52: Best Of Year 1: Top 10 Side Hustles

We’re celebrating Year 1!

This episode brings you the best of the best side hustles we highlighted in the last 12 months.

They are in no particular order, because they each made the list for different reasons.

Some are online, some need you to be out and about in the world, most are year-round. Some are seasonal, but all of them can be lucrative side hustles.

What’s your favourite? Shoot me a message and let me know!

Thank you so much or being part of this journey. It’s truly deeply appreciated.

What You’ll Hear:

01:00 #1 - Litter clean up of parking lots and commercial and industrial properties

01:27 Episode 21, This Business is Cleaning Up, with Brian Winch

02:05 Use $30 - $50 an hour to number crunch projections

02:13 Why his clients are such fans

02:44 #2 - Making Money in the Sharing Economy, with J. Massey

03:50 You can establish a STR business without owning a property

04:20 J looks at his properties as a “distribution service” to maximize revenue

04:44 In Part 2 we discuss push back from cities and municipalities

05:40 “Day use” rental opportunities

06:18 #3 - Being A Paid Sports Superfan!

07:40 What’s involved, what game day looks like, other offshoot income possibilities

07:55 #4 The Business of Being Santa, episode 29 - greater diversity in Santa’s is providing opportunities for more people

08:57 Some of her friends make upwards of $40,000 playing the role

09:12 hiresanta.com

09:35 #5 is Serving up a Sizzling, Seasonal, Success with Poncho’s Tacos episode 51

10:30 A seasonal market is an effective way to test your product, pricing, gain valuable feedback

11:36 “Pop up” stands, another smart way to test

12:10 Press releases and pitching their story landed some invaluable TV and other media coverage

12:31 #6 - Building A Review Website Business, with Chuck Temple, featuring the Electric Scooter Guide

13:21 Connect with a product or service you love and become the leading source for honest info about that industry

13:53 Look for a new industry or one with higher-value products

14:17 - #7 Excelling on Etsy, with Rachel Jimenez

14:25 You don’t have to be perfect, just get it out there

15:06 After 9 months, she made $160,000 that year

15:24 This episode also stands out for her strategy for retiring early, her “there’s always a solution” mindset , and the “5-minute strategy” as a path to higher productivity

15:56 #8 Scaling For Fun and Profit, with Sandra Booker episode 27

16:27 Seeing a client she helped go from earning $50/hour to $1 million a year, motivated Sandra to scale too

17:22 From $25, to $45 to $50/hr for VA services, then shifted to virtual business manager

17:51 In the episode Sandra shares her best delegation secrets, tips on when to make your first hire, and why you want to treat your client’s business like your own

18:26 When you’re training a remote worker, screen-share and record what you’re doing so the person has something to reference again and again as needed

18:45 - #9 What It Takes To Be A Successful Seller On Amazon, with Annalisa DeMarta, episode 14

18:52 Buying books for $1 and reselling at a big markup on eBay, morphed into a $5 million brand on Amazon

19:41 Of the 2.7 million sellers on Amazon, her company is in the 0.0005% of sellers

20:02 In the episode she shares what it takes to be successful on the platform

20:10 Annalisa suggests selling via “arbitrage” as a great way to learn Amazon,

20:28 Private labelling or black labelling, and contract manufacturing are options, and she talks about the pros and cons of each

20:55 3 featured takeaways are - why and when to jump into a new venture, how to improve your cash flow situation, and how to reframe the feeling of depriving yourself when you’re making those smarter choices

21:23 #10 - Reality Check: The Truth Behind E-commerce Success, with Melissa Ng

21:31 By day, she’s an accountant

21:38 After Melissa found success in e-commerce, she co-founded Launchers Acadamy to help others be success in this space

22:01 What "shiny object syndrome" is and why you need to avoid it

22:40 Consistency and persistence is the “secret sauce” of being successful in ecommerce

23:11 Travis King from episode 46 Cash Flow And Capital From Land Flipping, describes how he suffered from shiny object syndrome

23:46 What commitment will you give to your side hustle?

24:12 Without a commitment, at the first sign of problems, it’s too easy to doubt and then bail

24:35 Stick with it…and stick with me. I’ll be here for year 2!

Podcast Website:

https://www.sidehustlehero.com/

Connect with Joan: