388: From “No Skills” to $3k a Month on the Side
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Are you stuck with the idea that you don’t have the skills to start a side hustle?
Today’s guest, Chris Misterek of SelfMadeWebDesigner.com didn’t let that hold him back.
He went from being in a tight spot personally and financially, to bringing in an average of $3k a month on the side through his new web design business.
With no previous experience with web design, Chris decided to start at the ground up by working through some free online courses.
Within a few months, he was introducing himself as a web designer, and within 18 months he was earning double his day job salary on the side!
Tune in to this episode to hear Chris explain how he:
- Picked up this new skillset on the cheap
- Found his first clients
- Marketed and grew his business
- Recommends you replicate this across any number of industries
Full Show Notes: From “No Skills” to $3k a Month on the Side
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| 0:00.0 | How One Side Hustle Show listener turned a challenging situation into a new income stream, |
| 0:07.0 | or the path from no skills to three grand a month on the side. What's up, what's up, Nick Loper, here? |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Sine Hustle show because every expert was once a beginner. |
| 0:22.0 | Like many parents, I've been spending a lot more time |
| 0:25.0 | with my kids over the last couple months which has been a great silver lining to |
| 0:29.5 | the whole having preschool closed thing and one thing that is fascinating to me about |
| 0:34.1 | spending this extra time with the kids is the pace of their learning. They're two years |
| 0:39.1 | old and four years old for the sake of reference and they're picking up new stuff daily. |
| 0:44.3 | What's weird is as adults, we start to think of our skill sets as fixed. |
| 0:48.9 | A kid would never think that way. |
| 0:50.9 | There's just stuff they haven't learned yet. And that brings me to today's guest, |
| 0:55.7 | Chris Mr Rick of self-made web designer.com. It's an appropriate URL for Chris because he's a self-made largely self-taught web designer. |
| 1:06.6 | He went from being in a tight spot personally and financially to bringing in an average of three grand a month on the side through his new web design business. |
| 1:16.0 | Stick around in this one to hear how Chris picked up this new skill set on the cheap, |
| 1:20.0 | how he found his first clients, and how he's marketed and grown the business since then. |
| 1:25.0 | And the important note here is that this is replicable across any number of industries. |
| 1:30.0 | In fact, I just hit publish on a blog post on some of the highest paid and most in-demand |
| 1:35.3 | freelance skills. Don't have any skills worth paying for? Go learn some, just like Chris did. |
| 1:40.3 | Notes and links for this one, plus the full text summary of our conversation with all of Chris's top tips from the call are at side hustle nation.com slash self-made. |
| 1:50.0 | As your freelance business grows, you're going to need an invoicing and accounting system |
| 1:54.3 | that works as hard as you do. I recommend our sponsor Fresh Books Be That System, |
| 1:59.0 | I've been a customer for years, and use the platform every month as I need to invoice clients or advertisers |
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