302: Catching Up with the $30k a Month Piano Teacher — How He Grew His Business While Cutting Back His Hours 97%

<p>Things were going great; he had a bunch of happy customers, he’d quit his engineering job to focus on it full-time, and he was doing what he loves.</p> <p>You might remember Jacques Hopkins from <a href= "https://www.sidehustlenation.com/turn-your-hobby-online-business/">episode 223</a>, where he broke down how he turned his hobby of playing piano into a solid $20k a month online business at <a href= "https://pianoin21days.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Pianoin21days.com</a>.</p> <p>BUT….</p> <p>Between customer support, email, social media, phone sales, and all the other day-to-day tasks, it was taking a full 40 hours a week to run.</p> <p>Since then, Jacques set out to automate, optimize, and outsource different elements of the business. Those initiatives cut back his time commitment to maintain the biz to just 10 minutes a day — and still grew revenue to $30k a month.</p> <p><em>Note: <a href= "https://nickloper.lpages.co/leadbox/141642753f72a2%3A12b7a20bab46dc/5717865130885120/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-leadbox= "https://nickloper.lpages.co/leadbox/141642753f72a2%3A12b7a20bab46dc/5717865130885120/" data-leadbox-id="141642753f72a2:12b7a20bab46dc">Click here to download Jacques’ top tips from this episode</a>.</em></p> <p>Jacques isn’t one to sit still, he’s using his newfound time freedom to work on more strategic growth projects and his other project; <a href="https://theonlinecourseguy.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">TheOnlineCourseGuy.com</a>.</p> <p>He’s launched a podcast interviewing other people who have successfully launched online courses, and sells his own course giving customers a behind the scenes look at how he built and sold his courses on Pianoin21days.com.</p> <p>Tune in to hear how Jacques “plugged holes” in his course, outsourced time-consuming repetitive tasks to a virtual assistant, and successfully increased his revenue while reducing the time spent on his business.</p>