The Side Hustle Show

Our annual Friendsgiving celebration has been put on pause this year, but one tradition lives on.This is year 3 of a special Thanksgiving Side Hustle Show episode showcasing creative side hustle ideas that make real money.If you like this format, I’d love for you to check out the first two in this series -- those are episodes 310 and 363 -- both are in the Top 10 all-time most popular episodes.Ready? Let's do it!Full Show Notes: 11 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money

Zero to 55k subscribers and $50k in revenue in 8 months?That’s exactly what Codie Sanchez with Contrarian Thinking, her newsletter about investing and entrepreneurship.Codie's a former journalist, turned institutional investor, turned online business owner. I've thought about content businesses mostly in the context of blogging, podcasting, or video -- but what if email is your content channel?After all, the challenge that many other content channels face is "how to get people to join your list."Codie's model, in a true "contrarian" way, cuts out that middleman.This episode is sure to have you thinking a little differently about how you approach building an audience and building an online business.Tune in to hear: what you might create a newsletter about what makes newsletters such an interesting business model how Codie’s grown and monetized her's so far Full Show Notes: Zero to $50k: How to Grow and Monetize an Email Newsletter

What little purchases or changes have you made that had an outsized impact on your overall happiness?This is something of a sport in our house.Bryn and I kind of joke that we have this mission to optimize everything, whether that’s the: limited space in our house hours in the day money in the bank We've taken great joy in these incremental improvements. We often ask ourselves, “How can we make this 1% better?”If we can make those 1% improvements consistently over time, they start to compound and we’re way better off than when we started.I put the call out to several friends and listeners:What little life upgrade or optimization have you made recently -- with great results?Tune in to hear 21 little life upgrades -- the habits, products, or tools that don't cost a lot of time or money, but make a big impact.Full Show Notes: 21 Little Life Upgrades: Small Optimizations to Improve Your Days

We’re in the middle of a massive labor shift from employees to entrepreneurs.In this episode, I want to try and equip you with some skills, frameworks, and mindsets to help navigate that shift.If you want to make money online, there are a million ways to get it done, but it usually boils down to one thing: helping people.To help me walk through this stuff I’m joined by Austin L. Church.Austin’s a writer, brand consultant, and online entrepreneur. He’s been making his living online for the last 12 years, with some of the exact strategies we’re talking about today.Tune in to hear: how to identify your marketable skills how to land clients in a crowded marketplace the tips and tactics Austin has used to grow his business over the last 12 years Full Show Notes: Make Money Online: The Freelance Business Blueprint

Want to get started with an online business but don’t feel like you’re an expert in anything?Maybe you’ve started a business but you’re struggling to monetize it?A few short years ago, Shane Sams and his wife Jocelyn were school teachers.In their off-hours, they built several successful online businesses, including ElementaryLibrarian.com, which sold for over $1 million in 2017.Today they run FlippedLifestyle.com along with the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, to help others try and replicate the success they’ve had online, and specifically take advantage of the membership model.Tune in to hear: how to set up your membership site the right way why you might be closer than you think to getting your first paying members the payment tiers that work for Shane and his students how Shane and Jocelyn continue to grow their community year-over-year Full Show Notes: Minimum Viable Memberships: Build a Recurring Revenue Online Business

Josh Belk is a full-time college student, he works full-time in web design, and in what little spare time, he’s started a $6,000 a month mobile detailing business with his younger brother.This idea came about when Josh connected the dots between obsession and opportunity.On the obsession side, Josh would always see his brother out in the driveway cleaning his car.On the opportunity side, he received an email about business ideas anyone could start, and mobile car washing was one of them.He asked his brother if he wanted to team up to see if they could make some money cleaning cars -- and with that, Belk Mobile Detailing was born.Tune in to hear to the full podcast episode to hear how the pair: landed their first mobile detailing customers price their service stand out from the competition Full Show Notes: How a Couple College Students Started a $6000 a Month Side Hustle

How can you instill the skills and values of innovation and entrepreneurship in kids?And if you can teach it to kids, why can’t you teach it to grownups?This week I’m joined by Don Wettrick, an award-winning middle school, and high school teacher and the CEO and co-founder of StartEdUp, which has a mission to empower students and teachers to apply innovation and entrepreneurship in the classroom.He’s author of Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level, and also the host of the StartEd Up Podcast.Tune in to hear: how to get kids AND grownups excited about this stuff the rules Don uses for brainstorming his processes for turning problems into real solutions for real customers how those of us with young kids can encourage them to be producers not just consumers Full Show Notes: Raising Innovative and Entrepreneurial Kids: The Next Generation of Problem Solvers

$18k in 9 months ... from ONE YouTube video?And that's without even filming or putting your face on camera!Jon Corres identifies trending topics on YouTube and produces viral videos to ride that trend. Or at least videos he hopes will hit the algorithm just right.It's a numbers game -- not everything you publish will get traction. In fact, Jon said most of his videos don't even breakeven on their production costs right away. But when you have one that hits, it washes away all those expenses and more.When I spoke with Jon, he told me about one of his videos that had gone viral earlier in the year. This video quickly hit 1 million views in February, netting Jon $3,200 in ad revenue.That same video has carried on bringing in passive income. At the time of our call, it had made Jon more than $18,000 and received 8 million views.All from a short video that cost $80 to produce and comprises of short clips from other videos.Tune in to hear: how Jon comes up with ideas for his videos how he and his team create videos without filming any new content the types of videos most likely to go viral the math and metrics behind a successful viral video Full Show Notes: $10k a Month on YouTube - Without Filming or Being on Camera

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.I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show.Like this format?This is the 10th installment of “20 Questions” so feel free to go back and binge on the older ones too: 365: Market Saturation, Mind Mapping, Miracle Mornings, and More: 20 Questions, with Nick 346: The Con of the Side Hustle, Beanie Babies, Affiliate Marketing, and More: 20 Questions with Nick 320: Multiplying Money, Morning Routines, and $100k Side Hustles: 20 Questions with Nick 291: Email, Ebooks, Platforms, and Conferences: 20 Questions with Nick 271: Brilliant Blogging, Ruthless Productivity, and Guaranteed Success: 20 Questions with Nick 245: Network Marketing, Imposter Syndrome, My Side Hustle Mistakes, and More: 20 Questions with Nick 219: Growing Traffic, Monetization, List-Building, a Day in the Life, and More: 20 Questions with Nick 198: Blogging, Branding, Book Writing, and Finding the Right Side Hustle for You: 20 Questions with Nick 181: SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Self-Publishing, Udemy, and More: 20 Questions with Nick A common piece of advice you’ll hear is to take audience questions and turn them into content, so here’s a meta example of that in action.This episode covers side hustle ethics, the side hustles I'm most excited about right now, the best traffic drivers, and lots more.Enjoy!Full Show Notes: 20 Questions with Nick: The Side Hustles I'm Most Excited About Right Now, Side Hustle Ethics, Charging Your Friends, and More

"I allowed the business to coast and it's coasted wonderfully well," Nate Dodson explained.In this episode you'll hear about the power of an evergreen digital product that makes sales on autopilot. It's allowed Nate to shift his focus to some offline projects, including several real estate renovations.In Nate's first appearance on The Side Hustle Show (episode 314 in late 2018), he shared the simple sales funnel that ultimately earned over $1 million in total online course sales.Tune in to hear how Microgreens Farmer continues to make sales every week, how COVID has impacted Nate's business, and his plans for the future.Full Show Notes: $40k a Month in 15-20 Hours a Week