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
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451: Affiliate Marketing, Early Retirement, and Side Hustle Shifts Over 8 Years of Podcasting: 20 Questions with Nick
It’s time to dive into the ol’ listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this week’s edition of The Side Hustle Show. I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show. Click here to join Side Hustle Nation for free (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/join/) ! The questions: How I can use my knowledge for a blog o...
40m Jul 01, 2021
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450: How to Make Money with Kids Books on Amazon
Royalties from book sales is one of the most passive of all my income streams (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/income-streams/) . After you create a book, with print or digital distribution handled by Amazon,  you can collect royalties for years. And while I enjoy the writing process and have published several titles myself, I have yet to venture into the world of children's books.  (Despit...
56m Jun 24, 2021
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Bonus: My Graduation Speech from 20 Years Ago
What advice would you give your 18-year-old self? Here's my actual valedictorian speech from 20 years ago!
8m Jun 18, 2021
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449: $10,000 a Month Selling Digital Products on Etsy
Creating assets you can sell over and over again -- that’s the passive income (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/passive-income/) dream, right? This is exactly what Rachel Jones at MoneyHackingMama.com (https://moneyhackingmama.com/) has done by creating and selling downloadable printables on Etsy. This year she’s averaging over $10,000 a month in sales, all while balancing a full-time job and...
44m Jun 17, 2021
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448: Rank and Rent: $1000 a Month From Simple Local Websites
What if you could rent out digital real estate just as you would traditional real estate, but without all the headaches that come with maintaining a property? That’s exactly what Luke Van Der Veer is doing with his digital “Rank and Rent” business. I found Luke through the Side Hustle Nation Facebook group, where he shared a unique take on online business, kind of at the intersection of servi...
49m Jun 10, 2021
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447: $10k a Month Going to Parties
Earning up to $2,000 for 45 minutes doing something you love -- who wouldn’t want to do that? That’s exactly what Brian McGovern of McMagical.com (https://www.mcmagical.com/) does. Brian is a party entertainer — he’s been practicing magic and performing since he was in high school. The success of the side hustle allowed him to walk away from a well-paying, but stressful, career on Wall Street...
39m Jun 03, 2021
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446: From Kickstarter Success to a Sustainable Brand [Side Hustle Coaching]
"Apples to Apples meets Shark Tank" in SideHustle (https://www.amazon.com/SideHustle-Card-Game-Friendly-Entrepreneurs/dp/B08V78X739?&linkCode=ll1&tag=shnation-20&linkId=3ea7b1efa222e4be82349219ce7d127a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl) , the party game for entrepreneurs. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, the team behind the game is looking for ways to raise awareness and stand out on th...
55m May 27, 2021
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445: $80,000 in Etsy Sales: How to Grow from Here? [Side Hustle Coaching]
With a full-time job, a baby at home, and a thriving side hustle, Troy Parker was becoming a master juggler. He was excited about the growth of his Etsy shop, Goober Prints (https://www.etsy.com/shop/GooberPrints) , but was beginning to reach the ceiling of his own capacity. Troy specializes in fun, quirky, customizable direct-to-garment printing. Goober Prints had a breakout year in 2020, ju...
1hr 1m May 20, 2021
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444: $10k a Month Blogging: How to Grow from Here?
Side Hustle Show listener Raffaele Di Lallo has built a successful house plant website (https://www.ohiotropics.com/) , earning $10k a month — on the side from his day job. Still, he explained that 90% of that income was from advertising, and he wanted to diversify his revenue sources and earn more from affiliate marketing. To help me talk through Raffaele's business is a long-time friend and...
1hr May 13, 2021
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443: 10 Life and Business Lessons from Mom: The Best Mom Advice
With Mother's Day coming up, I wanted to share some of the best advice and lessons I got from mom growing up. Most of the time, this was pretty literal advice, but I found a lot of it has a broader application to entrepreneurship.  Mom has always been probably my biggest advocate and supporter. For background, she essentially had a couple different careers, first in nursing and then as a libra...
29m May 06, 2021
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Bonus: Your Perfect First Business + Should You Teach a Live Course?
$100 MBA Founder Omar Zenhom shares his perfect first business, plus why live courses are so hot right now. Check out the full $100 MBA Show archives in your podcast app of choice and learn more at 100MBA.net (https://100mba.net) . 
24m Apr 30, 2021
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442: $10k a Month Teaching Online Part-Time
$10,000 a month working 20-hour weeks sounds like a pretty sweet gig! And for Jade Weatherington (https://teacherjade.com/) , it's been a dream come true to make a living in education--while working from home. Her financial success didn't happen overnight. She had months of earning less than $100 from her online private tutoring (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/start-a-tutoring-business/) . ...
48m Apr 29, 2021
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441: $225k in 18 Hours a Week: The Path to High-Paying Consulting Gigs
Last year, Brad Rice booked $225,000 worth of Salesforce consulting work. That's impressive on its own, but what's crazier is he only worked an average of 18 hours a week. Brad took his existing skills and experience with a popular software product, and pivoted to become a remote freelance consultant. This is the "SWAS" strategy: Software with a Service. (We’ve heard from guests following a ...
49m Apr 22, 2021
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Bonus: A 6-Figure Business Selling Dollhouse Furniture
Amanda Austin has a healthy 6-figure part-time business drop shipping dollhouse miniatures. From the My Wife Quit Her Job podcast, Steve Chou takes over hosting duties today! If you want to learn more about building an e-commerce business, check him out at MyWifeQuitHerJob.com (https://mywifequitherjob.com) and subscribe to his show for more!
45m Apr 16, 2021
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440: $10k a Month Investing in Mobile Homes
Rachel cash-flows $10k a month from her portfolio of mobile homes. When most people think of real estate investing (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/investing/real-estate/) , mobile homes probably don't come to mind. In fact, technically speaking, mobile homes are personal property--not real estate. Still, this is a sub-niche in real estate that comes with the familiar cash-flowing opportunit...
43m Apr 15, 2021
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439: 500 Million Users: Pinterest Marketing in 2021
With over 500 million users and growing all the time, your target customers are probably on Pinterest. To help catch us up on all the latest strategies and best practices for getting more traffic, more sales, more leads from Pinterest is our resident Pinterest marketing expert, Kate Ahl from SimplePinMedia.com (https://www.simplepinmedia.com/) . It’s been a couple of years since I last spoke ...
54m Apr 08, 2021
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Bonus: Q1 2021 Progress Report
Here's an inside look at what I've been working on the last few months. Tune in to hear: The projects / experiments on my mind Personal / lifestyle updates What books I read My plans for what's coming next Important links: TheTrafficCourse.com (http://thetrafficcourse.com) SideHustleNation.com/join (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/join) Thanks so much for tuning in!
24m Apr 02, 2021
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438: From Idea to 6-Figure Side Hustle: A Listener Success Story
Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog erased $114k of debt in 23 months. The couple were making good money at their day jobs, but realized there's only so much you can cut from your budget. That’s when they turned to the income side of the equation and started a ton of different side hustles. They picked up second jobs at their gym, rented out their car on Turo (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/turo-...
41m Apr 01, 2021
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437: Domain Flipping: $70k+/yr Investing in Domain Names Part-Time
Can you still make money in domain flipping? Last year, Mark Levine flipped 70 domain names, for around $160k in gross profit. Of that, he spent a little over half on renewal fees for his domain name portfolio and acquiring new domains to add to it, netting $70-80k for the year. Not bad for a part-time hobby (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/hobbies-that-make-money/) ! In his spare time, Ma...
50m Mar 25, 2021
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436: John Lee Dumas' Advice for Side Hustlers: Be "The Only"
Speedos, systems, and niche strategy -- this episode has it all. John Lee Dumas to share some insights from 2000+ interviews with successful entrepreneurs. (Turns out, I have an informal tradition of hosting John every 4 years. In 2013 we chatted podcasting and monetization (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/how-to-monetize-a-podcast/) , and in 2017 we dove into productivity, discipline, and f...
34m Mar 18, 2021
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435: 10 Steps to Make Time for Your Side Hustle
How do you make time for a side hustle? That's one of the questions I get the most, and one of the reasons we return to the theme of productivity (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/entrepreneurship/productivity/) so often. In this post (and podcast episode), I'll share a 10-step process for making — and optimizing — time for your business, inspired by Side Hustle Show guests. Download the Fre...
36m Mar 11, 2021
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434: $100k in Sales in 9 Months: Instagram, Salami, and Fun
Last May, Monisha Misra reluctantly accepted her first customer. Nine months later, she'd eclipsed $100k in total sales -- all on the side from her day job. BoardsByMo.com (https://www.boardsbymo.com/) is a charcuterie board prep company, and the early success and attention in that arena has spun off other revenue streams including virtual live charcuterie board building classes (https://www.b...
53m Mar 04, 2021
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433: Simple, Local Cash Flow: Are Laundromats the Ultimate Side Hustle?
Are laundromats "the ultimate side hustle," like my guest Jordan Berry described? These simple, local, cash-flowing businesses have been around forever, but surprisingly this is the first time discussing them in detail on the show. Click here to join Side Hustle Nation for free (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/join/) ! Jordan is a former pastor turned laundromat mogul. Along the way, he's b...
46m Feb 25, 2021
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432: How a New Blogger Went from Zero to $200/day in a Year
From burned out freelance writer to making $200+ a day in affiliate sales ... all in less than a year. That’s Tami Smith's story. Tami was writing affiliate content for clients when she had a “why don’t I try that?” moment. Starting in late 2019, Tami went from watching clients make money from the articles she wrote, to making her own affiliate commissions on a site of her own. Her effort a...
47m Feb 18, 2021
47m
431: Fear of Selling, Protecting Ideas, Podcasting and More: 20 Questions with Nick
It’s time to dive into the ol’ listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this week’s edition of The Side Hustle Show. I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show. Click here to join Side Hustle Nation for free (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/join/) ! Here are the questions I cover: How do you get over th...
36m Feb 11, 2021
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430: Built to Sell: How to Design a Business to Run Without You
Service businesses can get a bad rap. After all, there are clients to deal with, and actual labor involved in fulfillment. They’re just not as glamorous as other more “passive” income models (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/passive-income/) . But you should know that more Side Hustle Show guests started with a service-based business model than any other. This week’s guest has a unique appro...
48m Feb 04, 2021
48m
429: The Facebook Funnel: A Proven Path from Strangers to Paying Customers
How does the idea of taking your part-time hobby, and turning it into a full-time income sound? That’s exactly what Carey Adam of RunningMoms.com (https://www.runningmoms.com/) has done. Carey has turned her passion for running and fitness into a full-time business by creating paid products and a membership model. To do this, she tapped into the massive Facebook audience -- over 2 billion pe...
44m Jan 28, 2021
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428: Hot Tub Cash Machine: Zero to $1000s a Month
You’ve heard of Hot Tub Time Machine, but how does Hot Tub Cash Machine sound? That’s effectively the business model this week’s guest, Steve Nadramia. Steve is a high school history and economics teacher in New York, and a listener of the show. He reached out after our Thanksgiving episode (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/creative-side-hustles-3/) , which touched on renting out attic space...
47m Jan 21, 2021
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427: Masterpiece Days: Laying the Groundwork for a Flourishing Life
A masterpiece life starts with masterpiece days stacked on top of masterpiece moments. Whatever your future looks like, to get there you’re going to need to build masterpiece days. To help us build more of those masterpiece days and work toward being the best versions of ourselves in our life and work starting today is Brian Johnson. Brian is a serial entrepreneur who combines ancient wisdom...
53m Jan 14, 2021
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426: My $550k Side Hustle: An Online Business from Idea to Exit
In October, I sold a website. It wasn't a 7-figure, never-work-again type of exit, but when the funds were deposited, it was the largest single amount ever to hit one of my accounts. Over the course of 9 and a half years of running Virtual Assistant Assistant (https://www.virtualassistantassistant.com/) --including the proceeds from the sale--the site generated over $550,000 in revenue. This...
47m Jan 07, 2021
47m
425: Best of 2020: My Top Books, Tools, and Moments of a Wild Year
I know most people are ready to put 2020 behind us for good, but there were some bright spots in the midst of all the craziness. With that in mind, here were some of mine I'd love to share. Full show notes (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/best-of-2020/)
36m Dec 31, 2020
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424: How I Sold 64,000 Pounds of Onions Online: A Creative Drop Shipping Case Study
What comes first, the domain name or the business idea? For Peter Askew, the author of a viral blog post called “I Sell Onions on the Internet (https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/) ,” the answer is always the domain name. Peter is fascinated by expiring domain names and how they’re treated like physical assets. This is how he ended up with VidaliaOnions.com (http...
52m Dec 24, 2020
52m
423: $3500 a Day in Etsy Sales in 6 Months
What started as a 2-week challenge with a friend 6 months ago, has turned into a business processing $3,500 in orders a day! Luke Emery has a background in design and portrait painting. So, he decided to utilize these skills and his e-commerce experience and start a business selling custom pet portraits (https://vanwoof.com/) . Van Woof specializes in putting your dog or cat into a Renaissanc...
40m Dec 17, 2020
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422: $1000 a Week Cash Flow ... from a Semi Truck?
Ever thought about buying a semi truck and renting it out? Yeah, me neither, until I came across Ericka. Apparently there's big money to be made in trucking, but like any other side hustle, there's some strategy, risk, and nuance to the business. Ericka Williams (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxaf18Olr8YRgKcTt7mVuJw) owns 12 of these giant 18-wheelers, which can generate thousands of doll...
40m Dec 10, 2020
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421: $6k a Month Blogging About Gray Hair
Interested in growing a community and building a profitable blog around something you - and most other people - will inevitably go through? That’s exactly what Katie Emery did when she decided to stop dying her hair after 25 years and transition to natural gray hair. Kate had questions about the transition, but couldn’t find the answers she wanted online. In fact, the information she found wa...
49m Dec 03, 2020
49m
420: 11 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money
Our annual Friendsgiving celebration has been put on pause this year, but one tradition lives on. This is year 3 of a special Thanksgiving Side Hustle Show episode showcasing creative side hustle ideas (https://www.sidehustlenation.com/ideas/)  that make real money. If you like this format, I’d love for you to check out the first two in this series -- those are episodes 310 (https://www.sideh...
45m Nov 26, 2020
45m
419: Zero to $50k: How to Grow and Monetize an Email Newsletter
Zero to 55k subscribers and $50k in revenue in 8 months? That’s exactly what Codie Sanchez with Contrarian Thinking (https://contrarianthinking.substack.com/) , her newsletter about investing and entrepreneurship. Codie's a former journalist, turned institutional investor, turned online business owner.  I've thought about content businesses mostly in the context of blogging, podcasting, or v...
46m Nov 19, 2020
46m
418: 21 Little Life Upgrades: Small Optimizations to Improve Your Days
What little purchases or changes have you made that had an outsized impact on your overall happiness? This is something of a sport in our house. Bryn and I kind of joke that we have this mission to optimize everything, whether that’s the: limited space in our house hours in the day money in the bank We've taken great joy in these incremental improvements. We often ask ourselves, “How can ...
36m Nov 12, 2020
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417: Make Money Online: The Freelance Business Blueprint
We’re in the middle of a massive labor shift from employees to entrepreneurs. In this episode, I want to try and equip you with some skills, frameworks, and mindsets to help navigate that shift. If you want to make money online, there are a million ways to get it done, but it usually boils down to one thing: helping people. To help me walk through this stuff I’m joined by Austin L. Church (h...
1hr Nov 05, 2020
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416: Minimum Viable Memberships: Build a Recurring Revenue Online Business
Want to get started with an online business but don’t feel like you’re an expert in anything? Maybe you’ve started a business but you’re struggling to monetize it? A few short years ago, Shane Sams and his wife Jocelyn were school teachers. In their off-hours, they built several successful online businesses, including ElementaryLibrarian.com (https://elementarylibrarian.com/) , which sold fo...
1hr 3m Oct 29, 2020
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415: How a Couple College Students Started a $6000 a Month Side Hustle
Josh Belk is a full-time college student, he works full-time in web design, and in what little spare time, he’s started a $6,000 a month mobile detailing business with his younger brother. This idea came about when Josh connected the dots between obsession and opportunity. On the obsession side, Josh would always see his brother out in the driveway cleaning his car. On the opportunity side, ...
40m Oct 22, 2020
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414: Raising Innovative and Entrepreneurial Kids: The Next Generation of Problem Solvers
How can you instill the skills and values of innovation and entrepreneurship in kids? And if you can teach it to kids, why can’t you teach it to grownups? This week I’m joined by Don Wettrick, an award-winning middle school, and high school teacher and the CEO and co-founder of StartEdUp (https://startedupfoundation.org/) , which has a mission to empower students and teachers to apply innovat...
39m Oct 15, 2020
39m
413: $10k a Month on YouTube - Without Filming or Being on Camera
$18k in 9 months ... from ONE YouTube video? And that's without even filming or putting your face on camera! Jon Corres (https://www.viralvideosuccess.com/) identifies trending topics on YouTube and produces viral videos to ride that trend. Or at least videos he hopes will hit the algorithm just right. It's a numbers game -- not everything you publish will get traction. In fact, Jon said mos...
52m Oct 08, 2020
52m
412: 20 Questions with Nick: The Side Hustles I'm Most Excited About Right Now, Side Hustle Ethics, Charging Your Friends, and More
It’s time to dive into the ol’ listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this week’s edition of The Side Hustle Show. I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show. Like this format? This is the 10th installment of “20 Questions” so feel free to go back and binge on the older ones too: 365: Market Saturation...
37m Oct 01, 2020
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411: $40k a Month in 15-20 Hours a Week
"I allowed the business to to coast and it's coasted wonderfully well," Nate Dodson explained. In this episode you'll hear about the power of an evergreen digital product that makes sales on autopilot. It's allowed Nate to shift his focus to some offline projects, including several real estate renovations. In Nate's first appearance on The Side Hustle Show (episode 314 in late 2018), he share...
23m Sep 25, 2020
23m
410: $50k a Month Online in 2 Years
How does a new blog get to $50k a month within 2 years?  It takes great content, a consistent SEO strategy, and building strong partnerships. When we last heard from Alex and Healy from FinvsFin.com in episode 367 at the very end of 2019, the site was earning around $20k a month in affiliate commissions. Just 9 months later, that's jumped to $50k! Tune in to hear what's changed and what's w...
29m Sep 24, 2020
29m
409: How Matt Tripled His Business
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? Well, when you're a knife sharpener, every house is a potential customer! Matt Rowell was earning $250-500 a month when we caught up in episode 308 back in late 2018. Since then, he's grown to a consistent $1500 a month, working maybe an hour a day. Tune in to hear: The most important new marketing channel for Matt. How the pandemi...
22m Sep 23, 2020
22m
408: $10k a Month Watching Ink Dry
The mobile notary business is booming for Brian Schooley, a long-time Side Hustle Show listener. When we last caught up with Brian in mid-2018 (episode 286), he was earning $1500-2000 a month as a loan signing agent. In this "where are they now?" edition of the show, he shares how he's grown to $10k a month and quit his day job to focus on the notary gig full-time. Tune in to hear: when he f...
20m Sep 22, 2020
20m
407: 135 Recurring Weekly Customers
$1000 a week cleaning backyards? Erica Krupin turned some earbuds at the start of the year with her fast-growing pet waste removal business.  Since we spoke, she's added another 50+ recurring weekly customers and expanded to a new location. Tune in to hear: What's working on social media today. How she's grown 50% in 9 months, in spite of a global pandemic. The software she's testing to m...
21m Sep 21, 2020
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