You can be a creator or a consumer, but it’s the creators that get paid.
I’ve argued before that creativity is the most important skill for entrepreneurs because before you can sell something, you have to create that value proposition.
But what if you’re not creative?
I believe we all have that innate creative spirit in us somewhere, it’s just a matter of flexing that creative muscle.
Progress report time! I’ve been doing these quarterly progress reports for the last couple years.
I find this exercise a helpful time to evaluate what happened over the last 3 months, to see what you got done, and to ask if you’re happier or otherwise better off than you were when you started.
So am I?
Noah Kagan is Chief Sumo and founder of Sumo.com and AppSumo.com, which now do over 8-figures a year. He blogs about his personal and business experiences at OkDork.com, and his new podcast is called Noah Kagan Presents.
Noah has built up a number of successful businesses and is always toying with new ideas or looking for the next big business opportunity, so he was the perfect person to brainstorm with.
At the end of nearly every episode of The Side Hustle Show, I ask my guests for their #1 tip for Side Hustle Nation. There’s always a great variety of responses, and I wanted to take some time today to go through some of my favorites from the past 50-ish interviews.
And even though my primary motivation is to extract helpful tactics for you, the listener, I can’t help but learn from my guests as well. You never know when inspiration will strike or where you’ll hear the one insight that has a huge impact.
What if I told you there was an easy way to access the hidden freelance job market?
That with just a few minutes work you could unlock a world of high paying, unadvertised freelance writing jobs, that are looking to hire people like you.
You’d probably say I was crazy. But the truth is that such a system exists, and it’s been a key part of my own business for the last two years.
Ryan Dowd runs HomelessLibrary.com as one of many side hustles, and he’s turned this side hustle into a successful business selling courses to government entities.
It’s something a little different from the business-to-consumer model we usually see with online course sales and comes with some advantages over the B2C market.
Listen in on a real life side hustle coaching call with customer acquisition and retention strategist David Hutcherson (he’s the client), and sales pro Brendan Alan Barrett (he and I share the coaching duties).
On the heels of last week’s sales-themed episode, I invited Brendan on because of his sales background both with companies large and small.
We’re joined by our “client” David, who’s seeking to grow his freelance/consulting side hustle and build on his decade of experience in customer service.
“People don’t buy intellectually, they buy emotionally and rationalize it later,” Jim Brown told me.
Jim is a former professional wrestler, a Marine Corps vet, a sales coach, and is the founder and host of the SalesTuners podcast at SalesTuners.com.
In this year’s survey results, a lot of Side Hustle Nation readers said they needed help growing their business and attracting new customers. This is exactly what Jim does with his clients, and he shares his tactics and processes in this episode.
Ben Foley started writing about how to use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety at FullyRichLife.com a little over 6 months ago.
Since then, his little side project has generated over 6000 email subscribers and $10,000 in revenue.
His secret sauce?
Tapping into the big audience of readers on Medium.com.
Perrin Carrell is a senior contributing editor at AuthorityHacker and well-known within the internet marketing community for building niche/authority sites.
He has built several successful sites from scratch, including one site that went from a value of $0 to $200,000 in just under 20 months.
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