You're listening to the side hustle show the business podcast. You can actually apply. I'm your host Nick Loper

and today I'm breaking down five of the most popular side hustles and what you might consider doing instead

This was another one that was originally recorded for YouTube

So the pacing is a little tighter than what you normally hear on a podcast

But it's all good stuff notes and links to all the resources mentioned are at side hustle nation.com slash popular ready

Let's do it

Number one is freelancing providing some type of freelancer service

It's a popular side hustle and it's actually one that I often recommend to people who need to make money quickly

It's a great way to start and something times on myself too the limitation with freelancing or consulting

Of course is that you only have so many hours in the day, which puts a natural cap on your earning potential

You might also face the challenge of clients hiring you and your knowledge and your expertise

Instead of the result that you deliver for them call that the freelance trap your expertise

It's definitely a good selling point, but can be tough to grow out of if you want to expand

So what might you consider instead if your goal is to build something that grows beyond yourself

Consider an agency or matchmaker model from the beginning. What do I mean by that?

So instead of freelance writing consider starting a content writing business a content writing agency

Instead of doing graphic design consider starting a design agency instead of cleaning houses consider starting a cleaning company

There are examples in the side hustle show archives of all of the for example Gabe Arnold started copywriter today and grew it to

20 grand a month his strategy was to bring other people on to write the content and then for him to focus on getting clients

You don't even need to be an expert in the business that you start

So this is one of my favorite examples comes from Russ Perry the founder of design pickle

Megapopular graphic design service. He admitted to me on the side hustle show

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