The Side Hustle Show

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514: How to Start a Roadside Produce Stand: $1000 a Weekend Flipping Peaches Jun 23, 2022

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“Nothing puts a smile on a consumer's face quicker than a good peach.”

This week’s guest is Shannon Houchin of RoadsideRepublic.com, and she’s passionate about peaches, fresh produce, and delivering an awesome customer experience.

Shannon actually reached out to me and said, Nick, you’ve got episodes on flipping books and mattresses, clearance products, domain names, flea market finds, and a ton of other stuff - but have I got a side hustle for you: I flip peaches.

So, of course, I had to call her up to learn more.

Turns out Shannon has been doing this for 10 years and has scaled up to operating up to 100 roadside stands at once.

Whether you’re looking for a way to make extra money on the weekend, or to scale to something larger, Shannon has a compelling story for starting a roadside produce stand.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

how to find suppliers and price your produce
the best places to set up your stand
some of the common mistakes to avoid

Full Show Notes: How to Start a Roadside Produce Stand

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513: 3 Ways to Get Out of the Rat Race Jun 20, 2022

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Escaping the rat race is simple, but not always easy.

In this episode, I break down the 3 most common ways out of the rat race, and the pros and cons of each.

(This was originally recorded for YouTube, which explains the faster-than-normal pacing and some video sound effects.)

Full Show Notes: How to Escape the Rat Race

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512: Getting Paid to Talk: $4500 a Month Voiceover Acting Jun 16, 2022

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Your voice has value — both figuratively, and maybe even literally.

To prove this point, I’m joined on the show this week by a side hustling couple who have turned their voices into an income stream worth thousands of dollars a month.

Dom and Nicole Draper from TheVoiceoverCouple.com are multi-award winning voice over artists - they get paid to talk.

As professional voice over artists, they’ve done all kinds of interesting jobs and worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Nike, Netflix, and Adobe.

In this episode they share how they went from hustling on Fiverr outside of their 9-5, to working with voice over agents and agencies and turning this into a full-time business.

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how Dom and Nicole got their first voiceover gigs
how they scaled up their business and raised their prices
the broader tactics you can apply to your own side hustle

Full Show Notes: How to Start a Voiceover Acting Business

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511: How to Use Your Side Hustle to Save on Taxes and Fund Your Retirement Jun 13, 2022

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Creating the right retirement plan for your business income can save you thousands of dollars in taxes. But between LLCs, IRAs, SEP IRAs, Solo 401(k)s, and more, it's a confusing acronym jungle out there.

To help cut through the clutter, Matt Ruttenberg stopped by and schools us on how to choose the right plan for you and the key differences between them.

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510: The 6-Figure Bird Watching Blog Jun 09, 2022

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This week’s guest, Scott Keller, left his high-paying but not super satisfying career in insurance to run a bird blog full-time.

Scott started BirdWatchingHQ.com as a side hustle back in 2016 and has since turned it into a full-time income with half a million monthly pageviews and more than 1 million monthly YouTube views.

But like all businesses, it’s been an evolution to get to that point.

Scott started out chasing high-ticket affiliate commissions but pivoted into creating one of the best bird watching resources online with multiple revenue streams.

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what’s driving traffic for Scott today
the creative ways Scott has grown his email list to over 50,000 subscribers
how you can borrow some of the same tactics for your business

Full Show Notes: The 6-Figure Bird Watching Blog

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509: $300 an Hour as a Part-Time Wedding Officiant? Jun 06, 2022

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Do you love weddings? Professional wedding officiants can make $100s an hour and usually do it as a side hustle.

In this episode, you'll meet Maria Romano, who's officiated more than 4000 weddings in her career. She shares what you need to get started, how to get your first customers, and more.

Full Show Notes: How to Become a Wedding Officiant

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508: Quiz Funnels 101: How to Sell Smarter, Serve Better, and Earn More Jun 02, 2022

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Quizzes can help you:

Grow your email list
Serve your audience better
Make more money

We’ve been talking a bit about the power of quiz funnels over the last few months, and so I thought, why not call up the guy who’s famous for implementing these things and helping others do it as well?

Ryan Levesque is the bestselling author of Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level, and CEO of The Ask Method Company.

Using the exact methods we’re talking about today he’s built a highly-profitable 8-figure/year business across 23 different niche markets, amassing an email list of over 4 million people along the way.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:

what exactly quiz funnels are and why they are so effective
how you can get started building your own quiz funnels
how to drive lots of targeted traffic to your funnel for next to no cost

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Full Show Notes: Quiz Funnels 101: Sell Smarter, Serve Better, and Earn More Money

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506: 6 Million Visits a Month! SEO and Blogging Tips To Make More Money May 26, 2022

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From serious health issues and being $500,000 in debt to earning 7-figures a year in ad revenue.

That’s the short story of this week’s guest, Brandon Gaille.

Brandon has been around online business since the 90s, he’s made a ton of money, battled some really scary health issues, and today is one of the top bloggers in the world earning a collective 6 million visits a month across his three sites.

Brandon is also the founder of RankIQ.com, an AI-powered SEO tool that helps bloggers find keywords and outline their articles, and The Blogging Millionaire Podcast.

In this episode, Brandon goes into detail explaining how new bloggers can choose a niche to enter, how he finds low competition keywords, the best ways to monetize a blog, and much more.

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Brandon’s best-proven processes for getting more traffic to your site
how Brandon evaluates if a niche is worth entering
how to use your blog to create a funnel and sell your own digital products

Full Show Notes: SEO and Blogging Tips to Make More Money

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505: How to Find Expensive Problems (And Getting Paid to Solve Them) May 23, 2022

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Find an expensive problem, and solve it.

Jonathan Stark is a pro at finding these expensive problems, and walks us through idea generation and validation, pricing, and growth strategies.

Full Show Notes: How to Start a Consulting Business

504: Building an Online Business from Scratch: A Listener Success Story May 19, 2022

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“If you’re bored walking up the hill, try running up it.”

That was what this week’s guest William Wadsworth of ExamStudyExpert.com told me when I asked him about how he got his side hustle off the ground.

Four years ago, William was working full-time in a corporate job, but he wanted to build his own dream, not someone else’s.

Finding it difficult to balance a full-time job and his side hustle, William left his job and took on some part-time tutoring so he could spend more time on his business.

Today, William earns thousands of dollars a month doing what he loves - writing, podcasting, and coaching people about memory psychology, learning science, and how to study smarter.

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