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Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation | YAP Media

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The entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply! The award-winning small business show covers creative ways to make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more. Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle. Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
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It's that time of year again — Thanksgiving! This summer, we caught part of the Rubik's Cube World Championships in Seattle. The fastest solvers in the world can solve a 3x3 cube in under 5 seconds. But what really caught my attention? There was $5,000 in prize money for first place. Another reminder that just about any skill is monetizable if you'…
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This is probably the most creative cleaning business I've ever seen, because for Cheyenne Bulloch, it's her customers that are doing the cleaning. Today, more than 500 members pay $25 a month for her audio cleaning routines, set to free, public domain radio shows from the 1950s. Tune in to learn how Domestic Daydreams⁠ became a 6-figure online busi…
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Nathan Barry went from working at Wendy’s to running a software company doing $2.5M in revenue every month. But there were several steps along the way — and those steps are the topic of today’s episode. In 2019, Nathan penned The Ladders of Wealth Creation to explain why to level up your earning power, you usually need to level up your skills. In t…
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What if you could earn $5,000 in a single weekend taking rainbow-colored portraits that help people feel seen and valued? This year, Summer Ray built an aura photography business. She creates portraits that visualize someone's energy field—and commands $44 per session. From somalumin.com, Summer has earned $70,000 in just six months while keeping h…
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Let me tell you about the side hustle I wouldn't have believed if I hadn't seen it myself. Jeff Rose from Good Financial Sense is earning over $1,000 per day by posting content on Facebook. And a lot of it is just screenshots of other people's tweets. He cracked the code of Facebook's content monetization program, where the platform pays creators t…
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Marketing can feel like shouting into the void, especially when you're just getting started with your side hustle. To find out what's actually working today across a wide range of industries, I've crowdsourced some wisdom from Side Hustle Show listeners. One common theme from the past couple years is the strategy of using social media content to tr…
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Is dropshipping dead? Not according to Holly Finnefrock, who hit $500,000 in sales within her first six months of launching a high-ticket dropshipping store. Holly runs a successful dropshipping business in the outdoor space, specifically selling ponds and water features. Today, she's pulling back the curtain on dropshipbreakthrough.com to show exa…
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Jennifer Marx from JenniferMaker.com started her site in the DIY/crafting niche in late 2016 as a hobby site. She went from earning $33 in her first month, to 6-figures and beyond every month today. Tune in to Episode 381 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: Why she decided to focus on blogging How she found her initial traction What drives traffic to…
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Anthony Kolodziej from H&H Vending scaled his vending operation from zero to over $50k per month in just 16 months. That’s 30+ locations, thousands of transactions, and a strategy that turns vending into something way beyond the old-school snack machine in the corner of a breakroom. Anthony hosted a Q&A session with the Side Hustle Nation community…
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What if you could turn a hobby into a six-figure business, grow it while raising three kids and living overseas, and then sell it for $120,000? Samantha Hamilton did exactly that with her former Disney-inspired running skirt business, Dottie for Running. What started as a mom-made tutu she wore to races turned into a thriving e-commerce brand servi…
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Ever thought about turning your video game obsession into actual income? Gloria Riley from YellowLlamaCo.com creates and sells custom digital planners and templates for fans of The Sims computer game. She's built a full-time income by helping "serious simmers" organize their gameplay, track their virtual families, and stay connected to their digita…
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This is normally a Thanksgiving tradition on the show, but I've seen so many fun ideas come across my desk this year, and we just couldn't wait! Welcome to Round 8 of Creative Side Hustle Ideas. And to help out with this round, I'm joined by someone who's no stranger to the side hustle world. As the CEO of Flippa.com, the number one platform to buy…
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You've heard of Hot Tub Time Machine, but how does Hot Tub Cash Machine sound? That’s effectively the business model this week’s guest, Steve Nadramia. Steve is a high school history and economics teacher in New York, and a listener of the show. He reached out after our Thanksgiving episode, which touched on renting out attic space and even camper …
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We've got $10,000 a month writing on Medium, $1000 a day washing windows, $50 an hour assembling furniture, and more! In this episode, we're running through some of the most favorite and most unique side hustles discovered on Reddit. To help break these down is longtime listener and side hustle expert Whitney Bonds. Whitney joins us fresh off her o…
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Today we're sharing 10 realistic, recurring revenue side hustles that can help you build that same predictability into your side hustle income. No more feast or famine cycles. No more starting from scratch every month. The key to recurring revenue is simple: solve a recurring problem. When customers need you month after month, that's when you build…
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What if you could turn a teenage sports annoyance into a $100k business while juggling school, sports, and everything else that comes with being 15? Harrison Nott has done exactly that. Starting at just 13 years old, Harrison built CoolTowel into a business projected to hit £100,000 (about $130,000) in revenue this summer alone. The spark came from…
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It’s that time again — back into the listener mailbag for another round of Q&A on The Side Hustle Show. This week, I’ve got 13 brand-new questions to dive into, covering everything from launching a hustle with $5,000, to small-town business ideas, making money with art, navigating anonymity online, and even whether rich people should still have sid…
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What if you could turn brand partnerships into serious income, even with just hundreds of followers? Justin Moore, founder of Creator Wizard and author of Sponsor Magnet, is back to show us exactly how creators are landing four-figure deals without massive audiences. We're talking about tapping into that $480 billion creator economy pie — and you d…
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You know I love a good rental side hustle with recurring revenue and strong ROI. But in this example, there's no equipment to buy, no delivery logistics to deal with, and no tenants' trash in your place, which leads to some really strong margins. John Michael from TownRankSEO.com started this journey just this past February. He is a longtime Side H…
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How does a YouTube channel with less than 300 subscribers generate 6-figures a year? In Joshua Lisec's case, he does it by answering targeted questions, and selling high-value services to those viewers. Joshua is an award-winning, celebrity-recommended, #1 international bestselling Certified Professional Ghostwriter. He’s also a TEDx speaker, a nov…
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What if you could build a website that earns thousands per month in relatively hands-off income while traditional SEO struggles? That's exactly what Frey Chu has done with his directory-style websites. While article-based content sites have been getting hammered by Google updates, directory content has remained resistant to these changes and contin…
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Want a roadmap to build time-leveraged cash flow and long-term wealth without the complexity of traditional business ventures? Dustin Heiner is back on the show to share his proven strategy: buy one profitable investment property per year for 10 years. It might sound easier said than done, but Dustin has retired early from the cash flow of his 30+ …
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Congrats! You've got a great side hustle idea ... now you just need money to get it off the ground. Even though many small businesses can have pretty low startup costs, most will still require at least some startup capital. And having enough money to start and grow your business is important. According to a recent study by CB Insights, 38% of start…
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It’s time for another round of business idea giveaways, this time with an AI-assisted theme to them! Pete McPherson from doyouevenblog.com and codeplaybook.com stopped by to help me out with these. (Side Hustle Show listeners get $100 off Pete's Code Playbook with our referral link. This is where he teaches non-coders how to build profitable web ap…
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