Side Hustle Spark 314: $160,000 per month in passive income

Graham Cochrane is 38 and bringing in some serious cash.

What launched him on his steady rise to affluence? Getting laid off in 2009.

He opted to ramp up his passion for music production and in the process he launched his blog The Recording Revolution , as well as a YouTube channel.

And now the poor guy is putting in about five hours per week on his Recording Revolution ($40,000 per month) and his online coaching ($120,000 per month in gross sales) businesses.

For more of Graham’s story…

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Three tips he shares:

1. Sell your skills to earn passive income.

2. Give people a free sample of what you can offer.

3. Build automatic systems.

Side Hustle Spark 313: Free workshop–pump up your email list

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Angel Marie of ConvertKit is offering a free workshop on Thursday, February 24.

11am PST / 2pm EST

The top 20 ways to grow your email list in 2022

She will be demonstrating:

— how to implement the list-building strategies top creators will be doing in 2022 to grow an email list of fans and buyers

— how to know which list-building strategies are the best for you so you can ignore the rest and double down on what will create the biggest impact

— the best ways to promote your email list to the world without being pushy

Sorry about the late notice. It’s highly likely there will be a replay, so sign up even if you can’t make it live.

Side Hustle Spark 312: Free tools from HubSpot

Following up from my previous post on HubSpot’s email marketing suggestions, make sure you scroll to the bottom of HubSpot’s blog pages for links to a number of tools, including the:

Website Grader

Blog Ideas Generator

Marketing Plan Generator

Side Hustle Spark 311: Email Marketing Best Practices [HubSpot]

With its updated email marketing suggestions list, HubSpot checks in with some very useful content for side hustlers.

Chances are some folks haven’t considered a number of these items, including:

— The 5-Second Test

— Keep your email between 500 and 650 pixels wide

— Optimize the email’s preview text

Here is a link to download their Beginner’s Guide to Email Marketing.

Side Hustle Spark 308: Advice for the new year from Seth Godin

I’ll let Seth’s insights do the talking.

Happy new year, Side Hustlers.

My wishes for your explosive success in 2022.

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And for more of Seth’s wisdom and insights…click here.

Side Hustle Spark 307: Digital Marketing in 2022 [Neil Patel]

Check out Neil’s tips on dealing with digital marketing in 2022 and beyond.

How to differentiate yourself and your products/services?

Tip #1: There’s too much content. Use steps. Use data. Give a fresh perspective.

Tell your own stories. If you can’t offer a fresh perspective, don’t add the content.

Tip #2: Refresh/update your past content.

Tip #3: Add an influencer. ‘Influence’ is here to stay. It may cost you, but it’s worth exploring.

Tip #4: Add upsells and downsells.

Tip #5: Use multiple channels. “Take an omnichannel approach.”

Here’s hoping your bank accounts in 2022
will be saturated as well.

Best of luck!

Side Hustle Spark 309: Solving problems–great quotes

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27 Inspiring Quotes That Will Change How You Think About Problems

Some of my favorites:

“Solving problems means listening.” – Richard Branson [My comment: Sometimes, that includes listening to yourself.]

“There’s no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.” —Betty Williams.

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?” —Jim Rohn

Go solve a problem today.
And if you stretch yourself, you might just create one or two others, but what the heck. You’re now armed with these quotes to solve those, as well.

Side Hustle Spark 306: Wisdom from @ApprovedSide

I should show up at my Twitter feed more often than I do.

Otherwise, I miss gems like this from @ApprovedSide.

Make ONE important change today:

One Idea
One Habit
One Skillset
One Mentor
One Decision
One Platform
One Supporter
One Meditation
One Connection
One Recalibration
One Collaboration

Stop waiting for things to happen to you, start making things happen BECAUSE of you.

Side Hustle Spark 305: A flood of marketing audio

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HubSpot chimes in with links to 27 marketing podcasts.

Should be interesting for you to:
— Track down new ones that speak to your specific needs.
— See which ones you already follow, kind of a pat on the back for being–literally–tuned in.

Some that piqued my interest:

My First Million

The Digital Marketing Podcast

The Market Your Genius Podcast

Again, here’s the link.

Happy Listening.

SIDE HUSTLE SPARK #302: Magic ad words

For a quick primer on how to attain instant success with your marketing copy that will no doubt provide easy conversions to elite customers, check out these resources! (Gotta have an exclamation point, right?)

Vertical Response offers this list of words all marketers should keep handy.

There are plenty of other lists, of course. Look to:

— Honeycopy.com‘s 100 of the most powerful marketing words

— Buffer.com’s 189 Powerful Words That Convert

What spurred me to revisit this topic?

Today’s email from Drayton Bird, who will be featured in the next post.

In the meantime…