The most popular side hustles aren’t necessarily the best fit for you. In this episode I’m breaking down the pros and cons of 5 common side hustles — and what you might consider doing instead.
Full Show Notes: 5 Popular Side Hustles (and what to do instead)
With her hours cut due to the pandemic and a new house to pay for, this week’s guest set out an action plan to make 6-figures in 2021.
To achieve that, Heather Johnson of HeatherXStudio.com decided to start an Etsy store selling print-on-demand goods like t-shirts, mugs, and other apparel and items.
Fast forward two years and Heather is now a former MRI tech who’s taken her print-on-demand side hustle full-time and is averaging $15k a month in revenue and $4-5k in monthly profit.
How’d she do it?
By following the trends with her own unique spin, putting 100s of products up for sale, and implementing some savvy marketing strategies you can apply in your own business.
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Full Show Notes: Building a Print on Demand Business on Etsy
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Matt makes $200+ a month sharing his writing on Medium.com. It’s a hobby he genuinely enjoys doing anyway, so the revenue it brings in is a bonus!
Here’s how to get started making money on Medium.
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We’re halfway through the year, and 2022 is flying by!
In these quarterly Progress Reports, I break down how the business grew (or shrunk), what I worked on, and other happenings from the last three months.
I worked more hours the first half of 2022 than I did in 2021, and (not surprisingly) I feel like I’m getting more done as a result. I’m still struggling to come to terms with a to-do list that’s never going to be done, but do feel like I’m making progress on building a business that serves me and serves others.
Full show notes: My $10k Launch (and Other Projects)
“You have a skill, but you’re not using it correctly.”
That the tough love advice Vincent Pugliese’s father gave him.
Vincent was working what he thought was his dream job as a photojournalist. He’d just won the most prestigious award in his industry (International Sports Photographer of the Year), and he and his wife Elizabeth had a baby on the way.
Yet the newspaper job didn’t pay well. With the impending arrival of their son, Vincent took a hard look at his financial picture: he was in his mid-30s, 6-figures in debt, and earning $15 an hour.
Not great.
Something had to change, and something did.
Full Show Notes: Freelance to Freedom: From $30k a Year to $30k in a Day
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This week’s guest took a pain point she was experiencing – finding a nanny for her 3-month-old – and turned it into a multi 6-figure full-time business with 500 nannies across 5 states.
Kristy Bickmeyer started TwinkleToesNanny.com back in 2011 in response to not being able to find a nanny herself.
At least not without going through the “traditional” agency model of paying $1,500-3,000 upfront and with few guarantees it will work out long-term.
Kristy decided to start her own agency without the upfront fees, and with a more streamlined approach and robust guarantees for parents – and it’s snowballed from there.
I love this strategy of taking a fragmented, localized industry and adding a layer of branding and professionalism to it.
This is what 1-800-Got-Junk did in junk removal, and is what Belay Solutions has done in the executive assistant space.
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Full Show Notes: Building an Offline Agency to Multiple 6 Figures
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Play matchmaker between pallet buyers and sellers to flip pallets for profit. Varnie Sambola started his pallet flipping business in 2020, and has already scaled it to $1000 a day (and beyond).
He credits another Side Hustle Show guest — John Wilker from episode 274— and his Simplest Biz course with helping him get started.
Full Show Notes: Pallet Flipping 101
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“Nothing puts a smile on a consumer’s face quicker than a good peach.”
This week’s guest is Shannon Houchin of RoadsideRepublic.com, and she’s passionate about peaches, fresh produce, and delivering an awesome customer experience.
Shannon actually reached out to me and said, Nick, you’ve got episodes on flipping books and mattresses, clearance products, domain names, flea market finds, and a ton of other stuff – but have I got a side hustle for you: I flip peaches.
So, of course, I had to call her up to learn more.
Turns out Shannon has been doing this for 10 years and has scaled up to operating up to 100 roadside stands at once.
Whether you’re looking for a way to make extra money on the weekend, or to scale to something larger, Shannon has a compelling story for starting a roadside produce stand.
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Full Show Notes: How to Start a Roadside Produce Stand
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Escaping the rat race is simple, but not always easy.
In this episode, I break down the 3 most common ways out of the rat race, and the pros and cons of each.
(This was originally recorded for YouTube, which explains the faster-than-normal pacing and some video sound effects.)
Full Show Notes: How to Escape the Rat Race
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Your voice has value — both figuratively, and maybe even literally.
To prove this point, I’m joined on the show this week by a side hustling couple who have turned their voices into an income stream worth thousands of dollars a month.
Dom and Nicole Draper from TheVoiceoverCouple.com are multi-award winning voice over artists – they get paid to talk.
As professional voice over artists, they’ve done all kinds of interesting jobs and worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Nike, Netflix, and Adobe.
In this episode they share how they went from hustling on Fiverr outside of their 9-5, to working with voice over agents and agencies and turning this into a full-time business.
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Full Show Notes: How to Start a Voiceover Acting Business
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