Side House will show 302, catching up with the $30,000 a month piano teacher, how he grew his business

while cutting his hours 97%.

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because you've got one life. Why not optimize it?

For the last 18 months and probably much longer than that.

Optimization has been the name of the game for Jacques Hopkins.

You might remember Jacques from episode 223, where he broke down how he turned his piano playing hobby into a really successful online business at

piano in 21 days.com.

At that time business was doing great.

He was doing around $20,000 a month, had a bunch of happy

customers. He quit his engineering job to focus on it full time, but it was that full time thing that

was hard to get away from, between customer support, email, social media, phone

sales, and all the other day-to-day tasks, it was taking a full 40 hours a week to run.

Now if we fast forward to today, Jacques has systematically whittled that back to just 10 minutes

a day or call it an hour a week, and that's to maintain the business at its current level.

And of course, Jacques isn't one to sit still so he's using his

new found time freedom to work on more strategic growth projects and his other

project the online course guy dot com now over there as you'll hear he's following his own

proven success recipe just in a new space. So I invited Jacques back on the show for this

where are they now episode to hear about all the little

optimizations he's made that freed up so much time and improved his

bottom line. piano and 21 days

com is now doing around $30,000 a month in sales.

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