Video summary
The video presents a data-driven approach to identifying side hustles that are highly likely to succeed, arguing that the most reliable opportunities are often "boring" rather than exciting. The speaker highlights that while internet-based businesses and trading have high failure rates due to the need for large crowds or significant capital, sectors like repair, personal care, and pet care boast a 60% survival rate over five years. To qualify for this list, every suggested hustle must pass three strict tests: it requires no inventory, no advertising budget, and most importantly, a customer base that is already actively seeking the service. This eliminates the need to build an audience from scratch or spend money on ads, focusing instead on solving immediate problems for people who are already looking for solutions.
The core strategy emphasized throughout the video is leveraging existing skills or experiences to create content and services simultaneously. Examples include cybersecurity professionals teaching others how to enter their field, nurses creating educational content about patient care, and tradespeople documenting their work processes. The speaker illustrates that what feels like common sense to an expert after years of practice is often valuable information to others who lack that experience. By monetizing this knowledge through freelancing, coaching, or YouTube channels, individuals can earn significant income without needing new technical skills. The video also addresses the fear of starting by pointing out that many successful entrepreneurs, such as Dave Ramsey, began by sharing their personal survival stories rather than selling abstract expertise, proving that one does not need to be a world-class expert to help others navigate similar challenges.
Beyond knowledge-based services, the video details several physical service industries that are in high demand due to specific market gaps and regulatory needs. These include specialized cleaning for mattresses and upholstery where standard companies refuse to work, estate cleanouts for families dealing with probate, and handyman repairs for small jobs that homeowners cannot find professionals for. Other seasonal opportunities like holiday light installation, snow removal, and pool maintenance are presented as ways to stack income streams throughout the year. Additionally, essential services like senior companion care, bookkeeping for small businesses, video editing for creators, virtual assistance, and dryer vent cleaning are highlighted. The speaker notes that in many of these cases, individuals can bypass expensive agencies by working directly with clients or businesses, thereby increasing their hourly rates while providing a necessary service that is often overlooked but critical for safety and convenience.
Ultimately, the conclusion drawn from the data is that the most successful side hustles share a pattern where the customer is already asking for the solution, removing the risk of market fit. The worst-case scenario for these ventures is minimal, often limited to the cost of a simple tool like a brush kit or a truck rental, while the potential reward includes both direct service income and secondary revenue from creating content about the work itself. The speaker encourages viewers to identify which of these opportunities aligns with their current career or hobbies and to take immediate action, noting that the barrier to entry is low for those willing to start. By combining practical service work with digital content creation, individuals can build a sustainable second income stream that complements their primary job rather than competing with it, effectively turning their daily expertise into a profitable business.
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These are the side hustles that almost
never fail, and they're backed by data.
And I want to start with the number that
nobody shows you. Bankrate asked
Americans about their side hustles, and
27% have one, and the average side
hustle pays $885 a month. Now, the
median side hustle pays $200 a month.
So, a few people make real money and
pull the average up, and half of
everybody else is grinding for $200 a
month and wondering what they did wrong.
So, here's what they did wrong. They
picked a side hustle that needs a crowd.
A store needs traffic. Trading needs a
market to beat, right? An app takes
months of development, and then it needs
a bunch of people to use it, like you.
So, the government tracks which new
businesses and side hustles are alive 5
years later. Now, the internet
businesses that everyone chases, not
many of them survive. But, repair,
personal care, and pet care, well, about
60% of those do survive. So, the boring
stuff survives, and the exciting stuff
doesn't. So, let me tell you how I made
this list. Every side hustle on this
list passed three tests. No inventory,
no ad budget, and a customer who's
already asking. And if you can lose real
money on it, it's not on the list. And
by the way, this is coming from a
pharmacist who started his own side
hustle on lunch breaks, and then quickly
I watched it out-earn my high-paying
pharmacy job. And since then, I've
helped over a thousand other people do
the same thing. So, in this video, I'm
going to be showing you the real
numbers, examples of real people doing
them, and showing you all the data
that's available on the subject of side
hustles. So, if you appreciate me making
this type of content and you want to see
me make more of it in the future, then
let me know by gently cheesing that like
button, and let's jump into it right
now.
Now, quick thing before we jump into
this, because I'm not going to make up a
success rate. Nobody tracks exact
numbers for this on side hustles. But,
here's what is tracked, right? What
fails? Multilevel marketing, AARP found
that 74% make nothing or lose money. Day
trading, 97% of people who stuck with it
for a year lost money. Amazon FBA, well,
the Jungle Scout's own survey says that
about half of sellers make under $1,000
a month. And that's just revenue, that
doesn't count profit. And with new real
estate agents, they make about 8,000
median in their first 2 years. So,
definitely not a full-time income, and
it's barely even a side hustle. Now,
every one of those needs a crowd
inventory or an ad budget. But, here's
what survives. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics checks whether a new business
is still alive 5 years later, and out of
all businesses, about 51% survive. For
internet-based businesses, it's about
45.7%,
and for repair, personal care, and pet
care, it's about 60%. So, the government
has been telling you which hustles
survive for years, and it just gave it a
boring name. With that being said, let's
talk about number one on the list, which
is selling what you already know. And
there's many different ways to do this.
So, Nicole, one of our community
members, works in cybersecurity
compliance. And this is one of the least
exciting jobs in tech, but it pays
really well. And when she first came to
us, she had about 85 subscribers on
YouTube, and she was about to give up.
She was spinning her wheels, posting a
bunch of videos, and getting no results.
Now, she teaches women how to get into
cybersecurity, the exact thing that she
does at work. And after implementing our
system, she got to over $80,000 in a
single month. So, here's the job. It's
basically the thing you do at work for a
salary. HR, IT, project management,
you're a doctor, you're in sales, you're
in finance or accounting, or compliance,
or the trades. You just either do that
thing for a living, you just do that
thing as a side hustle as a freelancer,
or you can do it as a service, or you
can just do it as a coach and literally
just help other people do the same
thing. And we have examples of all those
different types of people in our
community. For instance, Nicole coaches
people on how to get into governance,
risk, and compliance, which is her
cybersecurity compliance job. Nurse Jan
makes YouTube videos teaching patients
what she already knew from 33 years as a
nurse. Right? This is the stuff that she
was already telling patients on a
day-to-day basis. She just put it on
camera and started monetizing her
channel and made it to over $10,000 in a
month just a few months after she
getting started with YouTube and
monetizing. Zach teaches people how to
pick the right trades, which is
something that's obvious to him because
he spent so much time in it. Stephen
teaches other engineers how to use a
very niche type of CAD software, which
only certain types of engineers use. And
he was able to make $12,000 in just a
few months. A meta engineer purchased
his course, really liked it, and he
started getting reached out by companies
to do corporate trainings for about
$1,500 a day. And And have to be your
career. It could literally just be
anything that you're good at as well.
But obviously, if you've been doing your
career for a while, that means you spent
thousands of hours of doing it, and so
you're going to be good at it
automatically, and stuff that's common
sense to you is not necessarily common
sense to other people. So, Upwork's own
study says that the share of skilled
professionals freelancing on the side
went from 28% to 38% in 1 year. PwC
scanned a billion job ads, and workers
with AI skills earned 62% more. So
again, embrace AI. And 5.6 million
independent Americans now make over a
hundred thousand dollars a year. And
Upwork's median for an HR consultant,
for instance, is $50 an hour. So, the
simplest version of this is tutoring. A
tutor named Steve, for instance, told
CNBC that he charges about a thousand
dollars an hour and made five hundred
dollars in a single year. Now, that's
the smart way to do it because he did
something very specific, right? If you
choose a specific niche, you can charge
a lot more. But Wiseant's average is
about 35 to 60 dollars an hour, and
that's if you're tutoring something
simple like math or chemistry. But like
I said, it's much smarter to choose a
specific niche to do this in, which is
what we're going to be going over in the
live training this week. Plus, I'm going
to be talking about all those people
that I talked about on the screen that
got great results by posting on YouTube.
Because all of these side hustles work
incredibly well, and they all seem
relatively simple, but the problem with
all of them is you need traffic, right?
You need people that can actually buy
your stuff in order to get paid. And
that's what YouTube takes care of, but
only making a very specific type of
YouTube channel and picking the right
niche. That's what we're going to be
telling you exactly how to do in the
live training this week. So, click that
first link in the description and the
pin comment below. But you might be
thinking, "Shane, I'm not an expert at
anything. I just have a job." Well, in
1988, a guy who had just gone bankrupt
started teaching couples about money at
his church. And this is what he learned
the hard way. And the class became
Financial Peace University, and his name
is Dave Ramsey, and he now makes over
three hundred million dollars a year.
And he didn't sell expertise, right? He
wasn't a financial expert, he sold what
he had just survived. And I'll say the
tough love part once. You don't have a
knowledge problem, you have a starting
problem. You've watched a hundred videos
like this and you've never done the
first step. And I get it. I sat on mine
for years. Starting feels like admitting
the job isn't enough, but it isn't.
Nobody's is. You don't need a new skill,
you need a second customer for the one
that you already have. And the exact
steps to start are on the screen, so
pause it if you want them. All right,
YouTube just got 10 times easier and
nobody is talking about it. You used to
need an entire film crew and it used to
be a full-time job for you to just do
any work at all on YouTube. But now, you
can get work done in as little as 15 to
30 minutes a day and you can actually
grow a full-time YouTube channel. That's
exactly what I'll be talking about at
the live training that we're doing this
week. Exactly how to start YouTube
step-by-step for beginners. So, click
the link in the description and the pin
comment below to check that out, guys. I
will be answering questions before,
during, and after the live training.
It's completely free. Plus, I'll be
giving away an AI that's designed to
help you pick your niche if you don't
have one in the first place or if you
already have a niche, it's going to help
you make it 10 times better. So, really
looking forward to talking with you
guys. This is stuff that we've never
talked about before, so click that link
in the description and comment below and
I look forward to seeing you there. All
right, the next one is going to be
mattress, upholstery, and carpet
cleaning. So, this is one that I know
personally because there was one night
that I came home from work very tired.
It was after a very stressful day and I
ordered some Chinese food. And I was
enjoying the Chinese food a little bit
too much and what I ended up doing is
spilling a bunch of General Tso's
chicken all over the carpet. And of
course, I wanted to clean the carpet, so
I called a bunch of cleaning companies
and I got rejected over and over again.
See, there are certain types of cleaning
that require specialized equipment and
they're a little bit harder to do than
normal cleaning as well. And a lot of
cleaning companies don't want to do
them. And so, I literally could not find
anyone to clean my carpet. And I just
had to clean it myself. And where there
are problems that people can't solve
using normal cleaning companies, this is
an opportunity for you to start a side
hustle. So, a cleaner in the Pacific
Northwest posts his number and he says
that makes about $300 an hour cleaning
couches and mattresses with a portable
machine. Now, this is self-reported, but
he does show the tickets. And here's why
the work exists. The American Lung
Association says that four out of five
homes have dust mite allergens in at
least one bed. 20 million Americans are
allergic to it, including myself. So,
people are sleeping on the thing that
makes them sneeze. And Angie says that
sofas run $120 to $400. So, the average
piece is $174. A king mattress is at
least $120, and the machine is $429.
So, two sofa cleanings and it's already
paid for. Now, who buys it? Families
with a kid who have allergies or Airbnb
hosts between guests or anybody with a
dog on the couch. They already know the
couch is gross, they just don't own the
machine to take care of it. And one
how-to video on starting with a portable
machine has been watched over 240,000
times. So, people clearly want it and
almost nobody follows through. Now, my
brother did blue-collar work like this
for almost 30 years. And honestly,
there's a ton of money in these types of
careers. And the exact steps to start on
this are going to be on the screen right
now, so you can again pause the video if
you want to, screenshot it, you can even
put it in the cloud if you'd like. With
that being said, my brother Zach is 50.
He's spent almost 30 years in the
trades, and he calls me whenever his
email or his website breaks. And last
year he started filming what he knows
and putting the videos online. And
basically just talked about stuff that
was common sense to him since he spent
so much time in the trades. And by day
29, he made $214 in a single day from
those videos. That's a $78,000 year run
rate, so he went from zero to a
full-time income in less than 1 year.
And this year, he made $18,000 in a
single month to finish off the year. Not
from the blue-collar career or the
trade, but from filming the trade. And
it's not just trades. Nurses do this as
well. Bookkeepers do this. Video editors
do this. Anybody with a skill and a
phone. And that's what this workshop is
all about. This week, I'm hosting a free
live workshop on how to grow and make
money with YouTube. And at this
workshop, I'll be giving away my niche
validator, which helps you pick a niche
in the first place if you don't have
one. Or if you already have one, it'll
help you make it 10 times better. This
is a one-time event, and there are
limited seats. We run out every single
time. People message us all the time
saying they can't get in. So, secure
your seat right now by clicking that
first link in the description and the
pin comment below. And even if you're
watching this in the future, still click
that link because it'll automatically
put you on a wait list to attend our
next live workshop. All right, the next
side hustle is going to be estate
cleanouts. And this is a really good
one. So, a junk removal guy filmed one
job and he got paid $1,028 for 45
minutes of work and over a million
people watched it.
And here's the job. When somebody passes
away, the house has to be emptied before
it can be sold. Somebody has to do it.
And in 2024, 3 million Americans died.
That's about 8,400 people a day. And 61
million Americans are over the age of
65. And Angie says that the average junk
job is $241 and a full truck load is
$600 to $800. So, you can rent a van
from Home Depot for $19 an hour. That's
your risk. And here's the part that
nobody talks about, probate. When
there's no will, the estate goes through
court. And about three out of four
American adults don't have a will. And
probate usually takes 8 months to a year
or up to 2 years in a lot of states. And
it eats 3 to 7% of the estate in fees.
So, the family is stuck with lawyers, a
clock, and a house full of stuff. And I
know this one personally because
recently my family unfortunately has had
a lot of people die. And figuring
everything out is a massive headache for
everyone. So, if you can make it easier
on a family, they will pay you and they
will be incredibly thankful. And you
will never run out of work. Now, you
might be thinking, "Well, Shane, that's
a lot of lifting." So, don't lift.
Estate cleanouts are the version where
the family pays you for the truck and
for somebody to sort, donate, and haul.
So, an Army dad in California started
with $4,000 and does about $20,000 a
month after his day job according to the
interview. Two college kids started Junk
Teens with a $4,000 truck. And CNBC says
that they did $3.04 million last year.
And the guy who started 1-800-Got-Junk
was 19 with a $700 pickup and that's a
massive company now. But it started off
as a side hustle. So, you don't need the
empire, right? You just need one truck
and a Saturday. Now, this is a side
hustle that I've personally done a ton
of and there's so many opportunities to
get jobs here. You can check out
Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, and
there's going to be tons of people who
need help with this. Now, Weldon, one of
our community members, made this his
topic. His channel is The Down Sizer
Guide, and he helps families downsize
and clear out a house. And one video did
almost 400,000 views in 28 days. And his
first day getting paid for it is $166.
So, the exact steps to start are on the
screen. Pause it if you want them. All
right, so the next one is handyman work.
And a guy filmed one day on TaskRabbit,
and he made $425
for a day of small repairs. Now, it's
self-reported and it's from a small
channel, but it's a normal Tuesday for
him. Now, here's a job. You hang a TV,
you fix a cabinet that won't close, you
put together some furniture from IKEA,
and you make a ton of money doing it.
And Angie's own report says that 70% of
homeowners can't find a pro for small
jobs. And the average handyman job is
$406.
And the government projects 148,700
Now, this is one that I've done myself
on both sides. I've been a handyman, and
then I've also hired people on apps like
TaskRabbit to help me with moving or any
other types of tasks that I had. And
typically, they charge $35 and up. Now,
TaskRabbit itself does cost $25 to sign
up, at least the last time I checked it.
And this is not sponsored by TaskRabbit
by any means, but there are tons of
people making good money on TaskRabbit.
And you don't even have to use that. You
could use Craigslist or Facebook
Marketplace, etc., etc. But you probably
already own the tools, and you're
probably ready to get started right
away. Now, you might be thinking, "Well,
Shane, isn't that illegal without a
contractor's license?" Well, in
California, the strictest state, you can
do jobs of up to $1,000 without one. And
most states are looser, so check yours.
And again, I do recommend checking out
the AI resources, because it will be
able to check the specifics of your
situation, like I said before. And
that's the third link down in the
description and the pin comment below.
But obviously, make sure you follow your
state's regulations. And this is my
brother's world, and his channel is Zack
of All Trades. He talks about trade
jobs, but also trades that you can do as
a side hustle or turn into a business.
And he teaches people how to get into
HVAC, plumbing, and electrical work, as
well as many other types of trades. And
he spent almost 30 years in the trades
himself, so he knows a lot about it from
first-hand experience. Plus, most of his
friends are in the trades, too. And so
this stuff was common sense for him, but
it's definitely not common sense to
other people. People absolutely love his
channel, and he's got over 50,000
subscribers now. And he already had an
$18,000 month, so it's very likely that
he will end up making more talking about
the trades than he ever made doing them.
So, if you're handy, you have two
businesses: the repairs, and then the
videos about the repairs. So, get if you
want to know exactly how Zach does that,
then go ahead and click the first link
in the description and the pin comment
below to attend the live training. All
right, so the next one is going to be
senior companion care. So, today on
care.com, in Houston alone, there are
more than 100 families that are posting
for someone to sit with mom, or drive
her to the doctor, or make lunch, or
play cards, etc., etc. And they pay $20
to $25 an hour. In Seattle, there's 60
more. And this is just one website, and
these are the customers, and they are
begging for people to help. So, here's
why it doesn't fail. 11,400 Americans
turn 65 every day, and the government
projects that there are 760,000 openings
a year for home and personal care aids.
Every single year for a decade. And
nobody is training that many aids. Now,
you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, I'm
not a caregiver. I can't do medical
stuff." You're not, and that's why the
word is companion. And here's the money.
Agencies charge families about $35 an
hour, and then they pay the person about
$17. The family on care.com will pay you
$22 to $30 an hour directly. So, you
both win, right? You can cut out the
agency middleman. And Jen, one of our
community members, is a 60-year-old
registered nurse with 33 years of
experience. And she teaches seniors as
well as their families how to deal with
the health care system, and how to age
well. The exact thing that those
families are asking about. And she was
able to make $10,000 a month from her
channel, quit her job, and now she's
traveling all over the United States in
a camper van. And I'll also be talking
about her and giving updates on her and
Zach in the live training that I'm doing
this week. So, click that first link in
the description and the pin comment
below. But yeah, she's literally
traveling all over the United States in
her camper van living her dream life.
Now, the exact steps to start are on the
screen. Pause it if you want them. Time
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looking forward to seeing you there. And
now, back to our regularly scheduled
programming. All right, the next side
hustle is a somewhat seasonal one, and
there are a lot of really good seasonal
side hustles out there, and I'll be
talking about those here in a bit. But,
I'm going to go over this one first, and
that is bookkeeping. So, obviously,
there's a lot more opportunities for
bookkeeping during tax season. Now, a
bookkeeper named Kate Johnson told Side
Hustle Nation that she bills about $70
an hour. Another one, Allan Chen, told
Starter Story that he does $25,000 a
month. Now, both of these are
self-reported and they're both on the
screen. But, here's the job. There are
36 million small businesses in America,
and most of them have a shoebox of
receipts and a bank account that nobody
has looked at since March. And the
people who used to fix that are
disappearing. So, just as an example,
CPA exam candidates went from 42,000 to
28,000 to 16,000. But, no, you don't
need to be a certified accountant to be
a bookkeeper. Bookkeeping is a small
part of accounting, but it's one that
requires a lot of manual work, and you
don't need to be an accountant to do
this. But, you might be thinking,
"Shane, AI does the books now." Well, AI
does the categorization, but nobody pays
for categorizing. They pay for the
person who sits across from them and
explains why they're not making money.
And on Upwork, against the whole planet,
a bookkeeper is $15 an hour. And in your
own town, in person, it's 24 to $31 an
hour. So, being local is the difference.
So, let me show you the AI part life. I
made up a landscaping company for this,
and the problems are real, but the names
aren't. And here's a bank export, 40
lines, an absolute mess. Boom, done. It
sorted every line, it wrote the owner an
email in plain English, and it took
about a minute. Now, watch this. The
owner still has to read that email,
somebody has to sit down with him and
explain why he pays himself last, and
that somebody is you. So, the
categorizing is free, but the phone call
is the job. And Bill, one of our
community members, is a financial
controller. He's a very high-level
accountant, and he helps other
accountants get into a financial
controller position where they can make
a lot more money. And he just teaches
them how to do it on his channel. He
films the stuff, it's a very boring
topic, but a very real audience. Okay,
so let's talk about some other seasonal
work, because this is a very real side
hustle as well. So, I'm going to use
holiday lights as an example. So, this
one's pretty self-explanatory, you help
people set up their holiday lights for
Christmas. And here's a 20-year-old on
camera, 2 weeks into the Christmas
season, and they made over $45,000
in sales hanging lights. And he did
about $60,000 the whole season before.
So, he actually made a full-time income
in one season. So, he worked a couple
months out of the year and made a
full-time income. Not bad. So, here's
the job. Angie says that homeowners pay
$220 to $684 for a basic light install,
and pros charge $2 to $7 a foot, and the
season runs October through January.
Then it's over, which sounds like a
weakness, but it's not. But it's not
just lights. An example of a
location-specific type of seasonal side
hustle is snow removal, and it's about
$125 a visit or $300 to $700 for the
whole winter per driveway. Now, pool
openings in the spring are about $200 to
$400. Closings in the fall, about $200
to $500. And there are over 5 million
in-ground pools in this country. People
typically get their gutters cleaned out
about twice a year. That's about $170 a
house. Stack the seasons and you have a
full year. So, then you can have four
short jobs instead of one long one. Now,
you might be thinking, "Well, Shane,
seasonal means I'm broke in February."
Only if you sell one season. Some people
who do this might sell all four. Lights
in November, snow in January, pools in
April, and gutters in October. It could
even potentially be the same customers,
the same truck, and a steady side
hustle. So, a lawn care guy in Michigan
posts his snow prices on camera. $245 a
plow for one commercial lot or $2,490 a
month for the whole winter for one
parking lot. Now, the exact steps to
start on this one are going to be on the
screen. Pause if you want more of them,
and honestly, there's a lot of other
seasonal side hustles out there, but I
just thought I'd mention some of the
most common ones. All right, the next
side hustle is going to be video editing
for people who make videos. And this
one's online. So, one editor on YouTube
says he makes over $15,000 in a single
month cutting other people's videos up.
Another one went from a $55 first gig to
5,000 a month.
>> $5,000 per month from a single client.
>> Now, here's the job. Every channel,
podcast, and business that posts videos
needs somebody to cut it up. For
instance, Upwork's own page says that
video editors make $10 to $60 an hour
with a median of $35. Indeed has
hundreds of remote video editor openings
right now. ZipRecruiter shows over 1,000
YouTube editor jobs, and the
government's median pay for video
editors is over 75,000 a year. And
YouTube's own economic report says it
supported over 540,000 full-time jobs in
America just last year. And the report
says, in plain words, that creators grow
by hiring editors. And I know because
I'm one of those customers. I pay
editors every single month. I've also
hired hundreds of editors for my
community members. And Jud, one of our
community members, makes about $20,000 a
month from his channel. And he hired a
full-time editor from us. And somebody
got that job. Now, you might be
thinking, "Shane, I don't know how to
edit." Well, neither did most of my
editors when they started. Descript, for
instance, it lets you edit a video like
a word document. You delete the sentence
and it deletes the clip. So, you can
just learn one tool, take one $55 job,
get yourself a portfolio, then raise
your prices. Now, the exact steps to
start on this are going to be on the
screen. Pause it if you want them.
There's also a lot of different types of
editors out there. Of course, I'm
biased, so I recommend going into
YouTube editing. But, there's a lot of
people who want clipping, for instance,
which is where you edit short-form
content, specifically where you just
take a piece of long-form content, find
the juiciest moments from that, and then
cut it up into clips. All right. So, the
next side hustle is virtual assistant.
So, Carla, one of our community members,
runs a company that places remote
assistants with businesses. And she
sells this. And with about 1,400
subscribers and most of her videos under
200 views, she landed a contract worth
over $100,000 because the buyers were
already looking. And there's big
businesses out there that want to hire
virtual assistants. So, here's the job.
You clean out the dreaded email inbox.
Now, I'm a company owner myself, I'm a
CEO, and I can tell you my inbox is an
absolute wasteland. I get people
reaching out to me 24/7, and probably
about one in a thousand messages is
incredibly important that I should
actually read. But, I don't have time to
go through all 1,000 messages to find
the one important one. So, that's what
my virtual assistant does. But, she
doesn't just do that. She also goes
through my calendar, my bookings, she
helps with invoices, basically busy work
that would take me a ton of time where
my time would be much better spent doing
other things like making these awesome
videos for you guys. So, for a small
business owner who's drowning, Upwork
has over 3,000 open virtual assistant
jobs right now. Indeed has close to
1,000 remote ones and Upwork's own rates
are $12 to $20 an hour for basic work
and $38 to $50 an hour for an executive
assistant level. So, this is the same
middleman math as the companion care
that I talked about before. You can cut
the middleman out and get paid directly.
One agency for instance bills the
business about $36 to $39 an hour and it
tells applicants the pay starts at $17
an hour. Another one bills $65 an hour
and pays $27 to $30 an hour. So, the
agency keeps about half. Go direct and
both of you win. Now, you might be
thinking, "Shane, AI is going to replace
assistants." I promise you it's not. And
Upwork's 2026 data says freelancers who
use AI earn 34% more per hour than the
ones who don't. So, you absolutely
should be embracing AI and using it to
do your job better and do it faster and
people are going to be even more likely
to hire you. Just like every other
technological advancement in all of
human history, yes, it does delete some
jobs. Yes, it changes the scope of jobs.
But, for every one job that gets
deleted, usually two or three more pop
up. Right? It's kind of like
Whac-A-Mole. You whack one mole and two
more pop up. So, the assistant who runs
Claude is the expensive one. And I'll be
honest about the ramp. One assistant on
YouTube shows $1,300 a month from two
customers at nine hours a week. Another
showed her whole first quarter, $932.
So, this isn't passive. It's a job that
you do from your kitchen and it's
something where you're going to make
more money over time. And the exact
steps to start are on the screen, so
pause it if you want them. So, the next
side hustle is dryer vent cleaning. So,
this one's pretty self-explanatory. You
clean dryer vents and they do get very
dirty. So, this is a guy who films
himself doing it and one 25-second clip
of lint coming out of a pipe has been
watched over 31 million times.
That's how gross it is and that's how
many people care. Now, here's a side
hustle. Every clothes dryer blows hot
air through a pipe to the outside. Lint
builds up in that pipe and when it
clogs, the dryer overheats. And the Fire
Protection Association's most recent
report counts 13,820 dryer fires a year
and a third of them happen because
nobody cleaned the vent. So, 102 million
homes have a dryer, and Angie says that
the average cleaning job is $145. Now,
the tool to do this is $30. It's a brush
kit from Home Depot. So, that's your
risk, $30. Now, here's the part that
most lists miss. Homes are the small
version. Businesses are the big one. You
can do this for hotels, gyms, salons,
nursing homes, pet groomers, etc. Even
apartment complexes. Anywhere that a
dryer runs all day. And the biggest
company in the space lists every one of
those on its own website and says that
they need cleaning every 6 to 12 months.
And real companies charge 125 to 175 per
vent on a building. And a 100-unit
apartment building is 100 vents on a
schedule every single year. And that's
just one customer. Now, you might be
thinking, "Shane, who the heck is going
to pay $145 for something they could do
with a $30 brush?" Well, it's the same
person who pays someone to mow the lawn,
all right? A building owner who has a
lot to do just can't do it themselves.
So, the fire code says that dryer
exhaust have to be maintained the way
the manufacturer says. And his insurance
company wants it documented. And he
doesn't want a brush, he wants an
invoice. And I'll be honest because I
said I would, nobody has published their
personal income from this in the press.
So, here's the next best thing. The
biggest franchise in the space discloses
that its average single unit operator
grosses $236,000
a year. And the franchise costs $84,000
to buy in. But you don't have to buy a
franchise. You can skip the franchise
and buy the brush and just get started
on your own. Now, one caveat from a guy
who worked inside these companies, for
homes, it's a once-a-year job. So, you
need volume. Roof vents mean a ladder
and insurance. And 100 vents in one
parking lot beats 100 driveways. And the
exact steps to start are going to be on
the screen. So, if you want to, you can
pause the video, take a screenshot, and
what I recommend doing is actually just
pushing this into Claude, and then you
can kind of just go back and forth with
Claude because it's going to know the
particulars of your specific situation,
as well as what you need to do locally
to get into this. And by the way, we do
have a set of AIs and prompts that are
completely free that go along with this
video, and that'll be the third link in
the description in the pin comment
below. And those can be really helpful
if you want to follow along. So, there
you go. The side hustles that almost
never fail backed by as much data as
possible. So, the pattern was the same
every time. Nobody is fighting you for
the work. The customer is already
asking. Your worst case is a $30 brush.
And every one of these pays you two
times. Once when you do the work and
again when you show people how to do it.
Jen did it with 33 years of nursing.
Nicole did it with compliance. And my
brother did it with 30 years in the
trades. So, pick the one that sounds
like your weak and just go buy the
brush, right? Get started right away.
Now, I know that most of you and I are
never going to work together and that's
completely fine. Right? You're probably
going to watch these videos, get a ton
of value, you're going to download my
free resources in the description which
we work very hard to create. We spend
hundreds of hours on them, get a ton of
value out of those, and you're going to
attend my live training which we also
put hundreds of hours into every single
month and get a ton of value out of
that. And we are never going to end up
working together and that's completely
fine. I always want to give way more
value than what I receive. With that
being said, there's always going to be
1% of you or 0.1% of you out there that
want a one-on-one hand-holding
experience. Right? You want one-on-one
mentorship. Or you want us to literally
just do the work for you when it comes
to building your personal brand and
starting on YouTube so that you can
actually promote your side hustle and
get clients on demand. And if that
sounds like you, go ahead and click the
second link in the description and the
pinned comment below to book a call with
us. On this call, we'll figure out where
you are right now, where you want to be,
we'll make a plan to get there, and
we'll see if we're a good fit to work
together or not. We're very limited in
the amount of people that we can work
with. Right now, we're only accepting
five people. And we only accept about
18% of people who apply. Now, the types
of people we typically work with are
going to be professionals with at least
10 years of experience or people who are
younger but they're overachievers.
Basically, people who have something to
teach, right? They have value to give to
the world. We also work with business
owners who want to grow their brand, get
more views, get more subscribers, get
more leads, and make more revenue from
their YouTube channel. And by the way,
we teach YouTube as the mother platform,
but then you can syndicate that content
to other platforms. There's lots of
people in our community doing this
incredibly successfully and it doesn't
take that much time, either. But we also
work with YouTube channels that are
getting a lot of views, but they're
struggling with monetization or people
who tried to grow on YouTube and they
have dead channels and they want to
restart that channel or pivot niches. We
also work with YouTube channels that are
crushing it, but they want to crush it
even harder and we work with people who
have large followings on other social
media platforms or they have a large
following because maybe they wrote a
book for instance and they want to bring
that audience over to YouTube cuz they
know that YouTube is the best when it
comes to actually making money. But all
those people have one thing in common
and that is that they want to treat
their side hustle like a business. They
want to treat it seriously. So if that
sounds like you, go ahead and click that
second link in the description and pin
comment below to talk with us and we
look forward to talking with you, but
again, only do it if you're very serious
about growing and making money on
YouTube. With that being said, check out
this video right here to see exactly how
I helped Nurse Jen go from zero to a
full-time income in just a few months
even though she was 60 years old and
even though she didn't think she had
anything worth talking about.