Advice, resources and getting started guide for home working

What if you could earn $3,000 a year from a whiteboard you give away for free? John Sherman of MegansDailyDish.com places free chalkboards and whiteboards in restaurants and other busy venues. The venue uses the board for daily specials. John sells small ad spots along the bottom to local businesses. He's placed more than 200 of these boards so far. Each one brings in around $3,000 a year. (Check out John's Community Boards program! New students get a free 15-minute coaching call with John and a free board!)

What if the hardest part of your business isn't building the thing, but finding someone to buy it? Ten years ago, I wrote a book called Buy Buttons. The premise: instead of building a store or website and hoping somebody finds it, go set up shop where the traffic already is, where buyers are already buying. The book covered over 300 platforms and marketplaces across niches. A decade later, I wanted to revisit the idea. Are those platforms tapped out? What new ones have shown up? And does the same principle work offline? This episode is a tour through the legacy platforms that are still thriving, the newer marketplaces that could be the next big wave, and a few examples of entrepreneurs applying the same strategy in the physical world.

Delivery driving is the riskiest side hustle in America, according to a September 2026 study from Trujillo Gonzalez Law Firm — and it's not particularly close. Here on Side Hustle Nation, we spend a lot of time talking about how to make more money. We talk about hourly rates, startup costs, and how fast you can get your first dollar. What we don't talk about enough is what a side hustle can cost you physically.

We're hooked on our devices, but did you know your smartphone can actually make you money every month? Here are some of my favorite money making apps and money saving apps.

What if you could skip the hardest part of starting a business, the zero-to-one grind, and just buy your way into cash flow instead? Joe Burrell runs Just Website Brokerage, where he's helped broker over 300 sales totaling more than $7 million in lifetime value. He started buying and selling his own online businesses back in 2012 and pivoted to full-time brokering around 2018. These days he doesn't run any businesses of his own — his expertise is entirely in guiding buyers and sellers through the deal process. In this episode, Joe walks through real, live listings on Flippa, breaking down what the numbers mean, what red flags to watch for, and what actually makes a website or online business worth buying.