How do you start a side hustle?

Well we can talk about side hustle ideas and marketing tactics until we're blue in the face, but in studying my catalog of past interviews, a few common traits popped up over and over again.

I've compiled those into this 7-step guide to starting a side hustle.

Whether you’re an established business owner, or you’re just starting out, I think you’ll find this a helpful framework for your projects. It'll also help you identify where you have the biggest opportunities for improvement this year.

Full show notes: How to Start a Side Hustle

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In this week’s episode, we’re revisiting some of the most inspiring, creative, and popular side hustles on the show from the last 12 months.

If you missed any of these, make sure to go back and add them to your podcast app.

Let’s dive in!

Full Show Notes: The Best Side Hustles of 2022

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This week’s guest is a long-time Side Hustle Show listener who reached out with a unique side hustle: a part-time lead generation website.

Link Moser runs NHFineHomes.com, which features high-end, lakefront real estate listings in New Hampshire.

How it works is prospective buyers find the website, usually through Google, and when they reach out for more information, Link can either work with them himself as a real estate agent or pass along the lead to one of his referral partners in exchange for a percentage of the agent’s commission if and when the lead eventually buys a house.

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Full show notes: How to Start a Local Lead Generation Website

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This week, we’re diving into a really cool business model that scales and has really low overhead: paid newsletters.

Danielle Desir started the Grants For Creators newsletter earlier this year and has already built it up to around $1,300 a month in recurring revenue.

Danielle also hosts The Thought Card Podcast, which is all about affordable, luxury travel and personal finance.

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For his side hustle, this week’s guest didn’t start from scratch. Instead, he bought a business that was already profitable, then he went out and tripled the revenue in his first year — all while working a full-time job.

Jono Santamaria from Melbourne, Australia is the proud owner of Nina’s Laundrette, a local self-service laundromat.

Jono bought the business a year and a half ago to diversify his investments. When he took over, he implemented several changes to dramatically improve his side hustle.

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Full show notes: I Bought a Laundromat as a Side Hustle and Tripled Revenue

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No matter how you shake it, that first sale is a powerful one. What's the story of your first job-free income?

I asked people to tell me how they first started making money on the side, and got 25 different voicemails!

In this episode, you'll hear first-hand the steps your fellow listeners took to put themselves back in the driver seat of their own financial well-being. 

Full Show Notes: How 25 Side Hustlers Made Their First Job-Free Income

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Want to bring in extra money but don’t know where to start?

Well, you’re in luck. This week, we’re diving into a special Thanksgiving episode on 10 creative side hustle ideas that make real money.

This is the 5th installment of the series, so be sure to check out the previous episodes if you like this format:

Let’s get right to it!

Full Show Notes: 10 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money - Part 5

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A side hustle is not only an opportunity to earn extra money but also a key to escaping the 9-to-5 grind.

But launching a side hustle is not easy — just ask the many amazing guests who’ve been on the show!

More often than not, solopreneurs’ business trajectories are a series of trials, errors, pivots, and adjustments.

These are things we can all learn from, which is why we rounded up 14 big ideas from Side Hustle Show guests that really stood out this year.

Whether you’re thinking of starting a side hustle or looking to breathe new life into an existing one, these ideas may just be what you need to give your business the best chance of success.

Full Show Notes: 14 Big Ideas from the Last Year of Side Hustle Show Guests

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This week’s guest began his side hustle with the goal of getting just 10 clients in 90 days. Four years later, he’s now the proud owner of a 7-figure business!

Justin Tan is a Side Hustle Show listener who was inspired by Russ Perry’s story in Episode 248 of how he began Design Pickle.

In 2014, Russ was running a creative agency when he started to hate everything about it. Not wanting to feel like a prisoner of his own creation, he sought out a new business model, one that offered reliable, affordable, and scalable creative work at a flat rate.

Justin took inspiration from that model and applied it to video editing. And so, Video Husky was born.

Justin’s story is one of many examples of what can happen when you combine a demonstrable business model with a novel idea and an untapped market.

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Full Show Notes: Growing a Productized Service from Zero to 7-Figures as a Digital Nomad

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This week’s guest booked $100k worth of work in their first 9 months of a new side hustle they had no experience with.

Haley Gallagher and her husband are serial side hustlers and were specifically looking for a side hustle they could do after hours.

Seeing an opportunity at a bar he was working security for, Haley’s husband asked if they could take on the cleaning contract.

That job snowballed into more jobs and as they hired employees and grew their business, MoonlightCommercialCleaning.com, they turned over $170k in revenue in their full first year.

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Full Show Notes: How to Start a Commercial Cleaning Business

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