477: How to Make Money with NFTs: Opportunities for Side Hustlers and Creators

Selling JPEGs and other digital collectibles – do NFTs present some of the hottest investment opportunities right now?

You could hardly open your laptop or unlock your phone this year without reading about NFTs or non-fungible tokens.

When you start to see jpegs selling for tens of thousands of dollars, you can’t help but ask, wait, what’s going on here?

And as is often the case when these new shiny things pop up, I try to learn from those who are a few steps ahead.

In this episode you’ll meet Michael Quan from FinanciallyAlert.com, he’s a father of 2 who retired at 36, and calls himself “an accidental NFT investor.”

I met Michael at FinCon this fall, and called him up to try and get some clarity on the murky world of NFTs, and where opportunity may lie for side hustlers, on the buying, trading, and creating side.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

• why Michael is investing in NFTs and the returns he’s seeing
• where you can get started creating or buying NFTs yourself
• how to avoid scams and what Michael thinks the future holds for NFTs

Full Show Notes: How to Make Money with NFTs: Opportunities for Side Hustlers and Creators

476: $500 a Day Selling Other People’s Products with Facebook Marketplace Dropshipping

Smart side hustlers go where the cash is already flowing…

One place it’s been flowing at a rapidly increasing pace is Facebook Marketplace.

What started as a Craigslist competitor — a place to buy and sell secondhand stuff — has morphed into an e-commerce powerhouse in its own right.

How Facebook Marketplace works will not be new to most reading this. But how today’s guest, Andrey Kozlov is taking advantage of this platform will be a real eye-opener to most.

So, how can you take advantage?

In this episode, you’ll learn how Andrey Kozlov is making hundreds of dollars a day, selling stuff on Facebook he never even has to touch.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

• how dropshipping on Facebook marketplace works
• how to find profitable products and make your listings stand out
• the risks and pitfalls to avoid

Full Show Notes and PDF Bonus: $500 a Day Selling Other People’s Products with Facebook Marketplace Dropshipping

475: How One Football Fan Turned Tailgating into an Online Business

How does turning a passion into a profitable side hustle sound?

That’s exactly what this week’s guest, Luke Lorick of Tailgating-Challenge.com has done.

Luke took his passion for tailgating — the pre-game parking lot party variety, not the annoying driving habit variety, and turned that into a long-running and profitable online side hustle.

It wasn’t an overnight success. In fact, Luke says himself that “Overnight successes don’t happen overnight.”

Luke has put in years of hard work building strong relationships with brands – some of which are huge household names – and growing an audience of more than 250,000 across his social media accounts to get where he is today.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

• how Luke drives traffic and revenue
• how he’s grown some substantial social followings
• ways you can emulate his strategies in your niche

Full Show Notes and PDF Bonus: How One Football Fan Turned Tailgating into an Online Business

474: The 6-Figure Belly Dancing Course

Turning a passion into a 6-figure business is the goal of many entrepreneurs, and that’s what this week’s guest, Jennifer Sobel has done.

Jennifer has combined her lifelong passion for belly dancing with her skills in digital marketing to create TheBellyDanceSolution.com, one part of what’s become a 6-figure online business.

There are 3 big ideas in this episode that you may be able to use to improve your own sales funnel:

1. The power of combining two or more things to come up with a new idea – The combination game can help you stand out from the crowd like Jennifer did and become a market of one.
2. Mentorship – If there is such a thing as a shortcut or cheat code, I believe mentorship is it. You’ll hear how Jennifer applied that and relaunched her funnel.
3. The power of micro-optimizations – I loved Jennifer’s call to always be testing and I think it’s something we can all apply.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

• how Jennifer made her first sales without an audience
• the creative ways you may also be able to acquire customers
• how she’s transitioning from one-time sales to a recurring membership

Full Show Notes and PDF Bonus: The 6-Figure Belly Dancing Course

Bonus: $1K 100 Ways Case Studies

100 members of the Side Hustle Nation community shared their path to $1000 and beyond in my latest book, $1,000 100 Ways.

I just got approval for the audiobook edition, narrated by yours truly. Here’s a sneak peak of the stories inside.

Learn more:

http://1k100ways.com

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473: 9 Quick Ways to Optimize Your Sleep and Feel Super Human

Struggling to perform at your best from the moment you wake till you go to sleep at night?

In today’s episode, we’re talking about a key component of your physical and mental foundation to be a high-performing human, and one that we probably don’t give a lot of thought to.

Still, it’s something you spend roughly a third of your life doing, so it’s a huge lever to pull in terms of optimizing your energy and your output in the world.

Yes, we’re talking about sleep.

I promise this episode won’t put you to sleep as we explore 9 quick ways to optimize your horizontal hours to wake up feeling superhuman.

To help walk me through these is Riley Jarvis from TheSleepConsultant.com and SleepForSideHustlers.com.

Riley started through his own health journey many years ago and discovered that sleep was the missing link that brought everything together.

After some biohacking and learning from top doctors in the field, he now helps others get the root of their sleep issues rather than masking the symptoms — all about building that foundation so you can feel amazing and be the best version of you.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear 9 of Riley’s top tips for getting a better night’s sleep.

Full Show Notes: 9 Quick Ways to Optimize Your Sleep and Feel Super Human

472: 10 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money – Part 4

This week — in what has become a Thanksgiving tradition on the show — we’re diving into 10 creative side hustles that make real money.

This is the 4th installment of the series, so I encourage you to go check out the other episodes if you like this format — those are episodes 310, 363, and 420.

Tune in to learn about how real people are making real money from everything from tarantulas to luxury picnics, from invisible sculptures to reselling driftwood that you can go pick up for free.

Full Show Notes: 10 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money – Part 4

471: 6 Figures in 18 Months: Building a Photo Booth Rental Business

From hating photo booths to seeing an opportunity in the market and taking her photo booth side hustle to 6-figures in 18 months…

That’s the story of today’s guest, Cat Bloch.

Cat told me you would never “catch me dead” using a photo booth at a party.

That was until she came across a modern photo booth, and it completely changed how she looked at this popular wedding venue and Gala attraction.

Cat saw a gap in the market for an upmarket, modern, photo booth. Something that does much more than you’d expect from a photo booth, such as being used for corporate branding, immersive virtual experiences, and more.

Starting with one photo booth out of her front closet, Cat and MDRN Photobooth Company now operate 20 photo booths in multiple cities all across Canada.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

• how Cat got her first customers
• how she prices and positions her service to stand out from the competition
• and really smart and intentional ways she’s found a steady stream of bookings

Full Show Notes and PDF Bonus: 6 Figures in 18 Months: Building a Photo Booth Rental Business

470: $1K/Week: How to Flip Phones for Profit

Can you really make money flipping phones?

To find out, I sat down with pro cell phone flipper Jeff Duhon from the Smart Flippers Facebook group. In a typical week, Jeff resells 20-30 used iPhones with a target profit of $100 per flip.

If you did half that volume, you could be earning $1000 a week.

Flipping phones for profit can be a lucrative side hustle or grow into a full-time income stream, but, like any business, there are some pros and cons.

The used cell phone industry is already huge, and growing bigger all the time. Estimates project the global market for secondhand phones to be worth between $39 and $52 billion by 2025.

Here’s how to carve out your piece of that massive pie.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

• How to source profitable inventory
• The easiest places to resell your phones
• How to not get scammed

After all, being able to go out into the world and find profit is a skill to recession-proof your life.

Full Show Notes and PDF Bonus: $1K/Week: How to Flip Phones for Profit

469: 16 Business Ideas You’re Free to Run With: The Business Idea Giveaway Show

Struggling to come up with a side hustle or business idea?

To help get the creative idea juices flowing, I’ve invited Joel Hansen, a member of the founding team of Kern.al on the show.

Kern.al is kind of like Reddit or Product Hunt, but for business ideas that don’t exist yet.

Just a few minutes on the site definitely sparked some creativity for me so I encourage you to check it out.

In this episode, Joel and I bounce some different business ideas back and forth that are free for you to run with and should be enough to get the cogs turning on your own ideas.

Tune in to this episode of The Side Hustle Show to hear 16 business ideas that are free for the taking, including:

• why I’d be interested in an “erase me” button for personal data online
• ideas that have been posted on Kern.al for shadowing CEOs and elevating “Open” signs in shop windows
• a cool idea Joel has for autotext reminders
• and more

Full Show Notes: 16 Business Ideas You’re Free to Run With: The Business Idea Giveaway Show