239: How to Cultivate Creativity Like an Inventor
You can be a creator or a consumer, but it’s the creators that get paid. I’ve argued before that creativity is the most important skill for entrepreneurs because before you can sell anything, you have to create that value proposition. But what if you’re not creative? I believe we all have that innate creative spirit in us somewhere, it’s just a matter of flexing that creative muscle. In this ep...
30m Jul 20, 2017
30m
238: 10 Foundational Hustle Habits to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness
As the author of more than 70 books, Steve "S.J." Scott is one of the most productive and disciplined people I know. His latest title, Habit Stacking, became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and served as the inspiration for this episode. Note: Click here to download the detailed explanation of Steve’s Top 10 hustle habits from this episode. (Long-time listeners might remember Steve from WAY ba...
50m Jul 13, 2017
50m
237: How to Quickly Brainstorm and Validate Business Ideas, with Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan is Chief Sumo and founder of Sumo.com and AppSumo.com. He blogs about his personal and business experiences at OkDork.com, and his new podcast is called Noah Kagan Presents. Noah has built up a number of successful businesses and is always toying with new ideas or looking for the next big business opportunity, so he was the perfect person to brainstorm with. Note: Click here to downl...
59m Jul 06, 2017
59m
236: What I've Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs - Part 4
The best advice from my last 49 guests. 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. I first did this for episode 50, which was my first-ever solo podcast recording, and then ...
23m Jun 29, 2017
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235: Selling Digital Products to Business or Government Clients: An Online Business Success Story with a Twist
As one of several side hustles, Ryan Dowd runs HomelessLibrary.com, a training program that teaches librarians how to confidently and compassionately deal with their homeless patrons. It’s something a little different from the business-to-consumer model we usually see with online course sales and comes with some advantages over the B2C market — namely potentially higher prices and the ability t...
29m Jun 22, 2017
29m
234: Side Hustle Sales Coaching: What Do I Do and Who Do I Do it For?
Listen in on a real life side hustle coaching call with customer acquisition and retention strategist David Hutcherson (he's the client), and sales pro Brendan Alan Barrett (he and I share the coaching duties). On the heels of last week's sales-themed episode, I invited Brendan on because of his sales background both with companies large and small. We're joined by our "client" David, who's seek...
35m Jun 15, 2017
35m
233: How to 10x Your Service Business in Under Two Years
“People don’t buy intellectually, they buy emotionally,” Jim Brown told me. By taking a unique approach, understanding your demographic, and identifying the pain points you can solve, you can attract clients and increase sales. Jim is a former professional wrestler, a Marine Corps vet, a sales coach, and is the founder and host of the SalesTuners podcast at SalesTuners.com. In this year’s surve...
42m Jun 08, 2017
42m
232: Going Big on Medium: How a New Blogger Got His First 6000 Email Subscribers (and Made $10k) in 6 Months
Ben Foley started writing about how to use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety at FullyRichLife.com a little over 6 months ago. Since then, his little side project has generated over 6000 email subscribers and $10,000 in revenue. His secret sauce? Tapping into the big audience of readers on Medium.com. Note: Click here to download Ben’s tips for getting your content in front of huge audien...
34m Jun 01, 2017
34m
231: Affiliate Marketing the Authority Hacker Way: Build a Profitable Website from Scratch
Perrin Carrell is a senior contributing editor at AuthorityHacker and well-known within the internet marketing community for building niche/authority sites. He has built several successful sites from scratch, including one recent project that went from a valuation of $0 to $200,000 in just under 20 months. Note: Click here to download Perrin’s tips for starting an authority site and getting sta...
43m May 25, 2017
43m
230: How 25 Side Hustlers Made Their First Entrepreneurial Income
What's the story of your first job-free income? To celebrate the 4-year anniversary of The Side Hustle Show, the Side Hustle Nation community joined me in creating a really fun episode. I asked people to tell me how they first started making money on the side, and got 25 different voicemails! In this episode, you'll hear first-hand the steps your fellow listeners took to put themselves back in ...
50m May 18, 2017
50m
229: How a Part-Time Podcast Turned into Multiple Streams of Income
Steve P. Young is a side hustler turned full-time entrepreneur. He has hosted more than 500 episodes of the AppMasters podcast, a podcast dedicated to helping app makers get more downloads and sales of their apps. Steve was working full-time when he decided to start his podcast interviewing app developers and putting out content for the app community. Note: Click here to download Steve's tips f...
42m May 11, 2017
42m
228: Facebook Ads 101 for Freelancers and Bloggers
Kamila Gornia is the “Blow Up, Scale Up” Marketing Strategist who helps entrepreneurs blow up and scale up their businesses to become true leaders online. And often that means helping them reach a broader audience on Facebook. Note: Click here to download Kamila’s top Facebook ad tips and strategies from this episode. If you’re a freelancer or blogger, Facebook Ads could be a way to grow your b...
37m May 04, 2017
37m
227: How a Professional Card Counter Beat the Odds in Online Business
Don't you just love a good outsmarting the casino story? Bring me an Ocean’s Eleven, bring me a Bringing Down the House -- I’m all about it. Colin Jones is a professional card counter whose blackjack teams won almost $4 million, and he earned over $500k himself. Now a father of 6, Colin's playing days are mostly over, but he's turned his unique skill into a profitable online business at Blackja...
37m Apr 27, 2017
37m
226: Earn Your First $500 on the Side in the Next 7 Days - No More Excuses!
Scott Voelker is the host of the super popular Amazing Seller podcast, where he’s recorded more than 300 episodes about the Amazon FBA business model. He's a family man and a serial hustler, having been involved with a number of businesses ranging from construction to photography to ecommerce. His latest project is the 1k FastTrack Challenge, where he takes a group of students through the paces...
33m Apr 20, 2017
33m
225: High-Yield Investments in a Low-Yield World
Dr. Kenyon Meadows MD is a practicing Radiation Oncologist by day, but by nights and weekends he’s a self-proclaimed alternative investment enthusiast. His new book is called Alternative Financial Medicine: High-Yield Investments in a Low-Yield World, and you can find out more about Dr. Meadows and his adventures outside the world of traditional stocks and bonds at AlternativeFinancialMedicine....
44m Apr 13, 2017
44m
224: $5k a Month as a Self-Published Author - in Fiction
Derek Murphy's book portfolio is bringing in $5k a month. He's is a world traveler, book cover design extraordinaire, and the author of a dozen different books, mainly in the young adult fantasy genre. A lot of the self-publishing content and interviews on the Side Hustle Show has been related to non-fiction books, and to me, it's a more straightforward process: help someone solve a problem. Fi...
39m Apr 06, 2017
39m
223: How to Turn Your Hobby into an Online Business
Jacques Hopkins is a former full-time engineer who turned his passion for playing piano from a side hustle into a full-time business at the end of 2015. With more time and energy to devote to Pianoin21Days.com, the business continued to reach new heights. It was after reading the entrepreneurial handbook that’s inspired a generation to start side hustles – The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss – ...
34m Mar 30, 2017
34m
222: 5 Real Estate Side Hustles You Can Start on the Cheap
Chad Carson is a 30-something semi-retired real estate mogul, who together with his business partner, oversees a portfolio of 90+ rental units. In fact, he and his wife are in the middle of an exciting adventure — a year abroad in Ecuador with their two daughters. But of course he didn’t start there. Fresh off the football field at Clemson, Chad’s real estate career started more modestly by “bi...
42m Mar 23, 2017
42m
221: Wholesale on Amazon: From Part-Time Hobby to $13 Million in Amazon FBA Sales
Dan Meadors is one-half of TheWholesaleFormula.com. He and his partner Eric Lambert began selling on Amazon as a hobby with an original investment of only $600. They would work nights and weekends buying products on clearance at local retail stores and selling them on Amazon for profit. It took only a few months before they saw the potential to turn this hobby into a business and they both left...
27m Mar 16, 2017
27m
220: SEO for Bloggers: How to Get More Free Traffic to Your Website
Joseph Hogue is a Marine Corps veteran, a former investment analyst, an author, a blogger, a freelancer, and an all-around super smart dude. We met through FinCon and hit it off right away. Maybe because we have the same haircut?? He blogs at MyWorkFromHomeMoney.com (and several other sites) and his latest book is called Google SEO for Bloggers: Easy Search Engine Optimization and Website Marke...
49m Mar 09, 2017
49m
219: Growing Traffic, Monetization, List-Building, a Day in the Life, 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. It's been a few months since the last Q&A show I did and I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since then. I picked 20 to talk through in today's show. A common piece of advice you'll hear is to take audience questions and turn them into content, so here's a me...
37m Mar 02, 2017
37m
How to Build a 6-Figure Side Hustle on Fiverr
Kendell Rizzo made over $100,000 in profit in 18 months part-time selling services, workbooks, and other downloadable products on Fiverr.  In addition to being a 6-figure Fiverr seller, Kendell is a crowdfunding expert, a world traveler, an ironman triathlete, and runs her blog at leadandlaunch.com. Note: Click here to download Kendell’s tips and strategies to maximize your Fiverr Earnings. It’...
32m Feb 23, 2017
32m
217: Crowdfunding 101: How to Raise Money for Your Next Project
Nathan Chan is the founder of FoundrMag.com. The digital magazine started as a side hustle in 2013, and has since transformed into a multi-million dollar media company. Nathan is perhaps best-known for growing his business through Instagram, a platform where Foundr now has almost a million followers. But today I want to dive into a different angle of Nathan’s business, and that’s crowdfunding. ...
32m Feb 16, 2017
32m
216: Merch by Amazon: $53k in T-Shirt Profits in 10 Hours a Week
I’m excited to introduce you to a new Buy Buttons opportunity under the Amazon ecommerce umbrella called Merch by Amazon: it’s a print-on-demand service for t-shirts now (and perhaps other merchandise in the future). My wife and I have already made our first sales on this platform and it's become our latest side hustle obsession. To help me explore this business model, I invited Elaine Heney on...
33m Feb 09, 2017
33m
215: How to Quickly Build an Online Business When You Don't Have an Audience
Mark Wills is a professional notary public loan signing agent. It's something he started doing as a side hustle that eventually turned into a full-time business. While his friend Roman Rosario was between startups, Mark showed him how to do loan signings to make extra money. Note: Click here to download Mark and Roman’s online business quick-start marketing tips from this episode. Loan signing ...
38m Feb 02, 2017
38m
214: Become a Master of Productivity, Discipline, and Focus
John Lee Dumas is the undisputed king of productivity, discipline, and focus--the guy is a machine! John is the host of EOFire, where he interviews today’s most successful entrepreneurs 7-days a week. (I was a guest on episode 932!) JLD has grown EOFire into a multi-million dollar a year business with over 1,500 interviews and 1.5 million monthly listens. His latest project is The Mastery Journ...
36m Jan 26, 2017
36m
213: How to Avoid Conflict of Interest Between Your Side Hustle and Your Day Job
Possessing creative powers beyond those of mere mortals, Don "The Idea Guy" is back to help talk through a common but tricky situation side hustlers run into. You might remember Don from episode 170 of the show, where he gave us his 7 rules for business idea brainstorming and took a few live listener calls as well. This week I invited Don back to help wrestle with the dreaded "conflict of inter...
24m Jan 20, 2017
24m
212: Micro Habits: The Too-Small-to-Fail Plan for Big Results
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." That line from Aristotle may be one of the most overused quotes in history. But it's overused for good reason; it's a good quote. At least the first part. Aristotle was onto something for sure: we are what we repeatedly do. I agree with that 100%. The issue I have is with the second part: Excellence, then, is not an a...
11m Jan 19, 2017
11m
211: Double Your Energy in 7 Days
Perhaps what we need isn't more hours in the day, but more energy in our hours. That's ultimately what this episode is about: feeling better and more alive so we can get more results from our businesses. Yuri Elkaim is a former professional soccer player, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, the author of The All-Day Energy Diet, several other books, and you can find out more about Yuri and his ...
39m Jan 12, 2017
39m
210: Steal This Process: A Step-by-Step System to Consistent $10k Months
Nagina Abdullah turned her weight loss blog, MasalaBody.com, into a 6-figure side business. By day, she works for a large consulting company, and with a busy work schedule, a young family, and limited time to work on her side hustle, Nagina has been very smart about her marketing and pricing. Note: Click here to download Nagina’s sales funnel and high-end coaching tips from this episode. After ...
49m Jan 05, 2017
49m
Amazon FBA Private Label Strategies for 2017 – Featuring Two 7-Figure Sellers
As a private label seller on Amazon, Andy has seen his revenue grow from $400k in year one, to $900k in year two, and he is closing in on $1.8 million for year three! I last spoke with Andy "Slamazon" Slamans on episode 84 of The Side Hustle Show. Back in 2014, Andy was wrapping up his first year as a full-time Amazon seller and on the podcast he shared all his best tips for product research an...
35m Dec 29, 2016
35m
208: Pay Less Taxes - Your Side Hustle Tax Questions Answered
Note: Click here to download Josh's top tax saving tips and advice from this episode. Josh Bauerle is the CPA on fire at cpaonfire.com. Josh specializes in tax preparation, tax planning, booking keeping, and general consulting services to take the accounting side of your business to the next level. Just 30 minutes with Josh about a month ago saved me thousands of dollars, so you owe it to yours...
36m Dec 23, 2016
36m
207: How to Use Video and YouTube to Grow Your Business
Note: Click here to download Thomas' top YouTube tips from this episode. Thomas Frank is the College Info Geek and you can find him at collegeinfogeek.com. Thomas also has a podcast, and a YouTube channel with an impressive following of over 400,000 subscribers and over 14 million views. Thomas’ blogging journey started back in 2010 when he applied to join a team of writers working on a blog in...
43m Dec 22, 2016
43m
206: Go Where the Cash is Already Flowing
I’d like to introduce some of the characters in my latest book Buy Buttons, and also give you a sample of the audiobook version I recorded. I knew I wanted to create an audiobook for this title, because Audible is yet another “Buy Button” marketplace for me to test out, and because I’ve heard audiobooks can actually perform really well for authors. Note: If you’re new to Audible, you can get Bu...
24m Dec 15, 2016
24m
205: From a $1 Million Bankruptcy to $20k in Monthly Recurring Revenue: A Productized Service Case Study
Gabe Arnold is the founder and chief pencil sharpener at CopywriterToday.net, a subscription based article writing service. In his early 20’s Gabe saw his construction business hit by the downturn in the property market to the tune of a $1 million bankruptcy, and began freelancing to support his family. One common hold-up on his website projects was the words to paste into the pages, which gav...
42m Dec 08, 2016
42m
204: Your Legal Questions Answered
As a small business attorney, Elizabeth Potts Weinstein helps entrepreneurs, small business owners, coaches, artists, etc, get all their legal affairs in order so they can focus on their businesses. In this episode, Elizabeth agreed to answer some legal questions from members of the Side Hustle Nation Facebook Group. We cover disclaimers, business registration requirements, entity selection pr...
46m Dec 01, 2016
46m
How to Stop Just Listening to The Side Hustle Show and Start Taking Action
Nothing gives me a shot of inspiration more than when I look at my podcast feed and see episodes like “Zero to 20K a Month” or “Building a Multi-Million Dollar Ecommerce Brand on the Side.” Those are some incredibly sexy and enticing titles, aren’t they? Then, you dive deep and you listen in. You hear Jon Haws say, “Once a book is out there, you’re always making money,” and think to yourself,...
14m Nov 24, 2016
14m
202: Blogging for Recurring Revenue: Turn Readers into Members
Erin Chase is a busy mother of 4, a former teacher, and today runs 5dollardinners.com and the 5dollarmealplan. Back in 2008, after some number crunching Erin was excited at saving 50% on her grocery bills. She shared how she had done this on her family blog, but with a low amount of interest she decided to start her own blog to help others make savings on their own grocery bills. Erin says it...
35m Nov 17, 2016
35m
201: The OPA Plan: How to Borrow Other People’s Audiences to Explode Your Sales
In 2011, Joshua Lisec landed his first freelance gig--on Fiverr of all places. He said he wound up making $1.67 an hour from that job, but it sparked his entrepreneurial journey. Since then, he's gone from "dumpster-diving for clients" to consistently landing 4- and 5-figure contracts and earning $167 an hour on one recent project, effectively 100x-ing his hourly rate. In this episode we take...
39m Nov 10, 2016
39m
200: From Content to Cash Flow – Affiliate Marketing and Automated Sales Funnels
As co-host of the #1 marriage podcast in iTunes, the ONE Extraordinary Marriage show, Tony DiLorenzo speaks to a worldwide audience about sex, love, and commitment. Along with his wife Alisa, their goal is to reach as many couples around the world as they can, equipping them with the tools and strategies they need to create an extraordinary marriage. With a hugely popular blog and podcast, Ton...
48m Nov 03, 2016
48m
199: Building a Blog to $20k a Month and Beyond
You may remember Rosemarie Groner from episode 142 of the Side Hustle Show last year. She revealed how her blog Busy Budgeter was just a year old and receiving around 400,000 pageviews and making around $5k a month -- primarily through Pinterest traffic. It’s almost a year later now and I had to have her back to see how things were progressing. Rosemarie is now regularly making more than $20k ...
37m Oct 27, 2016
37m
198: Blogging, Branding, Book Writing, and Finding the Right Side Hustle for You: 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. It's been 3 months since the last Q&A show I did and I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since then. A common piece of advice you'll hear is to take audience questions and turn them into content, so here's a meta example of that in action.
28m Oct 20, 2016
28m
Prioritization, Elimination, Automation, and Delegation for Side Hustle Nation: A Productivity Roundtable
This week’s episode was something a little different as I was joined by three of my favorite productivity podcasters, Erik Fisher, Mike Vardy, and Paul Minors. Combined they have more than 300 productivity-themed podcasts under their belts and represent 3 different countries! Since getting the most out of our limited time is a ongoing struggle for side hustlers, I invited them on the show for...
54m Oct 13, 2016
54m
I Stopped Chasing Recurring Revenue, and 10x’d My Business
“The conversion rate ended up being about 10 times better than it was before,” Steve Cunningham told me. While attending meetings for the family business Steve would spot some of the business books he had read sitting on the shelves in clients' offices and saw this a good conversation starter. However, he would find out that more often than not that they had not read the books. This presented...
33m Oct 06, 2016
33m
How Book Marketing Really Works: Tips from a 6-Figure Self-Published Author
Last month I compiled a killer round-up post with book launch and marketing tips from 25 authors, entrepreneurs, and leaders in the self-publishing space. When I sent my weekly newsletter out about it, one subscriber replied and said something to the effect of, "That's cute, but let me show you how it really works." As you might have guessed, that subscriber was this week's guest, Adam Houge.
39m Sep 29, 2016
39m
A 6-Figure Amazon FBA Business in 7 Months
"Find a hot trend and piggyback on it," Toni Anderson told me. And that's exactly what she did in launching her ecommerce business last year in the jewelry niche. It's not just generic jewelry, but jewelry designed to specifically ride on the "essential oils" trend. Toni said 90% of her business comes through Amazon vs. her own storefront, but that she and her partner did $190k in sales in th...
39m Sep 22, 2016
39m
Getting Paid to Show Off Your City
On any given weekend in San Francisco, out of earshot from the barking harbor seals at Pier 39 and the clang of the cable cars, a small group of urban hikers are exploring the city from a different vantage point. For three hours, they walk, climb, and even slide their way through historic neighborhoods and scenic outlooks. They’re led by Alexandra Kenin, or one of her carefully selected guides...
36m Sep 15, 2016
36m
Starting an Ecommerce Empire on Etsy
Kara Lamberato is a work-at-home-mom of 2, but runs a successful business in her spare time. Kara's Vineyard Wedding supplies brides with wine-themed wedding decorations, and has shipped thousands of orders. Kara started the business before having kids while she was still working full-time in private banking. The idea came from her own wedding and thinking there might be other brides out there...
38m Sep 08, 2016
38m
Reverse-Engineering a Bestselling Book Launch
Tom Morkes has worked on the book launches for a number of previous Side Hustle Show guests, including John Lee Dumas, Dan Norris, Taylor Pearson, and Neil Patel. What I wanted to do in this conversation was reverse engineer some of the steps that go into producing, launching, and marketing a bestselling book, even you don't have thousands of fans waiting for it. And selfishly, I wanted to ge...
32m Sep 01, 2016
32m
How a Former Hairdresser Turned Her Side Hustle Into a 6-Figure Business
Rachel Pedersen was using social media to bring customers to her hairdressing chair, but never really imagined it would turn into a full-time business of its own. One of her hairdressing clients owned a popular restaurant chain, but was struggling with online marketing and social media. Rachel offered to help and the rest is history. Today her little social media management side hustle is a 6...
33m Aug 25, 2016
33m