Q3 2015 Quarterly Progress Report

This is the third installment of my quarterly progress reports. If you want to travel back in time, you can check out the first two here and here. Why “progress”? Because that’s what it’s all about. To me, progress means forward motion, or actively taking the steps to improve each day. It’s one thing we … Read more

136: How a Part-Time Blog Turned Into an 8-Figure Business

Brian Clark has been content marketing since before the term even existed. In fact, he left a miserable corporate job and built several successful businesses using these effective new marketing techniques.

Then he started this little side project called Copyblogger to share some his findings, tactics, and ideas with the rest of the world. Fast forward 10 years and Copyblogger is now Rainmaker Digital on track to do more than $10 million in sales this year.

The 3 Laws of Side Hustle Physics

Ready to get nerdy with me?

I’m all scienced-up after reading The Martian, so consider that the inspiration for this post.

As you go about your week, think about the physics of your side hustle: Inertia and momentum, Force and impact, Action and reaction.

135: Brainstorming a New Affiliate Site from Scratch

I’ve had an idea for a new affiliate site kicking around in my head for a while now, so I thought I’d do a live walk-through of my thought-process and analysis of whether this is an opportunity I should pursue or not.

The idea?

A comparison and review site for meal delivery services like Blue Apron, Plated, Hello Fresh, Gobble, and others.

134: Growing a Blog to 70,000 Visits a Month in One Year (and More Importantly, Turning it into a Business)

Tyler Zey turned his web development side hustle into a full-time business, but not without a few twists and turns along the way. Tyler’s actually a classically trained musician (clarinet), but now runs EasyAgentPro, one of the leading marketing services for real estate agents — despite having no background in real estate.

What he lacked in real estate knowledge he made up for with hustle.

133: How to Accelerate Your Side Hustle with Webinars

Jon Schumacher is a side hustler turned full-time entrepreneur. In fact, when we met at Podcast Movement this summer, he’d punched the clock for the last time just a few weeks before.

He mentioned he’d been side hustling for years, and finally had hit on a business and marketing plan that worked. His target was $5k in monthly income before he quit, which he achieved this year and made the leap.

Try This Dead-Simple Productivity Hack

To make the most of your side hustle hours, try this super-simple productivity hack: tracking your time. There are a bunch of fancy apps that will do this for you (Toggl is one I’ve used in the past), but for my latest trial I just logged tasks and hours in an Excel sheet. Each day … Read more

132: 7 Days to a Profitable Business

A viable startup business in 7 days … sound to good to be true?

Dan Norris is the co-founder of WP Curve, a service that offers unlimited 24/7 WordPress support for small jobs for $79 per month. He went from idea to paying customers in less than 7 days.

Based on his experience, Dan penned the bestselling book The 7 Day Startup, and stopped by The Side Hustle Show to share some of his insights.

130: How to Create Massive Influence and Profit with Virtual Summits – Even If You Have No Audience, with Navid Moazzez

Navid had been blogging and podcasting about lifestyle business topics, but wrote one epic “round-up” post that went viral on the subject of personal branding.

Sensing he was on to something, and noticing the success of virtual summits in other industries (like health and fitness), he decided to put together The Branding Summit.

At the time, Navid had a modest list of 1000 email subscribers. The summit quadrupled that number and generated $20,000 in revenue the month it went live.

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