Chapter 12
Spinning Off Your Current Side Hustle into a New Side Hustle
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deciding what a new side hustle can do for you
Coordinating your side hustles and avoiding conflicts
Side hustles can be like potato chips or Halloween candy. You try one, and you quickly want another. Pretty soon, you just can’t stop grabbing for more and more!
Are you currently doing rideshare driving for Lyft? Go ahead and add Uber ridesharing. Rideshare driving for Uber? Now add Uber Eats delivery. Doing Uber Eats delivery? Why not also do Grubhub and DoorDash and Postmates and, well, you get the idea.
Or maybe you created a YouTube channel to capitalize on some hot new exercise trend. Why stop there? You could add another channel where you cover healthy eating tips, and then cross-market your two channels. And then some new exercise trend comes along? Hey, you already have a built-in audience, so you can jump onto this newest trend and rush out an entirely new set of videos.
No matter what your side-hustle game is, you have opportunities to branch out into new side hustles. I should know, because I’ve been doing exactly that for 40 years! My original consulting and software side hustle led to my first book, as well as college and university teaching. My tech and business books led to writing ...
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