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577: Scaling an Online Business for Recurring Revenue: From Course to Membership Aug 24, 2023

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Starting an online tutoring business while juggling nursing school and 6 kids sounds daunting.

As a nursing student struggling to keep up with her coursework, Nicole discovered a passion for helping fellow students learn difficult concepts and develop effective study skills.

This launched her on an incredible 10-year-long journey - from tutoring classmates to building a thriving online membership site, YourNursingTutor.

How'd she pull it off while raising 6 kids?

In this episode, we'll hear Nicole's story of pivoting from an online course to a membership model and achieving recurring revenue.

Tune into episode 577 of The Side Hustle Show to learn:

How Nicole revived her business after a Google algorithm collapse
Pivoting from an online course to membership model
Creative tactics to attract audience and drive sales
How Nicole optimized her offers and funnel for maximum value
How TikTok helped Nicole gain 80K+ followers fast

Full Show Notes: Scaling an Online Business for Recurring Revenue: From Course to Membership

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576: Audience Growth Hacks w/ a Multi 6-Figure Creator Aug 17, 2023

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Growing an engaged audience is crucial but challenging when starting a podcast or online business.

Chris Hutchins started the All the Hacks podcast in May 2021. Today, he reaches over 250,000 downloads per month and has released over 120+ episodes optimizing life, money, and travel and built other content to help listeners upgrade their lives.

In this episode, we'll take a deep dive into Chris's approach to growing his audience quickly and how you can apply similar tactics in your own business or side hustle.

Tune into episode 576 of The Side Hustle Show to learn:

How Chris gained traction in the podcasting space
Clever marketing tactics to grow your audience
Ideas for turning listeners into paying customers
Key mindsets for podcasting success
Chris's #1 tip for side hustlers this year

Full Show Notes: Audience Growth Hacks w/ a Multi 6-Figure Creator

575: 3 Questions, a $10k Launch, and 8,516 Warners: My 2023 Mid-Year Progress Report Aug 10, 2023

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I hope you're having an awesome start to your year so far.

The first half of 2023 has been filled with exciting new projects, experiments, wins, challenges, and everything in between for Side Hustle Nation.

In this progress report, I want to give you an inside look behind the scenes at what I've been working on so far this year. The goal is to provide a transparent view into running this side hustle that's now over 10 years old.

There's been some new habit installations, email marketing tests, product launches, podcast experiments, website updates, and more. I'll share what's going well, what's still a work in progress, and what's on the horizon for the rest of 2023 and beyond.

Full Show Notes: 3 Questions, a $10k Launch, and 8,516 Warners: My 2023 Mid-Year Progress Report

How to Start a Business You Care About — With No Business Ideas and No Money (Greatest Hits) Aug 03, 2023

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Imagine going from having no business ideas and no money, to making your first sales in 2 weeks.

It’s not a far-fetched goal according to this week’s guest.

Alan Donegan from PopUpBusinessSchool.co.uk specializes in guiding people through this transformation, and he says that everyone has a profitable business idea in their heads – and he knows how to find it.

He does this through in-person workshops that are free to attend by forming partnerships with government bodies in cities across the UK, and he’s bringing his workshops to the US soon.

Alan is adamant about bootstrapping and not taking on a load of debt to start a business because he saw his family go through a multi-million dollar bankruptcy and doesn’t want anyone else to have to experience the same fate.

He preaches starting a business around a passion or something that excites you. Because running a business you’re passionate about sets you apart from the competition and makes the process so much easier.

He shares how he teaches his students to pre-sell and validate their side hustle ideas before putting down cash for stock that might end up collecting dust in the garage.

Alan also shares how he practiced what he preaches when he sold his first PopUpBusiness workshop to a housing authority in the UK. He ended up selling his highest priced package right out of the gate, and his business has been gaining momentum ever since.

Tune in to hear how Alan pulls business ideas out of people who don’t think they have any, how he has his students quickly and cheaply validate those ideas, and what makes for a successful pitch.

Full Show Notes: How to Start a Business You Care About — With No Business Ideas and No Money

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574: How I Grew to $1M in All-Time Revenue, Starting as a Side Hustle Jul 27, 2023

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Who would have ever thought that cheese boards could earn you $1M?

When we first met Monisha Misra, she had grown her charcuterie board side hustle, BoardsbyMo, to over $100k in revenue in less than a year.

Fast forward to today, BoardsbyMo generates over $1 million in lifetime revenue, and Monisha now runs the business full-time with a team of 7 employees.

In this "Where are they now?" episode, Monisha catches us up on the rapid growth and evolution of charcuterie board company BoardsbyMo over the past few years.

Tune into this episode 574 of The Side Hustle Show to learn:

How Monisha leveraged Instagram and social media to build an audience for her charcuterie board business
Strategies she used to land press features and local awards
Ways she diversified her offerings into workshops, classes, and corporate gifting
Why excellent customer service was key to her success
How you can turn your own creative passion into a lucrative business

Full Show Notes: How I Grew to $1M in All-Time Revenue, Starting as a Side Hustle

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573: How I Grew My Hobby Travel Blogs to $50K Months in Just 3 Years Jul 20, 2023

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What if your passion project could transform into a full-time income source in just a few short years?

Turning a blog into a lucrative business takes time, effort, and know-how. But by consistently publishing high-quality content, building backlinks, and monetizing through ads and affiliate offers, you can tap into income streams in your niche.

That's exactly what Shelley Marmor did when she started her travel blog on a whim. The former corporate worker and travel magazine editor turned her websites, Travel Mexico Solo and Travel Blogging 101, into a thriving online business.

Today, Shelley's ventures generate over $50k monthly in revenue. She now manages a team to handle the day-to-day operations of the sites.

Tune in to this Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

Step-by-step process for building authority and ranking your content
How to monetize through affiliate links, ads, email marketing, and digital products
Tips for outsourcing writing and editing tasks to scale the business
Why you should niche down and "cut the line" with micro-sites

Full Show Notes: How I Grew My Hobby Travel Blogs to $50K Months in Just 3 Years

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572: 15 Sizzlin’ Summer Side Hustles Jul 13, 2023

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Summer is a great time to start a side hustle and make extra money. The question is, which summer side hustles would be best for you?

Check out the list below to spark some ideas and inspiration!

I selected these based on:

Interviewing over 500 side hustlers and entrepreneurs
15+ years of my own side hustle experience

Full Show Notes: 15 Sizzlin’ Summer Side Hustles

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571: How One Side Hustler Bought Herself a $5k a month Income Stream -— with no Money Down Jul 06, 2023

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You’ve heard about building time-leveraged income streams. But what if you could instead insert yourself into an income stream that’s already happening?

That’s exactly what Hannah Ingram did at the ripe old age of 22. A real estate agent by day, she bought a cash-flowing car wash with seller financing and no money out of pocket.

Today, Hannah’s business generates thousands of dollars in profit every month, all for just a few hours of work every week.

Tune in to this Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

How to go shopping for cash flow near you
what Hannah has done to improve the business after she took over
how much work is actually required

Full Show Notes: How One Side Hustler Bought Herself a $5k a month Income Stream -— with no Money Down

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$120K in Pre-Sales in 6 Months With No List (Greatest Hits) Jun 29, 2023

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John Logar is the king of pre-selling software. As one of The Foundation’s top students, he’s broken all their records and even broken the mold on some of the methods they teach.

In fact, he sold $120k worth of software within his first 6 months of joining the program.

Since he was already a consultant, doing idea extraction and finding pain points for businesses was second nature. He just knew nothing about software before so just added a new weapon to his arsenal. (Without learning how to program.)

He’s a natural born salesman if there ever was one.

On this call we get into just one of his pre-sales successes, but they follow a similar pattern: identifying an expensive pain, and solving it with software.

It’ll definitely get your gears turning!

Full Show Notes: $120K in Pre-Sales in 6 Months With No List

570: A 6-Figure Online Business, Starting as a Side Hustle Jun 22, 2023

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How can you turn what you already know into an online income stream? Or better yet, a recurring online income stream?

Long-time Side Hustle Show listener Steven Foust is a retired Army Chief Warrant Officer (CW3) and Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) who recently left his corporate executive position to pursue his online side hustles full-time.

His primary side hustle is NCOonFire.com, where he helps army soldiers get promoted faster and earns $14k a month in the process.

Tune in to this Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

How Steven came up with the idea
the marketing and sales tactics that are working today
how to give yourself a raise every month

Full Show Notes: How I Built a 6-Figure Online Business, Starting as a Side Hustle

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