What's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because the only constant is

change. I think we have an understanding when we start our businesses that yes, they're going

to evolve over time, but I don't think anyone

could have prepared for the pace of change this year so I reached out to Side Hustle Nation

and asked what pivots or changes have you made in your business over the last few months.

Stick around in this episode to hear how fellow entrepreneurs are adapting in a variety of niches in business models.

Notes and links from this one are at

Sighthussle Nation.com slash Pivots. One of the hardest hit industries was the

conference and events business, but with many of these events shifting online, some quick action paid off.

Hey, this is Grant Baldwin, host of The Speaker Lab Podcast, an author of the new book, The Successful Speaker.

So I run a training company that teaches speakers how to

find and book paid speaking gigs and as you might imagine due to the current pandemic,

speaking gigs have largely disappeared which is left a lot of speakers wondering what do we do now

and so for several weeks we had a lot of speakers reaching out who had a lot of gigs

and all of a sudden these gigs were being postponed or canceled or

rescheduled and as live events literally were just

disappearing from the map it left us kind of scratching our heads figuring out what do we do

during this time and how do we make sure that we continue to serve and support

speakers and how do we pivot in a way that not only

help speakers but also can keep the business running strong and so we

ultimately decided to do was we saw a lot of opportunity around virtual

speaking. Virtual speaking is something that has been around in the speaking industry for a long opportunity around

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