100 Side Hustles

Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job

By: Chris Guillebeau

Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents an ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do.

This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents an "idea book" filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income. With insights and takeaways that reveal the human element behind the hustles, this playbook covers every important step of launching a side hustle, from identifying underserved markets to crafting unique products and services that spring from your passions. Soon you'll find yourself joining the ranks of these innovative entrepreneurs--making money on the side while living your best life.

©2019 Chris Guillebeau (P)2019 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Chris Guillebeau often says, 'Inspiration is good, but inspiration combined with action is so much better,' and this collection of side hustles is an invaluable resource for both inspiration and action. It’s packed with practical and engaging ideas, tips, strategies, and, most helpful, real-life examples of people who have succeeded." (Gretchen Rubin, New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better than Before)

Inspiring and practical side hustle ideas

100 Side Hustles is the best side hustle ideas book for anyone who wants to start a side hustle without quitting their job.

What l loved the most are the inspiring and practical ideas Chris shared, with real-life examples of people doing them successfully.

After listening to this book, you will find at least one profitable side hustle idea that you can start right away.

I found more than one idea and highly recommend you get this book today. Even better, pair it with this book "Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days" to make the perfect combo for your side hustle.

Best of his books

This is the 3rd book of Chris Guillebeau’s that I’ve read and by far my favorite. It made me come up with my own version of a side hussle I heard about in this book!

Boring and vague

Couldn't get through most of it. Literally the same vague story over and over again with really dull hobbies/ side hustles. Very disappointed. Hate it a lot.

Roll your eyes puns throughout!

I'll start with the puns. My husband love puns and is quick to point out when I have unknowingly said one. Chris Guillebeau's puns are very endearing to me. I loved seeing Chris’s personality come through this way in the book. Content- so many amazing ideas and critical factors. Simply put strategic plans, makes me see how simple it can be to get started and succeed. I am inspired to be able to write to Chris telling him about my Sussex’s at a side huddle.

Not useful

All the examples in this book are people who succeeded, without considering a lot more people who did the same things and failed. For every successful business, there are many copy cat competitions that pop up quickly, and there are a lot more scammers that will ruin your business. You have to be the first one to come up with the idea and the success is often short lived.

A good collection, but bad analysis.

The book contains a lot of good stories that could inspire you. The formatting was a bit annoying though because the author tells the story and then analyzes what brought the person success by simply retelling a cliff notes version of the story again. Instead he should have actually identified and recounted the top 3 things in a 1 sentence and later compiled them across the stories to determine what they had in common. It would have been more useful in my opinion.

Much like the podcast.

Some of the stories you’ve heard but with a few new ones. I don’t know that there’s much more information than in the podcast; but if you like the podcast you’ll like the book.

Easy Listen

This was my first audiobook. Loved it, easy to listen to, insightful and inspiring. Would listen again.

Excuse the puns

The corny puns might make you twist your lips, but the information is real. Well worth the price.

decent book

good book to help generate ideas. only thing I found annoying and a bit cringy was the amount of puns that were used for each story. some were funny, but it got annoying after awhile. if you update the book I would suggest less puns.

Poor narration and US-focused businesses

Somewhat inspiring but I found it really hard to listen to this audiobook. Appreciate it's narrated by the author but it sounds rather cheap, rushed and you can hear echo in the background.. The author's voice simply wasn't the best fit for the audiobook. Also, it's really US business focused; as I'm UK based I found that it was quite limiting in the information provided.

Inspirational

Listening in Audible allowed me to incorporate the 3 Bs of Inspiration - Bed, Bath & Bus as I went about my daily life. Hearing people's unique side hustle stories is so inspiring, exciting and motivating. I now have really great ideas of how I can adapt what I've learned in a way that will work for me in bringing my side hustle to life. Thank you everyone for your wonderful stories and a big thanks to Chris and everyone you work with for everything you do. You all rock.

excellent!

Great book! excellent examples of real working side hustle's for anyone looking for ideas to get them a little extra money!

best business book ever

This is the best business book i have ever listened to.

It is refreshing and different and not the same as every other book out there.

I loved this book so much, thank you for the inspiration!

Great job

Found it quite motivating and helpful as a coach working with clients. It provides me more insight as to how to develop ideas for businesses especially for my clients.

Captivating from the first word to the last

Full of great, actionable and easily implemented ideas. Reviews require fifteen words minimum so ignore this sentence, nearly didn't bother reviewing it at all...

Informative and Funny

Some good inspirational stories of which are well narrated which lots of cheesy puns along the way.

Wow!!!

Absolutely loved this book, I will definitely be listening to this again and again as I think I missed a good portion of the brilliant information given, my only and biggest problem I have with this book is that now a have the want to do 10 side hustles not just one.
Thank you and look forward to listening again.

Really interesting listen, but repetitive.

I really enjoyed this listen and has really inspired me to start my own side hustle. My only criticism is that by side hustle 50 the format gets repetitive and I would have appreciated a deeper dive into some of the ideas.

I would recommend trying the podcast to see if you like the format.

Excellent help!

Really interesting read that has given me lots of ideas! The little puns and comedic snippets throughout were a great addition!