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The Side Hustle Show

346: The Con of the Side Hustle, Beanie Babies, Affiliate Marketing, and More: 20 Questions with Nick

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to dive into the ol’ listener mailbag and answer a few questions in this week’s edition of The Side Hustle Show. I’ve had quite a few interesting questions come in since the last Q&A episode, and picked 20 to talk through in today’s show. Like this format? This is the 8th installment of “20 Questions” so feel free to go back and binge on the older ones too: 320: Multiplying Money, Morning Routines, and $100k Side Hustles: 20 Questions with Nick 291: Email, Ebooks, Platforms, and Conferences: 20 Questions with Nick 271: Brilliant Blogging, Ruthless Productivity, and Guaranteed Success: 20 Questions with Nick 245: Network Marketing, Imposter Syndrome, My Side Hustle Mistakes, and More: 20 Questions with Nick 219: Growing Traffic, Monetization, List-Building, a Day in the Life, and More: 20 Questions with Nick 198: Blogging, Branding, Book Writing, and Finding the Right Side Hustle for You: 20 Questions with Nick 181: SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Self-Publishing, Udemy, and More: 20 Questions with Nick A common piece of advice you’ll hear is to take audience questions and turn them into content, so here’s a meta example of that in action. This episode covers the dark side of side hustling, beanie babies, affiliate marketing, and much more. Full Show Notes: The Con of the Side Hustle, Beanie Babies, Affiliate Marketing, and More: 20 Questions with Nick

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Sideos will show,

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346, the con of the Side Hustle,

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Beanie Babies, Affiliate Marketing,

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and Moore.

0:08.0

This is 20 questions with Nick.

0:10.0

What's up, what's up, Nick? Loper here. Welcome to the Side Hustle show because

0:15.7

Financial Independence, it's worth working for it. It's time for another round of

0:20.2

20 questions with Nick. These are some of my favorite episodes to put together where I dive into the

0:26.3

listener mailbag from the last few months and I try and pull out some questions I thought were interesting,

0:32.3

challenging, applicable or otherwise no some questions I thought were interesting,

0:33.0

applicable, or otherwise noteworthy,

0:35.0

and attempt to answer those for you on air.

0:38.0

This is the eighth installment of this series,

0:41.0

so if you find you like this format format I encourage you to check out the past

0:44.9

editions as well you'll be able to find the show notes and links to all the resources

0:49.4

mentioned in this episode at side hustle nation.com slash Q and A8.

0:55.0

And I want to dive right into it today with a response to the opinion piece that was published in the New York Times back in April called the

1:03.0

con of the side hustle in the article carried the subtitle the language

1:08.0

portraying second jobs as liberating or glamorous masks the reality of the insecure working lives of many Americans.

1:16.5

The author of this opinion piece was Miss Alyssa Court.

1:20.2

She's also the author of the book called Squeezed, Why Our Families Can't Afford America.

1:25.0

So I got a lot of emails and messages after that article came out.

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