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Reseller Hangout Podcast - Nick Loper

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Rob: All right, guys. Welcome. We are so honored to have Nick Loper here with us today to give some awesome advice and nuggets in this realm of side hustling, side hustles. Nick has been doing this for over eight years. He's been interviewing all different types of individuals who have side hustles, and has done over 400 interviews.

So he's got some great wisdom, some great knowledge on information that [00:01:00] he can, he can bring to all of us in the realm of side hustles and on the flipping aspect of it. So, Nick, thank you so much for jumping in here with us. We're so excited to have you today. 

Nick: You bet. I mean, you were one of the early guests, I want to say 2014 or something. It was pretty early days for the show. 

Rob: Yeah, that's what I was going to say. That Nick was actually our first Flea Market Flipper, he was our first podcast interview. And I still remember talking to Nick on the phone before the podcast and not knowing what I was doing, but he pulled me on and it was awesome.

Had a great time with him back in the day. 

Nick: I love it. That's what brings me the most joy is like trying to like scoop these up and coming stories, of people like yourself who just have cool creative, interesting businesses. And, well, how does that work? You know, just play in playing the curious host and seeing where that takes us.

Rob: That is awesome. And we're so thankful that you do do that because you give us so much great information and insight in all different side hustles. So, but today we are actually going to focus on, some key aspects of our side hustle, how [00:02:00] we can get more out of flipping and more definite about if you have a full-time job, how do you, how do you balance it?

How do you balance that time that you're spending on the side hustle? And how do you, how do you keep your full-time job and without going crazy and throwing kids into the mix of it? So, yeah, let's go ahead and jump into it. We'll go ahead and ask Nick some questions and, get some, some great feedback from him, for sure.

Melissa: Yeah, first, before we started, we wanted to ask you, Nick, what got you started in exploring sides hustles? 

Nick: I mean in the very early days, I was the person who just knew they didn't want to climb the corporate ladder. It's like, there's gotta be, there's gotta be a different way. There's gotta be a way out. My original side business was a comparison shopping site for footwear.

So I've been playing mostly in the online space. You know, for, for my entrepreneurial journey, but prior to that I painted houses. I was the kid like trying to sell candy to my fellow, Boy Scouts at summer camp, that kind of thing. But the house painting gig [00:03:00] definitely like solidified like, oh, you're, you know, it's a lot more fun to kind of like be in control of your own destiny in, in some way, more stressful, but more rewarding as well.

So I started the shoe business while I was working corporate. It was three years of nights and weekends before I felt comfortable. Yeah. Giving my notice at work, turning the keys to the company car and said, all right, I'm going to make you go with this. I kind of thought like that could be my thing.

Like, I'll just be the guy who sells shoes on the internet. Like a lot of businesses, they had a finite lifespan, and I'm really fortunate and grateful to have started a bunch of other side projects while the shoe business was running, most of which for full disclosure, you know, died a quiet death in some corner of the internet, but a couple