The Side Hustle Show

By Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation | YAP MediaBusiness Entrepreneurship Education How To

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October 09, 2014 75: How I Earned $7490 in My First 14 Months on Fiverr (and my plans to double it)
One of the surprising bright spots in my side hustle portfolio (my strategy of building multiple income streams) has been Fiverr. After hearing the incredible story of AnarchoFighter last year, I knew I had to give the platform a shot! While I haven't exactly earned house-buying money, it has turned into a nice little revenue source. I'm up $7490 through 14 months, or a little over $500 a month on average.
50 min
October 02, 2014 74: How to Make Money Driving in Your Spare Time
This week's side hustle requires ZERO technical skills or expertise, you don't have to sell anything, and you don't have to make a big upfront investment. In fact, you probably already have the 2 key ingredients: a car and some spare time. The fine print (as I learned while I was recording this) that your car has to a model year 2006 or newer, and have 4 doors, but other than that, you're set! I'm joined this week by TheRideshareGuy, Harry Campbell, an Uber and Lyft driver who earns $20-40 an hour in his spare time driving people around near his home in Southern California. In fact, I took my first Lyft rides in August and met 3 awesome side hustlers who reported earning up to $250 on a busy night of driving. Not bad! Free PDF Download: Click here to download Harry's top tips for making money driving in your spare time. In this episode you'll hear about the distinct advantages and disadvantages of using these services from the driver's perspective. For me, the biggest downside is probably having limited control over your earnings when the company's decide to cut rates. One friend in Denver explained that just this year Uber cut rates by 20%, and then cut them by an additional 20% a few months later. It's similar in the affiliate marketing space, when the advertiser decides to cut your commission. There's not always a lot of recourse, although in that case you can generally try and negotiate to keep your higher rate in exchange for preferred placement or something like that. Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on iTunes! Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on Stitcher! Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show via RSS! Sponsor: Ting: Cut your cell phone bill in half and get $25 off your first month. Learn: The requirements to drive for Uber and Lyft. The benefits you have as a 1099 independent contractor. Harry's ideas on how to maximize your hourly rate and tips. How the insurance works. The best tax deductions to make the most of your driving time. Harry's #1 tip for Side Hustle Nation. Links: TheRideshareGuy.com YourPFPro.com (Harry's personal finance site) Sidecar RelayRides New Lyft Drivers Get Up to $250 after 20 rides New Uber Drivers Get Up to $150 Want to Ride First? Get $30 off your first Uber ride with code NICKL678! Get $25 off your first Lyft ride with code NICK443918! What do you think? Viable side hustle or no? Free PDF Download: Click here to download Harry's top tips for making money driving in your spare time. ************ (img credit)
33 min
September 25, 2014 73: How to Build and Monetize an Authority Site
Everybody's an expert in something, right? Well this week's guest, Matt Giovanisci, is an expert in pool care. He describes it as the most boring industry that serves such a fun product. He's taken an innovative approach to rank his site, SwimUniversity.com, in Google and monetize it with affiliate relationships and private advertising. I feel like Matt's process is proven and repeatable -- but takes real work.
46 min
September 18, 2014 72: How to Make a Full-Time Living on Craigslist
Ryan Finlay from ReCraigslist.com makes a full-time living (and supports his family of 7) buying and selling items on Craigslist. In fact, he used this business to pull himself out from $25,000 in debt and now teaches others to do the same. This is really one of the most fascinating side hustle stories I've come across because there's a Craigslist for your city that is probably teeming with "inventory" for you to run a similar business.
40 min
September 11, 2014 71: One Page Adsense Sites and Productized Consulting
If you've been in the "niche site" game at all over the past few years, this week's conversation will open your eyes to a whole new world of possibility in the realm of making money with Adsense. Kurt Elster is the co-founder of EtherCycle, an online marketing strategy and web design and development firm. But on top of that, his company also runs a plethora of one-page micro-sites that earn advertising revenue with Adsense.
33 min
August 28, 2014 69: How to Build a Private Blog Network to Quickly Get to the Top of Google
In the SEO community, private blog networks (PBNs) have been all the rage lately. The basic premise is this: You buy up a small portfolio of expired domains that still retain a strong Domain Authority (a Moz metric for estimating a site's search engine clout), and put links on those sites to your "money" site. The net effect is 5-10 perceived high value sites linking to your site, which boosts your rankings in Google.
35 min
August 22, 2014 68: How I Got My First Sale in 6 Different Businesses
One of my favorite questions to ask guests on The Side Hustle Show is how they got their first customer. Because that's an empowering moment! So today, I'll take you through how I got my first customers in a half dozen different business ventures. This show covers some formative moments in my journey, my struggles with sales, and some of my biggest takeaways from these businesses.
31 min
August 21, 2014 67: The Hustler’s Path: From Freelance to Agency to Product
It's been quite a while since our last discussion of a software business here on the show. Even though we touched briefly on Long Tail Pro with Spencer Haws, I really have to go all the way back to Josh Isaak in episode 12 to find an in-depth breakdown of a Software as a service business. So that means today's conversation with Garrett Moon from CoSchedule is long overdue! After all, the low incremental cost and recurring revenue potential of the SaaS model is such a trendy holy grail of business right now.
41 min
August 07, 2014 65: How to Reverse Engineer Your Blog to Get Paying Clients (and 10x Your Hourly Rate)
Corrina Gordon-Barnes is a sought-after coach and mentor, and today she shares with Side Hustle Nation exactly how she built her business from the ground up. There are some surprising turns and some eye-opening responses in this one, as I ask Corrina about how she prices her services, how she landed her first clients, how she's scaling her business, and how she made blogging work as an effective marketing channel.
37 min
July 31, 2014 64: The Path to Passive Income on Udemy – Even If You’re Not an Expert
I'm excited to welcome Scott Britton from Life-LongLearner.com and The Competitive Edge podcast to The Side Hustle Show. In this chat, we talk about how he built up a passive income stream from online courses on Udemy, which gave him the freedom to travel and live in South America for several months. He's a super smart guy and really delivers a ton of excellent tips in this episode. I think you'll like it!
Full Show Notes: How to Make Money on Udemy
46 min

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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.