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The Side Hustle Show

93: How to Start and Scale a Service Business to Quit Your Job, with Dayne Shuda

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dayne Shuda runs GhostBlogWriters.com, a done-for-you blogging service that commands premium prices, and oversees a team of 20 part-time writers to deliver the work for clients around the country. But like most businesses, Ghost Blog Writers came from some pretty humble beginnings. In fact, Dayne started it as a side hustle with $0 upfront investment.

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Side Hustle Show 93 How to Start and Scale a Service Business to Quit Your Job.

0:06.1

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn

0:11.1

how to turn their side hustle dreams into reality.

0:14.0

Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.

0:19.0

And now your host, Nick Loper. Nick Loper.

0:24.0

What's happening, Nick Loper here?

0:29.0

Welcome to the Side Hustle show.

0:31.0

This is episode 93. How start and scale a service business to quit your job

0:37.8

I'm on a little bit of a service business kick here ever since talking to Brian Harris back in episode 87.

0:46.0

I highly recommend that one if you haven't listened to it already.

0:50.0

What makes that one stand out is Brian essentially makes the argument that selling a service is the fastest path to a side hustle income faster than you know selling a book or creating a course or heaven forbid creating a blog or a

1:08.3

podcast. But today's show, today's show follows along that thinking where my guest Dane Shuda from

1:16.7

Ghost blogwriters.com shares how he built his business from almost an accidental freelancing gig all the way up to this

1:26.2

thriving agency now with it with a team of 20 or so part-time writers. Really

1:31.6

cool stuff. It turns out that this is a weird factoid. It turns out that Dane was while he was side hustling and building this thing. He was actually working at his day job with one of my largest

1:46.4

advertising partners for the shoe business that I had.

1:49.5

He was right across the hall from my contacts there.

1:52.3

So a very small world that we can joke about how we know more about shoes

1:56.2

than any two dudes should.

1:58.6

Now, as is per the usual, all my notes and highlights

2:02.2

from this episode as well as Dan's top service

2:05.2

side hustle tips are available to you in a free downloadable PDF at side hustle nation

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