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Why Your Employees Should Have Side Hustles #1760

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1760, we share our thoughts on why employees should have side hustles. While the idea of employees having side hustles may seem at like a threat to the work you are paying them to do at first, Eric and Neil actually encourage it. Listening in, you’ll hear how side hustles can help employees upskill, provide investment opportunities, and more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Why Your Employees Should Have Side Hustles. [00:30] Neil’s take on side hustles at his company. [01:06] Side hustles can help employees upskill. [01:31] Why Eric encourages side hustles at his company. [02:17] What Eric will and won’t allow regarding employee side hustles. [04:00] Encouraging transparency around side hustles in the workplace. [04:07] Go to marketingschool.io/live to hang out with Neil and Eric in September.   Get ad-free listening plus exclusive content with Marketing School Pro. Try for free at www.marketingschool.io/pro   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top level marketing tips

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.8

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric

0:16.8

Sue.

0:17.8

All right guys, before we start, we got a special message from our sponsor.

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0:28.6

The faster your website loads, the better off you are.

0:31.4

With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your

0:35.5

site for low time.

0:37.7

And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use DreamHouse.

0:42.1

So just go to DreamHouse or Google it, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to

0:47.1

improve your low time.

0:48.4

Today, we're going to talk about why your employees should have side hustles.

0:55.1

So some businesses and owners and companies don't like it when people working at your company

1:00.8

don't have side hustles.

1:02.7

And we're not a company that says an Eric could be a little bit different, but at my company,

1:07.0

we're not a company that says you cannot no matter what.

1:10.3

And also just being honest, we don't want people to have side hustles that takes up more

1:16.3

time than their work because that's not fair to be paying someone in which they're spending

1:21.2

all their time on their side hustle and not the job that you're paying them for.

1:24.9

So there needs to be some sort of balance and assume you can get there, which isn't too

1:28.0

hard.

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