Q3 2015 Quarterly Progress Report

This is the third installment of my quarterly progress reports. If you want to travel back in time, you can check out the first two here and here. Why “progress”? Because that’s what it’s all about. To me, progress means forward motion, or actively taking the steps to improve each day. It’s one thing we … Read more

Mid-Year Progress Report – 2015

Yikes, the year is already half over!

This is the second installment of my quarterly progress reports. If you want to check out the first one from April, you can do so here.

Why “progress”? Because that’s what it’s all about.

To me, progress means forward motion, or actively taking the steps to improve each day. It’s one thing we can control.

Quarterly Progress Report – Q1 2015

This is my first attempt at what may turn into a regular series: a quarterly progress report.

Why quarterly? Because months are too short.

Why “progress”? Because that’s what it’s all about.

To me, progress means forward motion, or actively taking the steps to improve each day. It’s one thing we can control.

How to Make Time for Your Side Hustle: 10 Steps to Positive Progress

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How do you make time for a side hustle?

That’s one of the questions I get the most, and one of the reasons we return to the theme of productivity so often.

In this post (and podcast episode), I’ll share a 10-step process for making — and optimizing — time for your business, inspired by Side Hustle Show guests.

The Productivity Pyramid: A Framework to Make Real Progress

Kate Erickson

We’re all dealt 24 hours a day. I believe how you spend that time, or maybe rather how you invest it, should give you some sort of return.

That could be a monetary return, sure. But it could also be a return in personal satisfaction or impact on others.

Today, I want to introduce a productivity framework I’m calling The Productivity Pyramid.

Rating 10 Popular Passive Income Ideas with Pat Flynn

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Let’s look at 10 popular passive income ideas to see which ones might actually make sense for you.

To help me do it is Mr. Smart Passive Income himself, Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income.

Nobody had a bigger influence on the creation and early years of Side Hustle Nation than Pat. It’s always fun to have him back on the show, especially with his new book coming out this week: Lean Learning: How to Achieve More by Learning Less.

We went idea by idea and gave each one a score from 1 to 10.

Some of them surprised us, and a few may have outlived their usefulness.

How to Start a Side Hustle: 7 Key Steps

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How do you start a side hustle?

Well we can talk about side hustle ideas and marketing tactics until we’re blue in the face, but in studying my catalog of past interviews, a few common traits popped up over and over again.

I’ve compiled those into this 7-step guide to starting a side hustle.

12 Big Ideas From 12 Years of The Side Hustle Show

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This week it’s the 500th episode of The Side Hustle Show, which just seems crazy to me.

It feels like just yesterday I started this thing in a lot of ways. But it’s been 9 years — I guess time flies when you’re having fun.

In honor of the 500 episode milestone, I wanted to reflect back on 10 big ideas and 10 common themes over the last 9 years.

392: What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs – Part 7

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.

This has become an annual tradition on the show, and we just passed 7 years and 12 million downloads!