Billboards are timeless. And they remain a successful advertising strategy even with the rise of digital technology. With that said, you probably never imagined that a solopreneur could rake in $30,000 a month from it (part-time!). But that’s exactly what Chris Brown from Signs of Good and wantmore.org has done for the past decade. Chris retired early at the age of 42 and now owns approximately 30 billboards around Bentonville, Arkansas. Tune in to Ep 608 of The Side Hustle Show to learn: how to find billboards for sale find places where you could put one how to fill that ad space how passive it is once you’re up and running Full Show Notes: How to Start a Billboard Business: $30k a Month Part-Time New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: The Next Wave - Your personal Chief AI Officer for implementing AI to drive business growth. Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!

Do you want to get rich? To build real, lasting wealth that can change your family's circumstances for generations? Prepare to be disappointed because there are no get-rich-quick shortcuts or overnight secrets. Building wealth takes time, discipline, and sustained effort. But the good news is you can absolutely do it, no matter your current situation or starting point. All it takes is following some proven rules and principles to put you on the path. I'm talking about 10 fundamental rules that will help turn your financial dreams into reality. And they come from my recent conversation with Robert Farrington, founder of the famous personal finance site The College Investor and a longtime guest on The Side Hustle Show. This conversation is based on his article 10 Rules to Get Rich and Grow Wealth. Full Show Notes: 10 Rules to Get Rich and Build Wealth New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Squarespace — Start building your professional website for free today, and take 10% off your first website or domain! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Hertz – Go wherever the road may lead!

How can one income stream turn into a whole lot more? Simplify first, diversify second—that’s an idea I have always advocated on the show. The first step towards diversifying is to have something working. But how do you know it’s time to diversify? That is exactly what Bjork Ostrom (our previous guest from Ep 46) has done as he (and his wife Lindsay) masterfully “stacked” multiple online businesses that have developed out of their original food blog, Pinch of Yum. This 10-year-old blog has been a launchpad for Food Blogger Pro (a guide for aspiring food bloggers), Clariti (for optimizing your site's content), and the holding company, TinyBit. And this is the framework he uses to decide if an idea is worth pursuing. Full Show Notes: Side Hustle Stacking: How One Extra Income Stream Can Lead to More New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: The Next Wave - Your personal Chief AI Officer for implementing AI to drive business growth. Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host!

Starting a service business on the side is one of the fastest ways to build extra income. It's flexible, low-overhead, and you can probably start with skills you already have. “I had a lot of drive underneath me," Abbey Ashley told me, about starting her service business back in 2013. "I was super pregnant and I hated my job so much,” Abbey started offering her services as a virtual assistant, and connected with her first clients at local networking events in Washington, DC. My the time her maternity leave was up--just a few short months--Abbey had booked enough work to not have to go back to that job she hated. On top of that, she only had to work 20 hours a week to do it, and could work from home. There are almost no barriers to entry to starting a freelance service business, and the startup costs are minimal. (All Abbey did was make business cards for networking.) In fact, it was a service business, a house painting business in my case, that was one of my first entrepreneurial adventures. Over time, Abbey scaled her virtual assistant business from just herself at $20-30 an hour, to her own little virtual agency, to $75 an hour and up for some specialized work. Full Show Notes: How to Start a Service Business to Replace Your Income, Step-by-Step New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! Monarch Money — Get an extended 30-day free trial of the top-rated personal finance app!

Google's Helpful Content Update (HCU) hit a lot of online businesses hard with its new update. Even well-established and authoritative websites experienced a significant drop in their rankings. That's why I went behind the scenes with Kelan Kline from The Savvy Couple, whose online blogging side hustle did well even after the update. Kelan built his online business up from making $50 in the first year to now seeing around 500k pageviews a month. That led to his online business making seven figures last year. Tune in to Episode 605 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: Strategies for creating content that resonates with Google's algorithm changes Ways to diversify traffic sources beyond just Google search Tools/tech for content creation, email marketing, monetization, and more. Full Show Notes: Blogging in a Post-HCU World: The Savvy 7-Figure Online Business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Squarespace - Start building your professional website today! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! Cantaloupe — Join the 30,000+ entrepreneurs who rely on Cantaloupe to run and grow their vending businesses!

Ever wish you could get a piece of the Amazon pie? Corey Ganim of coreyganim.com did just that, banking $3.2 million in sales by selling other people's products on the e-commerce giant's platform. And he didn't have to deal with the massive upfront costs and headaches of manufacturing his own products. Corey got started in early 2019 and went full-time with his unique wholesale business model by mid-2020. He's since built a multi-million-dollar business buying brand-name inventory at wholesale prices and reselling it on Amazon at a profit. In this episode, Corey shares his best tips and insights featured in his book, The 5 Pillars of Amazon Wholesale and his free Wholesale Challenge training. Full Show Notes: How to Make $3.2M/Year Reselling Products on Amazon New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Ladder – Get instantly approved for term life insurance—no doctors, no needles, no paperwork! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! Cantaloupe — Join the 30,000+ entrepreneurs who rely on Cantaloupe to run and grow their vending businesses!

One of the most common questions I get is, "What if I don't have any skills? Can I still start a side hustle?" On the one hand, I totally get that feeling. If you're a teacher, tutoring might seem like an obvious side gig. If you're an accountant, you could freelance or start a bookkeeping business. But not everyone's skills neatly align with a natural side hustle. So what do you do if you don't think you have any marketable skills? Is there still a path to earning extra income on the side? Yes, there absolutely is! And that's what I'm breaking down in this post—your four options to start a profitable side hustle, even if you think you're skillless today. Full Show Notes: What Side Hustles Can You Start if You Don't Have Any Skills? New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Cantaloupe — Join the 30,000+ entrepreneurs who rely on Cantaloupe to run and grow their vending businesses! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! Squarespace - Start building your professional website today!

If you've ever thought about traveling the world while getting paid (and mingling with the rich and famous on the side), Hugo Ortega's side hustle story may appeal to you. After spending 9 years working as a yacht crew member and captain, traveling to over 60 countries, the former engineer decided to turn his niche career experience into a fast-growing online course business—Superyacht Sunday School. Now, it has grown into a full-time business earning $10K/month. (Sign up for Hugo's free superyacht training here!) Tune into Episode 602 of The Side Hustle Show to learn: building audiences with free valuable content turning followers into email subscribers using lead magnets boosting sales through live virtual trainings and webinars. monetization models like courses, plans, and memberships. Full Show Notes: $10k/mo On The Side Sharing What You Already Know New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Cantaloupe — An all-in-one platform that powers self-service commerce around the world with innovative technology and software solutions for businesses of all sizes Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! Monarch Money — Get an extended 30-day free trial of the top-rated personal finance app.

Austin Miller built a $1.2 million real estate portfolio at 31 years old -- for free. He's a side hustling real estate investor specializing in "creative" financing deals -- houses he can buy without using his own money. Austin is the author of Free Houses: How To Build Your Real Estate Investment Portfolio With No Money. His basic strategy is this: Find a killer deal on a house that needs some work. Buy it with the creative financing methods Austin talks about in this episode. Either do the work yourself or hire contractors. Put a paying tenant in the newly rehabbed home. Refinance the home with a traditional bank loan and pay back the original funding source. The end game is positive monthly cash flow from rental income, plus building a long-term wealth through tenants paying off the mortgage. Austin has developed some unique and interesting ways to hard money and private money to fund his property purchases. The best part – it’s truly a side hustle that can be done in a few hours a week the end result is passive income from rental revenue. Tune in to hear how Austin finds killer deals, buys the houses without risking his own capital, and then rehabs them to get ready to rent. Full Show Notes: Free Houses: How to Build a $1 Million Real Estate Portfolio on the Side New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Squarespace - Start building your professional website today! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! This is Small Business Podcast - Brought to you by Amazon, explore the stories of small business owners as they navigate their path to success!

When you hear "college admissions essay consultant," you might imagine some dull, overly formal academic type. But Carter Osborne from carterosbornetutoring.com took a pretty unconventional path to dominating this niche business. When he started providing tutoring services on the side, he was just a "broke, desperate graduate student" in need of some extra money. Carter actually had no formal business training. His background was in political science and public administration—so not exactly the traditional entrepreneurial breeding grounds. Not exactly the traditional path for an entrepreneur, right? And yet, the untraditional route Carter took allowed him to build a unique $100k consulting business, with almost all the revenue coming in just half the year. While Carter's career path didn't seem logical as a tutor, he was about to discover an untapped market niche that was waiting to be explored. Tune in to Episode 601 of The Side Hustle Show to learn: How to come up with your lucrative side hustle offer How to get your first customers How to grow the business How to handle the delivery logistics as a solopreneur Full Show Notes: The $100k niche consulting business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Ladder – Get instantly approved for term life insurance—no doctors, no needles, no paperwork! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Airbnb - Start an Airbnb business and earn money as an Airbnb Host! This is Small Business Podcast - Brought to you by Amazon, explore the stories of small business owners as they navigate their path to success!