Nick Loper

Nick Loper is a side hustle expert who loves helping people earn more money and start businesses they care about. He hosts the award-winning Side Hustle Show, where he's interviewed over 500 successful entrepreneurs, and is the bestselling author of Buy Buttons, The Side Hustle, and $1,000 100 Ways. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Forbes, TIME, Newsweek, Business Insider, MSN, Yahoo Finance, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Hubspot, Ahrefs, Shopify, Investopedia, VICE, Vox, Mashable, ChooseFI, The Penny Hoarder, GoBankingRates, and more.

How Much Does it Cost to Start a Podcast? Less Than You Think

July 3, 2025February 10, 2025

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.

How to Earn $200k/Year in Semi-Passive Income Through Small Business Acquisitions

March 25, 2025February 10, 2025

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.

Built to Sell: Design a Business to Run Without You

February 6, 2025February 6, 2025

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 Review: A New Way to Find Flexible Shift Work with Benefits

June 4, 2025February 5, 2025

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.

12 Ways to Monetize a Podcast – Plus My Actual Results

February 10, 2025February 1, 2025

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.

I Interviewed My AI Self: What It Got Right, Wrong, and Just Plain Weird

March 25, 2025January 30, 2025

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.

How to Start a Dress Rental Business: $150k Renting Out Dresses

March 25, 2025January 23, 2025

In 2022, Summer Fisher discovered the world of renting out dresses.

“Oh, well, I have all these dresses. Let me just put one up,” she told Yahoo Finance.

Now with a streamlined inventory of around 200 pieces, she made $150,000 last year using what she calls a “double-dip profit strategy” — renting dresses multiple times before selling them for more than she paid.

(Check out her free masterclass at theprofitcollective.co/RookieResellerMistakes)

How to Make Money on LinkedIn

February 10, 2025January 16, 2025

If you’re looking to turn LinkedIn into a money-making machine, you’re in the right place.

Joe McKay has taken his LinkedIn ghostwriting side hustle from zero to a multi-six-figure business, generating millions of impressions along the way.

And he’s here to fill us in on how to make money on LinkedIn this year.

We broke down the 3 types of posts you need to make money on LinkedIn, how to navigate the platform as a side hustler, and the most common (and costly) mistake people make.

My Podcast Production Process, Start to Finish

February 10, 2025January 15, 2025

In this post, I’ll walk through my complete podcast production process for The Side Hustle Show.

If you’re not familiar with the show, it’s a top-rated and award winning business podcast with more than 8 million lifetime downloads.

I’ve been producing the podcast weekly since 2013, and though I know this process will continue to evolve, here’s what it looks like today.

The Sweaty Startup: How to Start a Local Service Business

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Do you know how much cash flows through your hometown on a monthly basis?

Today I’m joined by someone who can help you answer that question; Nick Huber, co-founder of Storage Squad and host of The Sweaty Startup podcast.

Usually Hustling, Occasionally Social