Take 5 seconds to look at the statement below. “I wish I could be my own boss and start a small business, then I could do what I REALLY love to do” Have you ever had this thought? “Yes”, you say. “However, I can’t just quit my day job and risk losing my income…..” But what IF I told you that you CAN start a small business without having to quit your 9 to 5 job. What would you do then? Nick Loper of SideHustleNation.com shows how you can start a business and not risk losing your pay check   Nick Loper, Chief Side-Hustler at SideHustleNation.com, decided to do exactly that, and in today’s podcast he shares his story, and his experiences on how to do it successfully with you.

Listen on iTunes. “I never wanted to work for a large corporation” Nick says. “I wanted to be my own boss”. “But I wanted to do it without giving up the keys to the company car or abandoning the comfort of a stable salary before going into it full time.” In 2005 Nick decided that the time was right, and made a $10,000 investment to build his first small business online. He started his own footwear-only comparison shopping website while still keeping his day job. His business idea was that he could help shoe shoppers find the best deal online and then get paid when he sent shoppers to sites like Amazon.com or Zappos.com. (In the internet world sending customers to other sites is called affiliate marketing.) It was smart, and he wouldn’t have to spend all his time doing it. While the comparison shopping website business has started to take less of Nick’s time, he now uses all of the experiences and lessons learned  to teach others how to start their own business while still keeping their 9 to 5 job on his wildly successful blog and podcast Side Hustle Nation.

Listen on iTunes   The key take aways from the podcast and the conversation with Nick are: 1. Don’t wait to realize your dream. 2. The 4 work week is baloney! BUT You can start a business while still having a full time job and have fun doing it if you have the right business strategy…. 3. It’s ok to start small and take baby steps while you continue to build your business. 4. Have an Experimenter’s Mindset 5. Join a Master Mind Group!   If you keep on delaying your dream something will come up to discourage you from chasing or living that dream.  Don’t wait for that to happen! Listen to how Nick was almost wiped out by Google before he got going. If he had waited one more day he might have given up before he even got started. “I didn’t want to risk everything and hand back the keys to the company car, or the comfort of a steady paycheck, before starting my own business” Nick says. “Actually, It scared the S*&t out of me, but I just knew it was the right thing to do” Nick goes on to say: “It is fully possible to start a business while still working full time. You just have to have the right business strategy.” “Can you make your hobby into a business? It’s already something that you are passionate about, and know a lot about.” The next step is to “Figure out how you can monetize it.”

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