The Side Hustle Show

Megan Champion is a mom of 3, a 15-year elementary education teacher, and in the past year, she’s started a side hustle that has brought in $20,000.Megan’s side hustle is in the parenting niche and has 3 main parts: An Instagram account to drive awareness A podcast called On The Hard Days to drive connection And a paid membership to drive community — and recurring revenue. In this episode, you’ll learn how all three of those work and how they work together to build Megan’s business — and how you may be able to apply some of the same strategies to your own business.The exciting thing here is that the audience numbers that Megan shares aren’t huge, but they’ve still been enough to build a pretty substantial extra income stream and help a lot of people at the same time.Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: how and why Megan had the idea to start a podcast and paid membership the ways she has leveraged a small but dedicated social media audience how Megan validated her membership idea and launched it Full Show Notes: How to Make Money with a Small PodcastReady to Grow Your Show? Get a Special Discount on my Podcast Growth Playbook CourseGet Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

When it comes to sharing your side hustle with your boss, is honesty always the best policy?In this post, we’ll explore whether or not you should clue your boss in about your side hustle(s).Full Show Notes: Should You Tell Your Boss About Your Side Hustle?Get Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

This week’s guest started his side hustle with the goal of earning an extra $1,000 a month. Four summers later and it’s now a 6-figure business.Blademir Hernandez of LitterFreeLots.nyc is a long-time listener of the Side Hustle Show who was inspired by Brian Winch’s story in episode 266 to start his business.Additional Resource: CleanLotsBrian built a $650k a year operation picking up litter and cleaning parking lots, something Blademir told me he knew he could also do.Blademir ended up reaching out to Brian and running the idea past him, before going out and finding property managers in this area to pitch his litter picking service to.This story is a perfect example of what can happen when you take inspiration from a proven business model and execute your own game plan.Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: more on where Blademir got the inspiration to start his litter pick-up business how he found his first customers by driving around his neighborhood how Blademir has scaled his business by hiring contractors to carry out the work Full Show Notes: How to Start a Parking Lot Cleanup BusinessGet Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

The most popular side hustles aren't necessarily the best fit for you. In this episode I'm breaking down the pros and cons of 5 common side hustles — and what you might consider doing instead.Full Show Notes: 5 Popular Side Hustles (and what to do instead)Get Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

With her hours cut due to the pandemic and a new house to pay for, this week’s guest set out an action plan to make 6-figures in 2021.To achieve that, Heather Johnson of HeatherXStudio.com decided to start an Etsy store selling print-on-demand goods like t-shirts, mugs, and other apparel and items.Fast forward two years and Heather is now a former MRI tech who’s taken her print-on-demand side hustle full-time and is averaging $15k a month in revenue and $4-5k in monthly profit.How’d she do it?By following the trends with her own unique spin, putting 100s of products up for sale, and implementing some savvy marketing strategies you can apply in your own business.Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: why and how Heather created a “high-volume listing store” how she evaluates competition and finds new creative ideas heather’s best practices for maximum organic exposure on Etsy Full Show Notes: Building a Print on Demand Business on EtsyDownload Your Free Bonus: 100 Print on Demand NichesGet Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

Matt makes $200+ a month sharing his writing on Medium.com. It's a hobby he genuinely enjoys doing anyway, so the revenue it brings in is a bonus!Here's how to get started making money on Medium.Links and resources: Matt on Medium  Matt's site Episode 510: The 6-Figure Bird Blog New to the show? Get your personalized playlist here!

We're halfway through the year, and 2022 is flying by!In these quarterly Progress Reports, I break down how the business grew (or shrunk), what I worked on, and other happenings from the last three months.I worked more hours the first half of 2022 than I did in 2021, and (not surprisingly) I feel like I'm getting more done as a result. I'm still struggling to come to terms with a to-do list that's never going to be done, but do feel like I'm making progress on building a business that serves me and serves others.Full show notes: My $10k Launch (and Other Projects)

“You have a skill, but you’re not using it correctly.”That the tough love advice Vincent Pugliese’s father gave him.Vincent was working what he thought was his dream job as a photojournalist. He’d just won the most prestigious award in his industry (International Sports Photographer of the Year), and he and his wife Elizabeth had a baby on the way.Yet the newspaper job didn’t pay well. With the impending arrival of their son, Vincent took a hard look at his financial picture: he was in his mid-30s, 6-figures in debt, and earning $15 an hour.Not great.Something had to change, and something did.Full Show Notes: Freelance to Freedom: From $30k a Year to $30k in a DayNew to the Show? Get your personalized playlist

This week’s guest took a pain point she was experiencing - finding a nanny for her 3-month-old - and turned it into a multi 6-figure full-time business with 500 nannies across 5 states.Kristy Bickmeyer started TwinkleToesNanny.com back in 2011 in response to not being able to find a nanny herself.At least not without going through the “traditional” agency model of paying $1,500-3,000 upfront and with few guarantees it will work out long-term.Kristy decided to start her own agency without the upfront fees, and with a more streamlined approach and robust guarantees for parents - and it’s snowballed from there.I love this strategy of taking a fragmented, localized industry and adding a layer of branding and professionalism to it.This is what 1-800-Got-Junk did in junk removal, and is what Belay Solutions has done in the executive assistant space.Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: how Kristy found her first customers how she’s scaled into a full-time business with locations in multiple states the mistakes and challenges she faced along the way Full Show Notes: Building an Offline Agency to Multiple 6 FiguresDownload Your Free Bonus: 101 Service Business IdeasNew to Show? Get Your Personalized Money-Making Playlist

Play matchmaker between pallet buyers and sellers to flip pallets for profit. Varnie Sambola started his pallet flipping business in 2020, and has already scaled it to $1000 a day (and beyond).He credits another Side Hustle Show guest — John Wilker from episode 274— and his Simplest Biz course with helping him get started.Full Show Notes: Pallet Flipping 101New to the Show? Get Your Personalized Playlist