What's up, what's up? Welcome to Side Hustle School. This is Chris Gellabout coming to the end of Thanksgiving Week, at least in the United States, if you're listening in real time.

I've been enjoying telling you these stories this week. I hope you've been enjoying them too. I hope something in them is interesting or helpful or inspiring.

Today's is about an Aussie engineer, an Australian guy who works as an engineer and is also a pretty passionate cyclist. He ends up moving to a farm in Australia and earning passive income.

He does this first through an e-book, he writes, and I'll tell you how that came to be. And then it expands to affiliate income, some other guides, and I think a couple other things he's doing as well.

So as usual, I'll tell you where he got this idea, how it came to be, some of the tools and resources that allowed him to make this happen, and of course what the results have been, and what do they mean to him. All of those details are coming right up.

In 2009, Tim Marsh from Australia took his first trip to France. He had a purpose to follow the Tour de France and do a late-top detour, a mass participation cycle sporting event where amateur cyclists race the same route as a Tour de France.

Tim is an admitted planning obsessive, so he spent hours making all the arrangements. Had there been a guidebook to help him, it could have saved him a lot of time, but he couldn't find one, so you probably know what happens next.

On his long flight back to Australia from that French adventure, Tim wrote the first draft of that e-book. It wasn't that hard because he knew exactly what he wanted to say. It was just a matter of chronicling it, setting out the different sections, putting little tips and resources.

After laying it out on the plane, Tim tidied it up further, added some photos, and he sent it off to a company that helped him publish it. That process took a few months, so during that time he decided that his experience would also make for a great blog.

That was the start of Velo Nomad, a website for cycling holidays and adventurers, featuring e-books and guides, product reviews, nutrition info, training insights, travel tips, and more.

After publishing the first e-book, he got to work creating more resources. Now as you could probably guess, Tim is an avid cyclist.

He works as an engineer in the health industry in Australia, a job that he loves, and uses his side hustle as supplemental income.

But that's not all, Tim is also a Melbourne escapee. In 2011, he and his wife moved to the far north coast of New South Wales, and now live on a 10-acre hobby farm with chucks, which is slang for chicken, cows and goats.

Time is of great value to Tim, and his side hustle is passive income. It takes effort for him to grow it, but it takes minimal effort for him to maintain it.

Getting started, he used a free WordPress website, paid a couple hundred dollars for a custom theme and hosting, and started a free mailchimp account for email.

His sales of affiliate commissions are currently in the $400 to $700 a month range, in addition to sales of e-books and prepaid sim cards for cell phone use abroad.

Now this isn't a ton of money, of course, but once again, it's completely passive. After Tim got his first sale, he thought, wow, I guess this actually works, but now how do I get another one?

That's when he began building out further resources. And here are a couple of resources that helped him.

To create landing pages, Tim started with a service called LeadPages, but changed to Lendingi after getting a deal for life through AppSumo, a website that features heavily discounted software.

Another notable program is ConvertPlayer for video marketing that helps turn viewers into paying customers.

I realized that's four resources I just gave you quickly, so don't worry, we're going to link all these up on the show notes as always.

And before we summarize, let's talk about MoneyBack Guarantees for a moment, because Tim offers a 30-day MoneyBack Guarante even on digital products.

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