665: The Path to $1k/mo with Mini Digital Products

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Cody Berman is no stranger to selling digital products. He’s known in the side hustle world as the "printable guy" and co-founder of Gold City Ventures, but when Internet skeptics told him the Etsy market was "too saturated now" compared to when he started in 2018, Cody accepted the challenge. And proved them wrong. From zero to $1,000/month in 116 days with a brand-new Etsy shop, with no followers, no email list, and no marketing. Just skill and data-driven decisions. (If you want to shortcut the learning curve, check out his course: (sidehustlenation.com/etsyprintableslaunch) Tune in to Episode 665 of The Side Hustle Show to learn: how Cody launched a brand-new Etsy shop to $1K/month in just 116 days keyword research strategy behind finding low-competition, high-demand niches why printables aren’t just for passive income but powerful marketing tools too Full Show Notes: The Path to $1k/mo with Mini Digital Products New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	The path to $1,000 a month with digital products. You know money doesn't grow on trees,
0:06.1	but you do know that you can plant your own money seeds. And by the end of the episode today,
0:11.5	you're going to have a path forward on how to do just that on one of the biggest marketplaces in the world.
0:17.0	This is the Side Hustle Show. It's the business podcast you can actually apply.
0:22.3	Today's guest, it's a longtime listener. He's a serial side hustler, real estate investor, digital product, seller, online course
0:27.1	entrepreneur from Gold City Ventures and The FI Show. Cody Berman, welcome to The Side Hustle Show.
0:34.1	I am very excited to be here, Nick, and talking with you today and hopefully drop some knowledge
0:38.2	bombs on the listeners. Yeah, you bet. It has been a long time coming. We've got three rounds with
0:42.5	Cody today, including Donate a Business Idea. But we're going to start with his latest side hustle,
0:48.4	a brand new Etsy store that started last summer, and a few months in was earning a thousand dollars a month.
0:55.5	And now, Cody, you're known online as like the printable sellers guy.
0:59.2	And my understanding is you get an email or you get a comment that says something to
1:03.1	the effect of, well, sure, it must be nice, you know, having started in 2018.
1:07.4	But what about us?
1:08.2	What about today when the marketplace is so much more crowded? All the good
1:11.9	niches are already taken. And you're like, okay, challenge accepted. Let's do this. Let's start
1:17.0	a brand new store and see what we can do with this. Yeah. So as a online content creator,
1:21.7	I'm sure you're no stranger to this Nick. There are haters out there. And so you get hateful
1:26.2	comments on all your videos,
1:27.7	all your podcasts, there's always one. And someone on, I think it was on a YouTube video or maybe
1:32.8	was a short, they said something to the effect of, well, of course you were successful. You did
1:37.1	this in 2018. The Etsy market's so different now. You could never repeat your success.
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