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The Side Hustle Show

321: Hosting Trivia Nights for Fun and Profit: Turn Useless Knowledge into Cash

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Can you make money hosting trivia nights at local restaurants and bars? I’m a bit of a trivia nerd, so this week’s show was especially interesting to put together! To help walk me through how this business works, is probably the best-qualified guy in the country to do so. Adam Johnston is the co-founder of LastCallTrivia.com, a business that started with just $300 and now powers trivia nights all around the country and provides tools for side hustlers to do the same. Over the last 10 years, Adam has managed to help turn "useless knowledge" into a 7-figure operation. Tune in to hear how this business works, how to pitch and price a trivia night, how to get a new venue off the ground, and most importantly, what makes for a great game. Adam and I even fire some trivia questions at each other, so have your score sheets ready! Full Show Notes: Hosting Trivia Nights for Fun and Profit: Turn Useless Knowledge into Cash

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sad House will show at 321 hosting trivia nights for fun and profit.

0:06.0

This is how to turn useless knowledge into real dollars.

0:10.0

What's up, What's up Nick? Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show because

0:16.8

building extra income no matter how small is never a trivial matter. That is, unless your business is trivia.

0:25.0

I'm a bit of a trivia nerd.

0:26.0

So this week's show was especially interesting to put together.

0:29.0

Basically, how you can make money hosting trivia nights

0:32.0

at local restaurants and bars.

0:34.4

To help me walk through how this business works is probably the best qualified guy in the country to do so.

0:41.2

Adam Johnston is the co-founder of Last Call Trivia, a business that

0:45.8

started with just $300 and now powers Trivionites all around the country and

0:50.3

provides tools for side hustlers to do the same at flex.

0:54.4

Last Call trivia.com. Over the last 10 years Adam has managed to turn useless knowledge

1:00.3

into a seven figure operation.

1:02.8

So stay tuned to learn how to pitch in price a trivia night,

1:06.6

how to get a new venue off the ground,

1:08.4

and what makes for a great game.

1:10.6

Notes and links for this one, plus a full text summary are at

1:13.8

side hustle nation.com slash trivia. Now there's nothing trivial about

1:18.3

getting paid and keeping your books in order. To that end I want to invite you to

1:21.9

join the 24 million people who are using our

1:24.7

sponsor Fresh Books to get less busy with their accounting and more effective.

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