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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.

Cody Berman is no stranger to selling digital products.

He’s known in the side hustle world as the “printable guy” and co-founder of Gold City Ventures, but when Internet skeptics told him the Etsy market was “too saturated now” compared to when he started in 2018, Cody accepted the challenge.

And proved them wrong.

From zero to $1,000/month in 116 days with a brand-new Etsy shop, with no followers, no email list, and no marketing. Just skill and data-driven decisions.

(If you want to shortcut the learning curve, check out his course: sidehustlenation.com/etsyprintableslaunch)

Can you really get paid for Amazon reviews?

The short answer is yes. The longer answer is it depends on your writing skills, social media influence, and even what you consider as “getting paid.”

And that’s the topic of this post.

Changing the world with chess and making $100,000 per year on the side.

That’s the story of today’s guest, Jeff DiOrio from EliteChess.net.

Jeff went from working in summer camp chess programs teaching kids how to play chess, to running his own summer camps and earning five times as much.

Can you really make money as an Amazon product tester?

If you love testing new products and sharing your opinion, it could be a great side hustle for you. 

But beware of companies offering to pay you to test and review products — it’s likely a scam.

Back in the day, you needed someone technical (or paid someone technical) if you wanted to build any kind of software.

Today, with the popularity of AI tools, not so much.

Pete McPherson from doyouevenblog.com is earning $100k by using AI tools to help build a series of small-ish web apps, usually built to solve a very specific problem for a very specific customer.

And he’s here to share with you how he built all of this… without being a developer himself.

Ryan “Heff” Gerlach started The Keeper League Podcast and keeperleaguepod.com.au on the side from his teaching job.

It’s not about football, not just about fantasy football, but about a very specific flavor of fantasy football for Australian Rules Football.

That’s a niche within a niche within a niche — where fans don’t just draft players, they build teams that last for years.

And now it serves as the hub for player data, draft tools, and expert analysis for football keeper leagues.

Last month, I did an episode on the 17 different income streams I was working on.

One of the smallest on that list generated the largest response, and that was the Amazon Influencer Program.

Why go through the trouble of building your own cash flow when, with a little determination and a little hustle, you can insert yourself into some income streams that are already happening?

That’s what Link Moser from linkmoser.com and his web design agency windhill.com have done, not once, not twice, but 5 different times, generating $200k a year in semi-passive income.

He was on the show in 2022, where he explained how he makes money with a real estate lead generation site, NHFineHomes.com, where a single referral can be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

But today, we’re diving into a different strategy: business acquisitions.