193: Getting Paid to Show Off Your City: How to Start a Tour Guide Side Hustle

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, Business, How To, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On any given weekend in San Francisco, out of earshot from the barking harbor seals at Pier 39 and the clang of the cable cars, a small group of urban hikers are exploring the city from a different vantage point. For three hours, they walk, climb, and even slide their way through historic neighborhoods and scenic outlooks. They’re led by Alexandra Kenin, or one of her carefully selected guides, and have paid $49 apiece for this unique travel experience. Alexandra runs UrbanHikerSF.com on the side from her day job as a content writer and editor. More than 1000 people take her urban hikes each year, and she now oversees a team of 4-5 guides that can lead the hikes in her place.

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 193, getting paid to show off your city.
0:04.3	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their
0:09.8	side hustle dreams into reality, because your 9 to 5 may make you a living but your 5 to 9
0:15.9	makes you alive and now your host Nick Loper
0:27.8	What's up, what's up and Nick Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle show, where it's all about ideas, action, and results. Awesome Side Hustle success story for you today.
0:33.0	Now as you know this month we're looking at a few of the different platforms that you can use to earn extra money and start a business
0:38.0	since that's the theme of my new book, Buy Buttons.
0:41.0	You can learn more at Buy Buttons Book. Today we're looking at a handful of travel platforms. by buttons.
0:43.0	com.com. Today we're looking at a handful of travel platforms including TripAdvisor.com,
0:47.6	Viator, viable, and Airbnb, among others. My guest is Alexander Cannon. She's a former Google
0:55.0	employee and full-time content writer and editor. For the past four years her
0:59.2	side hustle has been Urban Hiker-SF at Urban Hiker- at Urban Hiker SF
1:03.2	where she leads tour groups through the very terrain
1:06.4	and history of her adopted hometown of San Francisco.
1:09.4	In fact, her company leads 1,000 hikers a year
1:12.0	on these trails at 49 bucks a piece and today she's
1:15.1	going to lead us through how she came up with this idea, how she got started and
1:18.8	marketed the business, how she's removing herself from the day-to-day operations and transitioning this very labor-intensive
1:26.3	side hustle into a passive income stream.
1:29.1	Notes, links, and a free PDF highlight reel you can download at side hustle nation
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