EP269: Nick Loper - Turn Your Bookkeeping Side Hustle into a Successful Business

Nick Loper: Take as many at-bats as you can, take as many swings as you can, as long as you've minimized your downside risk and have picked something with some, you know, outsized return or outsized upside. It's only a matter of time, like it's only a matter of taking enough at-bats where you're bound to find something that hits. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be an awesome one. Our guest is the creator of SideHustleNation.com and author of books like $1,000 100 Ways: How Real People Make Real Money on the Side and How You Can Too, and The Side Hustle: How to Turn Your Spare Time into $1,000 a Month or More. Nick Loper, welcome to the podcast. What's going on, Michael? Thanks so much for having me. It's great to have you. And you know, it's a topic that in this industry, in the bookkeeping industry, comes up a lot because a lot of people actually get started in the industry from having a side hustle. Now, I don't think they always call it a side hustle. It's a lot more cool, I think, to call it a side hustle now, but back in the day, it was like just picking up a little extra money on the side. And, uh, or whatever, you know, a part-time gig. But you've, you've created a whole community around people going from having a job kind of to, hey, you can do this on your own.

Yes, I certainly did not invent the term. You know, maybe in previous generations was called moonlighting, but I think there's a little bit of this entrepreneurial connotation to a side hustle versus just, you know, bartending or, you know, driving for Uber or something, where there's this, there's this upside where maybe scales beyond just hours for dollars. Maybe it's this thing that replaces your day job at some point if that's where you want to take it. I like the sounds of that, and I love when I hear about people moving to being an entrepreneur, moving into business. I mean, I think it's what creates a solid local economy, and if you have a solid local economy, you know, that spreads out. So it's an exciting thing, and I think it'll be