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.
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
309: Side Hustle Coaching: How Can I 10x My Current Business?
I’m excited to share one listener who’s taken a lot of action this year building his side hustle, and that is Nikko Mendoza from NikkoIndustries.com.
He runs a really cool business in the 3D printing niche that today has 2 main revenue streams:
The 90+ Best Affiliate Programs for Recurring Commissions
Affiliate marketing is usually thought of as a monetization channel for bloggers, but I think it’s also an interesting way for freelancers to make extra money outside of your current service offer.
The trick is to find the best affiliate programs for your audience or clients.
304: The $5k a Month Part-Time Girl Scout Blog
Jodi Carlson has been running her blog LeaderConnectingLeaders.com part-time since 2014 and has slowly built it up to $5-6k a month in revenue.
The earnings come from a combination of mostly digital product sales, as well as advertising, and affiliate relationships.
The surprising thing – to me at least – is that she’s done this in a niche that theoretically doesn’t have any money.
303: The 15 Income Streams I’m Working on Right Now
Could you live for free?
That’s what The Side Hustle Snowball framework proposes: to erase your expenses with new income streams.
Here are 15 things you can start this year to begin living for free. These are my primary income streams today.
302: Catching Up with the $30k a Month Piano Teacher — How He Grew His Business While Cutting Back His Hours 97%
You might remember Jacques Hopkins from episode 223, where he broke down how he turned his hobby of playing piano into a solid $20k a month online business at Pianoin21days.com.
Things were going great; he had a bunch of happy customers, he’d quit his engineering job to focus on it full-time, and he was doing what he loves.
300: 5 Listeners Who Took Action and Are Seeing Awesome Results
300!
In this special 300th edition of The Side Hustle Show, I’m excited to feature 5 listeners who took action on specific ideas they heard on the show or read on the Side Hustle Nation blog — and turned that action into concrete results.
Those results range from their first $1000 on the side, up to a $700k e-commerce empire, but the point is they made something happen.
296: Blogging for Multiple Income Streams – How a Part-Time Blog Became a Diverse Revenue Engine
“I feel like this is the most important project I’ve ever worked on,” Mike said about his blog YoungArchitect.com.
Mike Riscica runs a blog, podcast, and has built a thriving community for young professionals in the architecture field.
293: Local Podcasts: How to Become the Voice of Your Community — and Get Paid
Bill Nowicki has a unique side hustle. He has a podcast show called MariettaStories named after Marietta GA, a suburb of Atlanta with a population of about 60,000.
Having a podcast show isn’t unique but producing a show that’s focused on a local community is something a little different – and something you might consider doing for your local community after hearing Bill’s story.
287: Choose Financial Independence: 10 Months to “FU Money”
Just 10 months after starting his side hustle, Jonathan Mendonsa was ready to quit his 6-figure job and take the business full-time.
What’s the hustle?
A podcast called Jonathan co-hosts with this partner Brad Barrett ChooseFI.
