Maybe you’re one of those people that dreams of starting a side hustle, but unsure where or how to begin. Maybe you’re one of those people walking around with billions of dollars of ideas in the back of your mind for years and delayed on getting started. You probably delayed on putting your business ideas into fruition because your day job keeps you preoccupied. Or maybe the kids have you tied up in your energy drained. Or maybe because you’re struggling with your finances and don’t think you have the money or what it takes to bring your thoughts into fruition and get your creative side hustle off the ground. As long as the Internet is here, always know in the back of your mind it’s never too late to get started regardless of your past employment experience, age, or life experience. The beauty of starting and running a successful creative business as a side hustle from the comfort of your home or anywhere is the grand potential to potentially position yourself to make money online 24 hours a day with your “side hustle.”
What exactly is a side hustle? It’s something you’re passionate about doing on the side is a labor of love. It could be something you liked as a childhood hobby. It could be anything else ranging from writing natural poetry, having a fitness site, buying and selling things online from a consignment shop, blogging, creating and publishing informative YouTube.com videos, or creating helpful tutorials showing everyday people how to create and execute successful PPC-pay per click online marketing paid campaigns to promote products and services at low costs to reach a healthy ROI-return on investment using Microsoft Bing or AdWords.Google.com. A side hustle is something you continue doing even in the infancy stages of your business start up when you’re not making money because it’s something you love doing, and would continue doing it even if you weren’t making money.
A side hustle is humble business beginnings. And the goodness of the side hustle is you can use the power of the Internet to turn your business dreams into reality. Whatever you do online in terms of marketing for online advertisers, or buying and selling products off-line to sell for a profit online, you’ll need a blog, domain name, and host your self hosted WordPress blog on a dedicated server. Dedicated Web servers have enough bandwidth, disk space and RAM-memory to handle thousands of people on your blog it wants without your server crashing. This is why dedicated servers are highly recommended for your “blogging side hustle.” The reason for having a blog is because you want people to know your online real estate. A domain name and blog is your personal online real estate and let’s people know where you’re located. And yes, it’s a good idea to definitely spend the money to have a domain name and dedicated hosting because people will never take you seriously using a free blogging platform with the hope of earning a five or six figure monthly income. That’ll never cut the mustard as long as you’re using free blogging platforms.
So you’ve been flirting with the idea of starting a side hustle online, right? Sure you have. You’ve been struggling quietly and deciding when to get started. The iron truth is, if you’re one of those people that are waiting until things are right in your life to start your online side hustle and launch your self hosted WordPress blog, guess what? Things will never be right in your life as long as you keep putting it off. You might as well go ahead now and get started in the most challenging time of your life and as MarieForleo.com would say “get that side hustle going!”
1. CNBC.com - An interesting article posted on CNBC discusses turning your side hustle into a full-time business. Everyone wants to do it but not everyone has the coverage or financial resources. The thing to know about side hustling on line is it’s never too late to get started and it’s also a low-cost startup. The side hustle article on CNBC discusses choosing a business type, tax ID and paying taxes, tipping off the taxman and opening a business account. What does “tipping off the Taxman” mean? It simply saying in so many words that anything over $599 earned online from your sign also must be reported to the federal government-IRS as “taxable income.” That’s what’s meant by [tipping off the Taxman]. In addition,the CNBC article also discusses the increase in freelancers since early 2000s. Site also freelancers are using the power of the Internet quietly to create a secondary diverse source of solid income alongside daytime employment or during hardship in times of unemployment. Either way you look at side hustling online, it’s definitely something you need in your life because no one wants to get up in the morning and go to work for the next 30 or 40 years for an employer who has total control over their salary potential.
2. Inc.com - It’s one thing to start an online side hustle and achieve “side hustle millionaire” status. It’s easy to be high-minded after achieving your first online million dollars and forget the little people. Truth is, you’re mandated to give back and help the less fortunate after achieving amassed wealth. Don’t let the side hustle millionaire status you newly achieved go to your head because you can lose it all. Many online entrepreneurs who achieved side hustle millionaire status today started from rock-bottom are people like Grant Cardone, Grant Sabatier, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Lewis Howes, Stephen Pierce, Marie Forleo, and Neil Patel all “started from the bottom like the rapper Drake.” This INC article details a few successful online entrepreneurs today who started from rock bottom struggling and achieve side hustle millionaire status while having a big heart and giving back to the less fortunate. Some of these million-dollar online entrepreneurs build schools in other countries, created “side hustle millionaire schools,” gives back through philanthropy, and create informative YouTube videos inspiring people to start their own work from home side hustles. The online entrepreneurs mentioned in the article know what it’s like to start an Internet based business from humble beginnings and work their way up beyond creating “lots and lots of content,” and going the extra mile in “doing the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation.” Believe it or not, this can be you as a future [side hustle millionaire] in the making. If you believe in yourself and do the transformation business work, you too can be an online millionaire less than five years after starting your online side hustle. Regardless how long it takes to achieve side hustle millionaire status, keep moving along even if you’re moving it slows a turtle. Slow progress is better than no progress.
3. Mirror.co.uk - A homeless man who went from terminated to millionaire didn’t have an easy earning his first cool million from his side hustle. He endured humiliation from his former narcissist employer who wrongfully terminated him for whatever reason. Feeling down and out and left behind in the uncertain game called life, this man who is now a “side hustle millionaire” endured rejection and humiliation across the board and even tried to commit suicide. Willing to turn his life around, he did the transformation work out of inspiration or desperation and changed his way of thinking to becoming a more positive thinker. He pulled himself up by the bootstraps and never gave up [doing the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation]. He used his adversity of wrongful termination to have undying motivation to build his side hustle business from the ground floor up and achieving more than side hustle millionaire status today. Are you one of many people throughout America wrongfully terminated or targeted wrongful termination by your narcissist employer? Are you one of many people who filed EEOC wrongful termination complaints against your former narcissist employer and you feel your EEOC charge against your former employer is going nowhere because your former narcissist employer allegedly has department of labor EEOC inside connections that allegedly suppress charges filed against any company that wrongfully terminated employees? You can use that adversity as your inspiration to start your side hustle and achieve side hustle millionaire status, even if your EEOC charge against her former employer never goes to court, nor rules in your favor. It’s not the end of the world because you got wrongfully terminated. That’s actually the perfect time for you to start your future side hustle millionaire business online and work slowly but surely toward achieving Internet millionaire status, so you can make money online 24 hours a day.
4. CNN.com - Millionaire travel blogger Johnny Ward of Ireland endured the hard knock life growing up in Ireland. His family was poor and he grew up on welfare. And possibly grew up on food stamps. He struggled his way through online entrepreneurship by building up his tribal-based blog from the ground floor up. Using an organic online business building approach known as “travel content marketing,” he started documenting his travels everywhere he went and posting to his blog. This is a way he stayed inspired to create [lots and lots of content]. Johnny slowly but surely started dabbling with affiliate marketing and placing ads on his blog as a way of earning “affiliate commissions.” Affiliate commissions are earned when ads from an online advertiser are placed on the blog and website and people adhere to the ads by clicking them and making a purchase. This is a process known as affiliate marketing and it’s helping many people quietly achieve “side hustle millionaire” status. Today, Johnny Ward is an online millionaire and achieve side hustle millionaire status three years after starting his travel-based blog. He was featured in the article linked above on CNN as the “million air travel blogger on the go.” He used sheer ambition along with blogging about a niche he was passionate about which is “travel blogging.” Because the investment he made financially at the time was purchasing a domain name and dedicated web hosting to host his self hosted WordPress travel blog on. From there, he made it his business to create and publish lots and lots of content either every day or often to his tribal blog, while his new blog posts were getting indexed by Bing.com, Google.com and YaHoO.com bringing him lots of traffic and sales from getting listed in search engine results pages. Today, Johnny Ward has an online digital media company that helps him bring in residual income beyond being a “million-dollar travel blogger.” If Johnny can do it starting from nothing and dirt poor growing up on welfare and possibly food stamps, what’s stopping you from getting started and “getting organized with no delay?”
5. SFGate.com - Michelle Schroeder-Gardner needs no introduction. She’s been featured on Forbes.com, NASDAQ.com, MarketWatch.com, and too many more websites and YouTube.com channels to mention. Michelle started from humble beginnings in 2011 as a newly minted college graduate with over $38,000 mentioned in personal debt. This also includes student loans. With a finance degree and working a full-time job paying a decent salary, Michelle decided to step into the unknown by diving into the abyss and starting a side hustle blog. She knew nothing about affiliate marketing and blogging at the time as she only started her blog or in a leap of faith after being informed of the power of affiliate marketing and blogging and how you can use it as a side hustle to make money online possibly 24 hours a day. Michelle has mentioned that during her first six months of blogging which she did create content either every day or almost every other day, she only earn a measly $100 in side hustle income from your blog six months in. It wasn’t until two years later in 2013 that she was able to quit her job and live 100% off of her blog. In two years time, not only was she able to possibly knock out the complete $38,000 plus in outstanding personal debt, but she was able to live off of her blog and earn enough money whereas she put up her house for sale and started living on the road with her now husband in an RV, then a sailboat today. Michelle Schroeder Gardner is now a side hustle millionaire off of blogging and affiliate marketing alone. She offers personal financial tips to help people empower themselves to retain and keep wealth coming in by using blogging and affiliate marketing as a means of generating stable side hustle income. She solely relies on her blog and the Internet to make 100% of her “side hustle millionaire income.” If you Google her name or search for on YouTube, you’ll notice she’s been featured on many famous business websites and well-known YouTube channels. If you have a desire to become a side hustle millionaire and quit your day job and use the Internet to make money online potentially 24 hours a day and want to learn more about how affiliate marketing and blogging can benefit you, DNN recommends going to her blog at MakingSenseofCents.com and start reading her blog about how you can start your own side hustle at home and use the Internet to make money from affiliate marketing.
6. Forbes.com - The goal is the transition from your day job to a full-time online entrepreneur. To achieve this, you need to get out of the employee mindset and start thinking on the level of a “side hustle millionaire.” Side hustle gig economy thinking is today’s new new of stable employment. How so? Side hustles are proving themselves to be more stable than traditional forms of employment, because you’re able to use the awesome power of the Internet to mass-market people you normally would reach using traditional newspaper advertising or placing ads in magazines or coupon catalogs. And the beauty of the Internet is all you need is a blog, dedicated server and domain name and the ambition to write lots and lots of content to reach a mass audience online 24 hours a day. Whenever you write and publish a new blog, search engines like Google and Yahoo are quietly notified that you publish new content and a quietly come by your blogs to index them in their search engine results pages. In exchange for indexing your content in their search engine organic listings, you get free traffic because they sell paid advertisement against your index content in their search engine listings. The more content you have on your blog and the more traffic you get to it, the greater your potential of making money from ads on your blog. This is a great side hustle for anyone to do because if you’ve ever dreamed of being your own boss and you can’t see yourself going to work for the next 20 or 40 years getting up in the morning and going to work for someone else, then side hustle blogging is for you. And believe it or not, a side hustle can definitely become a full-time gig. Side hostels are what you make of it. While you won’t get rich overnight from it, you have to work on your side hustle slowly but surely and do it as a labor of love because there’s no pressure involved. In other words, while there is no guarantees of financial success or even achieving side hustle millionaire status through side hustling online, your personal ambition can definitely make you a side hustle millionaire and put you in the fortunate position to quit your day job and work for yourself full-time. You have to want it to make this work for you because no one understand over your shoulder and pressure you to make sales online. “Freelance online marketing - side hustles” is today’s new new of “job security.”
7. BNNBloomberg.ca - Chris Guillebeau gives a knockout video interview on Bloomberg Canada discussing the hottest trending online topic of “side hustles.” Here’s a guy who started from the bottom with his humble beginning side hustle and generated millions of dollars in online sales. He’s been featured on many sites and possibly on TedX Talks. Chris absolutely love the art of the side hustle because it’s mentally and financially liberating. Bloomberg is the leader in financial news and delivers on the mark content. Drewry News Network is a supporter of Bloomberg.com and Chris Guillebeau.
Hopefully, you’re convinced by now that starting an online side hustle is the true way to financial freedom. Not everyone wants to start a physical storefront business or dabble with multilevel marketing which is another form of marketing. Affiliate marketing is the most liberating form of online marketing because it gives you a peace of mind knowing you don’t have to rely on people to build a downline in order to earn stable residual income. You basically make money from ads off of your blog or website or make money by promoting affiliate links on PPC-pay per click advertising networks like Google AdWords and Microsoft.com Bing ad network.
Believe it or not, you can quietly earn a cool $1 million online as a future side hustle millionaire from the comfort of your home and no one has to know about it. But it all starts with you. The willingness to change your current way of thinking. The willingness to learn some patience if you don’t have any by building your side hustle Internet business from the ground floor up. The willingness to go through awesome trial and tribulation and have people walk away from usages fake family members and friends who only hang around when he think you have something to give them. If you’re sick and tired of working for a narcissist employer or being wrongfully terminated from jobs, now’s the time for you to get your side hustle going and use that bottled up frustration and motivation and energy and turn it into good by making yourself a future side hustle millionaire.
You’ll make tons of mistakes on the way up the ladder to online millionaire-Internet marketing success. The only thing you can do is learn from it and keep going. And believe it or not, you can still profit from your mistakes on the way up to online millionaire status. Regardless how long it takes for you to become a millionaire from the Internet, keep going the extra mile even if you’re moving 2 miles an hour like a pregnant turtle.