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How 25 Side Hustlers Made Their First Job-Free Income (Greatest Hits) Dec 01, 2022

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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.

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542: 10 Creative Side Hustles That Make Real Money - Part 5 Nov 24, 2022

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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!

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541: 14 Big Ideas From The Last Year of Side Hustle Show Guests Nov 17, 2022

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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.

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540: From Zero to 7-Figure ARR as a Digital Nomad Nov 10, 2022

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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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Justin found his first clients
he scaled into a full-time business
he made the ultimate decision to step away

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539: How to Start a Commercial Cleaning Business on the Side: $100k in 9 Months Nov 03, 2022

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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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how Moonlight Commercial Cleaning found their first customers
how they price their work and manage a growing team of cleaners
mistakes they made along the way

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538: Starting a 6-Figure Car Rental Business on the Side Oct 27, 2022

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Your next income stream might be sitting right in your driveway…

This week we’re talking about how to get your piece of a $100 billion market.

It’s the same model practiced by Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, National: renting cars out for a profit.

It’s a business with lots of built-in demand, and new platforms like Turo help put your car or cars in front of that demand and get paid.

Two years ago, Kirtis Murphy of FamilyTalksAuto.co decided to give this a shot on the side.

He started with his personal vehicle, and since then and with the help of a couple of partners has grown it to a 6-figure business that now has 14 cars in its fleet.

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how you can get started renting out your car for cash
how to protect yourself and your vehicle assets
Kirtis’ tips for setting yourself up for profitability and scaling your operation
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537: The $1.2 Million Part-Time Affiliate Site Oct 20, 2022

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A common theme on the show: how do you make money online?

In short, you do it by solving other people’s problems.

We’ve got a really fun example of that today with an online business that helps people come up with gift ideas.

The business is Giftlab.co; it’s a 5-year-old website that’s already earned over $1.2M as a part-time project for today’s guest Andrew Fiebert.

You might recognize the name and the voice — Andrew co-hosted Listen Money Matters, a really fun podcast in the personal finance space.

He’s also the co-founder of the popular affiliate link management tool Lasso, which you can find at GetLasso.co.

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how Andrew creates and monetizes his content
how he optimizes his older posts to increase CTR and revenue
his keyword research strategy for finding super-low competition longtail queries

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536: Selling to the World’s Largest Customer: How to Win Government Contracts Oct 13, 2022

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This week we’re exploring a unique opportunity to turn the world’s largest buyer of goods and services into a customer of yours.

That’s right, we’re talking about selling to the government.

There’s nothing like having a client that can literally print the money. But there’s a lot of confusion and misunderstandings around getting government contracts so I’ve enlisted some expert help to help us learn how to do it the right way.

Retired Lt Col Ricky Howard of DoDContract.com spent years on the purchasing side for the U.S. Department of Defense and now helps small businesses like yours get their foot in the door.

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why there are so many lucrative opportunities with government contracts
Ricky’s tips and best practices for winning contracts
how you can also win contracts acting as matchmaker or partnering with other business owners

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535: Growing an Online Business from Scratch: From Personal Struggle to Multiple Income Streams Oct 06, 2022

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This week you’re going to meet an entrepreneur who recently left her 6-figure job in biotech to become a full-time podcaster and online business owner.

Gill Tietz of SoberPowered.com started the Sober Powered podcast in mid-2020 and has released over 100 episodes on the science of alcohol addiction and other content to help listeners get and stay sober.

In that time she’s also grown her Instagram account to over 43k followers, created a podcast network for other sober-related podcasts, and created several other income streams.

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how Gill made her podcast stand out from the crowd
how she’s grown her audience through different platforms
the different ways she’s monetizing her business

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534: 5 Easy Ways to Build Backlinks and Outrank the Competition Sep 29, 2022

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By the end of this episode, you’ll have at least a dozen new backlinks for your website.

For those who are new to SEO, quality backlinks will help you climb the ranks in Google — which means you’re going to make more money.

To talk through his best link-building quick wins and link-building tactics, I’m joined by Jeremy Poland.

Jeremy is a long-time Side Hustle Show listener, he’s a former Pastor and non-profit worker turned SEO pro, and he’s gone from digital marketing freelancer to agency owner.

Jeremy specializes in helping small businesses leapfrog the competition with easy SEO wins.

The backbone of what Jeremy does is build backlinks, and best of all he does it without needing a huge marketing budget.

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