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- 763: He Makes $3,000 a Year Every Time He Gives a Restaurant a Free Chalkboard (And He’s Done it 200+ Times)
What if you could earn $3,000 a year from a whiteboard you give away for free?
John Schierman of MegansDailyDish.com places free chalkboards and whiteboards in restaurants and other busy venues.
The venue uses the board for daily specials. John sells small ad spots along the bottom to local businesses.
He's placed more than 200 of these boards so far. Each one brings in around $3,000 a year.
(Check out John's Community Boards program! New students get a free 15-minute coaching call with John and a free board!)
Tune in to Episode 763 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how to place free chalkboards and whiteboards in restaurants and other high-traffic venues
- how to price, sell, and fill advertiser spots around the board
- how to turn one placement into a referral engine for more locations and more advertisers
Full Show Notes: He Makes $3,000 a Year Every Time He Gives a Restaurant a Free Chalkboard (And He’s Done it 200+ Times)
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
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- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
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- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
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About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
47 min - 762: Buy Buttons, 10 Years Later
What if the hardest part of your business isn't building the thing, but finding someone to buy it?
Ten years ago, I wrote a book called Buy Buttons. The premise: instead of building a store or website and hoping somebody finds it, go set up shop where the traffic already is, where buyers are already buying.
The book covered over 300 platforms and marketplaces across niches. A decade later, I wanted to revisit the idea.
Are those platforms tapped out? What new ones have shown up? And does the same principle work offline?
This episode is a tour through the legacy platforms that are still thriving, the newer marketplaces that could be the next big wave, and a few examples of entrepreneurs applying the same strategy in the physical world.
Tune in to Episode 762 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- which "legacy" buy buttons platforms from 2016 are still worth building on today
- newer marketplaces like Whatnot, Outschool, and Teachers Pay Teachers that didn't exist (or weren't obvious) a decade ago
- how to apply the buy buttons strategy offline, from mobile coffee carts to vending machines
Full Show Notes: Buy Buttons, 10 Years Later
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
1 hr - $1000 a Week Tutoring on the Side (Greatest Hits)
The ACT is a college entrance exam used by many colleges to rank students applying to their schools. The subject matter covers English grammar, reading comprehension, math, and science.
Millions of students take the test each year and the test prep business rakes in over a billion dollars a year.
As a Side Hustle Nation reader, I want to show you how to get some of that money!
Don’t fret if you aren't a teacher. I'll give you resources to gain the skills and they cost $0.
Full Show Notes: $1000 a Week Tutoring on the Side
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
47 min - 761: Shopping for Cash Flow: Buying an Online Business in 2026
What if you could skip the hardest part of starting a business, the zero-to-one grind, and just buy your way into cash flow instead?
Joe Burrell runs Just Website Brokerage, where he's helped broker over 300 sales totaling more than $7 million in lifetime value.
He started buying and selling his own online businesses back in 2012 and pivoted to full-time brokering around 2018.
These days he doesn't run any businesses of his own — his expertise is entirely in guiding buyers and sellers through the deal process.
In this episode, Joe walks through real, live listings on Flippa, breaking down what the numbers mean, what red flags to watch for, and what actually makes a website or online business worth buying.
(Download Joe's State of Online Business Sales report at justwebsitebrokerage.com/2026!)
Tune in to Episode 761 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how to read a business listing's profit multiple and decide if the asking price is fair
- the questions to ask before buying a content site, e-commerce store, or SaaS product
- why diversification and a post-purchase plan matter more than the price tag
Full Show Notes: Shopping for Cash Flow: Buying an Online Business in 2026New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
46 min - 760: The $100k/mo Single-Function Site, the $4k Pet Party Planner, the $30k Cheese Fortune Teller, and more
Today, we're digging into a stack of side hustle examples and brainstorming ways you could put your own spin on it.
To help me out, I invited Deacon Hayes back on the show. Deacon is the founder of WellKeptWallet.com and the author of You Can Retire Early.
He's a serial entrepreneur whose latest project is actually a rap album!
Tune in to Episode 760 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how a single-function website built in 2014 still pulls in an estimated $100,000+ a month
- how niche, in-person "experience economy" businesses like line dancing lessons and pet birthday parties are cashing in
- how Deacon turned Facebook content into $3,000 to $4,000 a month using a simple content system
Full Show Notes: The $100k/mo Single-Function Site, the $4k Pet Party Planner, the $30k Cheese Fortune Teller, and more
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
57 min - 759: Zero to $20k/mo with the Amazon Influencer Program
What if the easiest money you ever made online came from filming your own bathroom, your neighbor's Legos, or a handwashing station at a farmer's market?
Nate Jackson from Hustle Buddies is back on the show to talk about the Amazon Influencer Program, a way to earn commissions by uploading short product review videos that show up on Amazon listings.
Nate spent years focused on Amazon FBA before finally trying the Influencer Program, and even though people told him it was too late and too saturated, he decided to test it for himself.
In just 10 months, Nate went from a brand-new account to 3,000 videos, building the kind of volume-based system that's helped him and people he coaches earn serious money without fancy equipment or hours of editing.
This is Nate's second appearance on the show, following up on his earlier episode about Amazon FBA.
Tune in to Episode 759 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how to get approved for the Amazon Influencer Program even with almost no social following
- Nate's volume-based filming strategy and where to find hundreds of products to review without leaving your neighborhood
- how Creator Connections campaigns can boost your commission from around 2% up to 50%
(Want to learn Nate's system? He teaches it inside the Amazon Influencer Hub(opens in new tab), his Skool community!)Full Show Notes: Zero to $20k/mo with the Amazon Influencer Program
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
1 hr 3 min - 758: From Zero to $120k/mo in 18 Months
Can you build a six-figure e-commerce business selling products you don't even use yourself? Let's find out.
18 months ago, today's guest was working a day job in digital marketing, feeling like he was always building somebody else's business.
Sound familiar? He decided to change that by launching an e-commerce store, and now he's doing over £120,000 in monthly sales.
Phil McEleney from Camper Nation followed the traditional path of good grades, a good university, and a solid corporate job. But hitting 30 in a middle management role got him thinking about the next 30 or 40 years of his life, chained to an office and a commute.
That's when he decided to build something of his own, one that could become a real, sellable asset.
He landed on camper van and motorhome accessories in the UK market, not because he's a "van lifer" himself, but because the data pointed him there.
Within 18 months of dropshipping high-ticket products, he took the business to £40,000 a month while still working his day job, and has since grown it well beyond that.
Tune in to Episode 758 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how to pick a high-ticket e-commerce niche using search volume and competitor data
- how to get approved as an authorized reseller without any sales history
- how a 3-tiered Google Shopping ad strategy targets buyers who are ready to purchase
Full Show Notes: From Zero to $120k/mo in 18 Months
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
54 min - $500k Revenue From a $9 Membership (Greatest Hits)
Liz Wilcox found herself at a crossroads.
With a growing email list of beginners wanting to learn about email marketing, she knew she wanted to find a way to step away from client work within a couple of years.
She had just signed a huge copywriting contract worth $20,000... her biggest one yet. But instead of excitement, all she felt was dread about the massive project she now had to take on.
And as a single mom, she knew the importance of creating a business that would support her lifestyle and allow her to be present for her family.
This is where the idea of "low cost = low responsibility" appealed to her, as it would allow her to serve her audience at LizWilcox.com while maintaining a manageable workload.
So Liz had the idea to create her flagship offer The Email Marketing Membership — a set of done-for-you email newsletter templates that members could access for just $9 per month.
Tune in to Episode 600 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- How to come up with ideas for your own recurring revenue membership
- How Liz built her own email list and audience
- How to improve retention and continue delivering value to members
Full Show Notes: $500k Revenue From a $9 Membership
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
1 hr 7 min - 757: She Built a 6-Figure Business Talking About Goats
Can you build a real business around one very specific animal?
Deborah Niemann has spent nearly two decades doing exactly that. She runs ThriftyHomesteader.com, a goat-focused media company with a podcast, a YouTube channel, six online courses, and a paid membership with 150 members.
She's also taking her first overseas goat tour to Portugal this October, where some of her most loyal followers are paying to visit goat farms with her.
Deborah didn't plan any of it. She moved to the country in 2002 to raise her own food, made a lot of beginner mistakes, and started teaching classes on her farm so other people wouldn't repeat them.
Tune in to Episode 757 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how Deborah stacks six different income streams in one small niche
- why her course sales fell and her membership kept growing
- how a simple ad network switch took her from $1 a month to $100 a month on video
Full Show Notes: She Built a 6-Figure Business Talking About Goats
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
52 min - 756: Your 15-Minute-a-Day Marketing Plan
What if you didn't need a huge audience to grow your business — just one good partner who already has one?
In today's episode, we're breaking down a repeatable system for finding, pitching, and scaling partnerships, even if you're starting with zero connections and zero ad budget.
Kyle Kane is a former music executive, an Inc. 500 honoree, and the founder behind onSpark.com, a platform that's driven over $2 billion in partnership revenue for the brands he's worked with.
Early in his career, he built relationships the old-school way, going to events and building Rolodexes. But he realized the real unlock wasn't about meeting more people. It was about turning existing relationships into a measurable, repeatable system.
That realization led him to build a framework he calls DVLA: Discover, Verify, Launch, and Amplify. It's designed so a side hustler with no network can access the same partnership leverage as a Fortune 500 business development team.
Tune in to Episode 756 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
- how to find and reach out to the right partners using a simple 4-bullet message
- how to build trust fast with a "minimum viable partnership" before ever signing a contract
- how to scale a single successful test into a repeatable partnership machine
(Get the free Partnership Playbook and learn how to borrow an audience, build real relationships, and turn them into revenue at onSpark.com/hustle).
Full Show Notes: Your 15-Minute-a-Day Marketing Plan
New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!
Sponsors:
- Quo (formerly OpenPhone) — Get 20% off of your first 6 months!
- Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!
- Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!
- Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!
- Monarch — Get an extended 30-day free trial!
About The Side Hustle Show
This is the entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply!
The award-winning small business show covers the best side hustles and side hustle ideas. We share how to start a business and make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more.
Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle.
Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
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About The Side Hustle Show
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The entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply! The award-winning small business show covers creative ways to make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more. Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle. Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
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