How To Side Hustle Like a Pro

Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days – Chris Guillebeau (Crown Business)

Maybe it’s due to my choice of career path, 25 years in radio is not the most stable choice of careers, but I have always had what now has become dubbed a “side hustle.” There were times where I could ramp this up to cover my bills and other times, where the extra cash would just come in handy. Even now with a more steady career path, I still keep a couple of side gigs going because it has become a habit over the years.

Business guru and bestselling author Chris Guillebeau is out with a brand new book, Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days, which serves as a guide for the uninitiated into the process for discovery, developing and executing on a side hustle. Guillebeau lays out a road map for developing an everything from an idea stream right through an income stream.

He also makes the case that starting a side hustle is very different from starting a business, all the while making it clear that if your side gig reaches the point where you can transition to a full time operation that you can set yourself up to make that step. He is absolutely right that while the side hustle takes some planning, the focus has to be on execution and launch. It’s better to get your hustle up and running and make your tweaks and tune ups on the fly, than it is to over think and focus your efforts on planning.

Guillebeau breaks things down into easy to understand and execute chunks that he spaces over the 27 days he references in the title. If you’ve never been down the side hustle road, he illustrates the process with a collection of great first hand stories from folks who have hit side hustle gold. Granted not every idea is going to be a home run and/or make you rich, but that’s the beauty of Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days, he gives you the tools to have a bank of great ideas to pull the trigger on and before you know it you’ve either added another hustle or moved on to the next.

With the work world going through a shift, this is great stuff to help you build the future you want.