Ecommerce

With her hours cut due to the pandemic and a new house to pay for, this week’s guest set out an action plan to make 6-figures in 2021.

To achieve that, Heather Johnson of HeatherXStudio.com decided to start an Etsy store selling print on demand goods like t-shirts, mugs, and other apparel and items.

Fast forward two years and Heather is now a former MRI tech who’s taken her print on demand side hustle full-time and is averaging $15k a month in revenue and $4-5k in monthly profit.

Today’s guest is your friendly neighborhood forklift driver turned e-commerce entrepreneur.

Over the last nearly 10 years, Ben Knegendorf from DropshipBreakthru.com has started, grown, and sold several different online stores.

One of the most popular side hustles, and really one of the most popular business models in the world is to buy a product and resell it for a profit.

Today’s guest, Beau Hunter, is an expert at that and he walks us through how to earn an extra $500-1000 a month in one particular flipping niche: and that’s shoes.

Beau is a full-time band director with a couple young kids, but with the help of his flipping side hustle, he’s paid off over $100k in student debt.

“Nothing puts a smile on a consumer’s face quicker than a good peach.”

This week’s guest is Shannon Houchin of RoadsideRepublic.com, and she’s passionate about peaches, fresh produce, and delivering an awesome customer experience.

Shannon actually reached out to me and said, Nick, you’ve got episodes on flipping books and mattresses, clearance products, domain names, flea market finds, and a ton of other stuff – but have I got a side hustle for you: I flip peaches. 

There’s profit out there, you just have to learn how to find it.

On this week’s show I’m joined by a pair of Side Hustle Show listeners who’ve been learning that skill and have translated it into tens of thousands of dollars in sales over the last 16 months.

Jack and Joan Ferrell of SecondTimeSellers.com are resellers. They find used items at flea markets, yard sales, online auctions, and flip those items for anywhere up to 10x what they paid for them.

“How I bootstrapped a 6-figure e-commerce brand in its first year with zero ad spend.”

That was the subject line that Side Hustle Show Connor Meakin sent me that grabbed my attention and earned him a spot on this week’s show.

The brand Connor is talking about is BluebirdProvisions.co, an organic bone broth, and bone broth powder company.

Creating digital assets you can sell over and over again – that’s the passive income dream.

This is exactly what Rachel Jones at MoneyHackingMama.com has done by creating and selling downloadable printables on Etsy.

This year she’s averaging over $10,000 a month in sales, all while balancing a full-time job and two young kids. 

Smart side hustlers go where the cash is already flowing…

One place it’s been flowing at a rapidly increasing pace is Facebook Marketplace.

What started as a Craigslist competitor — a place to buy and sell secondhand stuff — has morphed into an e-commerce powerhouse in its own right.

Can you really make money flipping phones?

To find out, I sat down with pro cell phone flipper Jeff Duhon from the Smart Flippers Facebook group. In a typical week, Jeff resells 20-30 used iPhones with a target profit of $100 per flip.

If if you did half that volume, you could be earning $1000 a week.