The Side Hustle Show: Business Ideas for Part-Time Entrepreneurs
By Nick Loper
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Description
The Side Hustle Show is the podcast for part-time entrepreneurs who are looking for business ideas, actionable tips to start a business, and killer strategies on how to turn their side hustle dreams into a growing business. We cover all aspects of starting a business and making money (online and offline), including small business marketing, sales, websites, social media marketing, blogging, time management, and more. Our topics include passive income ideas, niche sites, self-publishing, software and app development, coaching and consulting, freelancing, affiliate marketing, Amazon FBA, and much more. Learn how to turn your business idea into your own thriving small business. Starting your own business gives you the freedom and opportunity to quit your job. It doesn't take a high-flying start-up to make money or create an awesome lifestyle business. Guests include Jon Acuff, Chris Ducker, Brian Clark, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, and many Tim Ferriss and Gary Vaynerchuk proteges. Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive. Hosted by Nick Loper, Chief Side-Hustler at Side Hustle Nation (.com).
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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 traffi... | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. - | 10/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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197: 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 repre.. | 10/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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196: 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' offi | 10/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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195: 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 th... | 9/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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194: 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 "essen... | 9/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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193: Getting Paid to Show Off Your City: How to Start a Tour Guide Side Hustle | 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, | 9/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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192: Starting an Ecommerce Empire on Etsy | Kara Lamerato 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. - | 9/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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191: 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 g... | 9/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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190: 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, | 8/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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189: How to Start an Online Store – Without Touching Any Inventory (Drop Shipping 101) | Dropshipping is also a topic we haven't really covered in depth in the past, but many listeners have been requesting to learn more about it. - I reached out to Anton Kraly, who's one of the most successful people I know in this space. | 8/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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188: Matt’s Passive Income Empire Started With Just $36 … and a Bag of Gumballs | Matt is a former Air Force pilot who was looking into various side hustles to support his family after some salary cuts at work. After hustling and selling used books (among other things), he realized it really wasn't sustainable and took up too much o... | 8/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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187: Traffic Hacks for 2016 and Beyond, with Neil Patel | Before people can do business with you, they have to know about you, and before they know about you, they have to find you. - And that's universal, whether you're running a brick-and-mortar shop, an ecommerce store, a blog, | 8/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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186: Happiness is a Skill, and This 5-Minute Habit Can Help You Get Better at It | Dan Harris had me at "meditation for skeptics." - In the last 5 years, it seems like meditation has gone from a weird woowoo practice to a daily staple of most top entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders. - But so far, | 7/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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185: I Quit My Job 8 Years Ago! Here Are 8 Lessons I’ve Learned Since Then That You Can Apply Today | Eight years ago this month I pulled out of the parking lot of my corporate job for the last time. - It was a weird moment, filled with hope and excitement, but also nervousness. Sure, I'd built my side hustle to the point I was comfortable taking the ... | 7/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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184: How to Create, Market, and Sell Your First Online Course – Even With a Small Audience | Course creation has the potential to be a fantastic passive income business, just like book sales or software. Build an asset that has low-to-zero incremental costs, and sell as many copies as you can -- sometimes for $1000 or more. - | 7/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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183: Zero to $30k on the Side in 6 Months | Last fall, Chris Deardorff had a passion for startups and entrepreneurship, but wasn't sure which direction to go. He had -- and still has -- a good job doing product marketing. - But as he studied the local startup scene, | 7/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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182: Digital Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow | As you know, I'm excited about alternative investments like peer-to-peer lending. And if your aim is to replace your income, I think it makes sense to invest for cash flow. - This week's Side Hustle Show guest argues when you want something in other a... | 7/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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181: SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Self-Publishing, Udemy, and More: 20 Questions with Nick | It's time to dive into the ol' listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this special Friday edition of The Side Hustle Show. - The last Q&A show I did was back in November and I've had quite a few interesting questions come in since then. - | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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180: Listener Success Story: From Zero Customers to Full-Time Business | Scott Tarcy reached out to me with a listener success story of taking some of his on-the-job skills and turning them into a business on the side. - Scott's a mechanical engineer by trade, and his job involved lots of product design work, | 6/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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179: How a Free Challenge Turned into a $500,000 a Year Business | More than 150,000 women have completed Tiffany "The Budgnetista" Aliche's Live Richer Challenge. The roughly 30-day challenge participants step-by-step instructions on how to get their financial lives in order, get out of debt, and start saving money. | 6/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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178: How To Build a 6-Figure eBay Business Part-Time | Darrel is a full-time Operations Manager for a startup in Atlanta, but has built a sizable side hustle on eBay. - In the last 12 months, he's sold over 6-figures worth of merchandise. - eBay still gets massive traffic; it's currently the 7th most po... | 6/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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177: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs – Part 3 | 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-i. | 6/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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176: Freelance Transformation: From $300 Technician to $20,000 Consultant | Matt Inglot was following the hustler's path. - He built some skills on his spare time, and began selling those skills as a freelancer. The first project he sold was to build a website for $300. - Soon, he had a full-time freelance business, | 6/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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175: YouTube Marketing: How to Use Free Videos to Build a Full-Time Online Business | If you want to learn English, you may have come across one of Gabby Wallace's hundreds of YouTube videos on the subject. - Her channel, which started only because the video she recorded for her classroom students was too big to email, | 5/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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174: How to Get Freelance Jobs (Tips from a Professional Hypnotist) | Jesse Gernigin is a professional stage hypnotist and online freelancer. He used to do up to 200 shows a year and even sold his own products, but realized there was always going to be a ceiling to his earning power. - | 5/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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173: How to Turn Your Ideas Into Recurring Revenue | "To build income you can hustle, but to build wealth you need to build something that doesn’t require your hands." - That's what this week's guest told me, and then walked me down an interesting path in building that elusive "hands-free" business. | 5/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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172: Case Study: Creating a $1k per Week Online Authority Business and a Service Business From Scratch | Carey Green had spent the last 20 years as a pastor, before making the leap into entrepreneurship. As he studied to become a licensed mortgage broker, an idea took hold to put his study notes online. - Today Carey helps other aspiring mortgage broker... | 5/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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171: How to Get Paid to Create Content – Even When You’re Just Starting Out | Want to get paid to create content? Jason Zook is the undisputed king when it comes to sponsored content. - You may know Jason as the IWearYourShirt guy, where he earned over $1,000,000 wearing t-shirts for various companies. | 4/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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170: Side Hustle Idea Brainstorming: The 7 Rules of Business Idea Generation Plus Live Listener Feedback | In my recent annual member survey, one of the biggest challenges named was coming up with the right side hustle idea. - Over the years, I've been on both ends of the idea spectrum: feeling hopeless in search of a business idea, | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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169: The Best Passive Income Model: Raw Land Investing Update (Part 2) | This is the second in what will (at least) be a 2-part series on side hustlers earning income from their land investment endeavors. - In this special Friday edition of the show, I'm joined by Chris Pritchard. Chris is a software developer by day, | 4/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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168: The Best Passive Income Model: Raw Land Investing Update (Part 1) | In episode 108 of The Side Hustle Show last year, we met Mark Podolsky, a real estate investor specializing in raw land. He called it "The Best Passive Income Model," because there are no products to build, no tenants or toilets, | 4/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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167: Earn up to $1700/mo Part-Time: Profit Stacking in The Sharing Economy | The Sharing Economy is one of those "too-big-to-ignore" trends, and I think it's a great opportunity to get your feet wet in side hustling. - We've talked about Uber and Airbnb before, but there are literally hundreds of different platforms where you ... | 4/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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166: $10k a Month Blogging Part-Time | We first heard from Robert Farrington back in 2013, on episode 10 of The Side Hustle Show. At that time, he was earning $3-4k a month from a portfolio of different sites, and looking to expand his online empire. - This week, | 3/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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165: How to Earn an Extra $1000 a Month as a Brand Ambassador | Kenny Azama has worked with massive global brands like Nike, Samsung, Apple, Chevrolet, and Coca Cola, but he's not an ad agency or a top secret marketing mogul. - He's a professional brand ambassador, "someone who is temporarily hired to represent a ... | 3/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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164: $4k a Month within 6 Months: Marketing and Growing a Freelance Side Hustle | Gina Horkey has come highly recommended by a number of listeners, and I’ve seen her work what seems like “all over the Internet” for the past couple years so I’m excited to finally connect and bring her on the show. - | 3/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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163: How to Build a 6-Figure Blog in Less Than a Year | Jon is a former attorney turned full-time entrepreneur, and he's the master of building high quality niche blogs and monetizing them to $10k-20k per month in record time. - (Sixty days to $10k in one case.) - We've covered niche sites in the past, | 3/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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162: How to Earn up to $3000 an Hour With Your Voice | Voiceover acting may be -- at least in my mind -- one of the most universal side hustles. I mean, almost all of us can speak, right? - My guest this week, Carrie Olsen, assures me there's a little more to it than that, | 3/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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161: The Mini-Victory Theory and 17 Mini-Wins You Can Get Today | Parenthood has got me thinking, every BIG victory is built on the back of a ton of mini victories. - You don't wake up one morning and win the Super Bowl. You win it one quarter at a time, one possession at a time, one down at a time, | 2/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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160: Turning a Service Business into a Passive Income Stream | A couple months ago, Matt Bochnak sent me a note about his motorcycle repair side hustle. As someone who is, shall we say, less-than-savvy when it comes to mechanics, I was impressed. - But Matt shared that the passive income from this service busines... | 2/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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159: How to Earn 6-Figures Teaching Online Part-Time | Teaching online is a fantastic way to earn money from your experience, skills, and expertise - Phil's built up a HUGE library of more than 50 online courses and teaches more than 130,000 students. While he now focuses on his business full-time, | 2/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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158: How to Find Your First Amazon FBA Private Label Product (Tips from a 7-Figure Amazon Seller) | I'm happy to introduce Greg Mercer, who is the go-to guy for Amazon product research. - His own ecommerce empire has grown to $400k per month in revenue -- yes, per month -- and he's the founder of the popular Jungle Scout software tool that helps mak... | 2/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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157: Amazon FBA: Retail Arbitrage on Steroids (Six-Figures in Year One) | Assad's a Finance Director by day so he's got some street cred when it came to offering consulting, and quickly built that business up to around $1000 a month. - In April, he mentioned he'd also started selling products on Amazon FBA using the clearan... | 2/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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156: How to Stand Out With Words: Copywriting Tips for Side Hustlers | When it comes to your side hustle, the words you use matter. - In so many businesses, our first impressions with customers often come from a website, an email, or a product description. - Are you sending the right message? | 1/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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155: How to Drive Viral Traffic From Reddit | My guest this week, Brian Swichkow, is a viral marketing pro, having achieved outsize results on several different projects. - Having one viral hit could be considered a lucky fluke, but to be able to do it again and again, | 1/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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154: How to Start a Consulting Business: Your First $5k | Jonathan Stark says the key to side hustle success -- for consultants, at least -- lies in finding an expensive problem, and solving it. - Jonathan's a pro at finding these expensive problems, having run a successful online consulting business for se... | 1/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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153: Zero to $20k a Month in a Year: 5 Ways to Completely Dominate Your Niche | We've heard of niche sites seeing success with AdSense or Amazon Associates income, or even with selling private advertising, but Jon Haws took a completely different approach. - Since last November, Jon has masterfully experimented with 5 different a... | 1/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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152: Finding Your Slight Edge | What separates the 5% of fulfilled, successful people from the 95% rest of the population? Author Jeff Olson argues it's The Slight Edge. - Successful people have harnessed the power of relentless incrementalism, | 1/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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151: How to Quit Your Job in 6 Months | Can you see yourself walking away from your day job in the next 6 months? - In 2013, Amanda Abella decided to start taking her side hustle (freelance writing and coaching) seriously so she could make that glorious exit. Six short months later, | 12/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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150: 5 Steps to Turn a Hobby Into a Business | Three years ago, Bryn and her business partner Brooke had each made less $500 from photography -- far less than they'd spent on equipment. Fast forward to this year, and they shot more than a dozen weddings and booked top-line revenue in excess of $40,... | 12/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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149: How to Start and Market a Subscription Box Service | Recurring revenue models are all the rage these days, and for good reason. You can make a sale once and continue to earn from it as long as you keep your customer happy. - There are quite a few recurring revenue business examples from The Side Hustle ... | 12/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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148: 7 Houses at 27: Building a Real Estate Empire on the Side | Elizabeth Colegrove and her husband are budding real estate moguls. So far they've acquired 7 houses, and neither of them are 30 years old yet. - Between their 7 properties, they're earning around $1800 in cash flow every month, | 12/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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147: Rob’s $30,000 Side Hustle: Flea Market Flipping | This week I'm excited to welcome Rob Stephenson to The Side Hustle Show. - Rob is the "Flea Market Flipper" and he's got an interesting take on the age-old Buy Low, Sell High business model. - In fact, it earned him $30, | 12/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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146: Growing Your Income Pie: Blogging, Freelancing, and Making Your Own Luck | I met Lauren Bowling at FinCon in September and was impressed with her "story" and her hustle. - In this conversation she shares the random path she took to starting a blog, and how that turned into a new job and a new side hustle. - | 11/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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145: Amazon Ranking Secrets for Books and Physical Products from an SEO Pro | We've covered Kindle publishing in a variety of ways on The Side Hustle Show in the past, and it's one of my favorite side hustles. - But one area of frustration, at least for me, is that for all the effort put into writing, editing, publishing, | 11/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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144: Side Hustle Q & A | This is my attempt at a Q&A show, based on some questions of the interesting questions that have hit my inbox or the Facebook group over the past couple weeks. - It actually stems from a new inbox "trick" I've been playing with lately. | 11/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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143: Building a Multi-Million Dollar Ecommerce Brand on the Side | If you've ever been frustrated with the products in your life, and thought "there's gotta be a better way!," this conversation is sure to hit home. - Jeremy Michael Cohen and Fred Perrotta created Tortuga Backpacks after an awesome trip to Europe -- a... | 11/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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142: $5k per Month Blogging Case Study: How to Drive Massive Traffic with Pinterest | Rosemarie Groner is a former state trooper turned blogger and stay at home mom. In the last 12 months, her site The Busy Budgeter has grown from zero to 400,000 page views per month. - More importantly, Rosemarie earned $5000 from the site last month ... | 11/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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141: Do the Scary Thing: My Top 10 Side Hustle Fears | It's a special Friday-before-Halloween edition of The Side Hustle Show! - Today we're diving into some of the scary moments in my business and some frightening tales from Side Hustle Show listeners. - Even though we're told to "punch fear in the face... | 10/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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140: Self-Publishing Success: Stay at Home Mom Shares Her Kindle Story | The self-publishing world has changed quite a bit in the last couple years. Amazon is constantly changing the rules and rewards for authors, and more and more writers are entering the fold. - In today's show, I'm joined by Jyotsna Ramachandran, | 10/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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139: Building Multiple Income Streams with For-Profit Hobbies | I'm excited to introduce you to John Rouda, an IT manager near Charlotte, North Carolina. He's built a variety of non-job income streams on the side, while still working full time. - In fact, we recorded this session from his office at work! - | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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138: Authority Site Case Study: How an Air Force Flight Surgeon Took His Side Hustle Full-Time | I first met Ryan Gray at New Media Expo in 2014. He introduced himself and when I asked what he did, he said he was a doctor. - Turns out that Dr. Gray, along with his wife (also a doctor), was building MedicalSchoolHQ.net, | 10/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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137: Free Press Exposure: Your Fast-Track to Customers and Credibility | The battle for attention is one that almost all new businesses find themselves mired in. You may have the greatest product or service in the world, but if no one knows about it, how will you get paid? - You can write the best blog articles, | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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136: How a Part-Time Blog Turned Into an 8-Figure Business | Brian Clark has been content marketing since before the term even existed. In fact, he left a miserable corporate job and built several successful businesses using these effective new marketing techniques. - | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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135: Brainstorming a New Affiliate Site from Scratch | I've had an idea for a new affiliate site kicking around in my head for a while now, so I thought I'd do a live walk-through of my thought-process and analysis of whether this is an opportunity I should pursue or not. - The idea? - | 9/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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134: Growing a Blog to 70,000 Visits a Month in One Year (and More Importantly, Turning it into a Business) | Tyler Zey turned his web development side hustle into a full-time business, but not without a few twists and turns along the way. Tyler's actually a classically trained musician (clarinet), but now runs EasyAgentPro, | 9/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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133: How to Accelerate Your Side Hustle with Webinars | Jon Schumacher is a side hustler turned full-time entrepreneur. In fact, when we met at Podcast Movement this summer, he'd punched the clock for the last time just a few weeks before. - He mentioned he'd been side hustling for years, | 9/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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132: 7 Days to a Profitable Business | A viable startup business in 7 days ... sound to good to be true? - Dan Norris is the co-founder of WP Curve, a service that offers unlimited 24/7 WordPress support for small jobs for $79 per month. He went from idea to paying customers in less than 7... | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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131: Building an App Empire: From $0 to $70k a Month | Is there still an opportunity in smartphone apps? - Carter Thomas thinks so, and shares some interesting and insightful ways to take advantage of the 3 giant app marketplaces (Apple, Google, and Amazon). - | 9/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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130: How to Create Massive Influence and Profit with Virtual Summits – Even If You Have No Audience | Navid had been blogging and podcasting about lifestyle business topics, but wrote one epic "round-up" post that went viral on the subject of personal branding. - Sensing he was on to something, and noticing the success of virtual summits in other ind... | 8/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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129: Why You Should Quit Your Side Hustle (and What You Should Do Instead) | Should you quit your side hustle? - My guest this week says you should, and argues that what you should do instead is find an apprenticeship. Taylor Pearson is the author of the bestselling The End of Jobs, | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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128: Building a 6-Figure Online Store on the Side | I met Steve Chou at New Media Expo this spring, and was fascinated by his story. - He's built three different six-figure businesses, all while still working a day job in Silicon Valley. In fact, I was really surprised to find out he's still working TO... | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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127: Side Hustle Coaching: When to Pause | How do you know when it's time to step back, take a "time out," or stop the hustle? - There's no spreadsheet or matrix or formula to give you the answer, but I think you know it in your gut. - And even then, | 8/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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126: $120k in Pre-Sales in 6 Months – With No List | John Logar is the king of pre-selling software. As one of The Foundation's top students, he's broken all their records and even broken the mold on some of the methods they teach. - In fact, he sold $120k worth of software within his first 6 months of ... | 8/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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125: $4k a Month on the Side with Amazon FBA Clearance Arbitrage | I was really excited to sit down with Travis Scott from StuffParentsLike.com to share his success with the Amazon FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) clearance arbitrage business, and also to get his insight since I just started playing around with this side hus... | 7/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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124: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 50 Awesome Entrepreneurs – Part Two | 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 i... | 7/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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123: Time Hacking for Side Hustlers: How to Get More Hours, Clarity, and Results | If you're looking for ways to squeeze more out of your limited side hustle hours, this is the episode for you. I'm excited to introduce Julie Sheranosher, host of the Time Hackers podcast. - Julie and I met at World Domination Summit in 2013 -- she fl... | 7/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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122: How to Re-Purpose Content Into Multiple Income Streams | This week, I'm joined by fellow online entrepreneur and freedom-seeker, Natalie Sisson. - Natalie is a masterful marketer, blogger, podcaster, and speaker, and on this call she breaks down how a blog post idea became a major turning point in her busin... | 7/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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121: An Engineer’s Approach to Building a $1500 per Month Side Hustle | Tim Johnson is a man of many hustles. In fact, when he applied for my Inner Circle Mastermind last year, I had a hard time keeping them all straight. - Between his day job as a product engineer, his awesome self-publishing business, | 7/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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120: Side Hustle Coaching: 10x Thinking and Standard Operating Procedures | I was able to catch up with Kathryn, one of my public coaching volunteers who’s starting a gluten free baked-goods company in Portland, Oregon. - Where we left off, things were going pretty well. - She’s been pounding the pavement doing some good ol | 6/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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119: Side Hustle Coaching: What it REALLY Takes to Build a SaaS Business, with Special Guest Dane Maxwell | It's been almost 2 months since we last caught up with Wellington, one of my public coaching volunteers. Where we left off, he was working on a smartphone app for travel hackers and kicking around the idea for a software business in the home renovation... | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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118: Yes without Regret; No without Guilt; Maybe without a Doubt | Can I make a confession? I'm a little indecisive. - Maybe more than a little. - Bryn calls me slow. (I prefer "methodical.") - This episode is about making decisions -- or not making them -- without regret, guilt, or doubt. | 6/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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117: The Fastest Path to Side Hustle Cash Flow? | One podcast I've been following for a really long time is the Empire Flippers show with Justin Cooke and Joe Magnotti. It's been fun to watch their evolution from building tiny Adsense sites, running an outsourcing company in the Philippines, | 6/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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116: Getting Started in Ecommerce | Travis Marziani is the co-founder of BDancewear.com, an ecommerce store specializing in dance-clothing handmade in the US. - On this week's show, Travis joins me to talk about why ecommerce is such an awesome business model, | 6/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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115: Monetize What You Know: Proven Course Creation Best Practices | Ankur Nagpal is the founder of Fedora, an online course-hosting platform with more than 4000 instructors. From his unique vantage-point, he's got some insight into what separates top-selling courses from the rest of the pack. - | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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114: How to Build and Monetize a Blog from the Ground Up | I first met Melinda Fleming at an Affiliate Summit conference in Las Vegas in 2013. At that time, all she had was an idea -- no website, no online business, and no social media presence. - She was working in Hollywood as a freelance writer and voice o... | 5/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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113: Earning $3000-$4000 per Month on Kindle in Just 6 Months as a “Professional” Author | Last year, Lise "came out of nowhere" as they say, and published 13 books in 6 months, and now earns between $3000 and $4000 a month in author royalties. - Of course the truth is she didn't come out of nowhere at all; she came out of New Zealand and h... | 5/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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112: The 3 C’s of Side Hustle Happiness | Creation, connection, and contribution are the 3 C's I believe everyone needs to live a happy healthy productive life, whether that life contains a side hustle or not. - In this episode I share the audio from my TEDx talk, | 5/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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111: How to Make Money as a Freelancer – Without Competing for Jobs on Elance or oDesk | Freelancing or selling some useful service is one of the fastest ways to earn more money. It may not be as sexy as "passive income" but it does come with instant gratification. - Make deals, deliver awesome work, and get paid. - In today's show, | 5/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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110: Monetizing Your Art and the Path to 1000 True Fans | On this week's show, I'm joined by Steph Halligan, who runs ArtToSelf.com. She's a talented cartoonist who began a daily blog and email newsletter with inspirational and affirmational art -- all created by her. - | 5/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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109: Public Coaching Update: Rejected by the App Store! | Where we left off with Wellington, he was facing some quality control challenges with his app developer in building the Getaway Geek travel hacking app. - There was some back-and-forth after some testing and a lot of bugs that needed to be fixed. | 5/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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108: The Best Passive Income Model? | I was very excited to sit down with Mark Podolsky, The Land Geek, to talk about his side-hustle-turned-full-time-biz of investing in raw land. - In fact, he was able to replace his day job income and quit his job only 18 months after starting. - | 4/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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107: Side Hustle Coaching: The Sales Process and Delivering the Goods | In today's installment of my public coaching series I'm catching up with Kathryn, who’s starting a gluten free baked goods business out of her home in Portland Oregon. - When we last spoke, she’d just landed her first customer and sold her first $20 w | 4/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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106: Stand Out: Build Your Unique Authority and Get Paid | Dorie's latest book is called Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, and it is the perfect companion to anyone trying to build a personal brand, an authority website, or an audience-based business. - | 4/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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105: How to Retire in Your 30s | I've been medium-obsessed with the idea of early retirement ever since I discovered this little blog called Mr. Money Mustache a couple years ago. - The basic formula goes like this: once you have 25x your annual spending in invested net worth, | 4/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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104: How to Find and Validate Your First Import Product | Four months ago, Andy Slamans gave us a detailed look at Amazon FBA product selection, working with manufacturers, and bringing those products to market. - But the most common question I get from listeners is how to find that first product to import... | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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103: Public Coaching Update: App Development Headaches and Brainstorming a SaaS Business | In this episode we're catching up with Wellington, my public coaching volunteer in New York. Where we left off, he was working with an outsourced app developer to finalize a beta version of his travel hacking app for the app store. - | 4/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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102: Zero to $50k a Month: Email Marketing Hacks for Entrepreneurs and Audience Builders | Dan Faggella sent me an email last month that essentially said, "Hey Nick, I'm a fan of the show. I have some expertise in email marketing, and I know many of your listeners are working to build their online presence and their email lists. | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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101: Public Coaching Update: Kathryn Lands Her First Customer and Talks Next Steps | In this episode we're catching up with Kathryn, my public coaching volunteer in Portland. Where we left off, she was starting a gluten-free cottage bakery out of her home. - The ultimate goals were to be able to leave her less-than-awesome day job and... | 3/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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100: Behind the Scenes at Side Hustle Nation | This week my friend Alex Barker co-hosts and interviews me on my entrepreneurial beginnings, my first side hustle, and the origins and future of Side Hustle Nation. We also go through a few listener questions as well. - | 3/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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99: Ideas are Worthless? Nate Earned $300,000 in Passive Income From His (An Intro to Product Licensing) | Nate and his brother earned $300,000 in passive income by licensing one of their ideas to Mattel. They didn't have to design it, produce it, or sell it. But they found someone who could, and they cashed the checks. - And to be fair, | 3/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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98: From $100 to $30,000 in Nine Months | John Corcoran is well-known in online business circles for being "the connections guy," but I was more curious in how he's built his own online business than networking tips. - Today he sells his own premium course on Connecting with Influencers, | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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97: Public Coaching Kickoff: Introducing Our Stars As They Begin Their Quest | "Gun to your head, what would you do to earn an extra $500 in the next 30 days?" - By far the best response I received to this question came from Mike Greig: - "I go Bruce Lee circa 1970 on the guy holding the gun. Quick chop, | 3/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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96: Essentialism and Finding Your ONE Thing | In Hawaii and on the plane home I read two books with very similar themes: - The ONE Thing by Gary Keller Essentialism by Greg McKeown Both titles share the common message of FOCUS -- de-cluttering your day, your work, your mind, and your life. | 2/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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95: $10k from a Single Sale … on Fiverr | Twenty months and 90 episodes ago, I was introduced to the incredible story of AnarchoFighter, the Top-Rated Fiverr seller who earned enough cash on the platform to buy a house. - That episode convinced me to give Fiverr a shot as a seller myself, | 2/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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94: Tax Saving Tips for Side Hustlers | It's tax season, and I think it would be foolish to give Uncle Sam more than you're legally required to. - This week I'm joined by Joshua Sheats from RadicalPersonalFinance.com and the host of the Radical Personal Finance podcast. - | 2/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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93: How to Start and Scale a Service Business to Quit Your Job | Dayne Shuda runs GhostBlogWriters.com, a done-for-you blogging service that commands premium prices, and oversees a team of 20 part-time writers to deliver the work for clients around the country. - But like most businesses, | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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92: Building a Location Independent Business of Freedom and Travel — Even With a Family | Here's a guy who built an online business, and had the courage to up and move to Cozumel, Mexico -- with his wife and 3 young daughters. - It's not your typical single-23-year-old-dude digital nomad type of story, | 2/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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91: Rapid Product Creation, Book Launch Tactics, and Turning a Book into a Business | This may surprise people, but I'm a pretty slow writer. - I have a challenging time writing in "rough draft" mode. You know, where you just brain dump onto the page and clean it up later. That's one reason I wanted to have Chandler Bolt back on the s... | 1/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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90: How Non-Techies Can Build a Passive Software Business | Jon Nastor is lifelong side-hustler, the co-founder of VelocityPage.com, a pain-free webpage building tool for WordPress that’s grown to hundreds of users, and as a side hustle, he hosts the top-rated Hack the Entrepreneur podcast. - | 1/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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89: 15,000 Subscribers in 6 Months: How to Build Your Email List From Amazon | You want traffic? You want readers? You want customers? - You'll want to listen to this episode. - Your free book is essentially your epic "guest post" -- only a MUCH bigger site than you could ever hope to publish on regularly. | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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88: 6 Figures in 6 Months … with No Inventory, No Coding, and No Selling | I'm thrilled to welcome Benny Hsu back to The Side Hustle Show! Remember Benny from way back in episode 17, when we talked about dominating the app store? - In 2014, his app business took a backseat to a new side hustle: selling t-shirts through Teesp... | 1/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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87: The 5 Step System to Quit Your Job In the Next 12 Months | If you're not already following Bryan Harris, I recommend you do. The guy is super smart and has a unique way of breaking things down so that they're easy to understand and implement. - He doesn't mess around, | 1/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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86: Unlocking LinkedIn: Secrets to Grow Your Email List, Expand Your Network, and Build Your Business | It had been several years since I'd given any thought to my LinkedIn account, and it was due for a serious overhaul. - Enter Joshua Jordison, a former side hustler turned full-time entrepreneur (primarily in the event production industry). Joshua, | 12/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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85: Part-Time Podcasting for Profit ($1900 in Week 3?) | Scott Oldford sent me a proposal for a podcast episode about part-time podcasting, and included the hook, "I've made $1900 in revenue from my first episode." - OK, I'm listening! - In this episode we discuss how a podcast can be a very part-time ven... | 12/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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84: $33k in 30 Days? Getting Started with Private Labeling and Amazon FBA | Selling on Amazon is one of the hottest side hustles around, and I'm not talking about selling books! - In this show, we'll dive into sourcing and selling your own physical products on Amazon by finding what's hot in the marketplace, | 12/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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83: How to Win Clients With Your Personal Brand, Plus 3 Live Listener Brand Audits | Jessica is a PR professional by day, but gets in her side hustle work of freelance writing, blog management, and branding bootcamps primarily in the early hours of the morning. 5:00am wake up call! - During this call we discuss the merits of personal ... | 12/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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82: The OMG and 5 Other Habits That Will Make You a More Effective Entrepreneur | Happy Thanksgiving! - I hope you're having an amazing holiday with friends and family, and taking a moment to reflect and recharge. Even though it's an American holiday, the idea behind giving thanks for what we have is universal. - | 11/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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81: The Path to $5k a Month Passive Income Sharing What You Already Know | When I asked listeners last month who they'd like to hear on the show, Rob Cubbon is a name that came up from a couple different people. - Rob's been crushing it lately between is online teaching efforts and his Kindle publishing business, | 11/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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80: How a Single Apartment Turned Into a $60,000 a Year Hands-Off Business | Jasper Ribbers is one of the leading experts on building an Airbnb side hustle, having done it himself with his Amsterdam apartment and having co-authored the bestselling book on the topic, Get Paid for Your Pad. - | 11/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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79: Getting Started in Real Estate Investing for Less Than $100 | J. Massey discovered real estate as a business out of necessity. He and his wife were both in poor health, and as he explains, had a 398 credit score and $75 to their name. - Then, introduced to real estate wholesaling, | 11/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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78: How to Build a Full-Time Freelancing Business | Carrie Smith's CarefulCents blog is one of my personal favorites. - Why? Because she's a side hustler who's been there, done that. - She's built her part-time freelancing business to the point where she was able to quit her job and become a full-time... | 10/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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77: Growing a $4k a Month Business in an Hour a Day | When I learned the results Kellie Gimenez was seeing in her business, I knew I had to hear the story firsthand. She's a former co-worker of mine, who became a Beachbody coach in the spring of 2013. - After following along with her journey on social me... | 10/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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76: Building Recurring Revenue Streams as a Side Hustler | Today, Alexis Grant runs a social media, content marketing, and blog management agency and manages a team of 10 people to get it all done. - But like many of us, she started off as a side hustler, working her way up and adding clients until it was tim... | 10/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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75: How I Earned $7490 in My First 14 Months on Fiverr (and my plans to double it) | One of the surprising bright spots in my side hustle portfolio (my strategy of building multiple income streams) has been Fiverr. - After hearing the incredible story of AnarchoFighter last year, I knew I had to give the platform a shot! - | 10/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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74: How to Make Money Driving in Your Spare Time | This week's side hustle requires ZERO technical skills or expertise, you don't have to sell anything, and you don't have to make a big upfront investment. - In fact, you probably already have the 2 key ingredients: a car and some spare time. - | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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73: How to Build and Monetize an Authority Site | Everybody's an expert in something, right? - Well this week's guest, Matt Giovanisci, is an expert in pool care. He describes it as the most boring industry that serves such a fun product. - He's taken an innovative approach to rank his site, | 9/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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72: How to Make a Full-Time Living on Craigslist | Ryan Finlay from ReCraigslist.com makes a full-time living (and supports his family of 7) buying and selling items on Craigslist. In fact, he used this business to pull himself out from $25,000 in debt and now teaches others to do the same. - | 9/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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71: One Page Adsense Sites and Productized Consulting | If you've been in the "niche site" game at all over the past few years, this week's conversation will open your eyes to a whole new world of possibility in the realm of making money with Adsense. - Kurt Elster is the co-founder of EtherCycle, | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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70: Software as a Side Hustle: Mistakes, Market Validation, and Massive Scale | I'm excited to welcome Spencer Haws back to the show this week! - Longtime listeners may remember Spencer from episode 18 of the show, where he gave us a step-by-step walkthrough of how he builds profitable niche sites from scratch. - | 9/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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69: How to Build a Private Blog Network to Quickly Get to the Top of Google | In the SEO community, private blog networks (PBNs) have been all the rage lately. - The basic premise is this: - You buy up a small portfolio of expired domains that still retain a strong Domain Authority (a Moz metric for estimating a site's search ... | 8/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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68: How I Got My First Sale in 6 Different Businesses | One of my favorite questions to ask guests on The Side Hustle Show is how they got their first customer. Because that's an empowering moment! - So today, I'll take you through how I got my first customers in a half dozen different business ventures. | 8/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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67: The Hustler’s Path: From Freelance to Agency to Product | It's been quite a while since our last discussion of a software business here on the show. Even though we touched briefly on Long Tail Pro with Spencer Haws, I really have to go all the way back to Josh Isaak in episode 12 to find an in-depth breakdown... | 8/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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66: How to Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half | A few years ago, Josh Elledge became obsessed with one line item in his family's budget: the grocery bill. His family of 4 was spending $700-800 per month on groceries, and he already considered himself a fairly frugal shopper -- it's not like they wer... | 8/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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65: How to Reverse Engineer Your Blog to Get Paying Clients (and 10x Your Hourly Rate) | Corrina Gordon-Barnes is a sought-after coach and mentor, and today she shares with Side Hustle Nation exactly how she built her business from the ground up. - There are some surprising turns and some eye-opening responses in this one, | 8/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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64: The Path to Passive Income on Udemy – Even If You’re Not an Expert | I'm excited to welcome Scott Britton from Life-LongLearner.com and The Competitive Edge podcast to The Side Hustle Show. In this chat, we talk about how he built up a passive income stream from online courses on Udemy, | 7/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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63: The 8 Income Streams I’m Working on Right Now | It's a special Friday edition of The Side Hustle Show, and I'm flying solo on this one discussing the 8 income streams I'm working on right now. - Add a little diversity to your revenue sources to protect yourself if any one of them gets cut off sudde... | 7/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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62: Generating Lifestyle Business Ideas That Work | Jesse Krieger is THE Lifestyle Entrepreneur, and author of the book of the same name, subtitled Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in The World. - Today we're chatting about how aspiring side hustlers can come u... | 7/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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61: How Ryan Quit His $50k/year Job to Sell Online Full-Time | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show I'm joined by Ryan Grant, founder of OnlineSellingExperiment.com, and a guy who turned his online selling side hustle into a full time gig. - Ryan and I connected on Twitter after I published a post from Travis ... | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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60: Punching Fear in the Face and Escaping Average, with Jon Acuff | Through his best-selling books, Jon Acuff may be one of the most prominent advocates for the side hustle "brand" of entrepreneurship. - Jon's a sought-after author, speaker, and consultant, with a share of side hustle stories to tell. | 7/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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59: How to Start a Side Hustle Consulting Business that Gets Paid | Consulting can be a beautiful business model because it transitions you from selling what you do to selling what you know. - So what do you know that other businesses might pay for? What could you consult on? - | 7/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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58: Engineering a 20,000 Download Kindle Launch: My Tactics, Takeaways, and Biggest Mistakes | I've been anxious to share the results of my Work Smarter Kindle launch with you, including all the behind-the-scenes work and strategy that went into it. - In this special edition of The Side Hustle Show, | 6/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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57: How to Launch, Grow, and Scale a Speaking Business | What do you do when your side hustle demands being available (and even traveling) during normal business hours? It's a challenge that a lot of us are facing and this week on The Side Hustle Show my guest shares is unique way to get around it and build ... | 6/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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56: From Miserable and $100,000 in Debt to Self-Employed Author, Speaker, and Coach | This edition of The Side Hustle Show is probably one of the most inspiring yet. I'm joined by Kimanzi Constable, who shares his story about the struggle of entrepreneurship and his dream of becoming a writer. - | 6/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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55: How Side Hustlers Can Get More Done in Less Time | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Chandler Bolt, co-author of The Productive Person: A how-to guide book filled with productivity hacks & daily schedules for entrepreneurs, students or anyone struggling with work-life balance. - | 6/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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54: Passive Income on Etsy, Scoring Book Deals, and Recession-Proofing Your Life | Kim Palmer stopped by The Side Hustle Show this week to talk about her various side hustles and how you can get started. As the author of The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life, | 6/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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53: How to Earn Your First $1000 as a Freelancer | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Cameron Rambert all the way from Melbourne Australia! He's a freelance marketing strategist and the founder of DigitalMined.com, a growing resource for struggling freelancers. - | 5/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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52: How to Use Freelancing to Find Business Ideas (and Cold Showers to Find Yourself) | Nick Reese is an accomplished entrepreneur and sought-after business coach. We set out to record an episode on the mindset necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur, and I think we reached that goal, but along the way, | 5/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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51: One Listener’s Year of Hustle: Apps, YouTube, Kindle, Udemy, Fiverr, and More | I'm excited to welcome Alex Genadinik back to The Side Hustle Show as the first-ever repeat guest. Alex reached out and told me how he'd applied many of the strategies and tactics discussed on the show over the past year, | 5/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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50: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs | The best thing about starting a podcast is the excuse to talk to awesome and inspiring people on a weekly basis. - I've learned so much from The Side Hustle Show guests over the past year, I thought it would be an appropriate time to recap some of th... | 5/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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49: Blogging to a $1 Million and Staying Sexy | BudgetsAreSexy.com is one of the most popular personal finance blogs in the world, and surprise surprise, it started as a side hustle. - In today's show (Episode 49 of The Side Hustle Show), I'm joined by J. Money, | 5/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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48: 5 Days to a New Income Stream, with Jeff Steinmann | Here we are in Episode 48 of The Side Hustle Show, and I'm joined by Jeff Steinmann from HowtoQuitWorking.com (and author of the book by the same name). - Jeff's a real hustler who left his corporate gig a few years ago to pursue the entrepreneurial p... | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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47: Building a $4260 per month Kindle Publishing Business | Nicklas Kingo joins me all the way from Copenhagen in Episode 47 of the Side Hustle Show to share how he's building a lucrative Amazon Kindle publishing business. - He's made the public goal of earning $4260 per month from his Kindle business before h... | 4/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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46: Blogging in Your Spare Time: From $0 to $17,000 a month | In episode 46 of The Side Hustle show, we get to hear the incredible story of Lindsay and Bjork Ostrom, who built PinchofYum.com up to a massive audience all while working a day job. In fact, they spent a full year volunteering in the Philippines but s... | 4/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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45: How to Build Your Personal Brand and Maximize Your Time, with Chris Ducker | In Episode 45 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Chris Ducker to discuss personal branding and utilizing virtual team members to make the most of your time. - As side hustlers, it makes a lot of sense since we only have limited time to work on our... | 4/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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44: Side Hustling Hard, Even with a Dream Job | In Episode 44 of The Side Hustle Show I'm joined by James Swanwick, an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter but also a super-busy side-hustler. - I was intrigued by his story because by all accounts -- even his own -- he's got the dream job! | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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43: Building a 6-Figure Blog from Scratch, with Pat Flynn | In Episode 43 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Pat Flynn from ChroniclesOfStrength.com, one of the leading sites on "fitness minimalism." - Pat is a kettlebell enthusiast who shares exactly how he built his blog from a side hustle hobby in colle... | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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42: Niche Down and Dominate | In Episode 42 of The Side Hustle Show, Alex Harris (aka AlexDesigns) joins me to talk niche service businesses. - He shares how he built his business, AlexDesigns.com, in his spare time, how he landed his first customers, | 3/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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41: How to Grow a Passive Income Online | In Episode 41 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Montina "Sparkwisdom" Portis, a fellow side hustler (soon to be "retired" from corporate life). She's an author, coach, and an online entrepreneur. - And she's kind of a big deal on YouTube. - | 3/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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40: How (and why) to Build Your Own Mastermind Group, Plus How You Join One With Fellow Side Hustlers | I'm Nick and I have a confession. When I recorded this episode with Alex Barker from AlexBarker.org (The Leadership Dojo podcast), I had never been in any sort of formal mastermind group. - Listen to the collective gasp in my blogger/podcaster/entrepr... | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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39: Hacking Your Side Hustle for Growth and Passive Income | In Episode 39 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Mike Newton from HackingPhotography.com. - We discuss how to make a name for yourself in any business, how to score corporate clients (and why you'd want to), | 2/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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38: Flipping Websites for Fun and Profit | Fellow side hustler Freddie Mixell from ProjectPassive.com joins me on Episode 38 of The Side Hustle Show to discuss how to flip digital real estate assets. We cover the criteria to build an income-producing website from scratch, | 2/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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37: How to Build and Monetize an Online Forum | In this Episode 37 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Tess Strand, the founder of VirtualAssistantForums.com, the leading online forum for professional and aspiring virtual assistants. - We cover how she built the membership up from 0 to more than... | 2/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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36: A Job-Killing Membership Business Around Your Passion | Melissa Witmer runs UltyResults.com, a strength and conditioning membership site for ultimate frisbee players that generates a full-time income. In episode 36 of The Side Hustle Show, learn how she took the concept from idea to side hustle to full-time... | 1/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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35: From $18 an Hour to $1000 an Hour in 60 Days | In episode 35 of The Side Hustle Show, I learn how Daniel DiPiazza from Rich20Something.com went from earning $18 an hour to $1000 an hour using his "Marsupial Method" for side hustle businesses. - It sounds hype-y, but it happened. | 1/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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34: How to Build a 5-Figure Subscription-Based Service Business in Your Spare Time | In episode 34 of The Side Hustle Show, fellow side hustler Ryan Cote from WPAmplify.com discusses how he's built his part-time service business into a high-value recurring-revenue machine. - We talk scoring customers, pricing, delivering the goods, | 1/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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33: How to Build a Niche Coaching Business That Lets You Quit Your Job | In episode 33 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Virginia Roberts from TheHeartographer.com. Virginia shares an awesome story of side hustle success, turning a personal skill into a hobby, then into a part-time coaching business, | 1/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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32: How to Build a High-Value Membership Site for Recurring Revenue | A subscription-based business is a beautiful thing, because you have a predictable recurring revenue stream you can grow over time. - Online, one of the most popular subscription business models is a membership site, | 12/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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31: Pay What You Want Pricing for Side Hustlers | Could you actually earn more money for your side hustle work by letting customers choose their own price? - Tom Morkes, author of The Complete Guide to Pay What You Want Pricing, shares why the strategy works and when to use it. - | 12/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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30: How to Build a $10,000+ Per Deal Flipping Factory, with Nick Ruiz | In Episode 30 of The Side Hustle Show, we learn how to build a real estate wholesaling side hustle, without any experience and without risking your own money or credit score. - Veteran investor Nick Ruiz shares how he earns $10, | 12/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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29: 6 Productivity Hacks for Side Hustlers | In Episode 29 of The Side Hustle Show, Timo Kiander of ProductiveSuperdad.com shares his top 6 productivity hacks for side hustlers to maximize their time and output. - We also get into a fun discussion about managing email, | 11/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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28: How to Live Rent Free | In Episode 28 of The Side Hustle Show I sit down with Scott Bold to discuss how Airbnb bookings pay the majority of his rent. - Just imagine, if a side hustle could cover your living expenses, would that give you a sense of freedom from your job? - | 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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27: Outsourcing for Side Hustlers | In Episode 27 of The Side Hustle Show, Jonathan Shank and I geek out over outsourcing, microsourcing, and crowdsourcing for side hustlers. This is an action-packed episode with some high-value takeaways for everyone looking to get started with outsourc... | 11/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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26: The 5 Pillars of Affiliate Marketing Success | In episode 26 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Josh and Jill Stanton from ScrewtheNinetoFive.com. This pair is living the digital nomad dream, coming to us all the way from Chiang Mai, Thailand! - Thanks to Adam from TropicalNomad. | 10/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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25: How to Create a Profitable Online Course, with Vasavi Kumar | Episode 25 -- we made it to the quarter-century mark! - Learn how to create valuable and profitable time-leveraged online courses utilizing the skills and experience you already have. Vasavi Kumar, a certified life coach, | 10/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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24: 6 Tips to Find the Right Side Hustle Idea for You | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, Laurel Staples from GoFireYourself.com shares 6 questions and tips you can implement to determine the best side hustle idea for you. - Laurel brings a wealth of business experience to the table, | 10/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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23: The Art of Non-Scammy MLM | Is all network marketing a scam? - It can't be, right? It's a $176 billion industry, and one of the most popular side hustles on the planet. - In this episode, Brian Swichkow of CatalystMLM.com shares the true recipe for MLM success, | 10/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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22: How to Start a 6-Figure Speaking Business, with Jullien Gordon | In Episode 22 of The Side Hustle Show, Jullien Gordon of SideHustla.com gives the detailed story about how he transitioned from employee to entrepreneur and built his speaking business into a 6-figure a year enterprise. - | 10/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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21: Building a 7-Figure Blog, with Jim Wang | In Episode 21 of The Side Hustle Show, Jim Wang shares the strategies and tactics he used to take Bargaineering.com from a part-time hobby to a 7-figure business. - In 2010, Jim sold Bargaineering to Bankrate for a reported $3 million, | 9/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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20: How to Generate Unlimited Local Leads for Your Side Hustle | In Episode 20 of The Side Hustle Show, local SEO expert and entrepreneur Adam Steele shares how local side hustlers can set their business up to generate more leads than they can handle. - We discuss the exact tools and tactics to use to get to the to... | 9/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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19: How to Start a Part-Time Virtual Assistant Business, with Lee Drozak | In Episode 19 of The Side Hustle Show, Lee Drozak from MyOfficeAssist.com shares how she got started as a virtual assistant and how you can do the same. We talk setting up shop, getting your first clients, setting your prices, establishing a niche, | 9/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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18: How to Earn Big Money with Small Websites, with Spencer Haws | In Episode 18 of The Side Hustle Show, Spencer Haws of NichePursuits.com shares his detailed process for niche site creation and monetization, including idea generation, competitive analysis, content creation, link building, and much more. - | 9/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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17: $30,000 in 30 Days: App Store Domination with Benny Hsu | In episode 17 of The Side Hustle Show, veteran app entrepreneur Benny Hsu shares his insider tips on how to get app ideas, build them out (even if you don't know how to code), launch them, and promote them in the App Store. - In 2011, | 8/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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16: How to Make Money Teaching on Udemy, with Ari Meisel | I'm excited to have Ari Meisel from LessDoing.com on the podcast today! Ari is one of the leading thinkers in the productivity space and someone I've been following online for a couple years. - Today though, | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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15: How to Launch and Monetize a Podcast, with John Dumas | In Episode 15 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm excited to have the hardest working man in radio, John Dumas on the show. John's Entrepreneur on Fire podcast is tearing up the airwaves and earning him a healthy six-figure income less than 1 year after launc... | 8/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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14: How to Buy Income-Producing Websites, with Chris Guthrie | In Episode 14 of The Side Hustle Show, Chris Guthrie helps me explore the idea of buying income-producing websites as a side hustle investment strategy. It takes a little bit of capital to play in this game, | 8/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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13: Selling Your Artistic Side Hustle, with Melanie Ida Chopko | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Side Hustle Nation member Melanie Ida Chopko. Melanie has an awesome side hustle story to share about her journey as a visual facilitator, bringing ideas to life with beautiful visuals in real-time... | 8/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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12: How to Build a Software Business with No Coding, No Money, and No Ideas, with Josh Isaak | In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, we hear the super-inspiring story of Josh Isaak, founder of MySky. He talks about how he built the CRM software from scratch, beginning without an idea or coding experience, | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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11: How to Start, Grow, and Sell a Membership Website in a Competitive Space, with Jason Pliml | In Episode 11 of The Side Hustle Show, I sit down with Jason Pliml, the founder of MockDraftCentral.com. We discuss building a web application business as a side hustle, even in an ultra-competitive area like sports, | 7/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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10: How to Earn $3000 a Month Blogging in Your Spare Time, with Robert Farrington | Robert Farrington is more successful than 99% of all bloggers on the planet. He routinely earns between $3000 and $5000 a month from his blogs. - And the kicker? - Yeah, he still has a full-time job completely unrelated to this amazing side hustle! | 7/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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9: How to Become an Author in Just an Hour a Day, with Steve Scott | I love the idea of having something for sale in an established marketplace, and I think there's no better example of that than Amazon. If you don't have a book for sale on Amazon you're missing out on a huge audience of buyers. - | 7/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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8: How to Start a Profitable Part-Time Coaching Business, with Jeremy Blanchard | In this episode of The Side Hustle Show, we meet Jeremy Blanchard, a soon-to-be full-time Life and Leadership Coach. While working as a web developer, Jeremy has been cultivating his coaching business as a fun, profitable, and fulfilling side hustle. | 6/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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7: How to Create, Launch, and Sell Your Own Digital Magazine, with Meron Bareket | This week on the podcast, my guest is Meron Bareket from the Inspiring Innovation magazine and Inspiring Innovation podcast. We talk shop about how to get started with digital periodicals and why they make a great low-risk side hustle. - | 6/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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6: How to Build an Offline Side Hustle Around Your Passion, with Emma Perez | In Episode 6 of The Side Hustle Show, I have a chance to sit down with Emma Perez of OrlandoWeddingDances.com to discuss how she's built her side hustle business by leveraging her passion for dance along with some savvy marketing moves. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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5: How One Fiverr Seller Earned Enough Cash to Buy a House | This podcast interview wraps up Fiverr Week here on Side Hustle Nation. - From earlier: 15 Ways to Start, Grow, and Expand Your Side Hustle Using Fiverr 19 Fiverr Gigs to Help Start Your Side Hustle - | 6/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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4: How to Quit Your Job and Move to Hawaii, with Kai Davis | In Episode 4 of The Side Hustle Show I'm joined by fellow entrepreneur Kai Davis, who built an impressive freelance business in his spare time that allowed him to move from Oregon to Hawaii. Kai's a real hustler and drops a ton of great value in this i... | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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3: From 0 to 100,000 Downloads — App Development, Discovery, and Monetization with Alex Genadinik | In Episode 3 of The Side Hustle Show, I'm joined by Alex Genadinik, a smartphone app developer whose apps have been downloaded more than 100,000 times! I love his story because it's about building an audience from scratch and learning along the way. | 5/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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2: Harnessing Your Superpowers for Fun and Profit, with Theresa Campbell | In Episode 2 of The Side Hustle Show, I have my good friend and "genyus" Theresa Campbell as my guest. By day she's helping Ford reclaim the American Road and by night she's helping people harness their superpowers and ignite meaningful lives. - | 5/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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1: From Heavy Metal Band to International Marketing CEO, with Chris Kilbourn | In the inaugural episode of The Side Hustle Show podcast, I have Chris Kilbourn as my guest. Chris is one of those guys who started more companies by the time he graduated college than most people will start in their lifetime. - | 5/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Everyday I’m Hustling
This show is a great fit for my mindset as I built my business as a side hustle. Nick is obviously a super smart guy as you hear him interview some great guests. This is a great show for any solopreneur or someone wanting to make the leap into as a freelance web professional. Just subscribed and listened to all the show. Great job Nick!
Very informative and inspiring
I enjoyed the first podcast and am looking forward to the rest. I get the sense I will learn a lot about real practical business applications as I continue to listen. It is also great to be able to tap into an entrepreneurial community. It empowers anyone to pursue their passion.
What a great podcast for entrepreneurs. So refreshing!
I stumbled upon Nick Loper's podcast today and what a nice surprise! I'm always on the lookout for business podcasts that engage me. Maybe I'm picky, but there are so many that are incredibly boring. I dig Nick's interviews and his style. If you are an entrepreneur looking for helpful advice, tune in. You'll get good, sensible information that will help you on your quest for success.
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