Service Businesses

Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog erased $114k of debt in 23 months.

The couple were making good money at their day jobs, but realized there’s only so much you can cut from your budget.

That’s when they turned to the income side of the equation and started a ton of different side hustles.

What if you could turn your love of travel into an extra income stream?

Bailey Richert is back on the show to pull back the curtain on how you can do it too.

You might remember Bailey from one of our early episodes, where we talked about building an online course business. Today, we’re switching gears to talk about her newest side hustle: helping people plan epic trips as a travel advisor.

Bailey runs UnlistedTravel.com and MakeTravelYourJob.com, and she’s managed to create a flexible, low-overhead business doing something she’s genuinely passionate about.

Josh Belk is a full-time college student, he works full-time in web design, and in what little spare time, he’s started a $6,000 a month mobile detailing business with his younger brother.

This idea came about when Josh connected the dots between obsession and opportunity.

On the obsession side, Josh would always see his brother out in the driveway cleaning his car.

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.

Building a remote cleaning side hustle from scratch. How crazy unique is that?

Skyler helps homeowners get the help they need while also helping on-the-ground professional cleaners get the work they want — and still makes a margin in the middle.

And the most interesting part is he’s running this $60k/month operation in less than two years — all while keeping his day job.

Sometimes the simplest ideas can lead to remarkable success.

That’s certainly the case for Gary Grewal, founder of Cal Box Rental, a moving box rental service that has grown from a college student’s brainstorm to a successful side hustle generating $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

For the last 10 years, he has been renting out moving boxes with a low start-up cost, consistent and increasing demand, and only a few hours per week to run on the side of his day job.

Becoming a mystery shopper is often included in lists of ways to make extra money.

But how does mystery shopping work?

Can you really get paid to shop and test products or services?

How do you find legit mystery shopping gigs?

How much can you realistically earn as a mystery shopper?

I had the same questions — and in this post, I’ll answer them all. I even got to make some money as a mystery shopper myself!

This episode’s guest is about to start his sophomore year in college, but he’s already making around $10k a month from his side hustle window washing side hustle.

And it all started with a $200 window cleaning kit from Amazon.

Let’s break down how Jack Leimbach (@jackexteriorcleaning) is doing it, all while balancing school.

Roman Shmundyak didn’t intend to start a freight dispatching business. But when other trucking companies kept asking for his help, he couldn’t keep ignoring the idea.

Plus, dispatching was lower risk than owning a fleet of trucks himself — and gave him the flexibility to work remotely.

In episode 622 of The Side Hustle Show, Roman shares how to:

market a dispatch business and get your first customers
match freight with truckers that can carry it
grow your dispatch business and free up your time

A good dispatcher can earn $1,000 a month per client, and can handle several clients at once.

Today, Roman still oversees the dispatch business at Alfa X Logistics, and also helps new dispatchers learn the business at LearnDispatch.com.