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:
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.