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The Side Hustle Show

685: 10 Questions to Pick the Right Side Hustle for You

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Too many side hustle ideas? Here's how to objectively choose which one to tackle first. We'll cover factors like excitement, ease of operation, scalability, and more. Free Bonus: Download the Side Hustle Selector Worksheet Full Show Notes: 10 Questions to Pick the Right Side Hustle for You Sponsor: ⁠Intuit — Join Intuit's world-class network of Tax and Bookkeeping Experts⁠!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode is presented with limited commercial interruption by Intuit.

0:04.5

How cool is that? Whether you're looking to grow a side hustle or switch things up full-time,

0:08.7

Inuit helps tax and bookkeeping professionals, charge your own path, and connect with customers in meaningful ways.

0:14.2

Head to intuit.com slash expert to learn more or apply now.

0:18.3

Year after year, without fail, half the people I talk to are still looking for a side hustle idea.

0:23.9

The other half have too many to choose from.

0:26.3

And it might be surprising that I found myself on both sides of the fence at various points.

0:30.8

Like if I only had that killer idea to focus on, I know I can crush it.

0:35.0

But what's been more common lately is being on the other side.

0:37.7

Hey, there are way more ideas than there is time.

0:40.5

And then there's the challenge of focus and direction and choosing where to allocate your time and attention.

0:45.9

So last week we talked about finding your side hustle niche and some exercises and frameworks to generate those potential ideas.

0:52.1

You can go back and tune in to that one if you missed it.

0:54.7

This week, armed with those ideas, I want to give you a methodology to pick which one

1:00.5

to work on first, to remove the subjective guesswork from it and help take action and

1:06.5

prioritize your limited time for maximum impact and result.

1:12.7

This methodology actually came from a side hustle nation reader years ago who asked to remain anonymous, but he sent me this note.

1:18.1

He said, my partner and I keep a running list of potential business ideas, and then we then

1:23.3

baseball score them. She called single, double, triple home run on a different criteria. So for the

1:29.1

sake of this exercise, we're going to assign a number score, one through four, with four being

1:33.9

the best, or home run being the best for each of these 10 questions. So what it'll look like is

1:39.3

a spreadsheet and to help you set up this file, you're going to list your potential side hustle

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