480: Building a $60k a Month Business as a Full-Time College Student

While he was a full-time student, Johnny Robinson built OrangeWindowCleaning.com into a $700k a year operation.

If you want to start your own business, it doesn’t necessarily take a never-before-seen business idea to have a never-before-seen impact on your life.

Johnny’s a long-time Side Hustle Show listener, and we actually recorded this on his last day of college.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

• How Johnny got his first customers
• The marketing engine you can borrow for your own business
• How he fulfills the work and the tech and tools he uses to manage the whole operation

Full Show Notes PDF Bonus: Building a $60k a Month Business as a Full-Time College Student

479: $90k a Month on Fiverr: From Freelancer to Agency

People out there will pay for your skills, you just have to find them.

One person who’s done an excellent job of finding them over the last 9 months or so is Georgia Austin from WizardOfContent.com.

Georgia took her skill of writing, and despite a crowded world of other writers out there, did over $500k worth of work through the Fiverr platform last year, including $90k the month before we recorded.

In this episode, Georgia shares her top tips for getting started on Fiverr and quickly gaining traction.

As well as explaining why being a Fiverr seller doesn’t have to be a race to the bottom and how you can command high rates by knowing your worth.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

• Georgia’s best practices for getting started on Fiverr
• how she manages her huge order volume
• how Georgia is transitioning to a standalone agency

Full Show Notes PDF Bonus: $90k a Month on Fiverr: From Freelancer to Agency

Bonus: 9 Business “Wins” From 2021: My Annual Review and Q3/Q4 Progress Report

Inside my biggest wins, best purchases, favorite books, most popular episodes, and most important projects.

Full show notes

478: 33 Life Hacks to Experiment With in 2022

Happy New Year! May this be a year of stacking up incremental improvements and optimizations — getting 1% better every day — that’s the idea.

To help out with that goal, I’m excited to introduce Chris Hutchins. He’s a serial entrepreneur, a new dad, a professional life optimizer, and host of the new AllTheHacks podcast.

The stated mission of All the Hacks is to help listeners upgrade every aspect of their life while spending less and saving more.

I think that’s a mission we can get on board with since this show is also about upgrading your life through entrepreneurship.

Chris shared a full docket of hacks in this episode to help you start your year off right, and I did my best to chime in as well.

Many of these are quick actionable ideas you can apply to make little upgrades to your life.

Tune in to this episode of The Side Hustle Show to hear 33 hacks covering work and productivity, networking, money, travel, and health.

Full Show Notes: 33 Life Hacks to Experiment With in 2022

Trailer: The Business Podcast You Can Actually Apply

The Side Hustle Show is a top-rated podcast featuring the ideas, actions, and results you need to start and grow a successful business.

Put a little hustle in your earbuds as I extract the actionable tips and business strategies from successful entrepreneurs.

Each week you’ll get new business ideas, side hustle opportunities, and high-value content to help you make extra money and make the most of your time.

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.

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