What's up, what's up,

if you don't have any skills?

What's up, Nick Loper here?

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show,

part of the entrepreneur podcast network,

helping you make extra money in your spare time since 2013.

One of the more common questions that I get

and this came up in our recent survey this winter

is, hey, all these ideas are great,

but I don't have any skills. And on the one hand, I totally get that. If you're a

teacher, it might seem like an obvious path to start tutoring as a side hustle. Or if you're an accountant,

you can start freelance accounting or start a bookkeeping business.

But not everybody's skills align as smoothly as we might like into a natural fit side hustle.

So what do you do in that case? What if you don't think you have any

marketable skills? Is there still a path to earning extra income? Well yes, yes there

is and that's the topic of today's show. Stick around in this one because I'm breaking down your four

options to start a side hustle, even if you think you're skillless today. And I want to emphasize that think part because the curse of knowledge is very much a thing

once you know something it's hard to imagine not knowing it. Here's a question to

consider to test if you might have fallen victim to this curse. If you had to give a presentation teaching something and you had to give it tomorrow, what would you talk about?

For example, I've given talks on podcasting, on SEO, on email list building. None of these were skills that I learned in school or even

would consider myself the world's leading expert on but certainly expert enough

to help other people. So if you had to give a presentation teaching something and you had to give

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