What a great summer!
Let’s try and catch up on what’s been going at Side Hustle Nation.
In these quarterly Progress Reports, I break down how the business grew (or shrunk), what I worked on, and other happenings from the last three months.
This week you’re going to meet an entrepreneur who recently left her 6-figure job in biotech to become a full-time podcaster and online business owner.
Gill Tietz of SoberPowered.com started the Sober Powered podcast in mid-2020 and has released over 100 episodes on the science of alcohol addiction and other content to help listeners get and stay sober.
In that time she’s also grown her Instagram account to over 43k followers, created a podcast network for other sober-related podcasts, and created several other income streams.
By the end of this episode, you’ll have at least a dozen new backlinks for your website.
For those who are new to SEO, quality backlinks will help you climb the ranks in Google — which means you’re going to make more money.
To talk through his best link-building quick wins and link-building tactics, I’m joined by Jeremy Poland.
I wish I was half as smart now as I was at 16!
But learning everything you don’t know is part of the process.
One thing I love about my work is I feel like I learn new things every day. Sometimes they’re small little tweaks and hacks, and other times they’re broader strategies or ideas.
I originally drafted this list 7 years ago, after my 30th birthday, but decided it was due for an update.
One of the most popular side hustles, and really one of the most popular business models in the world is to buy a product and resell it for a profit.
Today’s guest, Beau Hunter, is an expert at that and he walks us through how to earn an extra $500-1000 a month in one particular flipping niche: and that’s shoes.
Beau is a full-time band director with a couple young kids, but with the help of his flipping side hustle, he’s paid off over $100k in student debt.
Today we’re giving away a bunch of business ideas, and to help me do it is Steve Chou.
Steve is a serial entrepreneur who runs a 7-figure e-commerce business at BumbleBeeLinens.com, a 7-figure blog and podcast at MyWifeQuitHerJob.com, and also a conference in the e-commerce space called Sellers Summit.
It’s been 7-8 years since Steve was last on the podcast back on episode 128, so it was long overdue to get him back on.
In this week’s episode, we’re catching up with the 6-figure houseplant blogger, Raffaele Di Lallo of OhioTropics.com.
You might remember Raffaele from a blog coaching episode we did last year with the help of Matt Giovanisci from Money Lab.
At that time, Raffaele was generating over 300,000 pageviews per month, which translated into around $10k in income, mostly from display ads and a little slice of affiliate commissions as well.
Whatever your side hustle or business is, your marketing efforts are going to be crucial to your success.
To find out what’s working today across a wide range of industries, I’ve crowdsourced some wisdom from Side Hustle Show listeners.
I asked listeners to share a marketing tactic that’s working well for them this year, and I got back a ton of great responses.
Today I’ve got an awesome story for you — on the one hand, it’s about matching your interests and skills with a hungry market, but maybe more importantly it’s about documenting your work.
When you do those two things, like Craig Odem has, you start to see some fun results.
I found Craig through the Side Hustle Nation Facebook group; he’s a pastor in Tennessee but as a side hustle he sells plants out of his backyard.
This week’s episode is about self-publishing, which we’ve covered before. But this week’s guests have turned the success of their book into a full-time business that’s still growing in momentum.
In late 2020, Justin and Alexis Black self-published their first book Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love.
Redefining Normal currently has over 200 reviews on Amazon and has sold more than 9,000 copies in the two years since it was published.
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