699: Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money – Part 8

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0:01:13 Welcome to round eight of creative side hustles that make real money. This is normally a Thanksgiving
0:01:18 tradition on the show, but I’ve seen so many fun ideas come across my desk this year. We just couldn’t
0:01:24 wait. And to help out with this round is someone who’s no stranger to the side hustle world. As the
0:01:30 CEO of Flippa.com, the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses, he’s had a front row seat
0:01:35 to thousands of profitable side projects. Blake Hutchinson, welcome to the side hustle show.
0:01:37 Hey, Nick. Thank you for having me on. This is going to be fun.
0:01:43 I am excited to dive right in. In fact, the first example here, the first side hustle, a profitable side
0:01:49 hustle that I found that checked that creative box was a teenage entrepreneur, 17-year-old student
0:01:55 selling 3D printed croc charms. And this is Michael Satterley of New York. His business is called
0:02:03 Soulfully on track to do $300,000 in revenue this year. And we have a beginner’s 3D printer
0:02:07 downstairs that my wife and the kids have been playing around with. And if I know anything about
0:02:12 the cost of filament, the margins on these little croc charms have got to be really, really strong because
0:02:17 it costs very little to print this stuff. Oh, wow. There we go. Yeah. We’re literally talking
0:02:24 about the croc shoes and he’s turned croc shoes into a charm. Yeah. So he’s added wheels. He’s added
0:02:28 a little V6 engine to the top of the croc in this case. Yeah. So we bring out his website, really
0:02:34 creative kind of stuff. A tractor. What is this? Like an excavator type of handle and a tractor tread
0:02:40 going on underneath. So some creative designs that I’m trying to get my kids into printing stuff like
0:02:45 this. I think there could be some demand for it. Now, I don’t know if he’s selling… Did it start
0:02:51 out just selling these to classmates? Like, look at these creepy toes. Fake toe charms. $10 for these.
0:02:55 Yeah. That’s pretty gnarly. So cool. And as you said, the margin must be high because the actual
0:03:05 price points are relatively low. He’s got one pack for $9.99 there and a two pack for $16. So the fact
0:03:11 that he’s doing them for a relatively low cost must mean that he can clearly print and fulfill for
0:03:15 relatively low cost as well. As you said, probably quite high margin.
0:03:22 Yeah. Estimating cost of material here, probably $0.25. So he’s got some good margins there.
0:03:26 Obviously selling through this store. I wonder if he’s selling on Etsy as well. I don’t know if this
0:03:33 article says anything about that. TikTok shop and Instagram have been everything for me. So he’s the
0:03:38 natural virality built into it where people say, hey, I got to get that impulse buy type of price
0:03:43 point and go into town on social media. He’s clearly a very creative guy because he’s got
0:03:49 a really large number of designs. Actually, he’s selling through TikTok and no doubt other social
0:03:56 communities. He certainly has a lot of reviews. So 390 reviews of which the vast majority are a five
0:04:02 star. So clearly doing a good job. See what the size of his Instagram following is. Yeah. He’s got
0:04:05 109,000 followers, which is actually, well, very impressive.
0:04:12 Yeah. He’s done well over there. These are relatively simple designs. A 3D printer might
0:04:19 cost $300, $400, maybe $500 if you have a higher end one capable of doing multi-colors, something like
0:04:24 this. So somebody else could easily come up with their own designs and create something very similar
0:04:27 here. So that was the first one that I came across for this list.
0:04:29 Very cool. $20,000 a month.
0:04:31 All right. Anything that you found?
0:04:38 The first one that I’ve got here is an Amazon Kindle publishing business. So first and foremost,
0:04:43 let’s just talk about what Amazon Kindle publishing is. So within the Amazon ecosystem,
0:04:49 you can publish digital books and those digital books can be downloaded to a Kindle. And so that’s
0:04:53 Kindle publishing. And Kindle publishing is like the rest of the Amazon ecosystem. It’s a marketplace.
0:05:00 So these are independent publishers. They pick a subject matter. They produce the content and then
0:05:05 they publish to the Kindle publishing store. And as a result of that, end up making revenues from when
0:05:12 they sell via the Amazon marketplace. So the one I found is basically a Kindle publishing set of books
0:05:20 about the outdoors and RVs and national parks and anything outdoors. It’s been around for just over a year
0:05:28 year. And it’s actually making $4,000 a month in profit. So that’s pretty good because the price of
0:05:34 the goods, and this is coincidental, but the price of the goods is just short of $10. So similar to the
0:05:40 Crocs accessories business that you just had a look at there. But I think what’s really cool about this is
0:05:46 that Amazon Kindle publishing is quite accessible. And so if you’ve got a passion for something,
0:05:51 you can publish a book and then you work the Amazon ecosystem, much like you would a search engine. So
0:05:57 you optimize your titles, you optimize your content, you choose your price points, and you try to win
0:06:03 over the customer base searching through the Kindle publishing ecosystem. So in this particular case,
0:06:10 it’s 12 titles. So they didn’t just produce one title, it’s 12 titles. And said outdoor adventures,
0:06:11 nature guides, travel books.
0:06:15 Is he writing the stuff himself? Hiring ghostwriters, using AI? What do you think?
0:06:20 Yeah, let’s have a look on all copyright certificates written originally. So yeah,
0:06:25 looks like he or she has written them himself. Could be that they’ve got a passion for this particular
0:06:32 subject matter or industry. Could be that they have edited themselves, but actually got other people
0:06:35 to write it for them. I must admit, I’m not 100% sure on that.
0:06:40 Well, to crank out 12 books in a year is like, that’s some heads down effort. And maybe there
0:06:44 was an existing body of content to pull from and maybe there was some AI assistance.
0:06:48 Yeah, yeah, that’s right. I mean, you know, I think the thing is probably one subject matter,
0:06:52 two business model, and then yeah, you can figure out whether you can write the content yourself or
0:06:57 get somebody else to write it with you. And as you said, complimented by AI. So long as people continue
0:07:01 to buy it, then it doesn’t really matter whether it’s written with AI, so long as you probably
0:07:04 disclose that. And so long as the readership actually continues to buy it.
0:07:09 It’s something somewhat of a timely or timeless topic. People are probably going to want the
0:07:14 25, 20, 26 travel guide, travel edition. And so maybe there’s some level of refreshing and
0:07:18 republishing that has to happen here. But it’s a topic, it’s a subject matter that can have a long
0:07:23 shelf life. I was listening to this interview with Robert Green. He’s like, well, 48 Laws of Power
0:07:29 came out 25 years ago and it still sells. It’s an atomic habits, another example. Even though it
0:07:34 launched four or five years ago, maybe even longer, it still sells. It still sits on top of the
0:07:39 chart. So there’s something to self-publishing or publishing in general where a book can have a
0:07:45 really long shelf life. One issue that you alluded to is, well, it’s accessible to everyone. It’s like,
0:07:50 it’s good and bad. It’s like, it really floods the marketplace. It crowds the marketplace with a bunch
0:07:54 of maybe less than optimal content. Over long periods of time, the cream rises to the top,
0:07:59 but it’s hard to get noticed if there’s a lot of other books on the same topic.
0:08:02 And that’s an important point about a KDP business. In fact, probably any business really,
0:08:07 but you’ve got to establish credibility. Although once you do, Nick, I’m sure you and I would both
0:08:13 agree that it’s hard to get unseated. So in this particular case, it looks like he’s got 66 reviews
0:08:20 all around the sort of four and a half to five star mark. And as we spoke about, this is mostly
0:08:23 evergreen content because the national parks don’t change that much.
0:08:31 So as I said, the definitive RV camping guide to all 63 US national parks, he’s found a niche,
0:08:37 which is a big niche. And there’s no doubt a large community of people that are consistently
0:08:41 looking for this type of content. Yeah. I like self-publishing as a side hustle. It’s,
0:08:47 you know, one of my longest running side hustles started in 2012. And the thrill of the first Amazon
0:08:51 royalty direct deposit of like $42 or something in my case, but it was like,
0:08:54 I’m a professional author. Somebody bought my book. Like it was really cool.
0:08:58 I’m going to have added to the portfolio over that time. That’s almost where I see people
0:09:03 doing that. If you, if you hit the lottery and you find that title that, that sticks and continually
0:09:08 sells, that’s the dream, right? If it can generate that $4,000 a month through this portfolio of 10 or
0:09:15 12 titles. Awesome. What I’ve seen more often is kind of this natural decay, this natural decline,
0:09:19 this fall off. And it’s like, well, I got to keep writing another title or it’s at the top of the
0:09:25 funnel into my broader business. And maybe they offer RV, maybe there’s some affiliate play. Maybe
0:09:30 they offer some relationships with the campgrounds or I don’t know if the national park has some kind
0:09:34 of referral program or what, how that might even work, but like maybe it’s a front end or it’s a
0:09:39 top of the funnel to a, to a broader based business. But no, I absolutely love tapping into the power of
0:09:43 Amazon as a discovery engine. Yeah. I think you’re touching on a few things. So if you’re looking to
0:09:50 start a side hustle, tapping into an existing platform that has a large community is a really
0:09:56 good way to fast track access to a customer base. And often that’s the hardest thing. You and I can
0:10:01 both come up with a few concepts, but actually winning over a community, much like your Crocs
0:10:05 accessories fellow from before, it’s difficult to build that community. Actually, he’s clearly a very
0:10:10 creative and clever guy being able to build a community of that size. If you don’t think you can
0:10:15 do that, tapping into an existing ecosystem. So there’s the Amazon ecosystem, there’s the Etsy
0:10:21 ecosystem. You know, if you’re looking at something that is on the, in the content space, like a
0:10:25 newsletter, there’s the sub stack ecosystem where people are actually searching for newsletters
0:10:29 around particular subject matter. So tapping into something to win over an audience is a good way to
0:10:35 go. Yeah. What the Crocs guy did a good job of was kind of creating that demand, which I think is a lot
0:10:39 harder than filling demand on particular platforms and search engines. People are already searching
0:10:46 for this thing. I can optimize my product to get in front of those people instead of did anybody wake
0:10:51 up in the morning thing? Like I really need a tank themed Crocs charm excavator thing that hooks off my
0:10:57 toes. Probably not. But once they see it, they’re in for it. The next one I have, this is an older
0:11:05 example. This is from probably 2023 and it’s called the userisdrunk.com. And I’m not sure if this service is
0:11:12 still active, but it is thousand dollar drunk website audits. The idea here is your website should
0:11:18 be so simple. A drunk person should be able to use it. And I think he has a sister site called like
0:11:23 the userisyourmom or something where he gets his mom. I don’t think he gets his mom drunk, but he gets
0:11:28 his mom to like try and audit the website and figure out what am I supposed to do on this page? Like the
0:11:33 user navigation flow. And so I, I want to say it was a thousand dollars, but it could, this kind of had a
0:11:38 viral moment 10, 12 years ago. And so I’m not sure if he’s still active on it. And there’s like a
0:11:42 disclaimer about like, yeah, it’s how healthy is this for you? How many of these can you legitimately do
0:11:47 in an evening before it gets to be too much, but kind of a creative positioning. Cause I was, I was
0:11:51 actually selling these, you know, five minute website audits on Fiverr back in the day, probably around
0:11:57 the time that this, that this came out. And, you know, here I was charging, you know, at a minimum
0:12:02 five dollars and he’s got much higher pricing power because of this kind of unique positioning and kind
0:12:09 of this viral marketing moment. And so maybe that’s the takeaway is like, what is a service that already
0:12:15 exists that I could put a unique spin on and not saying you should resort to alcohol to put for that
0:12:20 unique spin, but it was a creative example of doing that. Plus, you know, it’s a legitimately valuable
0:12:24 service other than the fact that he’s, he claims to be getting very drunk before he looks at your
0:12:30 website. Getting someone to actually review your site from a usability standpoint is something that
0:12:35 more site and business owners should actually be doing. Yeah, totally. So valuable service. Oh yeah,
0:12:42 here it is. Userismymom.com. So a couple, a couple of different ones on there. What we’ve done
0:12:48 in the past is like, if you’re looking for different services, you could just go onto Fiverr,
0:12:53 you can go onto Upwork and just like scroll through. There’s like hundreds and hundreds of
0:12:59 categories. So if I hit like talent marketplace, I’ll see all specializations. Yeah. And you can
0:13:06 pop open each one of these and it’s like, there’s dozens under each one. So it’s a brainstorming tool
0:13:10 to be like, well, shoot, I could do that. And then maybe you pair that. Well, what’s a unique spin or
0:13:15 what’s a unique target demographic that I could offer that service to? Yeah. I think this is an
0:13:20 important point because side hustle is side income. So if you’re listening in, you’re a bookkeeper
0:13:26 and you’re working for someone as a bookkeeper, you could, in theory, as Nick just said, list yourself
0:13:31 as a bookkeeping specialist on Upwork or Fiverr and no doubt earn some side income. Similarly, if you’re
0:13:37 a copywriter at a digital agency, you can list yourself on a marketplace like this and actually earn
0:13:42 side income. So it’s important to tap into the skillset you already have. Yeah. Drunk bookkeeping,
0:13:47 probably not the one that people want to sign up for, but maybe pivot that one to do a different,
0:13:53 you know, I do bookkeeping for Amazon sellers, for KDP author, you know, for something, you know,
0:13:58 some specific user. All right. That was number three for me. What’s next for you? More creative
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0:16:30 Yeah. So YouTube channels, I think important piece, again, to think about this from a platform
0:16:36 standpoint. So YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. And so as a result of that,
0:16:42 you’ve got a very large user base searching for content across absolutely everything from news and
0:16:49 politics to sport and travel. And as a result of that, it has spawned a massive creator ecosystem.
0:16:58 And if you are able to produce content, obviously either shooting content and or yourself, much like
0:17:04 Nick and I are doing here talking about subject matter, you can find that in short order, you can
0:17:12 amass a community of followers and then start to earn income from the YouTube ad engine. So the one that
0:17:19 I wanted to show here today is called Latest Hoops. And I’m sure you can probably all guess what that’s
0:17:28 going to be about. But Latest Hoops is a YouTube channel here, which is all about basketball, claims to be
0:17:33 the best basketball channel on YouTube. You can see here the ultimate hub for all things NBA and
0:17:38 WNBA. Stay ahead with the latest basketball news, exclusive gossip, et cetera. And basically what
0:17:44 they are then doing is producing and pulling together content about either, in this particular case,
0:17:49 they’ve pulled together some content from NBA legends. In this particular case, they’ve got Michael
0:17:54 Jordan versus Larry Bird. They’ve talked about NBA players’ careers that have been destroyed by
0:18:01 girlfriends. NBA players react to their NBA 2K22 ratings. So it’s all sorts of content that he’s
0:18:07 curated. It’s not original content. He’s cut it to fit within a particular topic. And so you can do
0:18:11 that as well for something that you’re particularly passionate about. Now, the critical thing in here is
0:18:18 what he’s trying to do is drive video views. So you can see here, the NBA legends won 8.6 million views.
0:18:24 You can see talking about serious scale here, published three years ago. And as a result of
0:18:30 that, he’ll be earning ad income. So it’s a really, really fast growing asset class for one of a better
0:18:35 description. We actually see a lot of these now exiting on Flipper, Nick. So it’s something which
0:18:40 not only is lucrative to build, but then lucrative to exit as well.
0:18:45 Yeah, it looks like this is a faceless channel where he’s just pulling in existing clips,
0:18:50 existing content, repackaging them in a unique way and trying to hit that viral wave.
0:18:54 Yeah, totally. And it’s important that people understand you have to start from something
0:18:59 small, even the stuff that this individual, he or she is posting. It’s not like he’s getting
0:19:07 amassing amazing view counts on his new stuff. So it’s not like it instantly goes viral. He has to
0:19:13 work on the content and figure out the algorithms over time and then resurface it and advertise it
0:19:17 through his other videos too. So his first, his most recent video here, three weeks ago,
0:19:23 it’s only got 327 views. Some of his more popular videos have got two and 3 million views. So you’ve
0:19:28 got to work at that algorithm. Totally. One strategy that we’ve seen is looking at what videos have done
0:19:34 well for other similar creators and trying to create something tighter, better, funnier, you know,
0:19:38 fill in the blank, but trying to look instead of coming up with something completely on my own, like
0:19:44 the algorithms already spoken. This was a hit. Like let’s, let’s try and tap into that and then maybe
0:19:51 even draft or ride the coattails off of that existing content. So I’m, I pulled up social blade as an
0:19:57 estimator for latest hoops and says it can be earning up to $40,000 a year in, uh, in ad revenue from,
0:20:04 from that type of content. We’ve done a couple episodes on faceless YouTube channels. And what’s
0:20:09 kind of interesting now is we did one and then we did an update like a year later, peak, you know,
0:20:16 AI wave. And it’s like script writing is AI, you’re pulling in, you know, video editing is clear, you know,
0:20:21 idea generation, you’ve got to seed it, but that’s AI. It was like a thumbnail design AI. It was kind of
0:20:26 really interesting to see like pretty low overhead type of business. Now, of course, like the Kindle
0:20:30 publishing example, low overhead equals lots of competition. So you’d think, well, what’s the
0:20:34 secret sauce that I’m bringing to the table? Particular passion about basketball, particular
0:20:39 insider secrets, like, you know, can I do this game better than everybody else who’s trying to do this
0:20:44 game? And I think that’s how you’re going to win. And it’s a really important point because side hustle
0:20:51 doesn’t mean no work or passive income. You’ve got to continually produce this content. Now, as you
0:20:55 said, it’s faceless. He’s just taking clips and editing and cutting them, but you’ve got to know how to
0:21:02 edit in the car. Absolutely. All right. Next one up for me is a headline that I found. It was called,
0:21:10 I made $40,000 selling plush dolls that I get out of claw machines, which the skill tester first.
0:21:18 Yes. So this guy apparently became very adept at winning claw machines. And here’s how I turned
0:21:23 this into a profitable hobby. Now, the first thing that comes to mind is like, if you’re going to resell
0:21:29 these things anyway, like you could probably get them on Alibaba or you’d probably get them somewhere
0:21:35 else from some wholesaler for about what you’re paying in claw machine. So without having to go
0:21:41 spend hours at the arcade thing, he’s like, okay, I sell average $20 in sales per day and it costs me
0:21:48 $3 to $7 per win. So if I sell that for 25, the ROI is significant. I’m not debating the ROI. I’m saying
0:21:53 there might be a simpler inventory acquisition method. I think this is hilarious. My average arcade
0:21:59 session costs between $150 to $200. So you’d have to know that you’re very good at the game. And
0:22:05 clearly he does. He’s probably spent a lot to get to this point. But as you say, Nick, there’s probably
0:22:10 easier ways to get access to their plush toys. However, it could be that the reason he’s selling
0:22:13 them and having the success selling them is the story behind how he gets them.
0:22:19 Sure. Yeah, maybe so. Or if you have a unique collector’s item type of thing,
0:22:24 you could only win it in a claw machine. And I happen to be very good at that. Yes, I spend $150
0:22:32 to $200 in a session and it takes sometimes hours. I don’t know. It sounds like it’s time consuming,
0:22:39 but I can walk away with $300 to $500 in resale value. So yes, this pencils out to be a profitable
0:22:46 gig. And maybe this was your hobby. Maybe you learned this skill and you really enjoy the thrill of doing
0:22:50 it and beating the system here. So good. So good. These people are so creative in their
0:22:55 ability to make money. Yeah. I love a bringing down the house, you know, beating the casino type
0:23:00 of story. Like I feel like these claw machines are rigged against you. So I do like how he’s getting
0:23:07 one up on the arcade. All right. What else have you got? So the next one I’ve got is just the newsletter
0:23:15 ecosystem is alive and well. So this one’s called Remote Work Opportunities and it’s a beehive
0:23:23 newsletter. So beehive is a platform that enables you to publish. It’s like Substack and both Substack
0:23:28 and beehive make publishing newsletters very, very simple. So you don’t need to know how to use a CRM
0:23:35 or anything like that. You basically create a post and then it’ll allow you to set up a subscription
0:23:41 form, i.e. what is your email address? And then people will subscribe and you can either charge them
0:23:46 and they have an inbuilt merchant layer or you can make it free and then earn added income so long as
0:23:52 you get a massive following. And this is a classic case of do something that you know and do something
0:23:57 that you are passionate about. In this particular example, I found a newsletter which is just about
0:24:05 remote work opportunities. Now, clearly remote work right now is very much flavor du jour. It’s a big
0:24:09 industry. People want to work from different parts of the world, different parts of the country,
0:24:15 depending on where you are. And this particular newsletter is all about remote jobs and tips
0:24:21 to help you hustle remotely and grow your career. And so it’s set up on beat. He’s publishing,
0:24:26 well, maybe two or three times a month. And so, you know, find work at jubel.com,
0:24:31 use microtransitions to save you from burnout. And this one is fine works at the mum project,
0:24:36 knowing the value of friction mapping, discover remote friendly jobs on the mum project.
0:24:43 And also, there are lots of services now that you can curate together to publish this content and
0:24:47 actually appeal to a large audience that’s looking for one distinct place where they can go and find
0:24:52 out a bit of this stuff. So I found this quite interesting. Now, he’s making money from ad revenue.
0:24:57 And so it’s a combination of ad revenue plus affiliate revenue. So when people click off to
0:25:04 one of these job sites to get the job, he’ll be making money from those affiliate clicks when they
0:25:11 convert into leads and to actual job applications. So clever and right within the sphere of the remote
0:25:13 work industry, which is very big right now.
0:25:17 Are you seeing any newsletters like this one sell through the Flippa platform?
0:25:24 Yes. I think publishing, generally speaking, is still very attractive. You and I are very familiar
0:25:30 with the blog and the blogger environment. And blogs are a little bit on the nose just as a function of
0:25:38 not quite knowing how the Google search, the SEO realm is going to work, not necessarily trusting the ad
0:25:44 revenue streams that have historically been so promising and evergreen. So between YouTube channels,
0:25:51 KDP and newsletters, they are three fast growing categories generally in the world, but also for
0:25:59 Flippa. So short answer is yes, we probably trade maybe 15 to 20 newsletters a month selling for
0:26:04 between 10,000 and maybe up to half a million dollars. And it all comes down to the size of
0:26:06 the community and the engagement level of the readership.
0:26:12 Yeah, that makes sense. And it’s something that here is branded as remote work opportunity and not,
0:26:17 you know, Blake’s remote work newsletter or something. It’s like, it’s not personally branded,
0:26:23 so there’s opportunity. The challenge is, is the writing team, you know, whoever’s putting this
0:26:29 together, like how hands off is it really for the owner? Did I just buy myself a job, especially if
0:26:34 it’s like a daily or weekly recurring newsletter, I got to recreate the product every time I want to hit
0:26:40 send. Yeah, that’s right. And I think in this particular case, he will be using a network of
0:26:44 writers that he’s probably amassing. My guess is from Fiverr or Upwork, just as you were browsing
0:26:50 around before. So he’s got a concept, he’s probably got a standard operating process or procedure,
0:26:56 and he then farms that SOP out to various writers and has them produce the content.
0:27:02 In his particular case, I mean, this is the perfect side hustler. He basically introduces himself and
0:27:07 says, I love launching online projects and building passive income streams. I’m stretched a bit thin at
0:27:11 the moment with all of the projects I’m doing. So I’m selling a few of my different newsletters.
0:27:15 So he’s got a business newsletter, he’s got a local media newsletter, he’s got this remote jobs
0:27:18 newsletter. And that’s his thing. That’s what he knows.
0:27:23 Yeah, if you can figure out how to acquire a subscriber base and do it profitably. I mean,
0:27:28 we did an episode on a local newsletter where it ended up, when we recorded, almost half the town,
0:27:32 population-wise, was subscribed to this guy’s newsletter. It’s like, on the one hand,
0:27:37 that’s pretty cool penetration. On the other hand, it’s like, well, there’s a natural ceiling of how big
0:27:43 this thing could have been going to be. But he was like, I have five spots per send, I can send five a
0:27:48 week. And it’s like, you know, he kind of had hit that magic, you know, $1 per subscriber per month
0:27:54 metric. And it was, you know, really, you know, pretty profitable business. It’s like, yeah, there’s
0:28:00 something to this. And as a reader, super valuable to land in my inbox. If you’re going to do the work
0:28:05 of curating everything for me and summarizing just what I need to know, like, good for you. I think
0:28:11 that’s really, really cool. I mean, the whole daily newsletter thing for a local city at Geo
0:28:17 has been well-trodden. Back in 2000, there was a business started called Daily Candy. It was a
0:28:23 daily newsletter that provided readers with information about hip and trendy events in their
0:28:29 city. Now, it started in New York City. And it was New York City only for a very, very long time.
0:28:37 And obviously, good city to build a what’s new and what’s upcoming content around because there’s
0:28:44 so much happening in New York City. But it eventually expanded to over 12 US cities and then sold to
0:28:51 Comcast for $125 million. And they ultimately ended up shutting. That was 2008. They ultimately ended up
0:28:56 shutting down in 2014. But the point about local following is the great thing about it is when you
0:29:02 hit that ceiling, you can expand to another geo. And so, this person can do that. And that’s the
0:29:06 thing I tend to like about local content. It’s kind of infinitely scalable in that regard.
0:29:12 Yeah. There’s the next town over, the next city over. There’s a big opportunity to kind of fill the
0:29:20 void left by local news reporting, local newspapers on the decline. You could be the thing. And what was
0:29:25 interesting, and this might appeal to a certain personality type, it’s like, he would roll in and
0:29:30 people would be like, you’re the Instagram guy. You show up to these local networking parties and
0:29:34 stuff. Oh, because he had a decent Instagram following. And he’s like, that’s the social proof
0:29:39 side. The Instagram account makes no money, right? But people see it and they’re like, hey, 30,000
0:29:43 followers. This guy must be legit. It’s like, no, no, no. The newsletter is where it’s at. The newsletter is
0:29:47 what makes all the money. But if you want to be that person, become kind of the voice for your
0:29:52 local community, a really powerful place to play. Now, what I was thinking about and what I would
0:29:58 like to build is I think there’s going to be a way to build kind of an AI listening agent and give it
0:30:04 150, 200 different sources to pay attention to, to come up with lists like this one. What are the
0:30:10 coolest side hustles out there that people are talking about this week? You can, you know, I got to
0:30:15 believe that I could build a tool to do that. And maybe that fuels podcast content. Maybe that fuels
0:30:18 newsletter content, but that’s where I would like to go with this one.
0:30:22 Well, maybe it’s a learning tool, actually, Nick. That’s a really cool idea. People could subscribe
0:30:28 to that. And it’s just this ongoing feed of the best side hustle ideas and how those people make money.
0:30:30 That’s a very cool concept. I actually think people would like that.
0:30:35 All right. Well, yeah, you heard it here first. Don’t steal it before I get to it. It might be a
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0:33:03 All right, next one on my list is Skin Colored Socks. This is another e-commerce example on track to hit
0:33:08 seven figures next year. Although that’s a lot of projecting out into the future. Who knows what the
0:33:13 future holds? But this is a business that’s been going for quite a while, but a younger entrepreneur
0:33:21 who wanted some skin toned colored socks called Nude Socks.com socks with an X. So really creative
0:33:26 e-commerce business example of solving a personal pain point.
0:33:32 I absolutely love it. The thing about e-commerce is so long as you’ve got something creative and a story
0:33:37 behind how you came up with it, looks like they were on Shark Tank. Is that correct?
0:33:40 I think she was inspired by watching Shark Tank.
0:33:46 Got it. Started the brand with $10,000. You know, key point there. You can start these things with
0:33:47 relatively small amounts of money.
0:33:55 Yeah. Started at 18 years old, no outside funding and just kind of slowly leveling up. It sounds like
0:34:00 year after year. And this is typical of a lot of e-commerce brands where it’s once I have product
0:34:06 market fit and I sell through that initial order, that initial inventory. I got to plow it all back
0:34:12 into more. I got to hit. I know I got to replenish. I got to restock. I got to add more SKUs. And it
0:34:17 could be a while before you really draw a salary or take any money off the table, but you can kind of
0:34:19 plow that forward and build the equity value of the business too.
0:34:25 Also unlikely to get disrupted fast though too, right? It’s not like AI is going to suddenly take
0:34:29 market share away from the nude socks niche.
0:34:37 Yeah. Oh, we launched a partnership with QVC this year, sold 500 pairs of socks per minute. Okay. So
0:34:44 I imagine QVC gets pitched by a lot of product creators, but she cut through the clutter and
0:34:45 sold some socks on TV.
0:34:52 That’s awesome. Love it. And of course, e-commerce, once you’ve got an established
0:34:56 base of customers, once you’ve figured out the logistics and the inventory side of it,
0:35:02 you can expand into new ranges and start to tap into the existing community. And then of course,
0:35:06 you know, I should say, sorry, the blatant plot, but there’s a lot of buyers who are
0:35:11 looking to acquire e-commerce businesses that have found some sense of scale.
0:35:15 Yeah. Well, I feel like the Amazon roll-up business has kind of come and gone,
0:35:20 but you still see some demand on the buy side for more diversified e-com shops.
0:35:27 Absolutely. It’s still the number one most searched for asset type on Flipper is e-commerce
0:35:28 and specifically direct-to-consumer Shopify.
0:35:31 What do you think is driving that? That’s interesting.
0:35:37 So we’ve met a lot of SaaS founders recently who are moving into e-com. We’ve met a lot of online
0:35:43 publishers moving into e-com. I think that the interesting thing about SaaS right now is people
0:35:49 are a little bit worried about how easy it is to spin up SaaS tooling using AI. And so differentiation
0:35:54 is going to be harder and a lot of the existing SaaS businesses are getting disrupted. Content’s
0:35:59 difficult because clearly the content itself can get disrupted by AI. The Google landscape
0:36:07 is shifting fast. E-com feels like it’s untouched by AI right now. You can use AI to optimize your
0:36:14 workflows, but as it relates to what you sell and people’s demand for it, that’s not shifting and
0:36:19 that’s not declining at the same pace as we’re seeing other business models get hit and or
0:36:26 decline. So I think it’s weirdly the most defensible small business model right now.
0:36:32 Yeah. Physical goods, changing hands, unlikely to be, yeah, until you can 3D print those nude
0:36:35 socks at home. You got to buy them from somebody.
0:36:38 You got to buy them from somewhere and we still all need to wear socks.
0:36:44 There you go. So it’s interesting to hear that of all the ones, yeah, like a little bit
0:36:48 gun shy around software right now. It’s like people could recreate some of these tools on their own.
0:36:54 But if you have an e-commerce store with, you know, proven consistent sales, I imagine if it’s a
0:37:00 subscription e-com, like even better is it’s like, okay, what is the, you know, what’s the sales cycle
0:37:04 here? How are people discovering this? You know, what’s the ad spent, you know, what’s, you know,
0:37:10 all of these different metrics that people are going to look into, but let somebody else take
0:37:16 that risk of the initial inventory, the product market fit, like the, you know, let them do all
0:37:20 the hard part. And you’re like, okay, it’s already selling now, or it’s already, it’s already proven
0:37:24 out. And I can come in as an investor and maybe you have some next level, you know, marketing and
0:37:26 operations chops that you can apply to it.
0:37:31 Speaking of next level marketing, I’ve got one more example of a really cool side hustle if you’re,
0:37:32 if I’ve got time.
0:37:33 Okay, do it.
0:37:44 So this one is called Geometry Spot. And the thing about Geometry Spot is the clever world from
0:37:50 which this has been built around. So hopefully you can see my screen here, but this says the inside,
0:37:58 the chaotic world of kids trying to play video games on their school laptops. And basically it goes on to
0:38:03 talk about Geometry Spot. Now Geometry Spot is a simple looking website. It says here,
0:38:08 as you would expect that it’s all about geometry, exploring the geometry of circles, tangents,
0:38:13 introduction to trigonometry. Now, of course, what is interesting about this, Nick, is see this little
0:38:16 button on the right-hand side? It says Activities.
0:38:26 When I click it, this becomes a games portal. And so kids in school and or at home are pretending to do
0:38:34 homework and or work on their geometry and clicking the Activities button and ultimately playing Roblox or
0:38:41 any of the other games that are here. Now, what is phenomenal about this is just the scale at which
0:38:50 this business is operating. So this particular business has just short of five million page views
0:39:03 a month. It is making $50,000 monthly clear on ad revenue. And he has most of the kids across most of
0:39:10 the high schools in the US using his site at some point in time in any given year or month. So 110
0:39:17 million page views across his websites, quite a big social following and huge explosive revenue growth,
0:39:23 261% revenue growth in the past six months as more and more kids across high schools in the US
0:39:26 have flocked to his sites, which of which one of them is Geometry Spot.
0:39:33 So it’s like a fake site that looks like I’m learning geometry. And I guess I can hit a quick
0:39:37 button real quick if the teacher’s looking over my shoulder and it would go back to that screen.
0:39:38 That’s exactly right.
0:39:44 Gosh, there was something called like emergency button or boss button or something. And it was just like,
0:39:48 it would bring up a spreadsheet, like a complicated looking spreadsheet, like for somebody to walk by.
0:39:50 I guess this is the high school equivalent of that.
0:39:56 Back in the day, I can’t remember what it was. I think I’m going to say 2005 or 6. So a long time
0:40:02 ago, 20 years ago. And Expedia had this kind of Excel button on the top right-hand side. So you’d
0:40:10 be planning your travel at work. And if you press this Excel spreadsheet formula thing and you’d press
0:40:14 it, it would suddenly bring up like an Excel template with a complex set of formulas and a bunch
0:40:21 of data inputs. Anyway, very cool concept. He’s a 16-year-old kid. He’s just outside New York City,
0:40:25 somewhere in New York. And I met him once. He came along to a dinner with his father.
0:40:32 Really creative guy, makes a ton of money and is pretty happy earning a side income, albeit he’s
0:40:34 not the teacher’s pet, that’s for sure.
0:40:38 Did he mention how he got the initial traction to generate that kind of traffic?
0:40:45 I think that this is virality at its best because when I look at his Google Analytics here, which I
0:40:52 can see on Flipper, it’s all organic search. So if I look at this, 73% of his traffic is organic
0:40:59 search, 25% of it is direct. And most of it, 95% of it is US.
0:41:02 Do you think people are looking at how to learn geometry or people are looking for like games
0:41:03 portal or something?
0:41:08 I think games portal. And so I think what’s happening here, in fact, I’ve got his keywords.
0:41:12 I’ll tell you what his keywords are. Top organic keywords is his brand keyword, geometry spot.
0:41:19 The other keywords that he’s ranking for are games and game shop and things like that. So he’s
0:41:29 winning the search game. But I think if I go back to the Vice article, it talks, so he’s 16-year-old,
0:41:33 Jerry is his name. And it was a function of building a YouTube channel. And one of the
0:41:37 comments said, why don’t you add games to it that we can all play while we’re in school?
0:41:47 And from there, he’s added the games link and it’s gone viral. It started to get spread throughout the
0:41:48 high schools of the US. Interesting.
0:41:54 He says, yeah, I was in class and some kid was on my website. I’m like, oh my God, you’re on geometry
0:41:59 spot. And my geometry teacher looked up and he says, I made that one. And my geometry
0:42:04 teacher said, so you write stuff about geometry? And he said, no, it’s a gaming website. And she
0:42:05 started laughing.
0:42:09 And that’s so funny. Our kids play this game called Geometry Dash. And I was like, hey,
0:42:14 it sounds like a math game. Knock yourself out. And it’s like, it has nothing to do with geometry.
0:42:20 So maybe there’s some overlap there. I mean, it’s hard to bank on virality, but you build something
0:42:25 useful. You tell a good story around it. And I like this part about listening to the audience.
0:42:29 Hey, I pivoted. I started with something else. And then it turned into this other thing that had a
0:42:32 turned out to have a much bigger audience than I initially thought.
0:42:37 Yep. Very cool. You know what? All of these ideas that we’ve spoken about, Nick, you could
0:42:43 actually, if you’re listening out there, take this recording and throw all the ideas into GPT or Claude.
0:42:47 And so what are the other ideas that are similar to these ideas? And you’ll get this big,
0:42:49 long list of potential startups.
0:42:54 Yeah. I love using that as a brainstorming tool right now. A couple more for me before we wrap.
0:43:02 This one is a subscription box for members of the ministry. It’s called Consecrate, Consecrate Box.
0:43:11 And it is doing, she says she’s got around 500 subscribers. And if we look at the website
0:43:18 pricing, I think it was around $48 a month. Okay. Oh gosh. Three month subscription for $68. So some
0:43:22 experimentation around the pricing, but she’s curating different items that would appeal to
0:43:29 members of the clergy, members of the ministry, and using that as their subscription box niche. So
0:43:36 if it’s around, what’s that, $20, $30 a month, somewhere in there, it’s probably a $200,000 a year
0:43:40 business based on that. Now there’s cost of goods, there’s shipping, there’s other stuff involved,
0:43:44 but top line revenue sounds like a little side project for her.
0:43:51 Yeah. Very cool. And this subscription commerce industry gained some momentum, particularly during
0:43:58 COVID. And there’s an entire platform dedicated to all of these called cratejoy.com. And cratejoy.com
0:44:02 is basically a platform, but then ultimately a curation of all of the different subscription boxes,
0:44:09 similar to this one. So it’s a very cool industry. And if you find a passion, then to curate the stuff
0:44:14 people like you like opens up a real opportunity. I think she mentions Chris Gillibow’s Side Hustle
0:44:21 School. And there was a subscription box for military wives. And she says, shoot, I could do something
0:44:25 similar. I could pivot that to the industry that I know or the community that I know. So we can shout
0:44:31 out Side Hustle School with Chris there and inspiring people to take action. All right. And then the last
0:44:40 one that I’ve got is a mobile sauna kind of rental service. So this is by water sauna. This is something
0:44:45 that my brother told me about out of the beach north of Seattle, where it’s this really cool, trendy
0:44:51 looking kind of like a log shaped box. Let’s see if I can find their Instagram, but we’re going to sell
0:44:54 60 minute sauna sessions. And the idea is like, you don’t sit in there for the whole time. But the idea
0:45:00 is, you know, you go between the Puget Sound, the cold saltwater, and then you run back in to the
0:45:07 sauna, you kind of like do this hot, cold cycling, and they charge $35 to $40 for this hour long
0:45:12 session. And as you can kind of see, it’s big enough to accommodate several different users at
0:45:17 once and seems to be doing pretty well. Actually, this one started with a Kickstarter campaign. So
0:45:24 they raised about $25,000 through Kickstarter to get the initial funding for this mobile sauna.
0:45:29 That’s cool. So just explain it to me. So basically, these are fixed locations or
0:45:36 goes around different plants. It sounds like this one is parked, but could be,
0:45:41 you know, towed behind a trailer, it sounds like. Now, when I was doing a little bit of research,
0:45:48 it looks like you can find mobile saunas, you know, designed, smaller versions for around
0:45:54 $15,000, $15,000, $20,000. And maybe you could partner with the yoga studio, with the gym, with the
0:46:01 wellness center, with other, you know, parks at the local lake or river, you know, you know, hangout
0:46:08 spots, or Airbnb hosts, or, you know, people who have ski cabins or something. And like, hey, we could set
0:46:14 this up as a value add to the people who are coming by anyways. And maybe you do it as a pop-up event,
0:46:18 or maybe you do it, you could pre-sell, pre-book, different things to minimize your risk. But
0:46:25 this is definitely a trendy one that we’ve seen some buzz about.
0:46:29 Yeah. And it’s currently looks to be in three locations.
0:46:32 Oh yeah. So, so it is mobile. So he’s moving around to different beaches in Seattle.
0:46:39 And so presumably, you know, he’s got large capex startup costs. He’s going to acquire the saunas
0:46:45 and then he’s got to, or he or she’s going to find the locations and then, you know, find enough people
0:46:50 who want to use it regularly enough to want to buy the monthly subscription or membership. But this is
0:46:57 super interesting and it’s tapping into a very, very fast growth industry. Hot, cold treatment
0:47:01 industry is really, really attractive right now. And he’s clearly tapping into that.
0:47:06 Yeah, absolutely. There, there was, you know, some data around longevity and we’re going to shock
0:47:12 your cells into recovery mode by, you know, cold treatment and ice baths and, you know, and, and
0:47:17 similarly on the sauna side. So I’m kind of taps into some of that, uh, trending topic again,
0:47:22 another shovels in the gold rush type of example with a little bit more startup costs than some
0:47:27 of these other ones that we’re looking at, but potential upside, potential, uh, sellable down
0:47:30 the road. Yeah. I mean, it’s really about just finding a, either something you’re really passionate
0:47:35 about or finding a gap in the market, isn’t it? Well, Blake, this has been a ton of fun. It’s
0:47:38 new in the life. What’s got you excited these days? I mean, I still get really pumped by just
0:47:43 watching all of the entrepreneurs come up a flipper and sell their life’s work. In some cases,
0:47:47 that’s a couple of years. In many cases, it’s, it’s many, many years and everything from Jerry,
0:47:53 the 16 year old founder from Geometry Spot all the way through to, uh, we, we recently sold a,
0:48:02 a YouTube channel for a 75 year old retiree. And so I just get so, uh, passionate and excited by all of
0:48:06 the entrepreneurs doing really cool stuff in the marketplace. So we’re, we’re still really passionate
0:48:10 just about making exits easy for as many people as possible. And acquisition entrepreneurship
0:48:15 is something, you know, we still don’t think enough people are talking about because it’s one thing for
0:48:19 you and I to go through all these ideas, but sometimes it’s hard to come up with the idea.
0:48:22 So you can actually just buy a side hustle actually.
0:48:24 Skip the idea and the, and the zero to one phase.
0:48:28 Skip the zero to one phase, buy something that’s established. And, you know, I’m still really
0:48:32 passionate about helping people understand that industry. And we’ve got some new cool things coming
0:48:38 out new ways to search for these assets and using AI as a, as a way to help you to find the assets
0:48:41 you might want. Cause sometimes it’s difficult to know what you might want. But to your point,
0:48:46 you said Upwork before, but you can go to Flip Flipper as well and just browse what people are
0:48:49 actually selling. And it gives you a great deal of mental stimulation and you’ll get some ideas from
0:48:53 that. Yeah, totally. Well, I got to know, what was the 75 year old’s YouTube channel about?
0:49:00 So his name was Marty Geller, 75 years old. He sold it for $40,000. I think if I remember correctly,
0:49:08 it’s like handyman content, so fixing stuff. Yeah, that works. Some people are buying like
0:49:12 the residual revenue from these videos if they’re evergreen and say, okay, we expect them to continue
0:49:19 to rack up views and add revenue. Or like if I have a handyman presence myself, then I’m going to
0:49:24 continue. I can continue to add content or I get higher people to go build out that content to kind
0:49:30 of continually fuel it. Is that how you see it going down? That’s exactly what happens. So it’s
0:49:35 less about subscribers and it’s more about views. And as we said before, YouTube’s a search engine.
0:49:39 So if I type in a heater outage, you know, I’m thinking about this house that I rented and the
0:49:44 heater turned off and I had to go to YouTube to figure out how to reset the heater. But like my
0:49:49 heater’s not working. Someone will type that into YouTube and a video will pop up. The video’s been
0:49:53 there for seven years and it shows how to press the free buttons that will reset the device for you.
0:49:58 Now that’s evergreen content. It’s not going to go anywhere. Literally tens of millions of views.
0:50:04 And as you said, you’re buying the back catalog. It’s a little bit like how MGM might buy the back
0:50:08 catalog for the betas. It just happens to be that this is for highly niched content.
0:50:14 That makes sense. Well, Flippa.com. Check them out over there. F-L-I-P-P-A. We’ll link that up in the
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0:50:48 link in the show notes. You’ll be able to add that to your device. Big thanks to Blake for sharing his
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0:51:03 supporting the advertisers that support the show. That is it for me. Thank you so much for tuning in.
0:51:06 Until next time, let’s go out there and make something happen.
0:51:09 And I’ll catch you in the next edition of the Side Hustle Show.

This is normally a Thanksgiving tradition on the show, but I’ve seen so many fun ideas come across my desk this year, and we just couldn’t wait!

Welcome to Round 8 of Creative Side Hustle Ideas.

And to help out with this round, I’m joined by someone who’s no stranger to the side hustle world.

As the CEO of Flippa.com, the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses, Blake Hutchison has had a front row seat to thousands of profitable side projects.

Today, he’s here to share that perspective with us.

This is the 8th installment of the series, so I encourage you to check out the previous episodes if you like this format, make sure to grab the full playlist here.

Here are the past editions if you want to see them individually:

  1. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 1 – 2018
  2. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 2 – 2019
  3. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 3 – 2020
  4. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 4 – 2021
  5. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 5 – 2022
  6. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 6 – 2023
  7. 10 Creative Side Hustles Part 7 – 2024

Let’s talk about this year’s most innovative money-making ideas!


Full Show Notes:
Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money – Part 8

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