To make money online, you generally need 3 things:
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:
Women pay up to $2000 a month to hang out with Natalie Eckdahl for a few hours.
The mother of 3 has turned her BizChix podcast (which started as a side hustle) into a thriving business based largely on paid mastermind groups. She curates groups of high-performing female entrepreneurs – and gets paid handsomely to do it.
Is this a revenue stream you could add to your business?
Could a part-time blog really bring in that kind of cash? Rosemarie swears she only works 20 hours a week!
Yes, The Busy Budgeter is back for her 3rd round on The Side Hustle Show, and it’s a good one.
Since we last spoke, she started posting consistent $100k months from her blog, so of course I had to invite her back to hear what changed.
If you guessed creating her own products and driving paid traffic, you’d be the big winner.
Kelly Snyder from AdoreYourWardrobe.com teaches women how to confidently dress their unique bodies through the principles found in math and science.
That sounds pretty cool, and it is.
Anthony Tran runs MarketingAccessPass.com, a web design and development agency. As well as AccessWP.com, a WordPress support company offering unlimited support for a low monthly subscription.
I had a Fiverr gig for a couple of years where I was reviewing hundreds of websites and I noticed some common problems that kept cropping up with WordPress sites.
This week’s show is a roundtable episode on the topic of YouTube, and specifically how 3 different channel hosts have gone about growing their presence and profits on the YouTube platform.
They explain how and why they started using the free YouTube platform to grow significant followings and income streams, and share some actionable advice on how you can do the same.
You might know Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from her super-popular blog MakingSenseofCents.com where she gets hundreds of thousands of readers and makes 6-figures a month.
The bulk of her revenue comes from affiliate marketing, and Michelle now has a course explaining exactly how you too can build a profitable blog at MakingSenseofAffiliateMarketing.com.
By day, Bryan Orr helps runs an air conditioning company in Central Florida, and by night he’s a father of 9 — yet somehow he’s found the time to build his HVAC School podcast into a 5-figure a month business in less than a year.
Tasked with training technicians at his day job, he had the idea to put it into an on-demand audio format, and that’s where he found his side hustle sweet spot.
Would you trade $1000 for $2000? How about $10,000 for $18,000?
If you’re anything like me, I’ll make those trades all day long!
Well, Deacon Hayes is doing exactly that every month through his blog, Facebook ads, and affiliate marketing.
Christopher Gimmer is the founder of Snappa.com, where you can “create online graphics in a snap.” Like perfectly sized social media graphics or blog images easily and professionally.
He’s built a cool do-it-yourself tool that’s sold on a monthly or annual subscription model. Another example of a recurring revenue model that can be scaled up over time.
A year ago I launched my book Buy Buttons out into the world.
It was my most ambitious book project to-date, and I put a lot of effort into the creation and marketing of it.
The launch did well. The book became an Amazon bestseller on its first day and earned around $2600 in profit in its first month.
But several people have asked how it’s done since then, and while I had a vague idea that it was still selling daily, I figured the 1-year anniversary would be a good excuse to dive into the numbers to see in concrete terms how profitable it’s been in its first year.
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