5 of the Most Popular Side Hustles — And What to Do Instead
As side hustles become more popular — and perhaps necessary — let’s take a look at some of the common options … and what you might consider doing instead.
Online Business
To make money online, you generally need 3 things:
- A website (don’t worry, they’re not that hard to make)
- An audience
- Something to sell
There will always be exceptions to this rule, like the YouTube celebrities who don’t have their own site, but most of the successful entrepreneurs online (myself included) have figured out those 3 things.
An online business is a great asset; you can work from anywhere and serve people worldwide. Depending on how you have it set up, you can even earn money while you sleep. Ahh that elusive “passive income!”
The location-independent business models you’ll find here include blogging, podcasting, self-publishing, teaching online courses, and more.
If you’re not sure where to start, let me recommend this “Greatest Hits” collection:
- Zero to $20k a Month in a Year: 5 Ways to Completely Dominate Your Niche, with Jon Haws
- What Happens When You Post “Epic” Content? My Traffic, Income, and Subscriber Results
- How a Free Challenge Turned into a $500,000 a Year Business
- $5k per Month Blogging Case Study: How to Drive Massive Traffic with Pinterest, with Rosemarie Groner
- The Truth About Online Business
- How a Part-Time Blogger Earns $4k a Month
- How to Start a Business in 7 Days
- 41 Side Hustle Tools I Use Every Day
319: Master, Multiply, and Monetize your Message: From Ranting in His Car to “Immortality”
“What I want is immortality, but I don’t want it in my name, I want it in actions of others,” Jack told me.
With the size of his audience today and the number of people he’s helped along the way, there is a very real chance of this happening.
318: Pinterest Marketing for 2019 and Beyond: How to Get More Traffic
With 250 million active users Pinterest is a social media platform every blogger and business owner should be spending some time on.
I’ve been using the Pinterest tactics shared on this podcast in late 2015 by Rosemarie Groner and they’ve proven to be extremely effective … for a while.
316: YouTube for Bloggers: How One Mom Turned Her “Accidental” YouTube Channel into A Full-Time Income
Meredith Marsh is a “Total introvert with over 3 million views on YouTube.”
When Meredith started VidProMom.com she didn’t set out to be a “YouTuber”. She started a blog and YouTube channel because she wanted to help families better capture those classic, picture-perfect family moments.
315: How Shooting Toy Guns Turned into a Full-Time Business
“There was no safety net, it had to work,” Kelly said.
Kelly Hardwick is talking about her business and blog, FemmeFataleAirsoft.co.uk.
Alexa, Enable The Money Making Minute (Why I’m Creating a Flash Briefing)
Today I want to share a little about my latest experiment, an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skill called The Money Making Minute.
I’ll go through why I’m excited about this, where the idea came from, how I’m setting it up, and why you might consider adding an Alexa skill to your own business.
314: The Simple Way to Finally Set up and Sell Your Online Course (And Scale to $40k a Month and Beyond)
After sitting in on a free webinar and seeing dozens of people buying a course about urban farming, Nate knew he could also create and sell his own course.
Nate Dodson of MicroGreensFarmer.com began urban farming initially to take greater control over the food he was eating and to combat Crohn’s disease.
313: Making Money in Your Sleep – By Blogging About Sleep
“Everyone needs it, people tend not to get enough of it – so that’s how the site came about,” said Kieran.
Kieran MacRae is talking about sleep.
The site he started is called TheDozyOwl.co.uk, a UK-based site that Kieran has taken from $0 to $2.5k a month in revenue in its 12 months.
311: How to Create Your Own Niche—and Your Own Income
April Whitney was staring at a future of pharmaceutical copywriting, which has cubical farm written all over it, and wanted out.
Today, April’s view is quite a bit different. She’s a personal trainer, she sells a fitness program online at smalletics.com, but more interestingly, she’s become the leading voice in the niche of petite fitness.
Creating and Launching a KDP Print Journal: The Making of The Progress Journal
What inspired me to create and launch The Progress Journal last month?
Like many of my projects, a few planets came into alignment around the same time.