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
Prime Day 2023: All My Books 50-100% Off + Other Favorite Products
In honor of Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale, I wanted to throw a little sale of my own.
To start, I’ve discounted all my side hustle-related Kindle books to $0.99 or better.
Behind the Scenes of the 6-Figure Bird Watching Blog
This week’s guest left his high-paying — but not super satisfying — career in insurance to run a bird blog full-time.
Scott Keller started BirdWatchingHQ.com as a side hustle back in 2016 and has since turned it into a full-time income with half a million monthly pageviews and more than 1 million monthly YouTube views.
But like all businesses, it’s been an evolution to get to that point.
Quiz Funnels 101: How to Serve Better, Sell Smarter, and Earn More
Quizzes can help you grow your email list, serve your audience better, and make more money.
We’ve been talking a bit about the power of quiz funnels over the last few months, and so I thought, why not call up the guy who’s famous for implementing these things and helping others do it as well?
6 Million Visits a Month! SEO and Blogging Tips To Make More Money
From serious health issues and being $500,000 in debt to earning 7-figures a year in ad revenue.
That’s the short story of this week’s guest on the show, Brandon Gaille of BrandonGaille.com.
Brandon has been around online business since the 90s, he’s made a ton of money, battled some really scary health issues, and today is one of the top bloggers in the world earning a collective 6 million visits a month across his three sites.
Building an Online Business from Scratch: A Listener Success Story
“If you’re bored walking up the hill, try running up it.”
That was what this week’s guest William Wadsworth of ExamStudyExpert.com told me when I asked him about how he got his side hustle off the ground.
Four years ago, William was working full-time in a corporate job, but he wanted to build his own dream, not someone else’s.
How a Part-Time Dinosaur Podcast Became a Full-Time Business
There has never been a better time to build an online business around a topic you care about.
This week’s guests on The Side Hustle Show are proof of that.
Garret Kruger and Sabrina Ricci are the husband and wife team behind IKnowDino.com, which started as a side hustle and is now the world’s #1 dinosaur podcast.
Not bad for a couple of non-paleontologists.
The $90k Niche Daily Deals Blog
What’s one thing people want?
They want to get great deals on great products, and for you as a side hustler, that spells a business opportunity to curate and disseminate those deals.
This is exactly what Side Hustle Show listener Camron Stover from HuntingGearDeals.com is doing.
From 6-Figure Blog to 7-Figure Online Business: Catching Up with Robert Farrington
From a $10,000 a month “blog” to a 7-figure “Media Company”, a lot can happen in five years.
Today’s guest is one of my most important real and virtual online business mentors — I’m always trying to pay attention and keep an eye on what Robert Farrington from TheCollegeInvestor.com is up to.
Fun fact: Robert was one of the very first guests on The Side Huslte Show back in 2013.
6 Months to 6 Figures on the Side … Helping People with Excel
There are a million and one ways to make money online, but they almost always come down to helping other people.
Today’s guest, Kat Norton aka Miss.Excel, has been doing plenty of that. She’s reaching hundreds of thousands of followers as a spreadsheet influencer — you didn’t know there was such a thing, did you?
Kat started on TikTok in June 2020 and already has over 734k followers, she later branched out onto Instagram and has already built a following of more than 573k followers there, too.
