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The Side Hustle: How to Turn Your Spare Time into $1000 A Month or More - $0.00 eBook @ Amazon AU/US

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dogebargain on 20/02/2020 - 07:57 amazon.com.au (19080 clicks)
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Have been listening to Nick Loper’s Side Hustle podcast for years now, so I was surprised to find his latest eBook is currently free. The podcast has a tonne of value for those who want to pursue a side hustle to their full time job - hopefully the eBook is of good value to you too.

Mod: This book was released March 9, 2015 for US $0.99. It has been free since May 5, 2015. Apparently updated in 2019. Marked as long running deal, not appropriate to be reposted in the future.

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  • Willyslicks on 20/02/2020 - 08:00
    +28

    Idk, sounds like I'd have to work an extra couple of days. Rather do that than bum around trying to MLM my friends.

    • cnut on 20/02/2020 - 08:09
      +27

      This business model of yours sounds good. How do I join?

      • Click_It on 20/02/2020 - 09:13
        +8

        Can I join under both of you, work 10X harder and make you both wealthy?

        But on a serious note, interesting book thanks OP.

        • froddoog on 20/02/2020 - 16:07
          +1

          Can I join under you? I’ll do double what you do

          • ndftz on 21/02/2020 - 11:30
            +1

            @froddoog: I heard of the 4 super-successful self-made business tycoons above and wanted to get in while it was a trend.

            Paid 15k for their seminar to be held at my RSL and when I arrived, I heard it was shut down by the feds?

            Now I am I going to cover up my victimhood and shame rather than help prosecute those brilliant people.

            Vale MLM gods Vale

        • vjoz on 08/03/2020 - 23:43

          You sure are Uncle G's follower like me. 10X!

    • donotuse on 15/02/2024 - 15:31

      My passive investments make me $1000+/day. Just extra couple of seconds really…

    • Bimbobob on 15/02/2024 - 21:55

      Mate everyone should try selling Enagic water filters while living on the road.

  • Mr BoMBAStiG on 20/02/2020 - 08:11
    +84

    My side hustle is f5ing ozbargain, can this be positively geared?

    • Elpres on 20/02/2020 - 08:17
      +6

      You’re saving money by buying cheap, how much more positive can you get?!

      • croseks on 20/02/2020 - 08:24
        +27

        But you're buying cheap things you don't need lol

        • iRMonkey on 20/02/2020 - 08:39
          +3

          Need is a very subjective word.

        • rifter on 20/02/2020 - 08:40
          +1

          Like the Tesla deal
          https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/454206

        • ATangk on 20/02/2020 - 09:21
          +3

          Buying things you want gives you happiness and joy and that’s the end goal of life.

          • Mr BoMBAStiG on 20/02/2020 - 09:25
            +4

            @ATangk: Consoomer lvl 99

          • AlexF on 21/02/2020 - 19:18

            @ATangk:

            happiness and joy … end goal of life.

            I thought it was to not end up destitute.

        • nobro25 on 15/08/2024 - 14:54

          Bro's a Simp for Temu products.

      • Bearlion on 15/02/2024 - 08:38

        the best way to save money is fasting for half the year!

    • cnut on 20/02/2020 - 08:40
      +1

      It can be, if you’re Broden.

    • D3m3ntia on 20/02/2020 - 10:40
      +3

      Actually buying stuff is an investment. Just ask the guy who invested in a 80k luxury car

      • cnut on 20/02/2020 - 16:49
        +3

        He’s now the CEO of Westpac, last I heard.

      • ndftz on 21/02/2020 - 11:32

        The image of success will bring further success. Have you heard 🧐

        Now checkout my card… raised lettering in pale nimbus with a watermark

    • abctoz on 15/02/2024 - 08:09

      it’s worked out pretty shit last few years bought more stuff off eBay tbh

  • b-radicool on 20/02/2020 - 08:23

    OOS

    • Unrvl on 15/02/2024 - 16:41
      +2

      ah yes, ebooks being out of stock

      • mangoed on 15/08/2024 - 10:46

        They ran out of bytes

  • Ohreally on 20/02/2020 - 08:26
    +1

    Thanks op

  • solidussnake on 20/02/2020 - 08:40
    +54

    Just grabbed it to add to my growing collection of books I think I will read but never do :)

    • firestint on 20/02/2020 - 08:44

      Same here haha!

      • solidussnake on 20/02/2020 - 08:59

        Could think of it as an investment for my future kids to pass onto them LOL

        • ATangk on 20/02/2020 - 09:22
          +21

          Here’s my collection of 300 Udemy courses. Enjoy!

      • capslock janitor on 20/02/2020 - 17:54

        that's why i'm leaning more towards audiobooks now

    • 6828 on 20/02/2020 - 08:46
      +3

      Every time we download a free book an Author in heaven gets their wings 😇🙏

    • CC123 on 20/02/2020 - 09:40
      +2

      my growing collection of books I think I will read but never do :)

      That sounds like my growing collection of Udemy courses

      • twjr on 20/02/2020 - 10:38
        +4

        Or my growing collection from Epic games.

    • eyeballz2770 on 21/02/2020 - 10:18

      Apparently I already "bought" this in September, 2018. :)

    • ProBoDoBo on 15/02/2024 - 13:37
      +1

      Just get CHATGPT or Gemini to provide you a summary and key takeaways from the book. That way if you're interested in any aspect, you can learn more about it.

  • soan papdi on 20/02/2020 - 08:51
    +1

    It's free at Amazon US. Please change the link

  • MrGareth on 20/02/2020 - 08:51
    +21

    Is the side hustle writing ebooks to sell on Amazon on how to make money side hustling?

    • soan papdi on 20/02/2020 - 08:52

      Writing ebooks is indeed one of his suggestions too, basically content generation.

    • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 20/02/2020 - 13:13

      Even better, start a side hustle of reviewing side hustle ebooks on Amazon.

  • DoomTrooper on 20/02/2020 - 08:57

    Cheers

  • mousie on 20/02/2020 - 09:16
    +2

    Best Side hustle is to do further education in a field that's not related to your primary income. This makes you more Nichey and specialised.

    E.g. Data Science + Supply Chain + Legal.

    I had an AMA about my Juant as a mystery shopper @ 2k per month for weekends. After 6 years I got sick of it.

    • dm01 on 20/02/2020 - 09:57
      +4

      Depends on how much that education costs to complete and how readily it translates into extra income. Being niche is good, but by definition there are fewer opportunities to utilise those skills together.

      • mousie on 20/02/2020 - 11:36

        Plenty of General managers with only a Bachelor, but they tend to have a sideways move somewhere in their career, and may not have started without getting a Cert in something unrelated.

        • capslock janitor on 20/02/2020 - 17:55
          +1

          what's juant

          • cashews on 15/02/2024 - 11:21

            @capslock janitor: I think they meant jaunt, as a word to describe the process of going somewhere to do something different.

    • Ghost47 on 20/02/2020 - 11:13
      +10

      I think the best side hustle is selling your body.

      • Meconium on 20/02/2020 - 11:46
        +7

        Totally, it’s not like you actually use it anyway.

    • monkeyoutlet on 20/02/2020 - 13:25

      What are some good fields to get into for side money?

  • Dhandoftime on 20/02/2020 - 09:18
    +5

    Is it practical? Too much different between the 2 countries in economy. You can rent out your house and earn profit in the US and get the loss comparing to your mortgage in Straya.

  • leeboy168 on 20/02/2020 - 09:25
    +12

    $1000 per month, assuming my time is worth $30/hour, is only 8.3 hours of work per week as a casual at Kmart or something.
    Just get a second job 1 day a week than suffer the uncertainty of sinking time into a “side hustle” of not being able to turn a profit…

    • firestint on 20/02/2020 - 09:31
      +6

      $1000 or more, depending on your effort I guess. The main difference is you're still trading your time for money working at Kmart, some side hustle work give you passive income once you've set up the system.

      • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 09:51
        +3

        Probably better off investing all the extra money you earn into something that will passively generate income - something like Spaceship if you keep investing money, and it keeps compounding, will build quickly

        • Ghost47 on 20/02/2020 - 11:15

          Por que no los dos?

      • capslock janitor on 20/02/2020 - 17:56

        minimum 1k ?

    • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 09:35
      +1

      You're right, for 90% of people extra paid, casual work is worth more per hour - it takes exceptional sellers or people with a truly visionary or unique business idea to make money like this.

      • SelfMade on 21/08/2020 - 18:51

        I don't agree with this at all. You don't have to be exceptional to make money work for you. You've got to have a bit of intelligence and be prepared to put in the hours. Most people have the intelligence required (because you don't have to be THAT smart), but most lack the initiative to keep going…just too lazy. That's why things like Tattslotto exist, people just want a quick buck…not willing to put in the work that's required early to then live life later without financial troubles. Most just do what comes easy.

    • lostn on 20/02/2020 - 10:44
      +2

      if kmart is paying $30/hr that's a lot more than I expected.

      • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 11:38
        +2

        For a casual adult, that's probably not far off. Minimum wage is $19.49, they would pay a bit above that, then casual loading, then any loading for working outside of typical hours.

        • lostn on 20/02/2020 - 12:10
          +5

          i can see why businesses are trying to cut as many people as they can.

          • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 13:26
            +4

            @lostn: Yeah for sure - and don't forget that a lot of employers pay more than the wage to employ people, such as payroll tax (one of the great jokes)

        • timmylol on 15/08/2024 - 13:37

          Minimum wage for an adult is $24.10. Casual loading is 25% on top, then all the weekend loading etc.

          Kmart (or any other large corporations that are obliged to pay every legal entitlement) would rarely hire adults for low skill roles like checkout assistants. 16 year olds only cost $11 an hour (plus loading) AND you don’t have to pay them super.

          It sounds simple in theory, but in practice an adult would struggle to get a 1-2 day a week job that pays $30.

    • peterpeterpumpkin on 20/02/2020 - 12:06
      +6

      This is the basic truth for a country with high casual rates. The easiest way to save money is to live frugally and work in a high paying, low-unemployment country.

      But I don't think you can just walk into a Saturday only casual job at Kmart, specifically, just like that (assuming that's what you meant if you're working M-F). At least not in metro Sydney.

      Kmart likes them young, at least in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. If you're over the hill and have reached 21, you're unlikely to be selected for a Level 1 casual retail job at Kmart on a Saturday, which should pay over $31/hr (if you were lucky enough to score the Saturday-only schedule you want you may be made part time and paid less, but super is still a form of income, so $30 probably isn't far off and may even be exceeded by their Enterprise Bargaining Agreements). I don't know if it's just who applies (so the number of juniors is proportional to those hired) or they're trying to save money, but particular franchises like Kmart, Harris Farm etc are (in)famous for having high school reunions on weekends and weeknights.

      So yeah, just wanted to say that Coles/Woolies "seem" to be much better bets for anyone over 20. Though the Coles workers I know seem to get pushed into random rosters quite a bit.

      • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 13:11

        Kmart is a bad example - I think they just pulled a random retailer out of the air. If there was someone genuinely looking for night and weekend work, I would send them to their nearest independent bottleshop. They're generally family owned/operated, and looking for someone reliable to work Friday night/Saturday night/Sunday. If you were to agree to work a Sunday without Sunday loading (ie $20-25 an hour), they would probably take you on straight away.

        My family have owned a few bottleshops, and I did every Sunday for five years (and some since getting a full time job) because we couldn't find anyone who wanted to work the day without asking for a ludicrous loading.

        Back on track - any service jobs that require adults or are beneficial to be adults would be the go I think.

        • Cyan9 on 20/02/2020 - 16:25
          +1

          I worked at the Good Guys for 2 years Friday 6-9pm, all Saturday and all Sunday. I think after tax (keeping in mind this was taxed on top of my M-F job - so I instantly lost a third in taxes) I cleared about 1200-1400/mo in hand from working there.

          Your mileage may vary.

          • pdtmathieson on 20/02/2020 - 16:29
            -2

            @Cyan9: Perfect example - if you can convince a place to pay you cash you're bucketloads better off as well

      • BluebirdV on 23/02/2020 - 09:30

        Do they pay extra for Saturday work in Kmart? How much per hour on weekdays if over 21?

        • peterpeterpumpkin on 23/02/2020 - 10:46
          +1

          Yes, you get extra on Saturdays.

          The amount you get depends on if permanent or casual and if casual, you get a bit extra after 6 pm (on top of 25% loading). Kmart has a recently updated Enterprise Bargaining Agreement you can check out here: https://national.sda.com.au/kmart/, though the links to the approved EBA didn't work for me but you could read the proposed figures before approval if you scroll down.

          As usual with EBAs, you get a few cents to a dollar more than the award retail wage (if the negotiators didn't stuff up, in which case you could demand or sue to get back to minimum wage anyway), plus special allowances at times. Which is why I just use the award rates to guess my potential income in a casual job. Low level retail workers do pretty well in terms of pay and penalties compared to other awards, but for permanent workers the Sunday penalty will continue to drop to 150% (now 165%) while for casuals it will stop dropping now that it's reached 175% (when it was 200% I got paid more as a labourer on Sundays when my employer was under the retail umbrella, compared to other industries). For the retail award you can use this calculator to avoid reading some pages: https://www.retailwages.com.au/

          Here is the complicated Kmart calculator linked to on the EBA page (which I haven't tested):
          https://solcon.org.au:8080/SolconApps/SolconApps/kmart-Calcu…

    • apiecost on 21/02/2020 - 00:03
      +5

      My ebay side hustle profits $200-$300 per week quite reliably. I spent probably 1 hour listing new items (most items are re-stockable), and maybe another 90 mins per week packing and shipping. Now, it took me some time to figure out the niches I'm in so there was an investment in time beforehand. I do most of the listing/packing while I'm chilling on my PC watching Youtube anyway. Some of the items I sell regularly on Facebook by placing one ad and selling many of the same item. That's cash money for very little effort and it's a nice feeling to always have a few extra 50s in your wallet.

      I have a friend that likes to weld as a hobby and he started making fire pits in the winter and pet/livestock water troughs in summer. He does very well out of it in terms of $/hr and he treats it like a hobby.

      We both have 'real' jobs that pay well, but I've always had a side hustle and as long as it stays easy I'll just keep doing it.

      It doesn't seem to take much to earn way above minimum wages for a few small hours per week in the comfort of your own home. I'm not doing anything special.

      • StickMan on 21/02/2020 - 12:30

        What kinda products do you sell?

      • leeboy168 on 23/08/2020 - 09:55

        $200-$300 top line revenue, gross profit, or net profit after tax if i may ask?

    • SelfMade on 21/08/2020 - 18:45

      That mentality will not make you wealthy. Make your money work for you and not the other way around.

      • leeboy168 on 23/08/2020 - 09:54

        Lol mate, making your money work for you requires risking your capital. If the risk you take doesn't justify the return you're expected to receive then i'd rather forego the opportunity to be "wealthy". Due to the instagram era, where success is disproportionately displayed, it's common to think that risking your capital results in success more often than failure. For every successful venture there's probably 20 that didn't succeed.

        Plus, wealthy is relative. You can be wealthy right now with a change in mindset.

        • SelfMade on 24/08/2020 - 12:35

          Each to their own.

          • leeboy168 on 25/08/2020 - 10:36

            @SelfMade: A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

            • SelfMade on 25/08/2020 - 12:01

              @leeboy168: haha that's exactly what I thought of you so I thought no point discussing this with someone who thinks that way.

              Just letting you know that I wouldn't have thought a couple thousand dollars is 'risking capital' …that's how I and many others started. It's all about mindset and thinking outside of the box. In our society education makes you think one way and sets you up to be an employee and teaches you nothing about finance and how to use money.

              Anyways no point discussing, I'll just get back to working on my business.

              All the best.

  • yojabbajabba on 20/02/2020 - 09:34
    +1

    The Audiobook is also discounted to $2.99 (down from $29.90) .

    • sebasg91 on 20/02/2020 - 09:49

      "Member price: $14.95"… What sort of membership do you have? I am still on a trial. Would that be the reason?

      • yojabbajabba on 20/02/2020 - 09:52

        Amazon Prime, no Audible membership.

        • sebasg91 on 20/02/2020 - 10:00

          Interesting, I have Prime too… oh well, e-book will do it :)

    • BluebirdV on 23/02/2020 - 12:57

      It came up free for me but isn't there for me only the book. I signed up for the audible free trial after ordering the book and the audio book.

  • CC123 on 20/02/2020 - 09:40
    +1

    Thanks OP!

  • dm01 on 20/02/2020 - 09:48
    +1

    Thanks OP :)

  • nomoneynoproblems on 20/02/2020 - 10:04
    +36

    Bricks and mortar store selling refurb iphones
    OzBargain: Omg scam
    Ebook claiming earning $1000 in your spare time
    OzBargain: 98 upvotes

    • ocoolio on 20/02/2020 - 10:23

      116 119 upvotes
      You have a point

    • dogebargain on 20/02/2020 - 11:37

      It is very possible to earn $1000 a month in your spare 4-5 hours you might have either side of your normal working day. Time in the morning, at night and on weekends can be used for lots of things. Without doing the big song and dance, the Side Hustle podcast is also very good for ideas and experiences from others on what they do and how they do it. It can be as simple as flipping physical goods or looking for passive income in the form of resealable content (eBook writing, blog posting, online course) etc

      • twjr on 20/02/2020 - 13:01
        +6

        My normal working day is 12 hours. I can assure you I don't have a spare 4-5 hours each day.

        • ocoolio on 20/02/2020 - 13:37
          -2

          Beggars can't be choosers :)

        • dogebargain on 20/02/2020 - 16:08

          If you’re working FIFO 12 hour days - your side hustle could be on your rostered days off?

          • twjr on 20/02/2020 - 16:39
            +3

            @dogebargain: I could. But I already average 54 hours a week on my roster so I value those days off much more than a couple of grand.

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