The Side Hustle Show

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 business now actually exceeds his revenue from "turning wrenches."

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: From Active to Passive Income with a Service Business

Don't Miss our Follow-ups with Matt: 

Part 2: Episode 354 up to $5k a month

Part 3: Episode 484 up to $20k a month

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, he hit the 6-figure income mark before leaving his day job. In this episode we chat about how he comes up with course ideas, how he structures his content, and he markets his material, along of course with the tech he uses to get it all done.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Make Money with Online Courses

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 make the product research process faster and easier. In this call we dive into his specific sales criteria and next steps in evaluating a product's profit potential and how to bring it to market on Amazon.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Amazon FBA Private Label Product Research

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 clearance arbitrage model Travis Scott shared on the show. Nine months later, that little experiment had grown into a six-figure side hustle. Check out our conversation to learn how it happened.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Amazon FBA Retail Arbitrage Tips

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? Is it unique and powerful enough to stand out from the crowd?

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Copywriting Tips for Side Hustlers

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, and you start to recognize a repeatable, learnable pattern. That's what listeners can look forward to in this episode; how you can apply Brian's tactics to your own side hustle to get more visitors, leads, and customers.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Get Traffic from Reddit

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 several years, focusing on mobile-ready web development. At the recommendation of two-time Side Hustle Show guest, Kai Davis, he dropped by to share some of his insight on how to get a side hustle consulting business off the ground.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Start a Consulting Business

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:

All told, these different channels -- that didn't even exist a year and a half ago -- are earning more than $20,000 a month!

If you're looking at a niche or authority business and need some new ideas on how to serve your audience, this is a can't miss episode.

Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Zero to $20k a Month in a Year: 5 Ways to Completely Dominate Your Niche, with Jon Haws

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, the daily practice of making progress toward their goals -- even if imperceptible at the beginning. Today is a brief solo show to discuss how you can find your slight edge in 2016 and beyond.