375: Rapid Side Hustle Prototyping: A New Income Stream on Your Lunch Break?
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Can you build a new income stream on your lunch break?
This week's guest says yes, and shares how.
In this episode, I’m joined by Mike Zima from ZimaMedia.com -- a full-service digital marketing agency that got its start with a single $5 sale on Fiverr.
It’s been a while since we talked about Fiverr, but the way today’s guest has used the platform to start and grow his freelance business is an eye-opener.
Mike’s claim to fame: He’s the only Fiverr seller who’s mentioned in Fiverr’s IPO pitch deck.
But it all started with one $5 order.
He’s now doing thousands of dollars a month, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars a month in Fiverr sales.
Tune in to hear what’s working on Fiverr today, Mike’s “rapid gig prototyping" strategy to test out new offers, and how to wean your reliance off of Fiverr while building your agency.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's how to come up with your side hustle idea and get it in front of millions of potential buyers. |
| 0:07.0 | What's up, what's up, Nick Loper, here welcome to the side hustle Show because your 9 to 5 may make you a living but your 5 to 9 makes you alive. |
| 0:17.6 | Today I'm joined by Mr. Mike Zema from Zema Media.com. It's a full service digital marketing agency, but Mike got to start with a single |
| 0:28.7 | five dollar sale on, you guessed it, Fiver. |
| 0:33.0 | And Mike's claim to fame is actually, he's the only Fiver seller who's mentioned in Fiver's |
| 0:38.4 | IPO pitch deck, and safe to say that these days he has come a long way from that first five dollar sale |
| 0:45.2 | doing thousands of dollars a month perhaps tens of thousands of dollars a month in |
| 0:49.5 | five or sales but everybody's got to start somewhere So stick around in this episode to hear what's |
| 0:54.8 | working on Fiver today, Mike's Rapid Gig prototyping strategy to test out new offers and maybe |
| 1:01.7 | had a wean your reliance off of a fiber. |
| 1:05.0 | Now one of the major benefits of a platform like fiber and this is what might cause |
| 1:10.4 | barter marketing is that they're doing a lot of the work for you. But it |
| 1:15.6 | doesn't come free. Fiver takes 20% so as your business grows it probably makes |
| 1:21.2 | sense to develop an off-platform strategy and when you do that |
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