It’s time for another round of business idea giveaways, and to help me out is a long-time friend and friend of the show, Steve Chou, a serial entrepreneur who built not one but two 7-figure businesses starting both as side hustles — MyWifeQuitHerJob.com and BumbleBeeLinens.com.
It’s becoming a tradition; this is our 3rd round of business idea giveaways. If you find you like this format, make sure to go check out the other two.
The CoinOut app is a legit way to get paid for your receipts. Consistent app users can earn up to $3 a month, or roughly $36 a year.
But what does CoinOut do with your receipts? Is it worth it?
Lawyers are some of the highest-paid professionals in the world, but that doesn’t mean they still couldn’t use a good side hustle.
Even with average annual salaries of about $128,000, many lawyers are overwhelmed with bills and student debt.
Law school can cost over $100,000 for tuition alone(!), and 90% of graduates borrow money to complete their degrees.
Fortunately, there are lots of side hustles for lawyers to increase their income.
Last month, I did an episode on the 17 different income streams I was working on.
One of the smallest on that list generated the largest response, and that was the Amazon Influencer Program.
I’m over 10 years into hosting The Side Hustle Show, and what started as a little side-project experiment has turned into a life-changing adventure.
I’ve had the unique opportunity to meet some amazing entrepreneurs, share their stories, and build a worldwide audience of listeners. Oh, and build a really rewarding business as well.
One question I’ve been asked a few times is how much it costs to start a podcast, so I thought I’d put together a quick list of the expenses in case you’re thinking of starting a show of your own.
Why go through the trouble of building your own cash flow when, with a little determination and a little hustle, you can insert yourself into some income streams that are already happening?
That’s what Link Moser from linkmoser.com and his web design agency windhill.com have done, not once, not twice, but 5 different times, generating $200k a year in semi-passive income.
He was on the show in 2022, where he explained how he makes money with a real estate lead generation site, NHFineHomes.com, where a single referral can be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
But today, we’re diving into a different strategy: business acquisitions.
Service businesses can get a bad rap.
After all, there are still clients to deal with, there’s actual labor involved in fulfillment, they’re just not as glamorous as other more “passive” income models.
But you should know that more side hustle show guests started with a service-based business model than any other.
Upshift is a legit staffing platform that allows users to pick up shift work when it works for their schedule.
That makes it a viable way for side hustlers and gig economy workers to make extra money as time allows.
How do podcasts make money?
Producing a show takes real work, and if you want to keep your show running, you’ve got to find a way to make it work for you too.
The truth is most shows don’t make any money at all — and it took years before my podcast, The Side Hustle Show, could reasonably be considered a business on its own.
It’s 2025, and the line between reality and science fiction is getting more and more blurry every day.
In this episode, I sit down with someone I’ve never met, but they know me pretty well. He even kind of sounds like me in an eerie sort of way.
I was curious how well today’s AI models could pretend to be someone else, given a few simple prompts. The result is this chat with Robo-Nick, my AI alter ego.
Let’s see how well Robo-Nick answers these questions, plus my real thoughts about them.
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