451: Affiliate Marketing, Early Retirement, and Side Hustle Shifts Over 8 Years of Podcasting: 20 Questions with Nick
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 40 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.
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The questions:
- How I can use my knowledge for a blog or a podcast or affiliate marketing?
- How have your attitudes about side hustling changed over the last 8 years in the space?
- How do bundle sales work? Why would these product creators give their work away for so little?
- What's the table of contents plugin you're using on your site?
- How is the "You Might Also Like" box in your newsletter working for you in terms of boosting clicks, pageviews, etc.?
- I noticed that you are using Teachable -- any particular reason?
- Which WordPress theme should I use?
- How much do podcasters get paid by sponsors?
- What made you “jump” [from your day job]? How did failure not become an option for you?
- Should you build a review site around a single product or service, or broaden it a bit to the whole family of products of services?
- What are some good potential side hustles for retirees?
- How can you protect yourself from legal liability related to online content?
- What's your take on services like Skimlinks?
- Do you still recommend putting your books in Kindle Unlimited / KDP Select?
- When registering a business, can I be my own registered agent?
- I have 11 separate websites for the local towns where we operate. Should I consolidate domains?
- I'm just getting started. Should I write and publish a book or start a service business?
- How much is enough to retire at 35?
- What side hustles or gigs grew the most in the last year?
- How would you speed up the process of growing a community?
Full Show Notes: Affiliate Marketing, Early Retirement, and Side Hustle Shifts Over 8 Years of Podcasting: 20 Questions with Nick
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? What's up, Nick? A loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because the rat race |
| 0:05.2 | doesn't need anymore rats. 20 questions, episode 40 today. I have an into the listener mail bag. |
| 0:11.7 | As is customary on these episodes, I've pulled down to 20 questions from the side hustle nation |
| 0:16.8 | community from the last few months and will attempt to answer those for your benefit in listening |
| 0:22.0 | pleasure today. This is the 12th installment of the series. So you'll find links to all the resources |
| 0:27.6 | mentioned at side hustle nation.com slash Q and a 12 ready? Let's just jump right into it with |
| 0:34.4 | question number one from Tom who says, I'm a semi retired ER doctor. I do some freelance medical |
| 0:40.9 | writing on the side, but I'm looking for another income source, which I can do from my computer. |
| 0:45.9 | Maybe it's writing. Maybe it's a blog. Maybe it's something like the guy who was making 10 |
| 0:49.8 | grade a month with his house plant website, but I don't know how to approach it and what would work |
| 0:54.9 | for me. Do you have any ideas? How can I utilize my medical knowledge for a blog or podcast or |
| 1:00.4 | affiliate marketing? So Tom, first of all, thanks so much for tuning in. The next thing is think |
| 1:06.8 | first about the audience that you want to serve in the medical field. I would avoid like the plague |
| 1:12.5 | any sort of general medical advice blog given the authority of the already established competition |
| 1:18.9 | in that space, the Web MDs of the world, right? But there are a few other ideas that come to mind. |
| 1:25.4 | One would be leaning into the specific ER experience with content like should I go to the ER for |
| 1:31.4 | blank? My son recently split his head open at the park and while I didn't Google anything related |
| 1:37.9 | to the injury, I definitely thought about it. It was a pretty gnarly gash. I think a series of |
| 1:43.9 | articles and or videos like that might be able to pick up some traffic, especially for less urgent |
| 1:50.4 | type of injuries where where people have some more time to make their decision. We ended up going |
| 1:54.9 | to the ER for that cut, but I'm glad we did because you ended up getting five stitches. Other pros |
| 1:59.7 | in the medical field have gone down the route, not of helping patients, but of helping students with |
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