The Fastest and Cheapest Way to Build a Great-Looking Website for your Side Hustle Service [Case Study]

A couple weekends ago I finally got around to creating a website for a new side hustle of mine; non-fiction book editing.

Now I should mention that this is something I’ve been quietly doing on the side for the last year or so without a website, landing clients via word of mouth and even a few through Fiverr.

When your service business is just starting out, you absolutely don’t need a website. In fact, it can be one big giant distraction from your primary goal of winning paying clients.

271: Brilliant Blogging, Ruthless Productivity, and Guaranteed Success: 20 Questions with Nick

It’s time to dive into the ol’ listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this week’s edition of The Side Hustle Show.

I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show.

Like this format? This is the 5th installment of “20 Questions” so feel free to go back and binge on the older ones too.

2017 Annual Review and Q4 Progress Report

Progress report time!

Why go through this exercise?

It’s time to evaluate what happened over the last 3 months (and in this case to look at the year as a whole), to see if you achieved your goals, and to ask if you’re happier or otherwise better off than you were when you started.

So am I?

262: The Most Common Website Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

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.

25 Productivity and Automation Hacks from a 6-Figure Freelancer

There’s a great deal written about how to find work in the first place, but once you have it, how do you manage everything effectively? You must avoid becoming a victim of your own success, keep your work-life balance healthy, delight your clients, and ensure you still have enough projects coming in.

If you want to work in harmony and avoid the anxiety monster, you need to look at every aspect of your work and ask “How can I make this better?”

7 Steps to Earn Your First $1,000 as a Freelance Writer

Being a freelance writer is an amazing way to put your love of words to use while bringing in a nice chunk of change on the side.

So let’s talk about how you can build a sustainable and thriving side hustle as a writer.

Just follow this step-by-step guide and you’ll be well on your way to earning your first $1,000 as a freelance writer.

236: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs – Part 4

At the end of nearly every episode of The Side Hustle Show, I ask my guests for their #1 tip for Side Hustle Nation. There’s always a great variety of responses, and I wanted to take some time today to go through some of my favorites from the past 50-ish interviews.

And even though my primary motivation is to extract helpful tactics for you, the listener, I can’t help but learn from my guests as well. You never know when inspiration will strike or where you’ll hear the one insight that has a huge impact.

233: How to 10x Your Service Business in Under Two Years

“People don’t buy intellectually, they buy emotionally and rationalize it later,” Jim Brown told me.

Jim is a former professional wrestler, a Marine Corps vet, a sales coach, and is the founder and host of the SalesTuners podcast at SalesTuners.com.

In this year’s survey results, a lot of Side Hustle Nation readers said they needed help growing their business and attracting new customers. This is exactly what Jim does with his clients, and he shares his tactics and processes in this episode.