Author: Daniel Huss

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Our Top 5 Hustle Methods That are Working for Us.

One of the things that can trip up some people from starting a side income stream is deciding what to do. Because we’re all different, some people might like or dislike some things better than others. One thing that I’d recommend is trying different things and see what you like best. Here are a few (specifically 6) of the side income methods that we have actually done and a how they worked for us.

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Individual Stock Performance for the Week of March 1 – 5, 2021: It Wasn’t Very Pretty…

This week saw some drops in the market in the middle of the week more than wiping out any gains made on Monday or Friday. The Dow industrial average ended basically flat with a 0.06% gain for the week whereas the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended down 0.89% and a whopping 3.73% respectively.

  • Dow Jones
  • S&P 500
  • Nasdaq

I primarily use Webull for individual stocks and while my portfolio there is still up overall, this past week it took a bit of a beating and ended up down over 2% for the week.

  • Down 2.6% for the week
  • Still up over 40% overall

If you are interested in opening a Webull account, they do offer a couple of free stocks for signing up and making an initial deposit. I’d appreciate using my affiliate link to sign up.

Daniel

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Getting Started With Vanguard: Creating an Account

Vanguard is a great brokerage to get started with investing in the stock market and in fact, was the first brokerage I setup. Vanguard’s low-cost market index ETF and mutual funds revolutionized how retail investors can invest in broad-based market funds at a reasonable cost. Vanguard has been around for a long time and isn’t going to be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. So let’s go ahead and open an account so we can get investing in the markets.

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Selling Items on Clearance to Make Millions or Lose Thousands.

Good Morning America did a piece about Ryan Grant a former accountant that now makes a living from selling products on Amazon through Fulfillment by Amazon. Ryan is doing what’s called “Retail Arbitrage”, buying goods on sale or clearance at a discounted price and then selling them in another place (in this case Amazon) at a higher price, the old adage of “buy low, sell high.” The video does a good job of going over the basics of getting set up and starting but really glosses over the fees and costs and how to account for them. I also have a hard time picturing that he’d be able to source $4 million in goods to sell just from clearance racks, but that could just be because of my perspective of doing something similar in a small town. Otherwise, it’s a great success story and is kind of inspiring of something to aim for.

Daniel

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Our Buys and Sells From Late October (2017)

The last half of October was really busy for us and included a vacation to California. So the time we needed to spend between getting ready for that and “recovering” after we got back, we made the decision not to purchase much inventory before then and haven’t had much time afterward to pick up much either. There’s still some stuff that sold that I want to talk about in this post. Continue reading “Our Buys and Sells From Late October (2017)”

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Setting my Personal eBay Listings on “Vacation Mode”

When you’re just starting out selling on eBay it might be unlikely that you’ll generate enough listings to justify forking over the money for an eBay store. One issue, however, is that eBay stores offer something called “Vacation Mode” for when you need to take a few days off. Personal accounts don’t have the same setting, but I figured out a way to mimic the functionality with my personal account. Continue reading “Setting my Personal eBay Listings on “Vacation Mode””

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My first run in with Amazon’s gated categories, aka, the Qixels Conundrum.

I think I might have mentioned that I’ve wanted to get into Amazon FBA. So I was walking through a local Target’s clearance section working on getting started with FBA by doing some retail arbitrage. I found a bunch of Qixels glow-in-the-dark design creator on clearance for about $5 each. I looked up the Amazon listing, and it was a little crazy at the time around $40. I figured even at the regular price of about $15 to $20, I’d get a nice little profit out of them so I bought the 9 units I could find on the clearance shelf. Now, I had just set up my seller account (as an individual account to get started) a few days ago and while I had the Amazon seller app on my phone I didn’t sign into it yet and couldn’t remember my password at the time, and that’s where I made my mistake. Continue reading “My first run in with Amazon’s gated categories, aka, the Qixels Conundrum.”

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The Start of Something New…

Yes We're Open

Welcome to the start of The Husstle (it’s misspelled, we know). I’m Daniel, and my wife Susan and I came to realize that we had some goals that we wanted to work towards, but we weren’t going to get close to accomplishing them by just saving what we were putting away from our paychecks. So we started coming up with some ways that we could put away some extra money towards our goals. After we started a couple, I jokingly started calling the little lockbox that we were keeping the extra cash in “the hustle fund.” From there I took the liberty of the stylized spelling (similar to our last name) and all this is starting to go off from that. The plan is to share our experiences from our efforts to put some of our goals closer in reach.

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