months
Tired of toiling away on social media for lackluster results? Tori Dunlap earned her first 200,000 TikTok followers in just a couple weeks, and has added another 1.4 million (https://www.tiktok.com/@herfirst100k?lang=en) since then. All that attention has helped her turn a healthy 6-figure business into a multi-7-figure operation.  Tori is the founder of HerFirst100k.com (https://herfirst100k...
46m Sep 09, 2021
46m
460: Side Hustle Showdown: Buying a Business vs. Investing in Real Estate
If you’re looking to add some time-leveraged cash flow to your bottom line, two of the best options are investing in rental real estate and buying small businesses. Both are viable options, and to help you figure out if either or both of these investment options are right for you, it’s time for another Side Hustle Showdown. For the debate, I’ve invited back two Side Hustle Show favorites: Ch...
58m Sep 02, 2021
58m
459: Online Arbitrage: Make Money with Amazon FBA from Home
Online arbitrage is the process of buying inventory from one site to resell on another (usually Amazon). To help school me on this side hustle is Chris Grant, a longtime Amazon seller and the founder of ClearTheShelf.com (http://cleartheshelf.com/) and OAChallenge.com (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/oachallenge) . Chris has been involved in the online arbitrage space for the last 10+ years ...
53m Aug 26, 2021
53m
458: $80k on This Site: How to Get More Freelance Gigs
Few words will get as polarizing a response among freelancers and side hustlers as Upwork. Depending on who you ask, it’s either a fantastic platform to connect with well-paying gigs and quality clients … or it’s a hopeless, desperate race to the bottom, overly-competitive bloodbath with no chance of success. Like a lot of things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, and a lot of yo...
48m Aug 19, 2021
48m
457: Growing a 6-Figure Side Hustle in 12 Months
Today’s guest has gone from zero to almost 50k followers in the last 12 months and has turned that newfound attention into a 6-figure online business. This is impressive in itself, but what’s even more impressive about this story is that Dickie Bush has built his audience on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/dickiebush) You know, that social media platform that's always just ... been there. One o...
49m Aug 12, 2021
49m
456: 16 Marketing Tips for Books (and Other Products) From Bestselling Authors
What's the best way to write a bestselling book? Ask a hundred people and you'll get 100 different answers. Sure, I've had some book launch success before (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/amazon-book-launch/) , and have certainly learned a lot about self-publishing since my first title in 2012. But there are always new and different tactics to try, and you never really know how audiences and ...
37m Aug 05, 2021
37m
455: The Side Hustle Snowball: Erase Your Expenses One Extra Income Stream at a Time
I want to introduce a concept I call The Side Hustle Snowball. If you've heard about Dave Ramsey's "Debt Snowball" framework, this may sound familiar. Here's how The Side Hustle Snowball works: You itemize out your expenses and then aim to come up with side hustle income to cover them, starting with the smallest and working your way up. Once you reach the bottom of your list, you don't need...
32m Jul 29, 2021
32m
Bonus: $1K 100 Ways: The Book Project 6 Years in the Making
Some ideas just won't die. This project was one of them. My latest book is called $1K 100 Ways (http://1k100ways.com) , and it features 100 case studies from the Side Hustle Nation community on how to earn an extra $1000 or more in your spare time. The first flicker of the idea came into my head way back in early 2015. This is the story of how it finally came to life. Full show notes (https:...
19m Jul 27, 2021
19m
454: Easy Website Wins: Marketing and Monetization Lessons From 175 Website Flips
Today we’re diving into the easy wins — the quick updates you can make to your websites to drive more traffic and sales. To help me out on that topic is Mushfiq S., a side hustler who has been building, buying, growing, and selling websites since 2008, all on the side from his full-time career. During that time he’s done over 175 transactions and has a wealth of knowledge on what it takes to ...
50m Jul 22, 2021
50m
453: 12 Expert SEO Tips for 2021: Get More Free Traffic
Want to drive more organic traffic to your website? I’m sure you do. At the heart of organic traffic is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. The better optimized your site is for search engines, the higher you’ll rank for your target keywords, and the more visitors you’ll get. For everyone interested in SEO, I have an excellent round-up style show for you today. To help you get up to speed w...
43m Jul 15, 2021
43m
452: Blogging vs. YouTube: Which Platform is Best to Grow an Online Business?
If you’re starting an online business, you’re almost certainly going to create content. But should you focus on written content on your blog, or video content to try and tap into the massive YouTube audience? Which is better to focus on for audience growth, monetization, and for the best ROI on your limited time? To help you figure out which type of content is best for you, it's time for anot...
53m Jul 08, 2021
53m