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🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode, we help a web developer reduce his work hours while keeping his income steady. Learn how to raise rates, outsource tasks, and restructure service packages to build a smarter, more sustainable business.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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0:00.0 | Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. Switch to ShipStation |
0:05.1 | today. Go to Shipstation.com and use Code Sidehustle to sign up for your free trial. That's Shipstation.com |
0:12.2 | Code Sidehustle. |
0:16.2 | Lemonada |
0:16.8 | Lemonada. It's a big day in my world. |
0:26.5 | I am hosting an event called Neurodiversion on live in Austin, Texas. |
0:31.2 | I'll be sharing a bit on my stories on Instagram, in case you are not live in Austin, Texas with us. |
0:36.1 | So I've been working on this for months. |
0:37.6 | It's great to see it come to life. |
0:39.2 | But of course, we have the podcast as well, and that's why you're tuning in. |
0:42.0 | Today's question, how can I work fewer hours without losing income? |
0:46.0 | That's right. |
0:46.4 | We can do more than one thing at a time. |
0:48.5 | And one way we can do that, well, maybe we can actually do more than one thing at a time. But one way we can do more of what's important to us is by making critical decisions about our side hustle, our various projects, |
1:00.5 | how can we perhaps reduce work hours while keeping income steady? That's what we're going to talk |
1:04.9 | about in this episode. Again, live from Texas, freelancers and service-based entrepreneurs often hit |
1:10.4 | a point where success leads to |
1:12.1 | overwhelm. So we're going to hear today from a web developer whose business is thriving, |
1:16.6 | but at the cost of working way too much, 60 plus hours a week, he says, and he wants to scale back |
1:21.7 | without disappointing long-term clients, and of course without losing his money. So let's talk about |
1:26.4 | some options for him. What might he do? |
1:28.6 | I've got some ideas about that. I'm excited to bring them to you. Detailed question and my answer |
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