Side Hustle Spark 300: Free ‘back to business’ bundle

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Today’s post points you to the Back to Business Bundle offered by Kate Doster, host of the Inbox Besties Podcast, Big 3 Summit & The Back To Business Free Bundle.

Through October 13th

Sign up for over $2000 in free resources, all vetted by Kate and her team. The best part is that you ONLY have to give your email address for the resources you want. (Note: I gleaned this info from an email from Kate from Simple Pin Media.)

Here’s a list of some of the goodies offered…

— 30 Newsletter Templates ($97 VALUE)

— Organise and Grow Your Biz with a Team [online course]

— Profitable Podcast Workflow [templates for Google Sheets, Asana, ClickUp, and Airtable], how to batch your podcast,

— The ‘Get Paid to Create’ Training

— Content Upcycle Method [a short course…What would you say if you could take ONE epic piece of content and create up to 52 SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS every week?]

— The Content Cure (For Social Media) [Tips and templates]

— Niche Site Seller’s Intro Kit [a blueprint for ensuring your niche site is attractive to buyers]

— That (Black) Friday Feeling​ [a training to map out your Black Friday/Cyber Monday offerings]

— Canva Templates for Pinterest 

— Sales Page Design for Coaches & Course Creators

— 1 Month TikTok content calendar

— Creating Kids’ Printables In Canva

So many resources hitting at the wide variety of possible needs for side hustlers far and wide.
Here’s hoping one or more of these help you move forward.

Side Hustle Spark #299: Nick Loper’s Blogging Toolkit

The above list highlights products and tools that Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation uses to keep his blog running.

Do take the time to get further details from his post.

Most of you probably have most bases covered, but maybe there’s room to grow, customize, or streamline. Thus…this list.

Take a look and share with a friend.

Reminder: This is just info, with no affiliation to Side Hustle Nation.

https://www.sidehustlenation.com/nicks-blogging-toolkit/

I hope this helps.

Forge forward!

Side Hustle Spark 298: $100K creators share tips

Plenty of ideas for side hustlers here and…

a solid introduction to Gumroad.

I like their slogan/motto/mantra:

Creators deserve to get paid for their work.
Gumroad makes it easy.

Side Hustle Spark 297: 100 content types to create and post

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay

How can you NOT get some valuable and unique ideas from Search Engine Journal‘s list to spice up your blog posts and website offerings?

Some of my favorites include:

— Legit, content-rich clickbait

— ‘Day in the LIfe’

— Fact checks

— Failures

— Games

— Microsites

So the challenge is to narrow down from this list the items that work for you (or a virtual assistant) as a creator and for your audience. Good luck!

Side Hustle Spark 296: Fast Company Innovation Festival

Here is your invitation to:

Fast Company’s Innovation Festival (A virtual event)

September 27 – October 1, 2021

Here is the list of all the speakers.

Here is a link to the schedule.

Here is a link to the FAQ page.

Your free registration gives you access to five keynote speeches, including:

— THE CASE FOR OPTIMISM: A CONVERSATION WITH DREW BARRYMORE

— EMPOWERMENT FOR ALL WITH ALLYSON FELIX AND ATHLETA’S MARY BETH LAUGHTON

— MASTERING SCALE AND CREATIVITY WITH REID HOFFMAN AND JUNE COHEN

Here are the various levels of access to the Innovation Festival‘s speakers, workshops, and panel discussions. (Sorry for not posting this sooner. Only the late rates are available through tomorrow, 9/26.)

Side Hustle Spark 295: Inspiration for Side Hustlers

More links from my Highlighted Posts Page. These links have considerable value beyond creating a successful side hustle.

Enjoy and share.

Hear me now! Gary Vee Gems

How to be remarkable: Seth Godin

Side Hustle Spark 159 — A Lessons Gold Mine from Side Hustle School

Suggestion 78: The 7-Day Startup by Dan Norris

Suggestion 75: Start a side hustle from anywhere

Side Hustle Spark 150: Drayton Bird’s 171 answers about direct marketing

Side Hustle Spark 139: Are you stalling?

Suggestion 72: Start From Zero

Side Hustle Spark 133: How to avoid ‘stuckness’: Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle Spark 131: Sara Blakely’s 50 Rules for Success

Side Hustle Spark 129: Wisdom from Seth Godin

Side Hustle Spark 126: 101 Conversion Strategies (Copyblogger)

Side Hustle Spark 119: Guy Kawasaki’s ‘The Art of the Start’ speech

Side Hustle Spark 108: Actions tell your story.

Side Hustle Spark 106: hustleandconquer.com

Side Hustle Suggestion 99: The Ten Commandments

Side Hustle Spark 212: “Say your dreams out loud.” (Jadah Sellner)

Side Hustle Spark 204: Bloggers’ reports and best affiliate marketing blogs

Side Hustle Spark 203: Chris Guillebeau’s Failure Friday (new feature at Side Hustle School)

Side Hustle Spark 189: Chris Guillebeau’s Side Hustle Task Tracker

Side Hustle Spark 184: Brainzooming and Mike Brown

Side Hustle Spark 175: Nick Loper (Side Hustle Nation): Site Startup to Site Selloff

Suggestion 60: 700 Power Words to Boost Conversions

Side Hustle Spark 292: 7 Marketing Sins (Seth Godin)

Image by Сергей Корчанов from Pixabay 

Seth Godin lists no-no’s to avoid in your sales/marketing strategies. Here’s his lineup, but follow the link for his insights on each marketing sin.

Impatience

Selfishness

Self-absorption

Deceitfulness

Inconsistency

Anger

Jealousy

You might notice that this was a 2012 post. Doesn’t matter. Still as relevant today.

Side Hustle Spark 291: Overcome impostor syndrome

Photo by Sammy Williams on Unsplash

Lots of good tips here as most of us at some time or another–especially as we leave our comfort zones–face impostor syndrome.

A quote from Naomi Osaka: “…internally I think I’m never good enough. I’ve never told myself that I’ve done a good job but I do know I constantly tell myself that I suck or I could do better … Every time a new opportunity arises my first thought is, ‘wow, why me?’ ”

Other highlights from this piece by Julianne McShane:

“Part of those celebrations will include praising small wins, Osaka wrote, like recognizing when she wakes up and doesn’t procrastinate.”

“…think about where their impostor system stems from — and often, that’s childhood and family dynamics…”

Best of luck, side hustlers. You ARE good enough!

Side Hustle Spark 288: Upping Your Freelance Game (Side Hustle Nation)

Even Buddy turned away from his incessant begging gig to check this out.

Nick Loper brings back Chris Misterek, who’s earned over $80K via freelance web developer gigs.

Chris’s main website: https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/

From Nick’s email:

“We cover how to:

— tap into the $2.5 billon freelance marketplace (where Chris himself has booked over $80k worth of work).

— set up your profile for success.

— create filters so you only bid on jobs that are a great match.”

Here is Chris’s first chat with Nick Loper–From ‘No Skills’ to 3K a Month on the Side–the most downloaded episode of 2020.

Here’s to forward momentum!
Hope today’s post will help.

Side Hustle Spark 286: Building a podcast

Image by Soundtrap (Unsplash)

Hubspot’s Matthew Brown posted this on August 3:

How We Built the Strategy for Our New Flagship Podcast

Key learnings from this post:

— In the formation stage, the team listened to 20 high-performing business podcasts. From that research, they gained four insights, including:

** 87% of the hosts were male.

** Very few shows used audience engagement tactics to connect host with listeners.

— “After exploring various formats, we went with a hybrid format — Chat Cast + Interview.”

— “Engineers perfect the sound of your show.”

— There are eight key components to a podcast team:

Executive producer

Senior producer

Producer

Editor

Host

Managing producer

Engineer

Editorial director

***

Yes, for most of us, eight key roles…oy! But at least learning why these are important can help you prioritize as you plan for and build your own podcast.

I hope this helps as you explore reaching your audience via audio.