Side Hustle Spark #299: Nick Loper’s Blogging Toolkit
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Side Hustle Spark 288: Upping Your Freelance Game (Side Hustle Nation)
Nick Loper brings back Chris Misterek, who’s earned over $80K via freelance web developer gigs.
Chris’s main website: https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/
From Nick’s email:
“We cover how to:
— tap into the $2.5 billon freelance marketplace (where Chris himself has booked over $80k worth of work).
— set up your profile for success.
— create filters so you only bid on jobs that are a great match.”
Here is Chris’s first chat with Nick Loper–From ‘No Skills’ to 3K a Month on the Side–the most downloaded episode of 2020.
Here’s to forward momentum!
Hope today’s post will help.
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Side Hustle Spark 276: Nick Loper’s latest ’20 Questions’
Expect solid content and practical advice when Nick Loper posts his ’20 Questions’ editions of The Side Hustle Show.
These are just some of the topics he explores in his latest 20 Questions.
1. Teachable as his online course tool
2. Skimlinks
3. Accelerating the process of growing a community
4. Side hustle opportunities for retirees
5. The benefits and logistics of bundle sales
NOTE: Spend an extra ten minutes on the linked page to follow links he mentions in the latest edition and/or click to his previous 20 Questions podcasts.
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Side Hustle Spark 247: Rules for Success– Power words to convert–Start from zero
A few more of our more popular posts…
Start from Zero
Topics from this Side Hustle Nation-related post:
— How to Make $1,000 in 24 Hours
— The Two Metrics to Pick a Niche
Evan Carmichael: Curator Extraordinaire
Highlighted topic: 10 Top Rules for Success
700 Power Words to Boost Conversions
A deep dive into humans’ basic weaknesses…
Greed words, curiosity words, sloth words, vanity words…and more!
The author, T. Haag, is now 240+ sidehustlecurator posts into this little hunt-and-share project. As he works on his own stuff, he likes learning:
— what others are doing to create additional income for themselves
— side hustlers’ successful strategies
— solo entrepreneurs’ favorite tools
Hoping that you find something useful among these posts.
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Side Hustle Spark 238: Side hustle insights from Quora and Side Hustle Nation
I took a quick look at sidehustlecurator posts with the most likes.
My translation: People gained insight, info, and valued resources from them.
So, for those visitors who haven’t seen these four.
The first two link to Quora.
Side Hustle Spark 116: What is your side hustle and how do you do it?
Side Hustle Spark 117: Kyle Baker on Quora
Suggestion 46: Stop Trading Time for Money! 71 Passive Income Ideas
Suggestion 44: Nick Loper’s Side Hustle Nation Quarterly Report
For a subject-by-subject look at sidehustlecurator,
check out my Posts Organized by Topic page.
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Side Hustle Spark 227: Like magic! More time for your side hustle!
Okay, okay, you can stop rolling your eyes now, it’s not exactly magic.
Once again, Nick Loper delivers on value and quality suggestions for effective time management.
AND he throws in a free time tracker!
Click here to visit his page with the text summary and podcast versions of:
How to Make Time for Your Side Hustle: 10 Steps to Positive Progress.
In this valuable–even inspirational–episode, Nick weaves in lessons and experience from various podcast guests to reinforce his time-management guidelines. Also included: book recommendations and time tracking tool suggestions.
Here is a sampling from his list:
- Figure out where your time is going now
- Find the time that works for you
- Aim to complete the smallest actionable chunks.
Here is the link to the opt-in for his Google Sheets Time Tracker document. DO opt in!
[After downloading, under ‘File’, click ‘Make a copy’, and you can customize as needed.]
Enjoy! And forge ahead.
And now, time for my book recommendations…
These seven titles are go-to sources of inspiration and valued experience. These are affiliate links which, if you use to preview and buy the product, won’t raise the product’s price and will earn me a commission. At that point, I’ll be that much closer to buying that unclaimed island in the Caribbean. Please don’t ask for the island’s coordinates. It is mine and you can’t have it. ;->
- Keep Going (Austin Kleon) Perfect kick in the pants for when you’re stuck.
- Show Your Work (Austin Kleon) The world is waiting for your stuff, even if it’s not (especially if it’s not) perfect.
- Side Hustle: Idea to Income in 27 Days (Chris Guillebeau) One of the first, and most reliable, ‘bibles’ for this niche.
- Atomic Habits (James Clear) This guy makes so much sense, even if he was spitballin’, but he backs it up with research as well. In other words, don’t even try to counter with any ‘yeah-buttals’.
- Poke the Box (Seth Godin) The message of this book: Get started. And keep the mindset throughout.
- The War of Art (Steven Pressfield) I love the formats of both of Pressfield’s books in this list. Some pages are only a paragraph long (perfect for my attention span). But this message is: I’ve made my point. And I’m moving on. And his main point? Resistance is pervasive and powerful and destructive to our dreams. But it can be defeated…but usually just one day, or one hour, at a time. Steven Pressfield’s books guide us through these same battles.
- Turning Pro (Steven Pressfield)
This list cuts across so many lines of productivity and accomplishment. Whether you use my links or go elsewhere, get your hands on these.
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Side Hustle Spark 198: Additions to sidehustlecurator’s Page of Lists
Four more items on the list page…
- 50 of the Best Social Media Tools Selected by Top Marketers
- 31 Build-and Launch Tips from 31 Course Creators
- 6 Tools to Help You Manage Your Remote Side Hustle Efficiently (and Easily)
- 7 Tips for Emerging Creative Entrepreneurs
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Side Hustle Spark 176: Chris Guillebeau (Side Hustle School) advises on a personalized journal
As I’ve said before, I could probably just hitch my wagon to and pinpoint good stuff from certain folks or sites.**
Copyblogger, Side Hustle Nation, and ryrob.com come to mind.
And then there’s Chris Guillebeau of Side Hustle School whom I’ve followed since 2014.
Because I’ve also dabbled with a journal prototype, I found a recent episode of his podcast even more relevant than usual.
As Chris points out in the opening, you may have no interest in producing and selling a personal journal, but many of the steps–his word, ‘pathway’– apply to other projects.
Here is the direct link to the actual seven-minutes of audio.
His key points:
- Projects like this come down to a. design b. printing and c. marketing.
- Look to team up with designers/contractors [Upwork and Fiverr].
- Printing options: local, national, or international. At one point, he did use printingforless.com.
- International printing may be cheaper, but adds variables like lag time [shipping].
- His advice: For a first project, avoid international printing.
- Marketing: Think about marketing from the beginning of the project.
- It’s not just about the product, it’s about the message.
- Start with message, then explore design.
- Copyright? Everything that you make on the Internet is automatically copyrighted. It doesn’t mean it won’t be snagged by lazy, low-life toads. [My term, not Chris’s. He’s much more diplomatic than I am.]
Here is a three-page PDF of my own journal prototype–two actual pages that I would have duplicated and a page of links.
** But where’s the fun in that?
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Side Hustle Spark 175: Nick Loper (Side Hustle Nation): Site Startup to Site Selloff
The year was 2011.
Side Hustle Nation’s Nick Loper had an idea: Add to his existing expertise in the virtual assistant space and build some affiliate income.
And so virtualassistantassistant.com was born.
Year 1: $1000 in earnings. That was enough to convince him this was a viable idea.
His post/outline of his story offers plenty of value, but running the full 46 minute podcast is well worth your time.
Just a few takeaways…
- What worked well–early on–was ‘trying to crowdsource a critical mass of honest user reviews’.
- “One thing that did work on the SEO front was not a lot of people were creating dedicated content about hiring on these different platforms.”
- Close to 90% of his traffic was organic.
Pete McPherson from Do You Even Blog plays guest-host and steers Nick’s review of the 9 1/2 year process.
Pete’s own takeaways from the interview:
- Patience. You’re in it for the long haul.
- Scratch your own ‘niche’.
- Diversify your income streams.
**As always with Nick’s podcasts, if you’re short on time, I suggest using his convenient table of contents to guide your listening.
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Side Hustle Spark 171–: Freebie from Side Hustle Nation: How to Start a Side Hustle Blog
Since January is often about ‘starting’, take a look at Nick Loper’s free six-part video series on blogging.
Even if your blog is well-established, Nick raises salient points and shares worthwhile tips.
The six components:
- 4 Reasons to Start a Blog
- Don’t Call It a ‘Blog’
- 8 Ways Blogs Make Money
- What to Blog About
- How to Get Your Site Online
- How to Install WordPress
Added freebie: The lead magnet 365 Blog Post Ideas.
Note: There are plenty of blogging experts out there, including Ryan Robinson of ryrob.com, whom I’ve pointed you to several times.
My bias as a long time teacher: One expert’s approach may fit your needs and learning style better than another’s.
And what you bring to the course at any given time makes a big difference…so again, I’m trying to set the table. It’s up to you to grab a plate and dig in.
Best of luck. I’m in your corner.
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