The Side Hustle Show: The Freelancing Mixtape Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation

Would 10 new clients solve all your business worries?
That was the position Helen Pritchard was in back in 2008.
On the back of a financial and personal crisis, Helen needed 10 clients paying £250 each to pay her bills.
She turned to LinkedIn to find those clients, and it didn’t take her long.
Since then, Helen has pivoted her business and now teaches other people how to get clients and grow their business using LinkedIn.
In fact, I found out about Helen through a listener of the show:
I do not work for Helen. Nor do I do her PR. I just want to nominate her because she changed my life. Thanks to her, I have filled my client roster and have more money coming in as an entrepreneur than I ever did working for someone else.
That’s an awesome testimonial for Helen, and solid proof that her methods work.
Note: Click here to download Helen’s top tips for attracting your ideal clients on LinkedIn from this episode.
If your goal is to leave your job in the near future, you don’t want to miss this one. What Helen teaches is probably the fastest way to start your own business with the least upfront expense.
Tune in to hear Helen talk through:
the processes she teaches students on her LinkedIn mastermind how to set up your LinkedIn profile as a landing page that converts how to connect with potential clients and more

A location-independent consulting business that replaces your day job income in a matter of months?
That’s what Paul Minors achieved with his virtual software consulting side hustle.
Paul was able to leave his day job within a couple of months of starting his business. He was then able to go traveling with his wife for 6-months while working 15-20 hours a week from his laptop.
After arriving back home, he started working full-time on his consulting business. “I noticed the impact of that straight away, within a couple of months I had doubled my income,” Paul told me.
Note: Click here to download Paul’s top tips for setting up a location-independent consulting business and landing your first clients from this episode.
It’s clear Paul has figured out this business model.
This episode is packed with ideas you might be able to apply to your own areas of expertise. Maybe you’ll even uncover some areas of expertise you never really considered that special before.
Tune in to hear:
How Paul came across the idea of offering his first consulting services “by accident.” The several different marketing channels that drive targeted traffic to his website How he’s added more products and services to his portfolio

Starting a service business on the side is one of the fastest ways to build extra income. It's flexible, low-overhead, and you can probably start with skills you already have.
“I had a lot of drive underneath me," Abbey Ashley told me, about starting her service business back in 2013. "I was super pregnant and I hated my job so much,”
Abbey started offering her services as a virtual assistant, and connected with her first clients at local networking events in Washington, DC. My the time her maternity leave was up--just a few short months--Abbey had booked enough work to not have to go back to that job she hated.
On top of that, she only had to work 20 hours a week to do it, and could work from home.
There are almost no barriers to entry to starting a freelance service business, and the startup costs are minimal. (All Abbey did was make business cards for networking.)
In fact, it was a service business, a house painting business in my case, that was one of my first entrepreneurial adventures.
Over time, Abbey scaled her virtual assistant business from just herself at $20-30 an hour, to her own little virtual agency, to $75 an hour and up for some specialized work.

“I tell people I work on my cleaning business about an hour a day because 5 minutes doesn’t seem believable,” Chris Schwab said.
Chris is the founder of ThinkMaids.com, a residential house cleaning service in the Washington DC area he started on the side while still a university student.
Less than two years later, the business is doing $60k a month worth of cleaning work, all without Chris ever lifting a mop or dusting a shelf himself.
Note: Click here to download Chris’ top tips for starting and growing a local service business that scales from this episode.
In this episode, Chris shares some of the unique tactics he used to start and grow his cleaning business, and then remove himself from the day-to-day operations.
Tune in to hear how Chris came up with the idea for his cleaning business, how he found his first customers and cleaners, and how he manages the entire business remotely.

“I set up a big business just selling somebody else’s stuff,” Wes said.
Wes runs TheSalesWhisperer.com and is the host of The Sales Podcast which started around the same time as The Side Hustle Show back in 2013.
He’s an Air Force vet, a father of 7, and has built up an interesting side hustle that on the surface looks like a typical consulting business but is done in such a way that it’s set up to generate recurring passive income.
Wes has been side hustling since the 90’s and started his online business around a decade ago.
He saw an opportunity to become one of the first Infusionsoft resellers, a piece of software that not only streamlined his own business but offered attractive recurring affiliate commissions.
Wes became one of the top earners in the world and was netting $15k a month in mostly passive income, all on the side from his primary consulting, speaking, and sales training practice.
Note: Click here to download Wes’s top tips for building an automated passive income business from this episode.
He’s adapted his strategies over the years and diversified his income streams but his business model stays similar to this day – scalable affiliate marketing with recurring passive income.
Tune in to hear how Wes started generating passive income through affiliate marketing and how you may be able to use a similar strategy in your service business.

When Abbey made $8000 from her 1000-person email list, she knew she was on to something.
Over the last several years, Abbey Ashley has gone from earning $25 as a virtual assistant, to coordinating monster 6-figure launches of her own product.
I actually met Abbey at the bar during Traffic and Conversion Summit. Her “Virtual Assistance Is My Jam,” t-shirt caught my attention and I had to know more.
Eight months pregnant with her first daughter, she couldn't imagine putting her child in day care just to go back to work at a job she hated.
Note: Click here to download Abbey’s top tips from this episode.
So she started devouring everything she could find online about working from home and virtual assisting. Before long, she'd landed her first clients and booked enough work not to have to go back to her old job when her leave was up.
Eventually she started subcontracting out some of the work, which was her first taste of passive income. As some of her clients were doing really well selling online courses, Abbey tried to enter that world as well.
Her first course launches were major flops.
Then she did what all good entrepreneurs do when a first attempt doesn’t go as planned. She looked at what went wrong, made the necessary changes, and tried again.
She pre-sold her next course idea to the tune of $8000 from a 1000-person list.
Her second launch generated $40k in sales, and 6 months later her next launch generated $160k in sales.
Tune in to how Abbey walked The Side Hustle Path, her actionable hacks and strategies along the way, and how she built and sold her online course even without a huge audience starting out.