Jodi Carlson has been running her blog LeaderConnectingLeaders.com part-time since 2014 and has slowly built it up to $5-6k a month in revenue.
The earnings come from a combination of mostly digital product sales, as well as advertising, and affiliate relationships.
The surprising thing – to me at least – is that she’s done this in a niche that theoretically doesn’t have any money.
Could you live for free?
That’s what The Side Hustle Snowball framework proposes: to erase your expenses with new income streams.
Here are 15 things you can start this year to begin living for free. These are my primary income streams today.
You might remember Jacques Hopkins from episode 223, where he broke down how he turned his hobby of playing piano into a solid $20k a month online business at Pianoin21days.com.
Things were going great; he had a bunch of happy customers, he’d quit his engineering job to focus on it full-time, and he was doing what he loves.
300!
In this special 300th edition of The Side Hustle Show, I’m excited to feature 5 listeners who took action on specific ideas they heard on the show or read on the Side Hustle Nation blog — and turned that action into concrete results.
Those results range from their first $1000 on the side, up to a $700k e-commerce empire, but the point is they made something happen.
Remember the Red Paperclip Guy from a few years ago? In 2005, an out-of-work Kyle MacDonald started with a single red paperclip and traded his way up to a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan.
Remarkably, this barter adventure took only 14 trades and was completed in less than a year. Kyle started out small, each time seeking something “bigger and better” in exchange.
We last heard from Rob Stephenson from FleaMarketFlipper.com in episode 147 in late 2015. At that time, he was earning $30,000-$40,000 a year flipping random products on the side from his day job.
Since then, the father of 3 has taken his buy low, sell high model and turned it into a full-time 6-figure operation.
“I’m this close to firing you right now.”
That’s what Hung Pham’s boss told him when he reached out about ways to get his team more engaged with the company’s overall mission.
“If you want passion and purpose,” she said, “you’ve got to look somewhere else.”
Frustrated with the internal cultures at the organizations he worked in, Hung wanted to attend a culture-building conference.
The only problem? That event didn’t exist.
“I feel like this is the most important project I’ve ever worked on,” Mike said about his blog YoungArchitect.com.
Mike Riscica runs a blog, podcast, and has built a thriving community for young professionals in the architecture field.
Over the last 10+ years, a simple habit has earned my wife and I thousands of dollars in free money — in the form of cash, gift cards, and travel — just for buying the stuff I would have bought anyway.
Here’s how to get started with this fun and unique side hustle.
Chris is the founder of ThinkMaids.com, a residential house cleaning service in the Washington DC area he started on the side while still a university student.
Less than two years later, the business is doing $60k a month worth of cleaning work, all without Chris ever lifting a mop or dusting a shelf himself.
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